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 Famous First Words: It was spring without voices. --Silent Spring by Rachel Carson Published 9/27/1962

September 27 has at least 16 commemorations assigned to it. Let's begin with International Forgiveness Day! Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me. --Robert Frost Sometimes the first step to forgiveness is understanding the other person is a complete idiot. I'm praying for forgiveness. Kansas summers have taught me I do not want to go to hell.

..........I think that any love is good lovin'..........Guess Who with Randy Bachman …..You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet

The real weapons of mass destruction are the hardened hearts of humanity. --Leonard Cohen

It is a delightful Friday... is it still morning?...with 73°F temperature and the sunshine enlightening a beautiful pale blue sky. Next week, I am going to go stay with Jo. She is having a hip replacement in December but needs help now because one can't bend, walk straight, lift things, etc. So I was at her house this morning while we made some decisions. I'll be moving on the first of October. Also on the first, Jeff is moving to his new apartment 3250 Michigan St, Apt 9-306, 66046. Big changes. Puck is going with me and will make two new friends, Mary and Martha, Jo's Shih Tzus. (I am taking my computer so the ePistle will continue.) Jeff is a little anxious about living on his own but he's also looking forward to it. Puck doesn't know yet so he's fine (sleeping on the recliner). Also, there is a new roof on our house – it looks great and the roofers have just finished cleaning up so they'll be gone soon. And this sums up my week pretty well.

Hope your weekend celebrates everything, ePistliers

First Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Crush A Can Day! I used to work for a recycling plant. My job was crushing cans. It was soda pressing.

Save The Koalas Day! Koalas: The epitome of cuteness and the koalaty of cuddliness. I am a koala in the bedroom; I sleep 22 hours a day. Koala bears aren't bears; they are children in bear pajamas.

..........Sparkle someone else's eyes.........Guess Who with Randy Bachman …..American Woman

Trivia Questions: Family Health and Fitness Day!

• ^ How many calories are burned by muscle compared to fat?
• ^^ What is the average number of steps taken per person per day?
• ^^^ What is the recommended time for children to spend exercising daily?
• ^^^^ What is the most common blood type?
• ^^^^^ How many times does the human heart beat in a day?

Big Hello: Wes hāl – Old(e) English https://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hello.htm

Second Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: National Scarf Day! When its human converted to Existentialism, the scarf had to learn to wrap itself around a bunch of new ideas.

Image of the Week: Puck explaining to mom why he had to pee on the floor. (It was raining outside and I was afraid my pee would cause a flood.)

Fake Library Statistics of the Week: You aren't a real librarian until you've been shushed by a patron. https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts

National Bakery Day! John Lennon worked in a bakery while he was in high school. That's what inspired “Loaf is all you knead”. You can recognize alt bakers' they always go against the grain. The latest television hit is a series about dead bakers. It's called The Walking Bread.

..........I love to work at nothing all day.........Bachman Turner Overdrive …..Taking Care Of Business

Moonbeam: How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words. --Samuel Adams

Blasphemy of the Week: Beware of any Christian movement that acts as though the world is full of enemies to be destroyed rather than of neighbors to be loved. ---Mark Chape

Puzzle of the Week: From listener Rawson Scheinberg, of Northville, Mich. Name a US state capital. Then name a world capital. Say these names one after the other and phonetically you'll get an expensive dinner entree. What is it? NPR Sunday Puzzle 9/22/24

Next Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: If people make you sick, maybe you should cook them longer. --Submitted by sb of ar

Ancestor Appreciation Day! If you know the words Birth, Marriage, and Death in several different languages, you are probably a genealogist. Those little leaves on your Ancestry.com tree are cruel minions sent to make sure you stay up four hours longer working on genealogy. I'd rather look for dead men on Ancestry.com than living ones on Match.com.

..........You can see the morning but I can see the light.........Bachman Turner Overdrive …..Let It Ride

^ A pound of muscle burns three times more calories than a pound of fat.

Almanac: It is Friday, September 27, 2024. The moon went into the last quarter last Tuesday (9/24) and is in Leo. It is Ancestor Appreciation Day, World Tourism Day, Crush a Can Day, Gay Men's HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, National Bakery Day, National Brave Day, National Day of Forgiveness, National Doodle Day, Fall Astronomy Day, National Scarf Day, National Walk to Work Day, Native American Day, and Save the Koalas. Because it is the fourth Friday, it is American Indian Day. Finally because it's the last Friday in September it is Vegan Baking Day, and Support Purple for Platelets Day.

