Famous
First Words: Many strange legends are told... The Jungle Book
(1967)
October
is Caffeine Addiction Recovery Month. But it's a Brewtiful Day! /
This coffee tastes like dirt. Well, it was ground this morning.
We
must not have a Nuclear war. We must begin to solve international
disputes by the application of man's power of reason in a way that is
worthy of the dignity of man. --Linus Pauline
It
is a blustery Friday morning. The 52°F temperature is crisp; but the
wind is wonderful. It makes the leaves of the cottonwoods wag faster
than Puck's tail. It gives the illusion that the trees are giggling
and they make a noise like cats playing with tissue paper. The
willows on the other hand are silently dancing in great lashing
sweeps. Puck barks at everything. The sky is devoid of clouds but
decaying jet trails are meeting up to form puffs of pink – fading
to white – that drift slowly across the pale blue morning. No
birds can be seen in any direction. Lawns are still green and lush
looking. The only dead, brown foliage is the grass from the low spot
in the park at the end of the cul-de-sac which held water all summer.
We turn back towards home so the wind (13mph) is at our back. Two
large dogs come to the front fence for a bark-fest with Puck before
they are called into the house. But now we are in. In from the
wind...In from the smell of fall...Into the smell of brewing
coffee...Into the warmth. So I sit a cup of decaf doctored with the
usual sweetener but also creamed with artificial milk because my new
thyroid medicine doesn't like calcium. A terrific morning topped off
by writing to you.
Hope
yours is the champagne of weekends, ePistliers .
The
lady working at the desk next to mine asked if I wake up grumpy in
the morning. I said, “No, I just bring him some coffee. / This
morning our pot of coffee was so sad it made depresso.
..........Devil
can't get out of hand.........Laura Nyro …..Luckie
Trivia
Questions: Happy Birthday, Circus, Circus!!
^
What do you know about the Circus, Circus building?
^^
Which James Bond movie featured the hotel's famous midway?
^^^
What is the name of the iconic Circus Circus Marquee?
^^^^
Which 1971 journalistic novel called Circus, Circus the “sixth
Reich”?
^^^^^
Who currently owns Circus Circus?
Funniest
Thing I Read of the Week: I Dig, You
Dig, We Dig, He Dig, She Dig, They Dig. --It's not a beautiful poem
but it's very deep.
Horror
Joke of the October: The month of
October is just a vicious circle of buying a bag of candy for
Halloween and then buying another bag because you ate the first one
yourself.
Second
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: How
do you get Trump to change a light bulb? You don't. He will lie that
he changed it and all the Republicans will sit in the day and agree
it was changed. --Submitted by pj of ks
Fake
Library Statistic of the Week:
67% of librarians have checked out at least one book just so it would
not be weeded. https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts
I
asked the waitress if this was suppose to be coffee or tea. She asked
what it tasted like and I said gasoline. Well, that would be the
coffee. The tea tastes like turpentine. / E=MC2 …
Energy equals Milk times Coffee squared
..........Let
the wind blow Timer, I like her song.........Laura Nyro …..Timer
Moonbeam:
Bilingualism
is not an imposition on the citizens. The citizens can go on speaking
one language
or
six languages, or no languages if they so choose. Bilingualism is an
imposition on the state and not the citizens.
--Pierre
Trudeau
Naturally
Occurring Mandala of the Week: Volcano
Big
Hello: K'uxi –
Tsotsil (Chiapas, Mexico)
https://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hello.htm
Next
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week:
Due to rising costs dirty deeds are no longer done dirt cheap. Sorry
for the inconvenience. --RHOZ
Week
of the Week: Earth Science Week (13-19)
–Don't expect perfection from geologists; they all have their
faults. / Rock-Rock-Rock (The geologists' version of
rock-paper-scissors) Igneous erodes Sedimentary...no, wait, Igneous
melts metamorphic. Or is it sedimentary alters Metamorphic. Then
what does metamorphic do?
Horror
Joke of the October II: I can go from
Halo to Broomstick in 2.3 seconds. --RHOZ
Next
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week Plus 1:Today
I am going to give it my some.
