Famous First Words: Westwards
the gaze wanders... Tristan & Isolde
Politics: poly = many plus
ticks = blood sucking parasites.
..........From early in the
morning she makes me jump and shout..........Howlin' Wolf .....Howlin' For My Darling
Peace is costly but it is
worth the expense. --African proverb
It is a beautiful Friday morning. The 71°F temperature is exactly right for being
out and breathing in pollen laden air. There
is no cloud or jet trail in the off white sky; no texture or flaw disturbs it. The birds have long ago ended their morning hymns
and are on to business and gossip. Our morning
walk explores blocks and blocks of manicured lawns and late spring flowers. Floral scents come and go as we walk by. Rabbits are ubiquitous. They stand alert on the sidewalk ahead and dart
under cars or across streets when we fail to veer off. Sometimes Puck notices and barks; but there are
so many. Squirrels, on the other hand, must
be growled at, no matter what. We walk an
extra block in the clean morning air and Puck lies down in the cool grass to rest
before we make it back to our rooms and sweet Moose Munch and you. Wow!
Hope your weekend is full of laughs,
ePistliers.
Phillip Morris said today
that the tobacco settlement is costing so much money that they may have to lay
off two Republican senators.
..........Where troubles melt
like lemon drops..........Judy Garland
.....Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Trivia Questions: Happy National Iced Tea Day
^ Can you name the 4 types of teas?
^^ About when did people begin icing tea?
^^^About what percentage of the tea served
in the US today is iced?
^^^^ What is the world's most expensive tea?
^^^^ What is the world's most expensive tea?
^^^^^ Any idea what
Sherpa tea is?
Fake
Library Statistic of the Week:
99% of the stories librarians tell family and friends sound like articles from The Onion https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts&ref=br_tf
Science Fiction Convention of the
Week: YetiCon - June 10-12 in
Ontario's Blue Mountain Resort. ##Party
at the mountain, with geeks and wild yetis!
Opinionated
Rant of the Week: In 1872, Victoria Woodhull became the first woman to run
for president. She ran on the Equal
Rights Party ticket with a platform of free love. Since then at least 35 women have run
including Gracie Allen (the Surprise Party, 1940) and Rosanne Barr and Cindy
Sheehan (Peace & Freedom Party, 2012).
Hillary is not the first. If we
assume that she is the first who "has a chance" then we admit to
ignoring large voting populations like socialists. I wish Hillary all the luck in the world, but
she is far from breaking new ground.
Moonbeam: Fine art is knowledge made visible. --Gustave Courbet
Why did Donald Trump wear
earmuffs? To avoid the draft.
..........and when you get in
trouble..........Howlin' Wolf .....I'm
the Wolf
Thing to Think about of the Week: I prefer to meditate with a ballpoint
pen.
Big Hello: Tere - Estonian
Week of the Week: Pet Appreciation Week (June
5-11) --Notice: The dishes
with the paw print are yours and contain your food. The other dishes are mine
and contain my food. Please note, placing a paw print in the middle of my plate
and food does not stake a claim for it becoming your food and dish, nor do I
find that aesthetically pleasing in the slightest.
Quote of the Week: The man who views the world at 50 the
same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life. --Muhammad Ali ~~Here is a very young George Carlin talking
about Muhammad Ali. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9kTAz-cc0Q
The
real reason you can't have the Ten Commandments in a Courthouse is that you
cannot post "Thou Shalt Not Steal," "Thou Shalt Not Commit
Adultery" and "Thou Shall Not Lie" in a building full of
politicians… It creates a hostile work environment.
..........You better chase
all your cares away..........Judy Garland
.....Get Happy
^ The 4 teas are Black, Green, White, and
Oolong. The all come from one plant,
Camellia sinensis; it's how they are treated that creates the type.
Almanac: It is Friday, June 10,
2016. The moon will be first quarter on
Sunday and is in Virgo. It is Alcoholics
Anonymous (Founders) Day, Ball Point Pen Day, Iced Tea Day, and Poultry Day. Because it is the Second Weekend in June it
is also Banana Split Days, National Lemonade Days, and Poultry Festival. In Argentina it is Affirmation of Argentina's
Rights over the Malvinas and in the Azores it is Camoes Day (1580). Portugal celebrate Day of Portugal
(1580).
Among
those born on the day were Gustave Courbet (1819), Immanuel Velikovsky (1895),
Frederick Loewe (1904), Howlin' Wolf (1910), Terence Rattigan (1911), Saul
Bellow (1914), Judy Garland (Frances Gumm, 1922), Earl Hamner, Jr. (1923), Nat Hentoff
(1925), June Haver (1926), Maurice Sendak (1928), F. Lee Bailey (1933), Ron
Glass (1945), Matthew Fisher (1946), and Timothy Van Patten (1959).
On June tenth the
first Dutch settled on Manhattan (1610), NY passed laws regulating the medical
profession (1760), The Continental Congress appointed a committee to write a Declaration of Independence (1776), the
rubber tire was patented (1846), Tristan
& Isolde was first performed (1865), the Elks were formed (1899), the
first forest fire lookout tower was built (1905), Robert Smith and William
Wilson formed Alcoholics Anonymous (1935), the Italian Republic was established
(1946), Janis Joplin gave her first live concert (1966), and Coco Cola returned
to its old formula (1985).
Night Sky, June 10 - This evening's Moon poses partway
between Jupiter to its upper left and fainter Regulus to its right. Dawn Planet: Mercury; Morning Planets: Uranus and Neptune:
Evening Planets Mars and Jupiter: Saturn is visible all night.
This Week: Saturday, June 11
- Missing Mutts Awareness Day and National Making Life Beautiful Day
Sunday, June 12 - Loving Day and Race Unity Sunday
Night Sky,
June 12:
The first-quarter Moon shines fairly close to Jupiter this evening (about 4° to
Jupiter's left). But looks are deceiving! Jupiter is 40 times larger in
diameter than the Moon, and it's currently 2,100 times farther away in the
distance.
Monday, June 13 - Reform Movement Day (Yemen)
Tuesday, June 14 - Flag Day and World Day Against Child
Labor
Wednesday, June 15 - Native American Citizenship Day and
Worldwide Day of Giving
Thursday, June 16
- Bloomsday ##Shut your eyes and
see. --James Joyce Ulysses ~~I was unable to unearth any activities for
Lawrence for this day.
My
grandfather is hard of hearing. He needs to read lips. I don't mind that so much but he uses a yellow
highlighter.
.......... In the morning the
rooster crows..........Howlin' Wolf
.....Back Door Man
^^ Some 19th Century cookbooks contain
recipes for iced teas. It became
generally popular after free samples were offered at the St. Louis World Fair
(1904)
Funniest thing I read of the Week: 75% of a Finnish park ranger's job is
rescuing metal bands that get lost shooting album covers.
Moonbeam: Don't be afraid to face the facts, and
never lose your ability to ask the questions: Why? and How? -- Immanuel Velikovsky
Late Night Snacks: Everyone was on vacation last week due to
Memorial Day. Here are some snacks
left-over from 2013**. New Rule: If
seeing Michelle Obama on TV saying she likes the movies or nutrition or
exercise fills you with rage...get help.
--Bill Maher / I must have missed the moment when racism ended. I wonder
when it was. The time Ross dated Aisha Tyler on 'Friends?' Or when Keebler
added a black elf? Oh, I know. It must have been when they made slavery illegal
in Mississippi all the way back ... four weeks ago. --Stephen Colbert /
"Yesterday, Delaware became the most recent state to legalize same-sex
marriage. That marks the 11th state to make same-sex marriage legal and the first
thing I know about Delaware." –Jimmy Fallon / Public Policy Polling asked
a group of 1,200 registered voters, and 13 percent said they believe Obama is
the Antichrist and another 13 percent were not sure. I feel if he were the
Antichrist, he would be getting more legislation passed. –-Jimmy Kimmel /
"Conservative commentator Glenn Beck is suffering from paralyzed vocal
cords that have made him unable to speak. But not to worry – doctors are
working around the clock to make sure this condition continues." –Conan
O'Brien / "I think I finally
figured out where Sarah Palin came from. Someone cast a spell on a YouTube
comment and it came to life." –Jon Stewart
**Joyce has been my friend since high
school. Last month her daughter,
Meredith, died unexpectedly. Among her
effects was a file of 2013 ePistles.
The pursuit of peace and
progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can
never be relaxed and never abandoned.
--Dag Hammarskjold
There
was once a young man who wanted to become a great writer and to write stuff
that millions of people would read and react to on an emotional level, cry,
howl in pain and anger, so now he works for Microsoft writing error messages.
..........Ding ding ding went
the bell..........Judy Garland .....The
Trolley Song
^^^ Approximately 80% of the tea served in
the US is iced.
Worthless Fact of the Week: The modern ballpoint pen was invented and
patented by Ladislas and Georg Biro in Hungary in 1935.
Wacky Uses for Common Products: Going fishing. Spam makes excellent bait, according to Ann
Kondo Corum. http://www.wackyuses.com/wacky/spam.html
Weird Word of the Week: Labretifery - an ornament worn through
the upper or lower lip. http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-lab1.htm
I needed
some time off from work so I decided to act crazy. I hung upside down from the
ceiling and when the boss asked me what I was doing, I said, "I'm a light
bulb." "You're going crazy," he said. "Take a few days
off." I left and my officemate followed me. The boss asked where she was
going. She said, "I can't work in the dark."
........... We gonna romp and
stomp till midnight..........Howlin' Wolf
.....Wang Dang Doodle
^^^^ The most expensive tea in the world is a
rare Chinese tea called Tieguanyin, which is priced at £1,700 per kilo (that’s
around $1,500/lb). The tea is named after the Buddhist deity Guan Yin (Iron
Goddess of Mercy).
Word Shakespeare Made Up of the
Week: Arouse - to evoke or awaken. King Henry VI, Part II Act IV Scene I: Captain
Second Funniest Thing I Read of
the Week: Sometimes, when one
door closes, you need to nail a board over it.
Other Science Fiction Convention
of the Week: Sci-Fi Valley Con
- Altoona, PA, June 10-12. ##The Home of
Nostalgia http://www.scifivalleycon.com/
Puck
the Brave
Episode of the Week: Here's
our fearless Puck upside down in the case of Cirque de Soleil's Shar-pei.
The states of Texas and Louisiana have decided to build an airport on the border they share. They wanted to honor Tom Delay of Texas and Huey Long of Louisiana, so they're calling it Long Delay International Airport.
..........I guess you always
knew it..........Judy Garland .....You
Made Me Love You
^^^^^ Sherpa tea is a blend that can be
brewed at high altitudes where water boils at a lower temperature. It is a blend of oolong and Darjeeling.
Month of the Week: June
is Great Outdoors Month --When using a public campground, a tuba placed on your
picnic table will keep the campsites on either side vacant.
Epistlier Feedback of the Week aka Still Reflecting on Reflecting: I agree with you about the Dutch exhibit
at the Nelson. I like the working people best. Those Dutch can
really paint. I saw the exhibit 4 times so you know I loved it. --jp of ks
Famous Kansans: Erin Brockovich was born Erin Pattee in
Lawrence in 1960. http://www.brockovich.com/
Today's Peace of History: Today's Peace of History, June 10, 1963:
The “Equal Pay Act of 1963” was passed and signed into law; it guaranteed women
equal pay for equal work. The legislation was a result of the recommendations
of President John F. Kennedy’s Commission on the Status of Women.
I
bought these new boots. They are made from possum and deer hide and they feel
great when I wear them. There is just one problem. When I see headlights in the
dark I get this uncontrollable urge to run into the middle of the road and just
stand there
.......... Can't you hear me
call - callin' your name..........Howlin' Wolf
.....Smokestack Lightning
Month of the Week Too: June is Caribbean-American Heritage Month
--And here is the Kingston Trio singing Zombie
Jamboree: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4k5XftdTMs
Moonbeam: Can any of you seriously say the Bill of
Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of
committee. --F. Lee Bailey
Cost of War:
Tax
dollars spent in Afghanistan: as of 6/2/16: $739,032,071,776.
Tax
dollars spent in Afghanistan: as of 6/2/16: $738,355,802,178.
Tax
dollars spent on the Iraq war since 2001 as of 6/2/16: $819,531,190,337.
Tax
dollars spent on the Iraq war since 2001 as of 6/2/16: $819,511,425,548.
Tax
dollars spent on Daesh conflict as of 6/2/16: $9,964,910,056.
Tax dollars
spent on Daesh conflict as of 6/2/16: $9,860,974,368.
Tax
dollars spent on the Pentagon Slush Fund as of 6/2/16: $121,640,998,212.
Tax
dollars spent on the Pentagon Slush Fund as of 6/2/16: $121,062,686,978.
Tax
dollars spent on all wars since 2001 as of 6/2/16: $1,693,149,531,407.
Tax
dollars spent on all wars since 2001 as of 6/2/16: $1,691,737,333,681.
The real and lasting
victories are those of peace, and not of war.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
..........We will dance the
hoochie koochie..........Judy Garland
.....Meet Me in St. Louis
Deep Thoughts: Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people seem
bright until you hear them talk. --Tonight's jokes are
from Prairie Home Companion Joke Episode, 2013.
Famous Last Words: practice these principles in all our affairs --The Twelfth Step AA
May Peace fill your bowl
And Joy be the cherry on top
prairie mama
christine
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