Among those born on this day were Samuel Adams (1722), Thomas Nast (1840), George Raft (1895), Sam Ervin (1896), Louis Auchincloss (1917), William Conrad (1920), Jayne Meadows (1926), Randy Bachman (The Guess Who, 1943), Meatloaf (1947) and Shaun Cassidy (1958).

On September twenty-eighth the Jesuit order was founded (1540), John Adams was appointed to negotiate peace terms with Britain (1779), the Democratic National Convention voted to admit women (1919), the US officially recognized the Nationalist government of "China" (1928), the QEI was launched (1938), the Tonight Show with Steve Allen premiered (1954), and Sierra Leone became the 100th nation to join the UN (1961).

Night Sky, 9/27: This is the time of year when the rich Cygnus Milky Way crosses the zenith about an hour after full dark (for skywatchers at mid-northern latitudes). The Milky Way extends straight up from the south-southwest horizon, passes overhead, and runs straight down to the north-northeast. http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/sky-at-a-glance/

Fraternal Picture of the Week: Two boys and two rabbits and two legs and a lot of straw

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Extra Funniest Thing of the Week: Tonight Show Survey: Question: Are you planning to… Response: 100% - vote early. Yes~

This Week: Saturday, September 28 – International Lace Day & National Good Neighbor Day & World Rabies Day

Sunday, September 29 – Gold Star Mothers Day & National Coffee Day & Michaelmas

Night Sky, 9/29: Face south and look high these evenings after dark. The brightest star there is Altair, the southernmost point of the Summer Triangle. The other two are Deneb and Vega more nearly overhead. A marker for Altair is always its little neighbor Tarazed (Gamma Aquilae), currently a finger-width at arm's length to Altair's upper right.

Monday, September 30 – Ask A Stupid Question Day & Orange Shirt Day & Recovery Day

Tuesday, October 1 – International Music Day & National Lace Day & National Walk Your Dog Day

Wednesday, October 2 – Guardian Angels Day & Name Your Car Day & World Farm Animals Day

Night Sky, 10/2: Annular Solar Eclipse: Visible in the Pacific and in South America/ https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/solar/2024-october-2

Thursday, October 3 – Bring Your Bible To School Day & Techies Day

Vegan Bakery Day! Most ghosts are vegan because it's super natural. My girlfriend really changed after she became a vegan. It's like I've never seen herbivore. Almond milk is called “milk” because not one can call it “nut juice” with a straight face.

..........Really love that rock and roll.........Meatloaf …..Hot Patootie, Bless My Soul

^^ The average person walks about 7,500 steps per day.

Preantepenultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: WWI: When a Serb kills an Austrian in Bosnia so you, an Englishman, must fight the Germans in France.

Moonbeam: The president seems to extend executive privilege way out past the atmosphere. What he says in executive privilege is nothing but executive poppycock. --Sam Erwin

Conspiracy Theory of the Week: First she gets the vote, then she gets your wife. The belief that voting will turn women into lesbians: https://medium.com/history-of-women/a-review-of-some-anti-suffragette-postcards-from-the-early-1900s-f4f7adb6b84

Video of the Week: Jack Kerouac with Steve Allen on the Tonight Show 1959 (5:21)

If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiringf men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin. --Samuel Adams

World Tourism Day! Remember both the common tick and the Eiffel Tower are Paris sites. We are visiting the pyramids in Egypt because they were too heavy to transport to the British Museum. The story that the Great Wall was built for defense was a cover up of the fact that it was really built as a skate royal board park.

..........but I just won't do that.........Meatloaf …..Anything Thing For Love

^^^ Children should spend at least an hour a day exercising...Jump rope, hop scotch, walking, biking, running games, etc.

Antepenultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: I will have the English major's breakfast – eggs over easily.

Weird Word of the Week: Omnishambles – an insult implying an organization has made several serious policy and public-relations blunders... https://www.worldwidewords.org/tp-omn1.html

Dragon of the Week: Not sure if this is a dragon or Godzilla, but it's cool either way.

Wacky Uses for Common Products: Moisturize skin. Rubbing ChapStick on your face protests the skin from wind burn while snow skiing. https://www.wackyuses.com/wacky/chapstick.html

National Brave Day! We're all brave until we realize that cockroaches have wings. Do you know that story of the brave German boy who could only count to three; he knows no vier. Bravery: Chancing a fart when you've had diarrhoea.

...........I'll be gone when the morning comes.........Meatloaf …..Bat Out Of Hell

^^^^ O Positive (O+) is the most common human blood type.

Penultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Meanwhile in Kansas the temperature went from 90° to 65° like it just saw a state trooper. --Submitted by RHOZ

Science Fiction Convention of the Week: Capclave24 (27-29, Rockville, MD) ...a small relaxed literary convention... https://capclave.org/capclave24/

Actual Science Conference of the Week: Association of Science and Technology Centers (ASTC) Annual Conference (9/26-10/1, Chicago, IL) ...leaders in museums and science centers... https://astc2024.eventscribe.net/

Answer to Puzzle of the Week: Dover (Delaware), and Seoul (Korea) → Dover Sole

Save Your Photos Day! The picture of Einstein with his tongue sticking out was taken for comedic purpose, and the quote “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. “ is a signature line of his. --Monique A thorough survey of the crowd at the Trump rally revealed that 97% of the crowd was photographers hoping for a shot of the next attempted assassin. The Portrait Photographer specialized in youies.

..........I'll tell you about the magic; it will free your soul........Shaun Cassidy …....Do You Believe In Magic

^^^^^ The heart beats around 100,000 times per day.

Quote of the Week: Is Capitalism your religion? --Dr Butch Ware, Green Party Vice-presidental candidate https://www.ays.media/podcastnoor/butchware

Final Hip Replacement Update of the Year: OrthoKansas has declared me well. They scheduled me for a one year check up next June and sent me on my way. Yay!!!

Final Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Furniture Store named Shack of Sit

Today's Peace of History, September 27, 1990: The last US Pershing II tactical nuclear missiles were removed from Germany, fewer than ten years after their installation provoked a massive anti-nuclear movement across Europe.

Ancestor Appreciation Day! --because the last section was really about genealogy. My great grandma was 80% Irish. They called her Iris. Today I'm going to go see my 81 year old grandpa for the last time. Tomorrow he'll be 82. I'm told my great, great grandma began walking 2 miles every day. She was 74 and lived in Kansas City. She died at age 86 somewhere around Seattle.

..........I met her on a Monday and my heart stood still........Shaun Cassidy …..Da Doo Ron Ron

Masthead of the Week: Friday ePistle, September 27. 2024, dIverse ePistle. Online at: http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/ Exclusive editor: Christine Smith. Lawrence, KS.

Moonbeam: Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances. --Steve Allen

Cost of War:

• As of 09/26/24 State Department Costs: $246,722,840,295
• As of 09/19/24 State Department Costs: $246,163,433,960
• As of 09/26/24 Homeland Security: $1,179,698,986,548
• As of 09/19/24 Homeland Security: $1,179,091,356,643
• As of 09/26/24 Interest on War Debt: $1,248,226,030,502
• As of 09/19/24 Interest on War Debt: $1,246,163,299,899
• As of 09/26/24 Military Costs: $3,107,412,399,484
• As of 09/19/24 Military Costs: $3,106,225,825,459
• As of 09/26/24 Veterans Care: $3,887,134,195,158
• As of 09/19/24 Veterans Care: $3,875,290,058,974
• As of 09/26/24 Total Cost of Wars: $9,669,195,067,787
• As of 09/19/24 Total Cost of Wars: $9,653,436,281,854

https://www.nationalpriorities.org/cost-of/

Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals. --Samuel Adams

Famous Last Words: ...nature exists for the convenience of man. --Silent Spring Rachel Carson

..........Do you remember when we were young and unashamed........Shaun Cassidy …..Walk Away

Fall Astronomy Day! The Dog Star decided to go into stand-up comedy. He failed because he was too Sirius. How many astronomers does it take to change a light bulb? Only one because they've got all night as it's ****ing cloudy. That's my last Astronomy Convention. It was creepy. There were a bunch of black holes in the corner discussing dark matters.

May Peace define your demeanor
And Joy establish your manner
prairie mama
christine

Last Laugh: National Doodle Day!