A
guy put some coins in a vending machine and pressed the Coffee,
double cream, sugar Button. No cup appeared but 2 nozzles went
into action – one sending forth coffee, the other cream. After the
proper amounts had gone down the drain where the cup should have
been, the machine turned itself off. “Now that's real automation”,
he exclaimed, “this thing even drink it for you.”
..........time
to design a woman.........Laura Nyro …..Emmie
^
Circus
Circus was opened on October 18, 1968 by Jay
Sarno
and
Stanley
Mallin,
becoming the flagship
casino
for Circus
Circus Enterprises.
Architects Rissman and Rissman Associates designed a giant circus
tent shaped main structure, which was built by R.C. Johnson
Construction of
Las Vegas.
Almanac:
It is Friday, October 18, 2019. The moon will be last quarter on
Monday and is in Gemini. It is No Beard Day, Global
Champagne Day, Mammograhy Day, Hard Boiled Guy/Girl Day, National
Chocolate Cupcake Day, and Meatloaf Appreciation Day.
Among
those born on this day were Heinrich von
Kleist (1777), Lotte Lenya (1898), Pierre Trudeau (1919), Jesse Helms
(1921), Melina Mercouri (1925), Chuck Berry (1926), George C. Scott
(1926), Lee Harvey Oswald (1939), Mike Ditka (1939), Willie Horton
(1942), Laura Nyro (1947), and Jean-Claude Van Damme (1958).
On
October eighteenth the first US labor organization formed (Boston
Shoemakers, 1648), the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ended the War of
Austrian Succession (1748), the Mason Dixon line was agreed upon
(1767), Columbia, Princeton, Rutgers, & Yale set rules for
collegiate football (1873), the first commercial long-distance line
opened (1892), the BBC was established (1922), and Circus Circus
opened (1968).
Night
Sky, 10/18: Vega
is the brightest star high in the west after dark. To its lower right
(nearly a fist and a half at arm's length), look for Eltanin, the
nose of Draco the Dragon. The rest of Draco's fainter, lozenge-shaped
head is a little farther behind. Draco always eyes Vega. The main
stars of Vega's own constellation, Lyra — quite faint by comparison
— now extend to Vega's left.
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/sky-at-a-glance/
Max
Picture of the Week:
Max waiting to meet The Little Mermaid
Still
Another Funniest Thing I Read of the Week:
What did you do to “observe” Columbus Day ... get lost in a
grocery store looking for spices? --Submitted by ae of mo
This
Week: Saturday, October 19 –
Bridge Day & Evaluate Your Life Day & Sloth International Day
& Sweetest Day
Night
Sky, 10/19: Vega shines high in the west after dark. About
equally high in the southwest is Altair, not quite as bright. Just
upper right of Altair, by a finger-width at arm's length, spot little
orange Tarazed. Down from Tarazed runs the stick-figure backbone of
Aquila, the Eagle.
Sunday,
October 20 – International Chef's Day & World Toy Camera
Day & National Sunday School Teacher Appreciation Day
Monday,
October 21 – Celebration of the Mind Day & Lung Health
Day & Reptile Awareness Day
Tuesday,
October 22 – CAPS LOCK DAY & National Nut Day &
Smart Is Cool Day
Night
Sky, 10/22:
Jupiter (magnitude –2.0, in the feet of Ophiuchus) is the white dot
low in the southwest as twilight fades. To Jupiter's lower right by
11° or 12°, can you still spot Antares, one sixteenth as bright?
Wednesday,
October 23 – Mole Day & Unity Day & TV Talk Show
Host Day
Night
Sky, 10/23:
Saturn (magnitude +0.5, in Sagittarius) is the steady yellow "star"
in the south-southwest during and after dusk. It's 24° upper left of
Jupiter.
Thursday,
October 24 – United Nations Day & Food Day
A
gal walks into a coffee house and orders 4 shots of the most
expensive espresso. She downs them all one after the other. “You
must be in a great hurry”, remarked the barista. “You'd be too
if you had what I have,” replied the woman. “What have you got?”
t he barista asked. “Fifty cents,” she replied.
..........last
trace of ruby and flame.........Laura Nyro …..Triple Goddess
Twilight
Antepenultimate
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week:
Sign at a impeachment rally: Mass Incarceration
Now !
Horror
Joke of the October III: Halloween
hasn't been the same since the FDA started regulating safety coated
caplets of eye of newt.
