Famous First Words: Did you hear what I was playing, Lane? (Algernon) --Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest
Happy Valentine's Day! I have loved you since the first day I saw you. Whenever that was. --Charles Schulz Δ Love is like a backache, it doesn't show up on x-rays, but you know it's there. --George Burns
..........Well, you know you got it, if it makes you feel good.........Janis Joplin …..Piece Of My Heart
Not everyone is your brother or sister in the faith, but everyone is your neighbor, and you must love your neighbor. --Timothy Keller
It is a cold (17°F) Friday morning. A 16 mph wind whips the bare willow limbs and insists that we acknowledge the coldness. The eastern sky painted a sunrise earlier and still holds a little color and what may be a distant strip of blue sky. The western window shows only gray clouds and tree branches in motion. The local murder of crows has stopped by to sing matins for us. Stringent, but not hostile. I sip my creamed and steamed and sweetened coffee and savor both the flavor and the warmth. What a wonderful life I have. Happy Valentine's Day!
Hearts and Roses for your weekend, My Funny Valentines
First Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Thousands of Danish citizens are launching an effort to buy California as a response to Trump's attempt to take Greenland. They say they will provide Californians with “rule by law, universal health care, fact based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries”. --Brain Tyler Cohen --Submitted by jm of ks
Without Valentine's Day February would be...well, January. --Jim Gaffigan Δ I didn't fall for you, you tripped me. --Jenny Han
..........I want a man to hold me, not some fool to ask me why..........Bonnie Raitt …..Love Me Like A Man
Trivia Questions: Because it is Valentine's Day it is also International Kissing Day.
Is kissing good for you?
Or is kissing bad for you?
How much time does the average person spend kissing during a lifetime?
What is the longest movie kiss ever?
What do you know about kissing the Blarney stone
Big Hello: Sastipe! - Romani https://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hello.htm
Second Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Be kind to your nieces and nephews. You'll need them to smuggle edibles into your nursing home some day.
Image of the Week: My February facebook picture
Coffee Joke of the Week: Don't underestimate yourself. You can do hard things. Like making coffee in the morning before you've had any coffee.
Remember, your Valentine's card shows you care enough to send the very best, even though you're too lazy to put it in your own words. --Melanie White Δ One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry. --Oscar Wilde
..........How much do I love you..........Irving Berlin …..How Deep Is The Ocean
Moonbeam: I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either. --Jack Benny
Blasphemy of the Week: If Paul saw the church in America we'd be getting a letter. --The Wittenburg Door Community --Submitted by bh of ks
Suggestion of the Week: We should all start texting each other like old time explorers. “Dearest friend, I have survived another week. The horrors persist.” --Clara Hobbs --Submitted by ar of ks
Next Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: The only secure document in DC seems to be the Epstein client list. --Submitted by sd of ks
Oh here's an idea: let's make pictures of our internal organs and give them to other people we love on Valentine's Day. That's not weird at all. --Jimmy Fallon Δ Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. --Joan Crawford
..........I've got you deep in the heart of me..........Cole Porter …..I've Got You Under My Skin
A few of bubble gum's benefits: it can help reduce dermatitis and blemishes. It can also help fight tooth decay because the extra saliva it produces cleans out your mouth. Kissing for a minute can burn up to 26 calories. And when practiced regularly, kissing may even add a few years to your life. One study claimed that men who kiss their wives every morning before leaving for work live five years longer than those who don't.
Almanac: It is Friday, February 14, 2025. The moon was full (Snow) last Wednesday (2/12) and is in Virgo. Today is Ferris Wheel Day, Frederick Douglass Day, International Kissing Day, League of Women Voters Day, Library Lovers Day, National Donor Day, National Have A Heart Day, National Women's Heart Day, Pet Theft Awareness Day, Quirkyalone Day, Race Relations Day, Valentines Day, (World) Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Day, and World Sound Healing Day.
Among those born on this day were Frederick Douglass (1817), Charles Wilson (1869), Jack Benny (1894), Crash Corrigan (1902), Thelma Ritter (1905), Jimmy Hoffa (1913), Mel Allen (1913), Hugh Downs (1921), Skeezix (1921), Florence Henderson (1934), Paul Tsongas (1941), and Drew Bledsoe (1972).
On February fourteenth Oregon was admitted as the 33rd state (1859), Morehouse College was organized (1867), New Jersey legalized labor unions (1883), The Importance of Being Earnest opened (1895), the US Department of Commerce and Labor was established (1903), Arizona became the 48th state (1912), the League of Women Voters formed (1920), Reflections in a Golden Eye was published (1941), the Bank of England was nationalized (1946), the first Knesset opened (1949), Georgia segregated baseball (1957), Wilt Chamberlain broke NBA scoring record at 20,994 (1966), Grease opened off-Broadway, where it ran for the next decade for a total of 3,388 performances. (1972), the microchip was patented (1978), and the Somalia cease fire began (1992).
Night Sky, 2/14: With a telescope this evening, watch Jupiter's moon Ganymede slowly fade from sight around 7:25 p.m. EST as it enters an eclipse by Jupiter's shadow. Ganymede will be the one about a Jupiter diameter to Jupiter's celestial east-northeast. Then watch Ganymede slowly reappear out of Jupiter's shadow around 9:56 p.m. EST, farther to Jupiter's east. Jupiter's shrunken Great Red Spot should cross the planet's central meridian about a half hour later, around 10:27 p.m. EST http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/sky-at-a-glance/
Fraternal Picture of the Week: Ipod under cover
This Week: Saturday, February 15 – National Hippo Day & Susan B Anthony Day & World Whale Day
Sunday, February 16 – Kyoto Protocol Day & National Almond Day
Night Sky, 2/16: Right after night is completely dark this week, the W of Cassiopeia shines high in the northwest, standing almost on end. Near the zenith is Capella. The brightest star about midway between Cassiopeia and Capella (and a little off to the side) is Alpha Persei, magnitude 1.8. It lies on the lower-right edge of the Alpha Persei Cluster: a large, elongated, very loose swarm of fainter stars about the size of your thumb tip at arm's length. At least a dozen are 6th magnitude or brighter, bright enough to show very well in binoculars. Look fairly soon after dark before the Moon rises.
Monday, February 17 – President's Day & Random Acts of Kindness Day & World Human Spirit Day
Tuesday, February 18 – Battery Day (Volta's birthday) & National Hate Florida Day & Pluto Day (discovery not demotion)
Wednesday, February 19 – Best Friends Day & National Arabian Horse Day
Night Sky, 2/19: Venus (magnitude –4.8, in Pisces) shines brightly as the "Evening Star" in the west-southwest during twilight, then lower in the west as evening grows late. It sets about two hours after dark. In a telescope this week, Venus is a crescent about 31% sunlit. Venus is enlarging week by week as it swings toward us — it's now about 36 arcseconds from pole to pole — while waning in phase as it draws closer to our line of sight to the Sun. It'll be about 55 arcseconds in diameter near winter's end when it becomes a very thin crescent plunging down into the sunset.
Thursday, February 20 – Discover Girl Day & National Leadership Day & World Day for Social Justice
Never sign a Valentine with your own name. --Charles Dickens Δ If love is the answer, then could you rephrase the question? --Lily Tomlin
..........You make me smile with my heart..........Rodgers and Hart …..My Funny Valentine
2. On the other hand, Kissing can spread germs. One peck can contain up to 80 million new bacteria, and frequent kissing can change your microbiome. But emerging research suggests that sharing microbes could offer some healthy benefits.
Preantepenultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Yall ever drink an iced coffee so strong that for like four minutes you have hope? --giabuchi lastrassi --Submitted by UUHS
Moonbeam: Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces. --Jack Benny
A Wonderful Thing That Happened To Me That I'm Still Processing of the Week: The late Lawrence Progressive Calendar which published its last list on April Fool's Day 2024 has risen from the flame. Introducing Arc of Justice: Progressive newsletter for Kansas. https://arcandreturn.wordpress.com/
Fun Fact of the Week: The League of Women Voters is a nonpartisan American nonprofit political organization. Founded in 1920, its ongoing major activities include registering voters, providing voter information, boosting voter turnout, and advocating for voting rights. https://www.lwv.org/
Video of the Week: Valentine Special - Betty Boop: I Want To Be Loved By You https://youtu.be/vSS5ZVk8W7I
Do not waste time bothering whether you “love” your neighbor; act as if you did. – C S Lewis
Yey! We still like each other. Happy Valentine's Day, beautiful --Anon Δ Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. --Albert Einstein
..........It's knowing that your door is always open..........Glen Campbell …..Gentle On My Mind
3. We spend two weeks of our lives kissing. On average, people spend about 336 hours snogging – that's a lot of lip service
Antepenultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: If you care as much about church as you do about football, dump Gatorade on your pastor at the end of the sermon. --Submitted by INRITH
Weird Word of the Week: Smicker – to look amorously after someone. https://parade.com/1195613/marynliles/funny-words/
Dragon of the Week:
Wacky Uses for Common Products: Clean a food grinder quickly. Run one half cup Cheerios in the grinder to push out any tidbits of food and absorb any residual moisture. https://www.wackyuses.com/wacky/cheerios.html
Will you be my Valentine? That was a rhetorical question. We're married. --Unknown Δ It wasn't love at first sight. It took a full five minutes. --Lucille Ball
...........I'm wild again, beguiled again..........Rodgers and Hart …..Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered
4. The longest movie kiss lasted longer than 3 minutes. Actresses Necar Zadegan and Traci Dinwiddie locked lips for a record-setting three minutes and 23 seconds in the 2010 film Elena Undone. (Actors Gregory Smith and Stephanie Sherrin’s smooch lasted for six minutes in the 2005 low-budget comedy Kids in America, but it took place during the closing credits.)
