Famous
First Words: AN ACT To diminish the causes of labor
disputes... National
Labor Relations Act (aka The Wagner Act)
Happy
Workaholic Day, I guess. I'm a recovering workaholic. I can't touch
even light work. I help an old lady with a bag of groceries
–boom!--I'm in the Peace Corps.
..........Lift
me up so I can see.........Robbie Robertson …..Shine Your Light
In
a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act. --George
Orwell
It
is an ambivalent Friday morning. It looks like rain for a while with
low lying dark clouds that spits warm drops and then the sun comes
out and it looks like a lush summer day. The sky is mostly overcast
and gray but... The foliage is green and thick and summery. A little
breeze swishes around the willow branches but the pine and oak are
still, waiting for the day to decide. Birds are out chirping their
opinion about how the morning should go and fluttering about the yard
and street. Busy, busy, busy. The driveway smells of wet concrete
but there is not enough rain to raise damp soil scents in the yard.
Puck takes care of business quickly and begins to bark at unseen
enemies on other people's lawns.** But at last the chores are done,
I have a fresh cup of sweetened and creamed coffee, and I'm writing
to you. Great morning, after all.
**We
walk quickly because we have errands that must be run before we can
epistle. When the lady at the bank created an account for Jeff, she
attached his debit card to my account and cyber mayhem resulted. A
second trip to the bank and it's all taken care of, even my phone
payment which got mixed up in it all.
Hope
your weekend explodes in fun, ePistliers.
TGFO
(Thank God the Fireworks are Over). Firecrackers are too dangerous,
dear. We'll celebrate July 4th by making our own
firecrackers. We'll put spicy jalapeno and cayenne pepper dip on
whole wheat crackers. --A Bacall
..........Don't
need money, don't take fame.........Huey Lewis …..The Power of
Love
Trivia
Questions: It's Caribbean Day!!
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About how many countries are there in the Caribbean?
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What's the smallest Caribbean island?
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How about the largest?
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Know where or how it got it's name?
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Which island is the most popular tourist destination?
Funniest
Thing I Read of the Week: Sometimes I
think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the
universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. --Bill Watterson
Fake
Library Statistic of the Week:
80% of Technical Services Department meetings are convened around a
jigsaw puzzle. https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/?fref=ts
TGFO:
One of Those Big Questions: Do bomb-pops actually taste like
freedom? / You may be a redneck if your lifetime goal is to own a
fireworks stand. --Jeff Foxworthy
..........and
you ask about the weather.........Robbie Robertson and the Band
…..Rag Mama Rag
Moonbeam:
What made women's labor particularly attractive to the capitalists
was not only its lower price but also the greater submissiveness of
women. --Clara Zetkin
Something
to Think About of the Week: Human Eye ...Each
person’s life is like a mandala – a vast, limitless circle. We
stand in the center of our own circle, and everything we see, hear,
and think forms the mandala of our life. --Pema
Chödrön
Big
Hello: Musta - Tagalog
https://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hello.htm
Next
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: I
just watched 'Tidying Up'. If I threw away everything in my kitchen
that didn't bring me joy, all I'd have left is a corkscrew and an ice
cream scoop.
Week
of the Week: Roswell UFO Days (5-7) –UFO
Hacks: If you find a green alien, wait until it's ripe / I'll have
you know, I've been to Roswell twice, and have yet to be abducted.
TGFO:
Bertha's mother told her to have a safe 4th of July so she
put condoms on all her bottle rockets. / The fireworks begin today.
Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse. --Ed
Koch
..........My
mini bar's empty, but I'm still alive.........Huey Lewis & the
News …..Whole Lotta Lovin'
^
There are around 700 islands in the Caribbean many of them
uninhabited. There are 30 different political divisions including
independent countries and dependent territories.
Almanac:
It is Friday, July 5, 2019. The moon was new last Tuesday and is in
Leo. It is Workaholics Day (not the television show)
and Bikini Day (not the nuclear test site). In Algeria
it is Independence Day (1962), Isle of Man has celebrated Tynwald Day
since 1266, Laos has the Boun Festival, Rwanda commemorates Peace &
National Unity Day, and finally, Venezuela also celebrates
Independence Day (1811).
Among
those born on this day were Stamford Raffles (1781), Phineas T.
Barnum (1810), Clara Zetkin (1857), Jean Cocteau (1990), Henry Cabot
Lodge (1909), Warren Oates (1928), Katherine Helmond (1929), Robbie
Robertson (1944), Julie Nixon Eisenhower (1948), and Hewy Lewis
(1951).
On
July fifth the US recorded its first tornado (Essex, MA, 1643),
Thomas Cook opened his first travel agency (1841), Booth founded the
Salvation Army (1865), the National Labor Relations Act was
signed into law (1935), DiMaggio hit his first grand slam (1937), NYC
transit fare was raised from 15 to 20 cents (1966), and the 26th
amendment was ratified (18 year old to vote, 1971).
Night
Sky, 7/5: The Big Dipper, high in the
northwest after dark, is starting to turn around to "scoop up
water" through the evenings of summer and early fall.
