Famous
First Words: Like all of the west of Africa... Website
Burkina Faso History
Happy
Birthday, Department of Energy! The US didn't used to believe in
solar energy, but now their warming up to it. Personally, I love big
fans of renewal energy.
..........You're
still glowin', you're still crowin', you're still goin'
strong.........Louis Armstrong …..Hello, Dolly
World
peace must develop from inner peace. Peace is not just mere absence
of violence. Peace is, I think, the manifestation of human
compassion. --Dali Lama
It
is a gorgeous Friday morning. 56°F is perfect for walking or
standing. The sky is largely clear blue with only a few stringy
clouds gathering in the south. The air is clear and the colors of
summer shine through it as if to color the air itself; so we walk
through areas of green and yellow. A very light breeze kisses the
cheek and carries Puck's yaps across the neighborhood. “It's a
great morning, everybody up!” The birds take up the cry and fill
the world with song and purpose. We linger in the yard until the
trash truck come down the street and the noise seems to intrude on
the peace of the scene and we return to our rooms which smell of
coffee and incense and dog. And now I sit with listening to soft
Belafonte music and drinking sweetened decaf and munching croissants
with cream cheese and thinking about you. What a great way to start
a weekend...
Hope
your weekend lights up renewably, ePistliers.
Solar
panels are not “renewable”. The light they absorb is lost
forever! Draining the sun is a bad idea! / The neighborhood I grew
up in was so tough they had a recycle bin marked White next to the
one marked Plastic.
..........My
rover, crossed over.........Louis Armstrong …..On the Sunny Side
of the Street
Trivia
Questions: Happy Homemade Pie Day !
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How ancient is pie, anyway?
^^
What is the most popular pie flavor in the USA?
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Any idea when pie entered the literary world?
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What city calls itself the Pie Capital?
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Which British actress said, “God always has another custard pie up
His sleeve”?
Fake
Library Statistic of the Week:
45% of librarians are required by family and friends to remain silent
during Jeopardy!;
the other 55% must leave the room.
https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts
People
work on solar power. They need time at the beach now and again to
recharge. / I know it's important to recycle, but can't I finish my
drink first?
..........And
the big wheel run by the grace of God.........Louis Armstrong
…..Ezekiel Saw the Wheel
Moonbeam:
Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
--Percy Bysshe Shelley
Something
to Think About of the Week:
Big
Hello: !kao - !Kung San aka The Click Language (Namibia,
Botswana, Angola)
Funniest
Thing I Read of the Week: If you
literally control every branch of the government and still can't get
anything done, maybe you're just no good at it. --Submitted by fb
of az
Week
of the Week: International Clown Week
(August 1-7) - I held the door open for a clown once. It was a
nice jester. / If you want someone who makes you feel safe and also
makes you laugh, you're looking for a clown ninja.
..........I
hear babies cry, I watch them grow.........Louis Armstrong …..What
A Wonderful World
^
The first pies were made by early Romans who may have
learned about it through the Greeks. The first pie recipe was
published by the Romans and was for a rye-crusted goat cheese and
honey pie.
Almanac:
It is Friday, August 4, 2017. The moon will be full (Sturgeon) on
Sunday and is in Capricorn. It is Coast Guard Day,
National Chocolate Chip Day, Single Working Women's Day, and Social
Security Day. In Norway the Peer Gynt Festival Days begin and
Trinidad & Tobago commemorate Discovery Day (1498). Because it
is the first Friday it is also Braham Pie Day aka Homemade Pie Day,
International Beer Day, Tomboy Tools Day, and Twin Days.
Among
those born on this day were Nicolas-Jacque Conte (1755), Percy Bysshe
Shelley (1792), the queen mum (1900), Louis Armstrong (1901),
Michael J McCulley (1943), Richard Belzer (1944), Billy Bob Thornton
(1955), and Roger Clemens (1962).
On
August fourth a supernova was seen in Cassiopia (1181), and Dom
Perignon invented champagne (1693). ~~And
thanks to Gigi we know all about it. Also in a
blow for freedom of the press, John Zenger was acquitted of seditious
libel by the royal governor of NY (1735) and the very first circus
was established (Philip Astley, 1777), plans for the city of Chicago
were laid out (1830), Lizzie Borden was arrested (1892), the US
bought the Virgin Islands from Denmark ($25 million, 1916), US
marines left Nicaragua (1925), the Peace Bridge between the US and
Canada opened (1927), Anne Frank was arrested (1944), a 5 day
southern filibuster secceeded in maintaining poll taxes (1948), the
USAF set an air speed record of 2,150 mph (1960), Stargell hit the
first ever home run outside of Dodger Stadium (1969), Jim Morrison
was arreseted for public drunkenness (1970), Oliver North was
assigned to White House duty (1981), Carter established the
Department of Energy (1977), the Republic of Upper Volta became
Burkina Fasso (1984), and the 26th Olypmic Games closed in Atlanta
(1996).
Night
Sky, 6/4: Saturn shines right of the Moon at dusk, and lower
right of it as night grows late.
This
Week: Saturday, August 5 –
National Disc Golf Day & International Hangover Day
Sunday,
August 6 – Hiroshima Day, National Doll Day, & Sister's
Day
Night
Sky, 6/6:The Moon shines low in the southeast as the stars
come out. How early can you spot Altair, three fists at arm's length
to the Moon's upper left? How about brighter Vega, nearing the zenith
from the east?
Monday,
August 7 – Lighthouse Day & Particularly Preposterous
Packaging Day
Tuesday,
August 8 – Dalek Day & Sneak Zucchini onto your
Neighbor's Porch Night
Night
Sky, 6/8: Mercury
fades in the afterglow of sunset while Jupiter is bright in the
west-southwest
Wednesday,
August 9 – International Day of the World's Indigenous
People & Veep Day
Night
Sky, 6/9: Perseid Meteor Showers through the 13th.
They peak on the 12th.
Thursday,
August 10 – Paul Bunyan Day & Skyscraper Appreciation
Day
Night
Sky, 6/10: Uranus
and Neptune are high in the southeastern sky in the hours before the
first light of dawn.
Graffiti:
Conserve Energy Turn off the lights. ...Jokes on you..Energy is
always conserved. ...Science Bitch! / I'm not lazy. I'm on Energy
Saving Mode.
..........Thought
writing songs was beneath his class.........Louis Armstrong …..High
Society Rag
^^
According to a 2004 survey by Crisco and the American Pie Council,
one out of four Americans prefer apple pie, followed by pumpkin or
sweet potato (17 %), anything chocolate (14 %), lemon meringue (11 %)
and cherry (10 %).
'Nother
Funniest thing I Read of the Week: Scribbled on a restroom
wall under a sign that said, Employees Must Wash Hands: I
waited 45 minutes and NO employee came to wash my hands. --Submitted
by sd of ks
Science
Fiction Convention of the Week:
Myths and Legends Convention, Denver, CO August 4-6. The Myths and
Legends Convention celebrates our modern myths and legends. We
believe that the only difference between stories of Hercules and
Harry Potter or the fall of Troy and Mordor is time.
https://www.malcondenver.org/
Moonbeam:
Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness. – Percy Bysshe Shelley
Late
Night Snacks: Today, President Drumpf
officially removed Anthony Scaramucci as his communications director.
And this was a little awkward — when Scaramucci called an Uber to
pick him up at the White House, Sean Spicer was driving. --Jimmy
Fallon / President Drumpf today wrote an all caps tweet saying, “IN
AMERICA WE DON'T WORSHIP GOVERNMENT - WE WORSHIP GOD.” Though I
think most of us will happily worship whichever one gets you out of
office first. --Seth Meyers / Kelly is the polar opposite of Reince
Priebus, the former chief of staff. Kelly is military, Priebus is a
Washington insider. Kelly’s from Boston, Priebus is from Wisconsin.
John Kelly has two first names, and Reince Priebus has no
recognizable names at all --Stephen Colbert / You know those little
robot vacuums called Roombas? The company that makes them says that
Roombas have the capability to map out your home while they clean it,
and it’s planning to sell that information to Amazon and Google. We
all thought that the Roomba was just vacuuming; turns out it was
casing the joint. --James Corden / Sean Spicer’s out, Reince
Priebus is out, Trumpcare is dead, and Kim Jong Un has a missile that
can reach New York. And weirdly, I don’t feel tired from all the
winning yet. --Jimmy Kimmel
Not
So Late Night Snack: He
brought in his old friend Anthony Scaramucci, known as the Mooch, to
take over communications. Sure, he seems completely unhinged...but
Trump loves the Mooch, not least because the Mooch sounds like
something the president would try and grab you by. --Peter Sagal
Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me
We
can work on inner peace and world peace at the same time. On one
hand, people have found inner peace by losing themselves in a cause
larger than themselves, like the cause of world peace, because
finding inner peace means coming from the self-centered life into the
life centered in the good of the whole. On the other hand, one of the
ways of working for world peace is to work for more inner peace,
because world peace will never be stable until enough of us find
inner peace to stabilize it. --The Peace Pilgrim
Dr.
Saturn to ailing planet Earth: You have human beings... you need to
take one tsunami capsule daily, two 8.0 degrees earthquake tables,
and all of this under a strict dry regime... / Hey, don't blame me, I
even recycled these jokes.
..........Linger
in the shade of a kind ole tree.........Louis Armstrong …..Lazy
River
^^^
The first mention of a fruit pie in print, is from Robert Green’s
Arcadia (1590): “Thy
breath is like the steame of apple-pyes.”
Worthless
Fact of the Week: The Danish West Indies aka
Dansk Vestindien aka Danish Antilles was a Danish colony in the
Caribbean, consisting of the islands of Saint Thomas, Saint John, and
Saint Croix.
Wicked
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Wind chimes are made from
the metallic bones of robots that tried to overthrow us. Hang them
outside your house as a warning to the others.
Weird
Word of the Week:
Shebang – An inn or saloon. (US Dept of Interior, 1862: “any
kind of an establishment, store, house, shop, or shanty. The whole
shebang
is more complicated. http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-who6.htm
Wacky
Uses for Common Products:
Give your hair orange highlights. Mix powdered Tang with enough
water to a make a paste, apply it to your hair, wait five minutes,
and then rinse clean. http://www.wackyuses.com/wacky/tang.html
...........Salagadoola
mechicka boola.........Louis Armstrong …..Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo
^^^^Braham,
MN calls itself the Pie Capital of America and the holiday is
named after it.
Word
Shakespeare Made Up of the Week: Lustrous – shiny, glossy.
Twelfth Night Act IV, Scene
II –Clown: Why
it hath bay windows transparent as barricadoes, and the clearstories
toward the south north are as lustrous as ebony; and yet complainest
thou of obstruction?
Still
Another Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: That's an
excellent suggestion, Miss Triggs, Perhaps one of the men here would
like to make it. --Submitted by asb of ks
Minor
Rant of the Week: A thank you to everyone who posted that
defeating (but probably not for very long) the repeal of AHA was a
victory for 11 (to 25) million people who would have lost insurance.
No, this is a win for everyone. It means your co-worker doesn't have
to bring her disease to work and infect you. It means fewer people
walking around with injuries and symptoms. You are safer, you
are healthier, you are better
off. We are all healthier. By
not mentioning the benefit to ourselves, to everyone, we give the
impression that we are “helping the poor” instead of maintaining
a moral and healthy society. Even our rhetoric has been inched to
the right over the decades of my lifetime.
Puck
the Brave Episode of the Week:
Here's our fearless Puck pretending to nod off in the case of the
Sleeping Saluki.
“Marie,
my dear,”, said Pierre Curie, “You look more radiant every day.”
/ Sun to Earth: “Solar Energy!!! Like I don't do enough for you
little twerps already”.
..........Kiss
me once, then kiss me twice.........Louis Armstrong …..It's Been A
Long, Long Time
^^^^^
Lynn Redgrave said God always has another custard pie up His sleeve.
Month
of the Week: August
is Sandwich Month --Saw a sign in a cafe that said they serve
breakfast at any time. I asked for a bacon sandwich during the
Industrial Revolution. / The best way to prevent a sandwich from
curling is to hide the brooms.
Final
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Every
item in my fridge has been in there longer than Scaramucci had that
job. – Submitted by mj of ks
Christine's
Phone Update: I laundered my phone this
week. So I have a new phone and no old numbers. If anyone ever
wants me to call them, they should call or text me so I'll have their
number on my phone. 785 842-3663. AND...It only took me 48 hours to
learn how to answer a call...no , that's not hyperbole.
Most
Beautiful Thing in the State: Idaho's Little
Redfish Lake is a picturesque mountain lake on the northeast edge of
the Sawtooth mountain range in central Idaho, five miles south of
Stanley. Its surface elevation is 6,489 feet above sea level, and it
is about a mile downstream from the significantly larger Redfish
Lake. Both were named for the red-scaled sockeye salmon that
returned every year to spawn via the Salmon River. Pictures
Today's
Peace of History, August
4, 1985: Peace Ribbons made by
thousands of women were wrapped around the U.S. Pentagon, the White
House, and the Capitol. 20,000 people participated, and the 27,000
panels making up the ribbon stretched for 15 miles.
When
there is a huge solar spill, it's call a nice day. / Grace is saving
energy; she only uses her brain after 6 pm.
..........Blowing
down the river, down to New Orleans.........Louis Armstrong …..Basin
Street Blues
Masthead
of the Week:
fRiday ePistle August 4, 2017, eNergetic ePistle. The tag line less
newsletter., Online at: http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/
Exclusive editor: Christine Smith. 1800 Goodell Ct. Lawrence, KS
66046
So
I Lied Funniest Thing I Read of the Week:
Gingrich: Trump's White House will be “more orderly and
disciplined” with Kelly. / Trump's White House is so terminally
ill, I'm surprised Gingrich hasn't tried to divorce it. --David
Slack --submitted by fb of az
Moonbeam:
The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys. --Percy Bysshe
Shelley
Cost
of War:
Tax
dollars spent in Afghanistan: as of 3/8/17: $779,443,095,301.
Tax
dollars spent in Afghanistan: as of 7/27/17: $778,759,632,629.
Tax
dollars spent on the Iraq war since 2001 as of 8/3/17:
$820,712,252,335.
Tax
dollars spent on the Iraq war since 2001 as of 7/27/17:
$820,692,277,279.
Tax
dollars spent on Daesh conflict as of 8/3/17: $16,176,024,147.
Tax
dollars spent on Daesh conflict as of 7/27/17: $16,070,998,469.
Tax
dollars spent on the Pentagon Slush Fund as of 8/3/17:
$156,200,803,820
Tax
dollars spent on the Pentagon Slush Fund as of 7/27/17:
$155,616,417,663
Tax
dollars spent on all wars since 2001 as of 8/3/17:
$1,777,542,418,096.
Tax
dollars spent on all wars since 2001 as of 7/27/17:
$1,776,115,234,445.
Let
us love the world to peace. --Eileen Elias Freeman
..........One
of these mornin's you gonna rise up singin'.........Louis Armstrong
…..Summertime
I'm
not lazy, I'm energy efficient. / The army has put small windmills on
some armaments because everybody wants energy-efficient,
environmentally safe ballistic missiles.
Famous
Last Words: ...as happy as we are tonight. The Night They
Invented Champagne
May
Peace light your lamps
And
Joy warm your heart
prairie
mama
christine
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