Penultimate Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian. --Submitted by sd of ??
Science Fiction Convention of the Week: Gallifrey One 2025 (14-16, Los Angeles, CA) 35th annual North American Doctor Who celebration! https://www.gallifreyone.com/
Actual Science Conference of the Week: Thailand Industrial Fair (12-15, Bangkok, Thailand) From Robotic forklifts to packaging. https://www.clocate.com/thailand-industrial-fair-tif/98443/
Blasphemy of the Week II: The reason that 'guru' is such a popular word is because 'charlatan' is so hard to spell. --William J Bernstein
The thing about Valentine's Day is that people discover who is single and who to feel jealous of. --Faye Morgan Δ Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties. --Jules Renard
..........Could I tell you once again somehow...........Scotty & Lulu Belle Wiseman …........Have I Told You Lately That I Love You
5. According to legend, the builder of Ireland’s Blarney Castle, one Cormac Laidir MacCarthy, was involved in a lawsuit and appealed to the Irish goddess Clíodna for help. She told him to kiss the first rock he found on his way to court. As a result, he pleaded his case with great eloquence and won. MacCarthy then laid the lucky stone into the parapet of his castle. If you kiss it you too may acquire eloquence.
Extra Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Rule #1: If you are going to mess something up, do it so badly everyone will wonder how that's even possible.
New Name for the Gulf Of Mexico of the Week: Golfo Del Gringo Loco --Marcia Morgan Till --Submitted by sb of ar
Final Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: If there is a God, he will have to beg for my forgiveness. --Carved on a wall in Auschwitz
Today's Peace of History: February 14, 1957: The organization that would shortly be called the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) chose its leadership at a meeting in New Orleans. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Ralph David Abernathy led the group which sought to coordinate civil rights protests throughout the South.
You're never alone on Valentine's Day if you're near a lake and have bread. --Mike Primavera Δ What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork. --Pearl Bailey
..........Why do birds sing so gay..........Frankie Lymon & Morris Levy …..Why Do Fools Fall In Love
Masthead of the Week: Friday ePistle, February 14, 2025: hEarty ePistle. Online at: http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/ Exclusive editor: Christine Smith. Lawrence, KS.
Website of the Week: Corruption Tracker – Documenting corruption in the arms industry https://corruption-tracker.org/blog/behind-the-smoke-the-unlawful-use-of-white-phosphorus?fbclid=IwY2xjawIUam1leHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHZC2co_eTV0--KH5EU6CHnna4-1-eusMgON8fzTvVdNVYupG0ygmlqv_fg_aem_XAjZgE5eBDFH9OoRrdD7QA
Moonbeam: Don't fear your mortality because it is this very mortality that gives meaning and depth and poignancy to all the days that will be granted to you. --Paul Tsongas
Cost of War:
As of 02/13/25 State Department Costs: $257,848,910,397
As of 02/06/25 State Department Costs: $256,184,692,725
As of 02/13/25 Homeland Security: $1,191,784,242,460
As of 02/06/25 Homeland Security: $1,191,205,991,712
As of 02/13/25 Interest on War Debt: $1,279,302,559,455
As of 02/06/25 Interest on War Debt: $1,277,815,294,946
As of 02/13/25 Military Costs: $3,131,007,556,228
As of 02/06/25 Military Costs: $3,129,878,509,574
As of 02/13/25 Veterans Care: $4,122,702,198,333
As of 02/06/25 Veterans Care: $4,111,430,159,698
As of 02/13/25 Total Cost of Wars: $9,982,647,245,792
As of 02/06/25 Total Cost of Wars: $9,967,648,054,794
https://www.nationalpriorities.org/cost-of/
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; It does not insist on its own way... I Corinthians 13
Famous Last Words: Baa --Dolly the cloned ewe who died 2/14/03
..........You've got my head spinning, no kidding...........John Legend …..All Of Me
I have no Valentine's date. Anyway, it's okay, food is love, food is life. --Unknown Δ Love is a two-way street constantly under construction. --Carroll Bryant
May Peace brighten your heart
And Joy enlighten your mind
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