Moonbeam:
We must make a journey around the world to see if a back door has
perhaps been left open. --Heinrich von Kleist
Late
Night Snacks of the Week: The whistles are
blowing, the witches are hunting, but the president keeps on going.
Trump is handling this impeachment crisis about as well as you
expect, which is badly. Very, very badly. --Jimmy Kimmel / What do
you mean you’re not participating? It’s an impeachment inquiry,
not Secret Santa. You don’t get to choose whether you participate!
You’re like a guy being dragged away in handcuffs screaming, "I’m
not participating in this arrest". --Seth Meyers /In the end,
Trump may be defeated by his greatest weakness: his Achilles mouth.
The spiral is detailed in the epic poem: the
Idiod. --Stephen Colbert / (US Ambassador
to the EU) Sondland was tasked by the president to deal with Ukraine
– despite Ukraine not being in the EU. That’s not his
jurisdiction. That would be like Santa doing the Tooth Fairy’s job.
--Trevor Noah
Not
So Late Night Snacks of the Week: ..one of
these shady Ukrainian associates, as part of his business, owns a
beach club in Odessa in Ukraine called Mafia Rave. I am not kidding.
Man, I mean, you can say what you want about Nixon, but his friends
didn't own a club called Burglar Bar. --Peter Sagal
Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, 10/12/19
Nobody
wins. Nobody benefits from destructive war of this sort and there is
all of this human suffering. --Linus Pauling
On
the elevator the other day, a guy got on with a giant cup of coffee.
He started complaining about how caffeine made him nervous so I
suggested he stop drinking it. “No”, he said, “if I didn't
have the shakes I wouldn't get any exercise at all.”
..........First
star leads to Venus.........Laura Nyro …..Triple Goddess Twilight
^^^
Lucky
The Clown, the marquee
at the entrance was provided by Young Electric Sign Company and was
constructed in 1976.
Worthless
Fact of the Week: Lotte Lenya was born
Koroline Wilhelmine Blamauer in Vienna to working class parents. She
died in New York City in 1981.
Wicked
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week:
Tomorrow is Saturday which means that I will be multi-slacking
instead of multi-tasking.
Preantepenultimate
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week:
Midwestern pride is suffering through a 40° day in October with a
hoodie because you don't want to give winter the satisfaction of
getting your winter coat out yet.
Weird
Word of the Week:
Mobisode – A
mobisode
(from
mobile+episode)
is a specially created mini-television series suitable for showing on
the two-inch phone screen of new handsets.
http://www.worldwidewords.org/turnsofphrase/tp-mob1.htm
Wacky
Uses for Common Products:
Remove paper stuck to a wood surface. Saturate the paper with Wesson
Vegetable Oil, let it sit for a while, and gently peel the paper off.
http://www.wackyuses.com/wacky/wesson.html
My
plan 1) Get up 2) Have coffee 3) kick ass Have more
coffee 4) Keep having coffee 5) Twitch through the day like a magical
caffeinated unicorn of excellence. / Sleep is a weak substitute for
coffee.
...........Running
from the mindreader.........Laura Nyro …..Once It Was Alright Now
(Farmer Joe)
^^^^
In
his journalistic novel of the early 1970s, Fear
and Loathing in Las Vegas,
Hunter
S. Thompson
wrote,
"The Circus-Circus is what the whole hep world would be doing
Saturday night if the Nazis had won the war. This is the sixth Reich.
The ground floor is full of gambling tables, like all the other
casinos . . . but the place is about four stories high, in the style
of a circus tent, and all manner of strange County-Fair/Polish
Carnival
madness
is going on up in this space."
Antepenultimate
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week:
It's kind of patronizing that a computer asks you to prove you're not
a robot.
Capitalist
Meme of the Week: SMASH CAPITALISM ...sent from my iphone...
Penultimate
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Allow
children to believe in Santa Claus. You believe in essential oils
and no one is ruining that magic for you. --RHOZ
Science
Fiction Convention of the Week:
ValleyCon 45 (18-20, Fargo) ...the
longest-running, most attended, largest festival of popular culture –
featuring sci-fi, fantasy, comics, anime, horror, gaming and film &
TV - from Minneapolis to Seattle!
http://valleycon.com/
I've
Lost Track...Funniest Thing I Read of the Week:
Brexit Explained: As the Unicorn got closer ... I realized that it
was merely a donkey with a plunger on its head. -- SDS
Actual
Science Convention of the Week:
NCTM Regional Exposition (16-18, Salt Lake City) National Council of
Teachers of Mathematics … Bringing Math to Your Doorstep...