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/sky-at-a-glance/
Max
Picture of the Week:
Max re-imagines Great Art: the Thinker
This
Week: Saturday, July 6 –
International Cherry Pit Spitting Day & Hand Roll Day & Hop A
Park Day The Tour de France begins
Night
Sky, 7/6: Three doubles at the top of
Scorpius. The head of Scorpius — the vertical row of three stars to
the right of Jupiter and Antares — is highest in the south after
dark this week. The brightest of the three is Delta (δ)
Scorpii, the one in the middle. The
top star of the row is Beta (ß) Scorpii, a
fine double star for telescopes. Just 1° below Beta is the very wide
naked-eye pair Omega1 and Omega2 Scorpii, not quite vertical.
Binoculars show their slight color difference. They're spectral types
B9 and G2. Left of Beta by 1.6° is Nu Scorpii, another fine
telescopic double. Or rather triple. High power in good seeing
reveals that Nu's brighter component itself is a close binary,
separation 2 arcseconds.
Sunday,
July 7 – Chocolate Day & Global Forgiveness Day &
Tell The Truth Day
Monday,
July 8 – SCUD (Savor the Comic, Unplug the Drama) Day
Tuesday,
July 9 – National No Bra Day
Night
Sky, 7/9:
Saturn
will be well placed for observation, in the constellation
Sagittarius. It will be visible for much of the night, reaching its
highest point in the sky at around midnight local time. This optimal
positioning occurs when Saturn is almost directly opposite the Sun in
the sky. https://in-the-sky.org/news.php?id=20190709_12_100
Wednesday,
July 10 – Teddy Bear's Picnic Day & Don't Step On A Bee
Day
Thursday,
July 11 – Cheer Up the Lonely Day & National Rainier
Cherries Day
..........And
I'm pushin' age seventy three.........Robbie Robertson and the Band
…..Rockin' Chair
^^
Of the populated islands, Montserrat has the fewest people at around
5,000. At 5.2 square kilometers, Isla Mujeres is the smallest in
area.
'Nother
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Schrodinger's Library: a
place that nobody uses and is obsolete (because everything is online)
while at the same time is full of young families, story times, book
clubs, students, and people that need the space and access to
computers, reading materials, and information. --The Library Defense
Network Submitted by gr of oh
Moonbeam:
True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions
resting on race and religion. --Henry Cabot Lodge
Late
Night Snacks of the Week: This is the 22nd
accusation of sexual misconduct against Donald Drumpf. Twenty-two! If
I had a dollar for every person Drumpf allegedly sexually harassed or
assaulted, I would be doing better than any of his businesses.
--Samantha Bee / If someone asks you, ‘Did you rape that woman?’
and you say ‘No, she’s not my type,’ that’s not a defense.
That’s a confession. --Seth Meyers / Mr President, you’re not
fooling anybody. We all remember that you ran on a racist,
anti-immigration platform and you’re still running on it today. At
this point, the only family separation America wants to see is yours
from the White House. --Stephen Colbert / A
lot of the time it’s the squeaky-clean person who has the darkest
secrets. I wouldn’t be surprised if we found out that Mike Pence
has a secret S&M diaper fetish. --Trevor Noah / President Drumpf
kicked off his 2020 comedy tour last night in Orlando. Drumpf was on
fire, or at least, his pants were. He jumped from lie to lie, from
hot topic to hot topic, like Joy Behar on Adderall. --Jimmy Kimmel
Not
So Late Night Snacks of the Week: A company
called CannaHorse is making weed products for horses, even though
there's nothing worse than, like, a white horse who thinks dreads in
its mane are OK. The people at CannaHorse say this is for medicinal
purposes. But then again, that's what your 22-year-old cousin with
glaucoma says. Horses everywhere hear this news, and they're like,
great, great, could've used this the day you nailed my shoes on.
--Peter Sagal Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me
6/29/19
If
liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what
they do not want to hear. --George Orwell
TGFO:
Hope your July 4th fireworks caused less personal injury
than your July 4th alcohol consumption. / Bullets and
fireworks are the only things that do their job after they've been
fired.
..........Some
days won't end ever.........Huey Lewis and the News …..Workin' for
a Livin'
^^^
Cuba is the largest island at 105,806 km2 . At 11,242,000
Cuba is also the largest in population.
Worthless
Fact of the Week: Cook's First Tour: On 9 June
1841 a 32-year old cabinet-maker named Thomas Cook walked from his
home in Market Harborough to the nearby town of Leicester to attend a
temperance meeting. At the meeting, Thomas suggested that a special
train be engaged to carry the temperance supporters of Leicester to a
meeting in Loughborough about four weeks later. The proposal was
received with such enthusiasm that, on the following day, Thomas
submitted his idea to the secretary of the Midland Railway Company. A
train was subsequently arranged, and on 5 July 1841 about 500
passengers were conveyed in open carriages the enormous distance of
12 miles and back for a shilling.
Wicked
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Wish
we could crossbreed the mosquitoes and the lightning bugs. At least
then we could see them coming.
Preantepenultimate
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Lord,
whatever you're baking outside...it's done. --RHOZ
Obsolete
Word of the Week:
Tyromancy – divining by the coagulation of cheese.
https://thebewildered20somethingwriter.wordpress.com/category/awesome-obsolete-word-of-the-day/
Antepenultimate
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: If
the doctors told Sen. McConnell he had a kidney stone, he would
refuse to pass it. --Alison Lundergan Grimes
Wacky
Uses for Common Products:
Season a cast-iron skillet. To season a new cast iron skillet,
grease with unsalted Wesson Vegetable Oil and warm in the oven for
two hours. Rub a drop of Wesson Vegetable Oil on the inside of the
pan to keep it seasoned. http://www.wackyuses.com/wacky/wesson.html
...........la,
la, la, la, la, la….......Robbie Robertson and the Band …..The
Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
^^^^
The name Caribbean derives from the Caribs, one of the region's
dominant native groups at the time of European contact (late 15th
century). The Caribs inhabited the Lesser Antilles.
Penultimate
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: In
the event of a tornado put some wieners in your pockets...that way
the search dogs can find you first. --Submitted by eg of mt
Science
Fiction Convention of the Week:
Westercon 72 (4-7, Layton, UT) An intimate Military Science Fiction
and Fantasy Literary Convention.
https://fancons.com/events/info/12305/westercon-72-nasfic-1632-minicon-and-manticon-2019
Wisdom
Words of the Week:
As my friend Maud once said: “There are times when you must speak,
not because you are going to change the other person, but because if
you don't speak, they have changed you. --Melissa McEwan -Submitted
by mja of ks
Actual
Science Convention of the Week:
International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy School (3-7,
Montreal) Excellent early career scientists...
http://www.iaga-aiga.org/index.php?id=youngscientists
Puck
the Brave Episode of the Week:
Here's our fearless Puck upside down in the case of the Upward Facing
Foldex.
TGFO:
Navy is playing Army, which has a first down with 3 minutes left in
the half. An Army fan sets off a firecrackers. Navy, thinking it's
the end of the half, runs off the field. Three plays later, Army
punts. / Sparklers – angry incense
..........Do
me a favor, just stop talking for a minute or two.........Huey Lewis
and the News …..You Crack Me Up
^^^^^
The Dominican Republic hosted 6,187,542 overnight guests in 2017.
The next most visited was Cuba with 4,700,000.
Month
of the Week: July is National
Blueberries Month –Bart Blueberry used such foul language people
used to call him Berry Rude. / If you have berries growing out of
your head, put cream on it. / Sarah always thought that blueberries
were sad strawberries.
Final
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: An
unemployed jester is nobody's fool. --Submitted by msh of bc
Grammar
Joke of the Week: St
Peter: Why should I let you into heaven? Me: Once, a coworker said
“supposably” 7 times in a meeting, and I just let her. St.
Peter: Get in here. --Submitted by mnja of ks
Today's
Peace of History, July
5, 1827: The
newly freed African-American population of New York, led by men on
horseback, marched in an Emancipation Day Parade from the Battery at
the foot of Manhattan to City Hall.
TGFO:
I realize we all grieve in our own way, Ma'am, but the crematorium
staff did not appreciate the fireworks you put in your late husbands
pockets. / Chicago's favorite game: Gunshots or Fireworks?
..........And
(and) (and) you put the load right on me.........Robbie Robertson and
the Band …..The Weight
Masthead
of the Week:
Friday ePistle July 5, 2019, Blasted ePistle. Online at:
http://fridayepistle.blogspot.com/
. Peace, laughs, and explosions. Exclusive editor: Christine Smith.
2511 Morningside Dr. Lawrence, KS 66047
Finalier
Funniest Thing I Read of the Week: Don't
know why people think kids learning about gay relationships in school
will turn them gay. I learned about World War Two but am yet to
invade Poland. --Benjamin Butterworth --Submitted by rmar of ks
Moonbeam:
All leaders share something in common. They feel they are the only
ones who can do the job. --Julie Nixon Eisenhower
Cost
of War:
As
of 7/4/19 Military Costs of War since 2001: $2,937,992,648,741.
As
of 6/27/19 Military Costs of War since 2001: $2,936,011,864,841.
As
of 7/4/19 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $906,004,516,485.
As
of 6/27/19 Homeland Security Costs since 2001: $904,658,635,687.
As
of 7/4/19 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $688,634,337,579.
As
of 6/27/19 Interest on War Debt since 2001: $686,942,368,307.
As
of 7/4/19 Veterans Care since 2001: $312,144,125,060.
As
of 6/27/19 Veterans Care since 2001: $311,759,646,454.
As
of 7/4/19 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $4,844,776,398,886.
As
of 6/27/19 Total Cost of Wars since 2001: $4,839,373,295,291.
Reality
exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. --George Orwell
..........So
take me away, I don't mind..........Huey Lewis and the News …..Back
In Time
TGFO:
What do you get when you cross a firecracker and a monkey? Bamboo / I
was afraid I might fail my fireworks exam, but I passed with flying
colors.
Famous
Last Words: el
primero de nuestra independencia. --Venezuela
Declaration
of Independence
May
Peace brighten your days
And
Joy light up your nights
prairie
mama
christine
Last
Laugh:
