Famous
First Words: Good evening, Mr. and Mrs.
America ... and all the ships at sea. --Walter Winchell
Farewell,
well loved, Monty Python: “This
morning, shortly after 11 am, comedy struck this little house on
Dibley Road. Sudden, violent comedy.” --Flying Circus
..........I
was not a born fool it took work to get this way.........Danny Kay
…..The Maladjusted Jester (The Court Jester)
Peace
is a puzzle waiting to be solved. / Peace is a story waiting to be
told.
It
is a gloomy Friday morning. The sky is solid gray with little
texture or color. 35°F with 14 mph winds make it chilly as well as
dark. We walk quickly down the damp sidewalks. There is no birdsong
only slamming doors and rumbly car motors. The world reeks of damp,
of wet leaves, mud, and grass under water. Two children and their
adult pass us on their way to school while Puck dogsplained to them
about absolutely everything. The park at the end of the cu-de-sac is
yellow and brown. Puck uses its facilities and we turn back towards
home. We're walking in the street now because, apparently, we have
smelled everything there is to smell on the sidewalk. We return to a
saucer of milk and steaming decaf creamed with half and half and
sweeten with chemicals. Ahh the good life. Enjoy!
Hope
your weekend lobs the proverbial holy hand grenade, ePistliers
“We
are three wise men.” “Well, what are you doing creeping around a
cow shed at two o’clock in the morning? That doesn’t sound very
wise to me.”
..........And
the oboe, it is clearly understood is an ill wind that no one blows
good.........Danny Kaye …..Anatole of Paris (Secret Life of
Walter Mitty)
Trivia
Questions: Happy Birthday, Alan Alexander Milne
^
Know what Milne did before Pooh?
^^
Who or what was the original Pooh?
^^^
What do you know about the 100 Acre Wood?
^^^^
What was the very first Pooh item published? (1924)
^^^^^
Remember who illustrated the Pooh books?
Funniest
Thing I Read of the Week: Kavanaugh
offers to pay for wall by recycling his empties. --Borowitz
First
Friendly Piece of Advice of the Week:
You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at
every dog that barks. --Submitted by ajm of ok
Fake
Library Statistic of the Week:
In
2018 42% of library staff meeting agenda items were about accepting
change, which is unchanged since 1999.
https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts
“The
BBC wishes to deny rumours that it is going into liquidation. Mrs
Kelly, who owns the flat where they live, has said that they can stay
on till the end of the month.” --Flying Circus
..........Things
you would not do at home.........Danny Kaye …..The Best Things
Happen When You're Dancing (White Christmas)
Moonbeam:
The profound divergences of opinion on war and peace had been shown
to know no sex. --Sylvia
Pankhurst
Something
to Think About of the Week:
Big
Hello: Saludi –
Sardinain (Campidanese)
https://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hello.htm
Next
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: I
don't call them New Year's Resolutions. I prefer the term: casual
promises to myself that I am under no legal obligation to fulfill.
Week
of the Week: National Mocktail Week
(1/13-19) Recipe for Shirley Ginger. 4 cups Ginger Beer + 1 cup
club soda + 3 tbsp lime juice + ¼ cup grenadine Stir it all
together. Pour it over ice into tall glasses . Garnish with lime
rounds and/or maraschino cherries.
Son
of Next Funniest Thing I Read of the Week:
How could a boy get into the Caupulets' garden? There was a wall.
--William Shakespeare --Submitted by sd of ks
DENNIS:
We're an anarchosyndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as a
sort of executive officer for the week. But all the decisions of
that officer have to be ratified at a special biweekly meeting. By a
simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs,--ARTHUR: Be
quiet! --Holy Grail
..........Gypsy
drink, gypsy drink, gypsy drink..........Danny Kaye Gypsy Drinking
Song (Inspector General)
^
After
attending the University of Cambridge's Trinity College and writing
for the literary magazines Granta
and
Punch,
Milne began a successful career as a novelist, poet and playwright in
the 1920s.
Almanac:
It is Friday, January 18, 2019. The moon will be full (Wolf) on
Monday and is in Gemini. It is Women in Blue Jeans
Day, Thesaurus Day, Pooh Day, and International Fetish Day. In
Tunisia it is Revolution Day (1956) and in
Florida its Arbor Day.
Among
those born on this day were Peter Roget
(1779), Joseph F. Glidden (1813), A.A. Milne and Sylvia Pankhurst
(1882), Oliver Hardy (1892), Cary Grant (1904), Danny Kaye (1913),
Bobby Goldsboro (1941), and John Hughes (1950).
On
January eighteenth Henry VII married Elizabeth (1486), Pizarro
founded Lima, Peru (1535), the new world's first UFO was sighted
(Boston, 1644), Priate Henry Morgan captured Panama (1671), San Jose,
CA, was founded (1777), Capt Cook stumbled across the Hawaiian
Islands (1778), the x-ray machine was first demonstration in the US
(1896), the WWI Peace Congress opened (1919), Walter Winchell
premiered on radio (1929), the sale of presliced bread was banned in
the US (1943), Ted Mack's Original Amateur
Hour
debuted (1948), Monty Python's
Flying Circus
aired its final episode (1973), gold reached $1,000 an ounce (1980),
DC
Mayor Marion Barry was arrested in a drug sting (1990), and Liza
Marie Presley divorced Michael Jackson (1996).
Night
Sky, 1/18:
Zero-magnitude
Capella on high, and equally bright Rigel in Orion's foot, are at
almost the same right ascension. This means they cross your sky’s
meridian at almost exactly the same time: around 9 or 10 pm depending
on how far east or west you live in your time zone. Tonight the
bright moon shines between them.
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/sky-at-a-glance/
Max
Picture of the Week:
I lied. Max thought the animals were so funny, he had a shirt made
with their pictures.
This
Week: Saturday, January 19 –
Tin Can Day & World Day of Migrants and Refugees
Night
Sky, 1/19: Castor and Pollux are to the left of the Moon,
Betelgeuse is to the right, and Procyon is below it.
Sunday,
January 20 – National Cheese Lovers Day & Penguin
Awareness Day
Monday,
January 21 – Martin Luther King Jr Day & National Crowd
Feed Day & National Hugging Day
Night
Sky, 1/21: Mercury and Saturn are lost in the
sunrise. Venus and Jupiter rise before the first light of dawn. Mars
shines high in the southwest at nightfall. Right after dark Uranus
is high in the south and Neptune is low in the southwest.
Tuesday,
January 22 – Answer Your Cat's Questions Day
Wednesday,
January 23 – National Handwriting Day & National Pie Day
Thursday,
January 24 – Belly Laugh Day & National Compliment Day &
Talk Like A Grizzled Prospector Day
“Alright,
but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public
order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health,
what have the Romans ever done for us?” --Life of Brian
..........isn't
it great, isn't it grand, isn't it rich...........Danny Kaye …..The
King's New Clothes Song (Hans Christian Andersen)
^^
Christopher Robin Milne's stuffed bear, originally named "Edward,"
was renamed "Winnie" after a Canadian black bear named
Winnie (after Winnipeg), which was used as a military mascot in World
War I, and left to London Zoo during the war. "The pooh"
comes from a swan the young Milne named "Pooh."
'Nother
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Why can't we just use
thoughts and prayers to protect our border? That is what we use to
protect our schools. --The Mystic Sisterhood
Moonbeam:
I am going to fight capitalism even if it kills me. It is wrong that
people like you should be comfortable and well fed while all around
you people are starving. --Sylvia Pankhurst
Extra
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: “Police say university
bookstore worker stole $20,000 worth of textbooks.” I hope they
recover both of the books. --Submitted by sb of ar
Late
Night Snacks: “Mr President, steel slats are
not the metal bars we want you behind,” --Stephen Colbert / He’s
like a rich guy yelling from the Price is Right audience who doesn’t
know how much things cost. --Seth Meyers / For some people, an
emergency is black people barbecuing; for other people, waiting for
those three dots in a text message is an emergency.” --Trevor Noah
Not
So Late Night Snacks: Peter Sagal: Research
out this week says cyclists have an emotional connection to their
bikes, forming bonds akin to that of a spouse or a child. Luther
Burbank: I had a Huffy Sweet Thunder that was a hand-me-down that I
think I had caught feelings for. Paula Poundstone: Yeah,
Huffy Sweet Thunder. Didn't Trump pay her off?
--Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me 1/12/19
Peace
is a locked door, never knowing what's inside./ Peace is a smile in a
world of frowns.
“Good
evening. Tonight on ‘Is There?’ we examine the question, ‘Is
there a life after death?’ And here to discuss it are three dead
people.” --Flying Circus
..........It
came down the Amazon from the jungles.........Danny Kaye …..Chica,
Chica Boom Chic (On The Riviera)
^^^
The fictional Hundred Acre Wood of the Pooh stories derives from Five
Hundred Acre Wood in Ashdown Forest in East Sussex, South East
England, where the Pooh stories were set. Milne lived on the northern
edge of the forest at Cotchford Farm, and took his son walking there.
Worthless
Fact of the Week:
First UFO Sighting in the new world. From the journal of John
Winthrop: “About
midnight, three men, coming in a boat to Boston, saw two lights arise
out of the water near the north point of the town cove, in form like
a man, and went at a small distance to the town, and so to the south
point, and there vanished away.”
More
Information
Wicked
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: I can
laugh in 23 personalities. --Submitted by rmar of ks
Weird
Word of the Week:
Quockerwodger – a wooden toy figure which jerks its limbs when
pulled by a string or a pseudo-politician, one whose strings of
action are pulled by somebody else.
http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-quo2.htm
Wacky
Uses for Common Products:
Make hangers glide over a clothes rod. Spray WD-40 on the clothes
rod so hangers can be pushed back and forth easily.
http://www.wackyuses.com/wacky/wd40.html
And
now the congregation shall rise and sing Hymn 101, 'Get Your Hand Off
My Knee, Ya Dirty Old Bastard'. --Spamalot
...........I'm
not superstitious about ya.........Danny Kaye …..Knock On Wood
(Knock on Wood)
^^^^
Not
yet known as Pooh, he made his first appearance in a poem, "Teddy
Bear," published in Punch
magazine in February 1924 and republished in
When We Were Very Young.
Penultimate
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week:
Triscuit crackers are the perfect snack for anyone who has had the
desire to eat wicker furniture.
Science
Fiction Convention of the Week:
Arisia (1/18-21, Boston) New England's Largest, Most Diverse Sci-Fi
& Fantasy Convention. https://www.arisia.org/
Actual
Science Convention of the Week:
541st
International Conference on Engineering and Natural Science (1/18-19,
LA) Scientists,
scholars, engineers and students from the Universities all around the
world and the industry to present ongoing research activities...
https://www.allconferencealert.com/event_detail.php?ev_id=205056
Puck
the Brave
Episode of the Week:
Here's our fearless Puck making his bed in the case of the case of
the Napping Newfy.
I
cut down trees, I wear high heels, suspenders, and a bra. I wish I'd
been a girlie, just like my dear Mama! The
Lumberjack Song
--Flying Circus
..........of
the two adjacent sides.........Danny Kaye …..The Square of the
Hypotenuse (Merry Andrew)
^^^^^
E H Shepard illustrated
the original Pooh books, using his own son's teddy, Growler ("a
magnificent bear"), as the model.
Month
of the Week: January is Oatmeal Month
–If you cross porridge and ducks you get Quacker Oats. / When I
accidentally spilled oatmeal on my son he shouted “Don't be Gruel”.
Final
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: You
are dust, and you will return to dust...That's why I don't clean
house, it could be someone I know.
Last
Friendly Advice of the Week: And the
Moon said to me – my darling, you do not have to be whole in order
to shine. --Nichole McElhaney --Submitted by ksz of ks
Full
Circle of the Week: I
just saw an ad for a workshop on Birth: An Intersection Between
Maternity and Mental Health. It seems to be about mother's mental
health. When I was a kid, Birth Trauma meant something very
different. Babies are traumatized by the very act of birth. “Birth
can have lasting psychological consequences for the baby. Full
Circle. ~~I have long thought that the whole babies-are-traumatized
was an ad campaign for the c-section doctors.
Grammar
Joke of the Week: A
simile walks into a bar, as parched as a desert.
Today's
Peace of History: January 18, 2007: India sent
125 of its crack policewomen to Liberia to act as UN peacekeepers,
the first time the world body has deployed an all-female unit.
What
is the air-speed of an unladen swallow? / You can't expect to wield
supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword
at you. --Flying Circus
..........And
smile, smile, smile.........Danny Kaye …..Pack Up Your Troubles
(On the Double)
Masthead
of the Week:
Friday ePistle January 18, 2019, Completely Different ePistle. Online
at: http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/
Peace, Laughs, and Monty Python. Exclusive editor: Christine Smith.
2511 Morningside Dr. Lawrence, KS 66047
Moonbeam:
Love and freedom are vital to the creation and upbringing of a child.
--Sylvia Pankhurst
Funniest
Thing I Heard of the Week: Irony – the
opposite of Wrinkly. --Submitted by ja of ks
Cost
of War:
As
of 1/10/18 Military Costs of War since 2001: $2,890,607,520,414.
As
of 1/10/18 Military Costs of War since 2001: $2,888,643,043,077.
As
of 1/10/18 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $873,801,326,962.
As
of 1/10/18 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $872,466,300,039.
As
of 1/10/18 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $648,150,323,553.
As
of 1/10/18 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $646,472,035,295.
As
of 1/10/18 Veterans Care since 2001: $302,943,277,129.
As
of 1/10/18 Veterans Care since 2001: $302,561,843,115.
As
of 1/10/18 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $4,715,503,403,617.
As
of 1/10/18 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $4,710,144,316,532.
Peace
is a person who gets involved. / Peace is a place where no war will
be held. ~~Today's Quotes from Children's Quotes for 2000,
International Year for the Culture of Peace
..........You'll
feel blue, you'll feel sad.........Danny Kaye …..After You've Gone
(The Five Pennies)
And
pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space, 'Cause
there's bugger all down here on Earth! The
Galaxy Song
--Flying Circus
Famous
Last Words: ...such service in such position, employment or
classification. --Charter of the City of San Jose California.
May
Peace (accord, love, reconciliation, amity, concord) attend your
nights
And
Joy (bliss, cheer, elation, gaiety, gladness, merriment, revelry)
attend your days
prairie
mama
christine
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