~~Yuk~~ https://www.nctm.org/saltlakecity2019/
Puck
the Brave
Episode of the Week:
Here 's our fearless Puck sleeping through the case of the Drowsy
Drever.
I
don't know what I'd do without coffee...probably twenty five to life
in the state pen. / Decaf: It makes water brown.
..........Running
on streets of delight and Decemberry ice.........Laura Nyro
…..December's Boudoir
^^^^^
Previous owners of Circus Circus Las Vegas were Jay
Sarno and Stanley Mallin (1968–1974) and Mandalay Resort Group,
formerly known as Circus Circus Enterprises but it is currently owned
and operated by MGM Resorts, but they largest casino operator on the
Las Vegas Strip, is in talks to sell its Circus Circus property there
to real estate mogul Phil Ruffin, according to people familiar with
the deal.
Month
of the Week: October is Halloween Safety
Month –As your mother I will inspect your candy for your safety.
Then I will eat whatever I consider too dangerous for you.
Final
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: For
all the people saying the Nazi Party were socialist because they had
Socialist in their name, this is for you...there are no shepherds in
Shepherd Pie. --Meg Award --Submitted by sb of ar
Grammar
Joke of the Week: Saying “I'm sorry”
is the same as saying “I apologize” except at a funeral.
--Demetri Martin
Today's
Peace of History, October
18, 1648: Boston shoemakers and coopers
formed what are considered the first American trade unions. Within
the English tradition of guilds craftsmen would band together to
establish prices, quality standards, apprentice programs and
charitable programs. The guilds in England also supported members who
had retired or were beset by health or other challenges. But these
two 1648 quasi-guilds were limited to ensuring quality. The
Massachusetts General Court prohibited "The Company of
Shoomakers" from offering educational or charitable programs, or
from fixing prices or settling disputes.
Today's
Peace of Woman's History, October 18, 1929: The Privy Council
of Canada found for women on this day declaring that women were
persons under the law. October 18 has since been celebrated as
Persons Day in Canada, and October as Women's History Month.
Coffee:
A warm, delicious alternative to hating everybody every morning
forever. / It's not procrastinating if you're drinking coffee. It's
procaffinating.
..........I
saw the Devil and he's smiling at me.........Laura Nyro …..Poverty
Train
Masthead
of the Week:
Friday ePistle October 18, 2019, Edgy ePistle O Snap ePistle Online
at: http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/
Exclusive editor: Christine Smith. 2511 Morningside Dr. Lawrence, KS
66047
Moonbeam:
I’m
going to make her cry. I’m going to sing ‘Dixie’ until she
cries.” [in an elevator to Carol Moseley-Braun, the first
African-American woman elected to the Senate]
--Jesse Helms
Cost
of War:
As
of 10/17/19 Military Costs of War since 2001: $2,967,766,021,060.
As
of 10/10/19 Military Costs of War since 2001: $2,965,673,063,749.
As
of 10/17/19 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $926,238,944,918.
As
of 10/10/19 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $924,816,703,460.
As
of 10/17/19 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $714,071,735,057.
As
of 10/10/19 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $712,283,947,637.
As
of 10/17/19 Veterans Care since 2001: $317,925,379,727.
As
of 10/10/19 Veterans Care since 2001: $317,519,094,645.
As
of 10/17/19 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $4,926,002,789,276.
As
of 10/10/19 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $4,920,293,646,924.
The
only sane policy for the world is that of abolishing war. --Linus
Pauling
..........Down
by the grapevine, drink my daddy's wine, good morning.........Laura
Nyro …..Sweet Blindness
It
was so busy at work today, the only way to get a coffee break was to
throw your cup on the floor. / Starbucks was robbed, well, actually
it was mugged.
Famous
Last Words: Party. Let's have a party. --Margaret Sanger
May
Peace be your ambition
And
Joy your extend your life
prairie
mama
christine
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Laugh:
