Famous
First Words: The train's arrived, thank God. --Lopakhin The
Cherry Orchard
Happy
Anniversary, George & Gracie! Happiness is having a large,
loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. --George Burns /
They laughed at Joan of Arc, but she went right ahead and built it.
--Gracie Allen
..........De
se dire des mots doux..........Eartha Kitt …..C'est Si Bon
It's
not the end of the world at all,” he said. “It's only the end of
us”. --Nevil Shute7
It
is a not so cold as I thought it would be (31°F) Friday morning.
The sidewalks and driveways glisten with the freezing rain that fell
last night and continues making tinkling noises. The wind is light
and adds its own tinkling to the background of motors grinding near
and far. Puck goes out to do his morning business but does not stay
long and returns without a single bark even before I finish brewing
my Moose Munch. The willow branches wave a sluggish good morning as
I close the patio door quickly. Puck settles into the new recliner
chair for a hardly needed morning nap. The furnace fan stops and the
house is suddenly very quiet. It has begun to smell of coffee and I
return to the kitchen to doctor up a cup. Now I am sitting at my
computer taking long, warm sips of deliciousness and writing to you;
this transforms the cold morning to warm thoughts and pleasant
memories. Ahhh
Hope
your weekend is hotter than hell's chili – in a good way,
ePistliers.
First
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: A riot broke out at The
Treetops Renaissance Faire...but the police controlled it before
anyone could start luting. --MacNelly --Submitted by cj of ks
We
favor putting Congress on a commission basis. Pay them for results.
If they do a good job and the country prospers, they get 10% of the
extra take. --Gracie Allen / Acting is all about honesty. If you
can fake that, you've got it made. --George Burns
..........Now
daddy ran whiskey in a big block Dodge.........Steve Earle
…..Copperhead Road
Trivia
Questions: Happy birthday to Vidal Sassoon, “the man who
invented modern hairdressing”.
^
Any idea where Vidal was born?
^^
What hair style is Vidal known for anyway?
^^^
About when was it that he got into dressing hair?
^^^^
How did Vidal end up in the US?
^^^^^
What philanthropy was Vidal involved in?
Big
Hello:
Tervhen – Veps aka Vepsian (Finland)
https://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hello.htm
Second
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: This
year I want to be more like Jesus *Hang out with sinners *Upset
religious people *Tell stories that make people think *Choose
unpopular friends *Be kind, loving, and merciful *Take naps of boats
--Submitted by sd of ks
Fake
Library Statistic of the Week:
The average librarian's cardigan conceals two pencils, one flask, and
one emergency kitten. https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts
If
you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die
past that age. --George Burns / My mind works so fast. When I think
of something I say it. Lots of times I say it even before I think of
it. --Gracie Allen
..........Nothing
you can sing that can't be sung.........The Beatles …..All You
Need Is Love
Moonbeam:
There is always a 'but' in this imperfect world. --Anne Bronte
Naturally
Occurring Mandala of the Week: Dog nose
Next
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week:
The brownies I started making in my Easy Bake Oven in 1987 are ready
if you guys want one. --#RHOZ
I
often put boiling water in the freezer. Then whenever I need boiling
water, I simply defrost it. / Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous.
When I was sixty-five I still had pimples. --George Burns
..........A
sky of blue and a sea of green.........The Beatles …..Yellow
Submarine
^
Sassoon was born to Jewish parents in Hammersmith, west London. His
mother's family was from the Ukraine and his father from Greece. Due
to poverty as a single
parent,
his mother eventually placed Sassoon and his younger brother in a
Jewish orphanage, where they stayed for seven years.
Almanac:
It is Friday, January 17, 2020. The moon is last quarter today and
is in Libra. It is Blessing of the Animals at the
Cathedral, International Fetish Day, and Kid Inventors' Day. This
weekend is both Women in Blue Jeans Days and Hot Heads Chili Days.
Among
those born on this day were Philip the Bold (1342), Leonhard Fuchs
(1501), Benjamin Franklin (1706), Anne Bronte (1820), Alva Beaumont
(1853), Konstantin S. Stanislavski (1863), Mack Sennett (1880),
Joseph Arendt (1885), Al Capone (1899), Nevil Shute (1899), Betty
White (1922), Eartha Kitt (1927), Vidal Sassoon (1928), James Earl
Jones (1931), Paul O. Williams (1935), Paul Revere (1938), Maury
Povich (1939), Andy Kaufman (1949), Steve Earle (1955), and Jim
Carrey (1962).
On
January seventeenth the Treaty of Konigsberg signed
(1656), the Flush toilet was patented (1861), the cable car was
patented (1871), The Cherry Orchard
opened in Moscow (1904), Geroge Burns married Gracie Allen (1926),
the UN Secruity Council held it's first meeting (1946), President
Eisenhower warns against the "military-indutrial complex"
(1961), Yellow Submarine
was released (1969), and La Raza Unida (The United People) formed
(1970).
Night
Sky, 1/17:
Last-quarter
Moon (exact at 7:58 am). By the time it rises tonight around 1 am, it
will have waned slightly past exact last quarter. It'll be at the dim
feet of Virgo then, with Spica to its upper right and bright Arcturus
higher to its upper left.
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/sky-at-a-glance/
Max
Picture of the Week:
Captain Max and his already named cousin. Kendall.
This
Week: Saturday, January 18 –
Winnie the Pooh Day & Thesaurus Day
Sunday,
January 19 – Popcorn Day & Tin Can Day & World Day
of Migrants and Refugees
Night
Sky, 1/19: Is your sky dark enough for you to see the winter
Milky Way? In mid-evening now it runs vertically up and across the
zenith: from Canis Major low in the southeast, up between Orion and
Gemini, through Auriga and Perseus almost straight overhead, and down
through Cassiopeia, Cepheus, and Cygnus to the northwest horizon.
Monday,
January 20 – National Cheese Lovers Day & Penguin
Awareness Day & Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Tuesday,
January 21 – National Hugging Day & National Hug Your
Puppy Day
Wednesday,
January 22 – Answer You Cat's Questions Day & Library
Shelfie Day
Night
Sky, 1/22 : Zero-magnitude
Capella, very high in the east after dinnertime, and zero-magnitude
Rigel, in Orion's foot, have almost the same right ascension. This
means they cross your sky’s meridian at almost exactly the same
time: around 9 or 10 pm now, depending on how far east or west you
live in your time zone. (Capella goes exactly through your zenith if
you're at latitude 46°N: Portland, Oregon; Montreal; central
France.) So whenever Capella passes highest, Rigel always marks true
south over your landscape, and vice versa.
Thursday,
January 23 – National Handwriting Day & National Pie Day
It's
hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when
the air was clean and sex was dirty. --George Burns / I think
there's so much good in the worst of us, and so many of the worst of
us get the best of us, that the rest of us aren't even worth talking
about. --Gracie Allen
..........Cellophane
flowers of yellow and green.........The Beatles …..Lucy in the Sky
With Diamonds
^^
"If
I was going to be in hairdressing, I wanted to change things. I
wanted to eliminate the superfluous and get down to the basic angles
of cut and shape." Sassoon's works include the geometric perm
and the geometric cut. They were all modern and low-maintenance. The
hairstyles created by Sassoon relied on dark, straight, and shiny
hair cut into geometric yet organic shapes.
'Nother
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: It's only a murder of crows
if there's probably caws. --Submitted by msh of bc
Moonbeam:
Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art. --Konstantin
S. Stanislavski
Late
Night Snacks of the Week: Six candidates, all
of them white, which is amazing odds – I mean, even a carton of
eggs will sometimes have a brown one thrown in accidentally.
--Trevor Noah / The rift between the Warren and Sanders is rare and
unexpected since usually, they’re on the same page. I mean, up
until now Bernie and Elizabeth Warren have spent just about every
debate looking like a married couple at a diner complaining that
their soup isn’t hot enough. --Jimmy Kimmel / Of course it doesn’t
exist. If Donald Drumpf says, ‘Trust me, the thing exists,’ it
definitely does not exist. He’s like a magician who says he’s
going to pull a rabbit out of his hat, looks down, realizes the
rabbit has chewed through the hat and escaped and says, ‘Trust me,
the rabbit’s there.' --Seth Meyers / He believes it would’ve
been four embassies. Do we really want to live in a country where we
bomb people because of what Donald Drumpf believes? We’re talking
about a guy who believes windmills cause cancer. --Stephen Colbert
Not
So Late Night Snacks of the Week: The president, very happy
with what he had done, set up this photo-op to announce how happy he
was. And he had all these guys - did you see this? - he had all these
guys in uniforms standing behind him as props. They didn't say
anything. They didn't move. They didn't blink. It was weird. Even
more suspicious were their titles - General Electric...General
Motors...And General Hospital. --Peter Sagal Wait, Wait Don't
Tell Me 1/11/20
Here
they go cruising for a fortnight up in parts where everyone is dead
of radiation, and all they can catch is measles!” --Nevil Shute
I'm
the candidate who forgot to take off her hat before she threw it in
the ring. --Gracie Allen / I don't believe in dying. It's been
done. I'm working on a new exit. Besides, I can't die now – I'm
booked. --George Burns
..........Can
I bring my friend to tea.........The Beatles
…..All Together Now
^^^
Sassoon trained under Raymond Bessone, in his salon
in Mayfair, London. He opened his first salon in 1954 in London;
singer-actress Georgia Brown, his friend and neighbour, claimed to be
his first customer.
Worthless
Fact of the Week: Article 30 of the Charter stipulates that
the Security Council shall adopt its own rules of procedure, and in
1946 the Council adopted its Provisional Rules of Procedure (S/96).
Subsequently the Provisional Rules of Procedure were modified on
several occasions; the last revision was made in 1982 (S/96/Rev.7) in
order to add Arabic as the sixth official language, in conformity
with General Assembly resolution 35/219 of 17 December 1980.
