Famous First Words: The streets of London are... Charles Dickens Sketches By Boz
Happy Girl Scout Cookie Day! I can usually keep my New Year's Resolutions until cookie season. ₰ Are we really counting on the girl scouts to turn this economy around?
..........Break forth into singing, O Mountains.........William Boyce …..Sing O Heavens
When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American Flag and will claim to be 100% Americanism. --Sinclair Lewis
It is a cloudy Friday morning. The sky is covered in large clumps of fluffy clouds that crowd out all visibility of the sky above. The clumps are gray on the bottoms where we see them but here and there is a gap between the clumps that shows a tiny piece of blue and sunlight whitens the clouds around it. The temperature is above freezing but the wind is strong enough to chill the skin if you open your window at the bank drive through. Inside it's warm and cozy. Puck is asleep on one of his pillows. Veronica ran up and down the hall frantically a couple of times but now has disappeared upstairs. As I feel better and better all the time, my house gets clearer, at least cleaner than it has been for a while and that makes me feel like I am almost back to normal. (Oops, a hidden reference to my hip surgery that I promised not to do. Sorry!). I have even begun to think of planting flowers in the yard. Spring is bound to get here sooner or later; you can't really trust that groundhog. So I plan to have a great weekend and I hope the same for you.
Hope your weekend is sweet and covered in chocolate, Lemon-Ups.
First Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Living the dream, one nightmare at a time.
Correction of the Week: Social Security was signed into law in 1935, not 1925. Thanks to vr of th
Would you like to buy some girl scout cookies or are you a male chauvinist pig? ₰ Buy more cookies, my cats need more of these cat sized boxes.
..........St Louis woman, with her diamond ring.........Eubie Blake …..St Louis Blues
Trivia Questions: Happy Bubble Gum Day !
Would you like to guess how much bubble gum is chewed around the world every year?
What percentage of bubble gum is sugar?
What harm does swallowing bubble gum really do?
Why is pink the most used color for bubble gum?
How big is the bubble gum industry?
Big Hello: Bonzour – Réunion Creole https://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hello.htm
Second Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: FBI uncovers Al-Qaeda plot to just sit back and enjoy the collapse of the United States. --the Onion
Image of the Week:
Coffee Joke of the Week: I don't drink coffee to wake up, I wake up to drink coffee.
How is your Fantasy Girl Scout Cookie game going? ₰ When I told the girl scout that I didn't have any cash on me, she pulled out her phone and asked for my paypal number. I thought Be Prepared was the boy scout motto.
..........He's sweet just like choc'late candy.........Eubie Blake …..I'm Just Wild About Harry
Moonbeam: Wealth is not about having a lot of money; it's about having a lot of options. --Chris Rock
Blasphemy of the Week: Good thing Jesus lives in our hearts cause if he lived in America he'd be deported. --Submitted by MMS
Next Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: That trick I had up my sleeve turned out to be a dryer sheet. --Submitted by UUHS
Sometimes you just have to pull the car over, park illegally, and buy some Samoas. ₰ Strength of character is measured by how few cookies you can eat after opening the box but before getting them home..
..........He came to town like a midwinter storm...........Oscar Brand …..Cotton Eye Joe
100,000 tons of bubble gum is chewed every year around the world.
Almanac: It is Friday, February 7, 2025. The moon reached the first quarter on Wednesday (2/5) and is in Gemini. Today is Ballet Day, Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day**, Charles Dickens Day, "e" Day (math), Girl Scout Cookie Day, Wave All Your Fingers at Your Neighbors Day, Wear Red Day (for heart health), National Periodic Table Day, and Who Shall I Be Day. Because it is the first Friday it is also Bubble Gum Day, Give Kids A Smile Day, Wear Red Day, and Working Naked Day.
Among those born on this day were Thomas More (1478), William Boyce (1710), Ann Radcliffe (1764), John Deere (1804), Charles Dickens (1812), Frederick Douglass (1817), Ernst Franck (1847), Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867), Eubie Blake (1883), Sinclair Lewis (1885), David Ignatow (1914), Oscar Brand (1920), Al Fuzzy Smith (1928), Gay Talese (1932), Dan Quisenberry (1950), James Spader (1960), Garth Brooks (1962), and Chris Rock (1966).
** Musk's decision to stop foreign aid puts HIV treatment aid in jeopardy https://uk.news.yahoo.com/elon-musk-halts-international-hiv-160043420.html
On February seventh Michail Romanov became the czar (1613), Sketches by Boz by Dickens was published (1836), Monopoly was invented (1935), shoe rationing began in the US (1943), MacArthur returned to Manila (1945), the blockade of Cuba began (1962), Cassius Clay became Muhammad Ali (1964), Yasser Arafat became president of the PLO (1969), and Swiss women finally got the vote (1971).
Night Sky, 2/7: Orion is now high in the southeast right after dark. Left of it is Gemini, headed up by Castor and Pollux at far left. The stick-figure Twins are still lying on their sides. Well below their legs is bright Procyon. Standing 4° above Procyon is 3rd-magnitude Gomeisa, Beta Canis Minoris, the only other easy naked-eye star of Canis Minor. The Little Dog is seen in profile, but only his back and the top of his head. Procyon marks his rump, Beta CMi is the back of his neck, and two fainter stars just above that are the top of his head and his nose. Those last two are only 4th and 5th magnitude, respectively. Binoculars help through light pollution. http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/sky-at-a-glance/
Fraternal Picture of the Week: A little snow in Seattle
This Week: Saturday, February 8 – Iglobal Movie Day & International Snowmobile Ride Day & Laugh and Get Rich Day & Opera Day
Night Sky, 2/8: Centaurids Meteor Shower. Up to 6 per hour. https://orbitaltoday.com/2025/01/28/februarys-only-meteor-shower-the-2025-alpha-centaurids-strikes-the-sky/
Sunday, February 9 – Autism Sunday & National Pizza Day & Super Bowl LIX
Monday, February 10 – Clean Out Your Computer Day & National Football Hangover Day & Umbrella Day
Tuesday, February 11 – Extraterrestrial Culture & Visitors Day & Get Out Your Guitar Day & World Day of the Sick
Wednesday, February 12 – Darwin Day & Paul Bunyan Day & NAACP Day
Night Sky, 2/12: Uranus, magnitude 5.7 at the Taurus-Aries border, is very high toward the southwest during early evening, 18° west of Jupiter along the ecliptic. You'll need a good finder chart to tell it from the similar-looking surrounding stars.
Thursday, February 13 – Desperation Day & Get A Different Name Day & International Condom Day
The Girl Scout website wants to put cookies on our hard drive. Should I accept? ...Only if they're thin mints. ₰ No, one box is not the serving size.
..........Hoist up your anchor, make for the sea.........Oscar Brand …..Small Boat Calypso
2. 60-70% of bubble gum is sugar.
Preantepenultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Volkswagen should bring back the beetle as an electric car and call it the lightning bug. --Heather Ifversen
Moonbeam: Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as work. --Frederick Douglass
Fun Fact of the Week: e Day celebrates the mathematical constant e, which has a wide range of mathematical applications. Here's a bit of background on e and why it's worthy of celebration! As the history of mathematics has unfolded, mathematicians have discovered a number that, in addition to being useful in number theory, occurs over and over in describing nature in mathematical terms. This number is the mathematical constant e. It is an irrational number (a non–repeating decimal) and also a transcendental number (it is not the solution of any algebraic polynomial). The first 20 decimal places of the numerical value of e are: e = 2.71828182845904523536...
Video of the Week: In Honor of Periodic Table Day Tom Lehrer: The Elements Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2cfju6GTNs (1:20)
The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going around saying, “The trouble with this country is...” --Sinclair Lewis
I prefer to call this “girl scout cookies season” instead of winter. ₰ I live in Kansas City, why aren't there any girl scout cookies shaped like red football helmets?
..........a bulgin' at the trousers and a heart of solid oak.........Oscar Brand …..Bell Bottom Trousers
3. One of the most famous, but false facts, is that swallowed gum will remain in your gastrointestinal tract for seven years. It is not so. Swallowed bubble gum will not get stuck to your intestines, but will pass through your system, because, gum base cannot be digested, as it has fiber that is indigestible.
Antepenultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: While we're talking about it, the Electoral College is DEI for red states. --Submitted by 1stKAFB
Weird Word of the Week: Bumfuzzle – to perplex or confuse https://parade.com/1195613/marynliles/funny-words/
Dragon of the Week:
Wacky Uses for Common Products: How many boxes of these thin mints do you have to eat before you see results? ₰ Money can't buy you happiness but it can buy you cases of Girl Scout Cookies.
...........I worked too hard to call my life my own........Garth Brooks …..Shameless
4. The color of the first successful bubble gum was pink, because it was the only color that was left with the inventor.
Penultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: They're eating the checks. They're eating the balances. --Submitted by 98%
Science Fiction Convention of the Week: CapriCon 45 (6-9, Chicago) Let your geek flag fly https://capricon.org/
Blasphemy of the Week II: Cosplay Christians is my new favorite description of Christian Nationalists. --Mark Sandlin --Submitted by https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61554307011761
Actual Science Conference of the Week: 2025 Breast Cancer Conference (7, Chicago) knowledge and skills for the interprofessional oncology team https://education.nccn.org/breast2025
I just ate three boxes of peanut butter patties, do I get a badge? ₰ It is certainly fun being a girl scout when you live next door to the Cookie Monster.
..........Well, it's bulls and blood, it's dust and mud........Garth Brooks …..Rodeo
5. Kids in North America spend approximately half a billion dollars on bubble gum every year.
Late Night Joke of the Week: Denmark, Panama, Greenland – the Axis of Where Are Those? --Jon Stewart The Daily Show 2/3/25
Quote of the Week: Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult. --Ann Radcliffe
Final Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: The difference between Donald Trump and Jim Jones is that Trump would charge you for the kool-aid. --Submitted by Lawrence Liberals
Today's Peace of History: February 7, 1991: The Reverend Jean-Bertrand Aristide was sworn in as Haiti's president after winning the country’s first-ever democratic election. Haiti had achieved its independence from France in 1804 but had a long succession of unstable governments, as well as significant U.S. control in the first half of the 20th century, including military occupation from 1915 to 1934.
My idea of fitness in getting a whole caramel deLight in my mouth. ₰ Fig Newtons are made with real figs. What are girl scout cookies made with?
..........Like a bird upon the wind these waters are my sky........Garth Brooks …..The River
Masthead of the Week: Friday ePistle, February 7, 2025, cHocolate cHip ePistle. Online at: http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/ Exclusive editor: Christine Smith. Lawrence, KS.
Moonbeam: It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all. --Laura Ingalls Wilder
Cost of War:
As of 02/06/25 State Department Costs: $256,184,692,725
As of 01/30/25 State Department Costs: $256,737,664,095
As of 02/06/25 Homeland Security: $1,191,205,991,712
As of 01/30/25 Homeland Security: $1,190,577,145,152
As of 02/06/25 Interest on War Debt: $1,277,815,294,946
As of 01/30/25 Interest on War Debt: $1,276,198,462,321
As of 02/06/25 Military Costs: $3,129,878,509,574
As of 01/30/25 Military Costs: $3,128,650,732,399
As of 02/06/25 Veterans Care: $4,111,430,159,698
As of 01/30/25 Veterans Care: $4,099,172,258,474
As of 02/06/25 Total Cost of Wars: $9,967,648,054,794
As of 01/30/25 Total Cost of Wars: $9,951,337,249,022
https://www.nationalpriorities.org/cost-of/
Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn “reasonable” and become your enemies, one quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive. --Sinclair Lewis
Famous Last Words: ...and her lips came together and smiled mysteriously. --Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck who died 2/7/91 of heart failure
..........Yeah, I'm not big on social graces.........Garth Brooks …..Friends in Low Place
My daughter was out selling girl scout cookies when she was mugged by a Keebler elf. And Pam Bondi not only didn't arrest them, she ate all the remaining boxes of evidence. ₰ What were the first words Mark Getz new girlfriend said to him? “Wanna buy some girl scout cookies?”
May Peace be your dough
And Joy be your glaze
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christine
Last Laugh:
Love does not reflect; it is unreasonable and knows no moderation. --St Peter Chrysologus
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