Famous First Words: You loafers... Opening line of Boris Godunov
It's Hunt For Happiness Week (19-25). Money can't buy happiness but it can get you a really nice yacht to cry on. Ħ Don't cry because it's over; smile because it happened. --Dr Seuss
..........You simply got no choice.........Neil Diamond …..Song Sung Blue
All we are saying is Give Peace A Chance. --John Lennon & Yoko Ono from the Toronto Peace Festival
It is another cold (17°F) Friday morning. The sky is clear of clouds and is a very pale blue. Puck went out but did not stay long and is now asleep under my feet. Veronica has been up for a while watching the storage shed rabbits sitting in the cold. I am eating sausage links and drinking toasted almond decaf. It's not a bad start to a morning. The house is warm and the furnace is noisy. Sometimes it sounds like far away music and sometimes it sounds like someone giving a speech. But I can never understand the words. Ah, the reassuring sounds of civilization. Best of all, I get to write to you.
Hope your weekend, your week, and your year are filled with happiness, gaiety gatherers!
First Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: My lust for shenanigans is eternal. https://www.facebook.com/poetryofmonsters
Money can't buy happiness but it can buy ice cream and that's pretty close. Ħ Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. --Robert Frost
..........Live is too short to have sorrow.........Aaron Neville …..Tell it Like It Is
Trivia Questions: Happy 103rd birthday of the Eskimo Pie!
Do you have any idea who invented the Eskimo Pie?
Who was the inventor's first partner in his frozen chocolate bar endeavor?
Who currently owns Eskimo Pie?
Why did the Eskimo Pie change its name - twice?
In what European countries has Eskimo become a generic term for any chocolate ice cream treat?
Big Hello: Rimaykullayki – Quechua (It is the language of the Inca Empire and still spoken in Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Argentina, Colombia, and Chile.)
https://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hello.htm
Correction of the Week: Gaskin's (#3 of the Theorems. Pay attention!) Farm website is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Farm_(Tennessee) Not wherever I said it was last week. Sorry about that.
Second Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: The conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking. --Steven Wright
Image of the Week: My hollyhocks are still standing tall but they look cold.
Coffee Joke of the Week: Coffee: Because a good day never starts with a spinach smoothie. https://www.facebook.com/groups/886961092207455
Money can't buy you happiness but poverty can't buy you anything. Ħ The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: If you pursue happiness you'll never find it. --C P Snow
..........I'm a desperate man.........Warren Zevon …..Lawyers, Guns and Money
Moonbeam: Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins. --Edith Wharton
Blasphemy of the Week: The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization. --Robert Anton Wilson
Puzzle of the Week: From listener Greg VanMechelen, of Berkeley, CA. Think of a well-known international location in nine letters. Take the first five letters and shift each of them 13 places later in the alphabet. The result will be a synonym for the remaining four letters in the place's name. What place is it? NPR Puzzle Sunday 1/19/25
Next Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top. --Edward Abbey
Money can't buy happiness but I am accepting donations to test the hypothesis. Ħ If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. --Albert Einstein
..........hard headed woman of mine.........Blues Brothers …..She Caught The Katy
1. The Eskimo Pie was invented by Christian Kent Nelson in his home laboratory in 1920. It was the first chocolate covered ice cream bar in the US.
Almanac: It is Friday, January 24, 2025. The moon reached the third quarter last Wednesday (1/22) and is in Sagittarius. Today is Belly Laugh Day, Beer Can Day, National Compliment Day, National Peanut Butter Day, Talk Like a Grizzled Prospector Day, International Day of Education, International Mobile Phone Recycling Day, and World Day for African and Afro-descendant Culture.
Among those born on this day were Frederick II (aka the great, 1712), Ernst Hoffmann (1776), Edith Wharton (1862), Mark Goodson (1913), Ernest Borgnine (1915), Oral Roberts (1918), Maria Tallchief (1925), Ray Stevens (1939), Neil Diamond (1941), Aaron Neville (1941), Warren Zevon (1947), John Belushi (1949) and Yakov Smirnoff (1951).
On January twenty-ninth the Connecticut colony was organized (1639), Boris Godunov premiered (St. Petersburg, 1874), the Eskimo Pie was patented (1922), American Dream premiered (NYC, 1961), the 24th Amendment went into effect (outlawing poll tax, 1964), George Foreman KOed Ron Lyle in the 5th (1976), Roots began airing (1977), and the Macintosh was unveiled (1984).
Night Sky, 1/24: Mars is still barely more than 2° from Pollux; it is slowly retrograding westward: toward the upper right as seen during the evening. After tonight they'll widen. Keep watch. Mars will reach its western stationary point on February 24th, at which time it will appear just about equidistant (7.2°) from both Pollux and Castor. After that, it will resume its usual eastward (prograde) motion. http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/sky-at-a-glance/
Fraternal Picture of the Week: Kids and Dogs and Grandma, Oh my.
This Week: Saturday, January 25 – A Room Of One's Own Day & National Seed Swap Day & Robert Burns Day
Sunday, January 26 – Clashing Clothes Day & International Customs Day & Toad Hollow Day of Encouragement
Night Sky, 1/26: After it's fully dark, spot the equilateral Winter Triangle in the southeast. Sirius is its brightest and lowest star. Betelgeuse stands above Sirius by about two fists at arm's length. Left of their midpoint shines Procyon. Can you discern their colors? Sirius (spectral type A0) is cold white, Betelgeuse (M2) is yellow-orange, and Procyon (F5) is a pale, very slightly yellowish white. And, standing 4° above Procyon is 3rd-magnitude Gomeisa, Beta Canis Minoris, the only other easy naked-eye star of Canis Minor.
Monday, January 27 – Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day & Holocaust Memorial Day & VietNam Peace Day
Tuesday, January 28 – Fancy Rat and Mouse Day & National Kazoo Day & Rubber Ducky Day
Wednesday, January 29 – Chinese New Year (Year of the Snake) & Freethinkers Day & National Puzzle Day
Night Sky, 1/29: Saturn, magnitude +1.1 in Aquarius, is a spark in the southwest after dark — near brilliant Venus but beginning to pull away from it. The two planets are in conjunction 2.2° apart on January 18th. By the 29th Saturn is 6° below Venus.
Thursday, January 30 – Croissant Day & National Inane Answering Message Day
Money can't buy happiness but I have noticed that only rich people actually say that. Ħ Happiness is something that comes into our live through a door we don't even remember leaving open --Rose Lane
..........What do ya want for nothing..........Blues Brothers …..Rubber Biscuit
2. The pie was an immediate success locally, and in July 1921 Nelson partnered with Russell C Stover (the KC candy maker) to market and produce the Eskimo Pie.
Preantepenultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: To capture joy we must cast a net of gratitude. --Submitted by Unity of Lawrence
Moonbeam: The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it. --Edith Wharton
Fun Facts of the Week: It's National Compliment Day and here are the 5 reasons to give out compliments. 1) It increases your happiness 2) it makes you grateful. 3) it strengthens your interpersonal relationships 4) it increases your stress resilience and physical health 5) it creates a ripple of positivity. https://thedaily.case.edu/5-reasons-why-you-should-give-compliments/
Video of the Week: Maria Tallchief performing with Rudolph Nureyev Flower Festival in Genzano (8:40)
Bagism, Shagism, Dragism, Madism, Ragism, Tagism --John Lennon & Yoko Ono from the Toronto Peace Festival
Money can't buy happiness but it can buy you the kind of misery you prefer. Ħ That man is happiest whose pleasures are cheapest. --Henry David Thoreau
..........I wonder could they set me free.........Neville Brothers …..Voodoo
3. Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream owns the Eskimo Pie brand which is now called Edy's Pie.
Antepenultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Money is not the key to happiness. However, if you have enough money you can have a key made.
Weird Word of the Week: Absquatulate (ab–SKWAG-chuh-kety): To leave abruptly or flee. https://www.busuu.com/en/english/funny-words
Dragon of the Week: Perhaps this is the 2024 Year of the Dragon surrounding earth on its way out making room for the young Year of the Snake on its way in.
Wacky Uses for Common Products: Attract birds to your yard. Fill a bird feeder with Cheerios https://www.wackyuses.com/wacky/cheerios.html
What's the use of happiness if it can buy you money? Ħ Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy just to be normal. – Albert Camus
...........Walking through the streets of SoHo in the rain.........Warren Zevon ….Werewolves of London
4. Nelson, the inventor, called the treat I Scream Bar but it changed to Eskimo Pie before being marketed nationwide. Dreyer's changed it to Edy's Pie in 2020 to be part of the resolution on racial equality.
Penultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: The people who want to invade Greenland say it is too cold to have the inauguration outside. KS Indivisible
Science Fiction Convention of the Week: COSine 2025 (24-26, Colorado Springs, CO) Produced by First Friday Fandom …... https://www.firstfridayfandom.org/cosine/
Actual Science Conference of the Week: The 20th Technology Conference by Technology Future, Inc. ..thought-leaders and professionals... https://tfi-ctfg.com/20th-annual-tfi-technology-conference/
Answer to Puzzle of the Week: Greenland → terra
Money can't buy happiness but it can keep you comfortable while you figure out what will make you happy. Ħ Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away. --Benjamin Franklin
..........Good times never seemed so good.........Neil Diamond …..Sweet Caroline
5. France and the Soviet Union use Eskimo to mean any frozen bar covered in chocolate.
Late Night Joke of the Week: We're gonna play “Who Wore It Best?” - me, Melania, or The Hamburglar? Onlookers were uncertain if she was there to attend her husband's inauguration or to kill Indiana Jones. --Jimmy Fallon 1/20/25 ~~I thought it made her look like Nastasha chasing Moose and Squirrel even though I couldn't find a single picture of the cartoon character wearing a hat.
Quote of the Week: If we laugh and sing a little as we fight the good fight of freedom, it makes it all go easier. I will not allow my life's light to be determined by the darkness around me. --Sojourner Truth
Final Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: If I was meant to be controlled I would have come with a remote. --Submitted by FTLOD
Today's Peace of History: January 24, 1970: John Lennon & Yoko Ono cropped their hair short for the first time in years, declaring 1970 "Year One for Peace" and helped organize the Toronto Peace Festival. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEE1B3wEf20
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. Ħ Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody's heart. --Anthony J D'Angelo
..........In the First Self-Righteous Church.........Dammit Ray Stevens …..The Mississippi Squirrel Revival
Masthead of the Week: Friday ePistle, January 24, 2025, eLated ePistle. Online at: http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/ Exclusive editor: Christine Smith. Lawrence, KS.
Daughter of Today's Peace of History: January 24, 1977: The TV mini-series "Roots" based on the Alex Haley novel began airing on ABC.
Moonbeam: If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time. --Edith Wharton
Cost of War:
As of 01/23/25 State Department Costs: $256,184,692,725
As of 01/16/25 State Department Costs: $255,623,915,640
As of 01/23/25 Homeland Security: $1,189,976,515,960
As of 01/16/25 Homeland Security: $1,189,367,404,898
As of 01/23/25 Interest on War Debt: $1,274,653,986,850
As of 01/16/25 Interest on War Debt: $1,273,087,708,156
As of 01/23/25 Military Costs: $3,127,478,087,992
As of 01/16/25 Military Costs: $3,126,288,897,456
As of 01/23/25 Veterans Care: $4,087,464,648,537
As of 01/16/25 Veterans Care: $4,075,592,554,563
As of 01/23/25 Total Cost of Wars: $9,935,758,035,973
As of 01/16/25 Total Cost of Wars: $9,919,961,043,664
https://www.nationalpriorities.org/cost-of/
Revolution, evolution, mastrubation, flagellation, regulation, integrations. --John Lennon & Yoko Ono from the Toronto Peace Festival
Famous Last Words: Long Live Poland. --Maria Mandl, convicted of war crimes for her work at Auschwitz-Birkenau https://www.liberationroute.com/stories/457/maria-mandel
..........He'd jump on his camel named Clyde, and ride.........Dammit Ray Stevens …..Ahab, The Arab
Money can't buy happiness but it can buy you a drum set so that nobody else is happy either. Ħ The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness. --William Saroyan
May Peace give you joy
And Joy give you peace
prairie mama
christine
Last Laugh:
In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities. --Janos Arany
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