Wicked
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week:
Straight dudes think wearing striped socks is a personality.
Weird
Word of the Week:
Yaoi – a type of manga or anime that focuses on male-to-male sexual
relationships.
http://www.worldwidewords.org/turnsofphrase/tp-yao1.htm
Wacky
Uses for Common Products:
Strengthen your grip. Squeeze a Wilson Tennis Ball in each hand.
http://www.wackyuses.com/wacky/wilson.html
Happiness?
A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar, and a good woman – or a
bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle. --George
Burns / As a well-known great man would have said if he had thought
of it, Don't go around offending people just because it can be done
sitting down. --Gracie Allen
...........Doesn't
have a point of view.........The Beatles
…..Nowhere Man
^^^^
Director Roman Polanski brought Sassoon to Hollywood
from London in 1968, at a cost of $5,000 (equivalent to $37,000 in
2019), to create a unique pixie cut for Mia Farrow, who was to star
in Rosemary's Baby.
Penultimate
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: OK,
Toto, we're back in Kansas...damn, that was some good shit. --RHOZ
Science
Fiction Convention of the Week:
MarsCon 2020 (17-19, Williamsburg, VA) Rebels and Rogues. a
weekend long party for people who enjoy Science Fiction and Fantasy.
http://www.marscon.net/wp/index.php/what-is-marscon/
Actual
Science Convention of the Week:
8th
International Conference on Nano and Materials Science (17, Seattle
WA) Keynote
Speaker: Prof. Ramesh K. Agarwal
http://www.allconferences.com/c/2020-8th-international-conference-on-nano-and-materials-science-icnms-2020-scopus-seattle-2020-january-17
Puck
the Brave Episode of the Week:
Here's our fearless Puck keeping my new recliner chair warm while I
write to you. ~~It was a Christmas present and I love it – so
comfortable. I tend to fall asleep in it right away. It also rocks
– literally and figuratively
You've
buttered your bread, now sleep in it. --Gracie Allen / I spent a year
in that town, one Sunday. --George Burn
..........We
hope you will enjoy the show.........The Beatles …..Sgt Pepper's
Lonely Hearts Club Band
^^^^^
After selling his company, Sassoon worked for
philanthropic causes such as the Boys Clubs of America and the
Performing Arts Council of the Music Center of Los Angeles via his
Vidal Sassoon Foundation. His foundation was active in supporting
relief efforts after Hurricane Katrina. It also funded educational
pursuits on a need-basis in Israel and elsewhere. At the time of his
death he had academies in England, the United States and Canada,
while initiating plans to open new ones in Germany and China. Having
had a lifelong commitment to eradicating anti-Semitism, Sassoon
started the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of
Antisemitism, or SICSA, in 1982.
Month
of the Week: January is Get Organized
Month –My room is not dirty. I just have everything on
display...like a museum. / A pile for everything and everything in
its pile.
Today's
Peace of History,
January
17, 1983: A US military-backed
coup deposed Queen Liluokalani of Hawaii in 1893 and formed a
provisional government; Hawaii was declared a republic in 1894.
Liliuokalani signed a formal abdication in 1895 but continued to
appeal to US President Grover Cleveland for reinstatement, without
success. The United States annexed Hawaii in 1898.
Too
bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running
taxicabs or cutting hair. --George Burns / When I was born I was so
surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half. --Gracie Allen
..........Shoots
as fast as lightnin' but it loads a might slow.........Steve
Earle …..The Devil's Right Hand
Masthead
of the Week:
Friday ePistle January 17, 2020, Chilly, Chili, ePistle. Online at:
http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/
Peace, laughs and Gracie Allen. Exclusive editor: Christine Smith.
2511 Morningside Dr. Lawrence, KS 66047
Moonbeam:
I didn't know what facebook was, and now that I do know what it is, I
have to say, it sounds like a huge waste of time. --Betty White
Cost
of War: As of 1/16/20 Military Costs of War
since 2001: $2,993,332,421,516.
As
of 1/9/20 Military Costs of War since 2001: $2,991,451,731,216.
As
of 1/16/20 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $943,614,338,131.
As
of 1/9/20 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $942,336,190,678.
As
of 1/16/20 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $735,915,257,129.
As
of 1/9/20 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $734,308,429,194.
As
of 1/16/20 Veterans Care since 2001: $322,889,844,079.
As
of 1/9/20 Veterans Care since 2001: $322,524,661,519.
As
of 1/16/20 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $4,995,752,613,302.
As
of 1/9/20 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $4,990,622,134,218
Security
was now a thing of the past though it took a conscious effort to
remember it; with no enemy in all the world there was little but the
force of habit in it. --Nevil Shute On the Beach
Famous
Last Words: Oh, you... bungler --Fiers The Cherry Orchard
..........I'm
gonna give you candy.........Eartha Kitt …..Come On-A My House
The
President of today is just the postage stamp of tomorrow. --Gracie
Allen / Nice to be here. At my age it's nice to be anywhere.
--George Burns
May
Peace start your morning
And
Joy end your day
prairie
mama
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