Today's Tids Issue 2,317
Opening Stuff:
What do you call
a terrible, horrible, unpleasant dinosaur? A Thesaurus.
Yes, it is going
to be one of those days.
One of the people for
whom I voted for City Council, had this answer when asked “What is the most
important issue facing the City today?” All the others threw out the usual Pap,
but Claude Lavarre answered: “Human nature and unwillingness to counter it.
People are naturally predatory, greedy, devious, ignorant and distracted. There
are many processes in place to mitigate these, but altruistic people ignore the
processes we have resulting in the chaos that exists. He came in last. People
talk about problems but most are not courageous enough, or are just too
socially oblivious to identify the real problems, much less solve them. The
Litterbugs win again.
In case you are
interested, over 6.3 Million people watched the election coverage on Fox News.
CNN was a distant second with 900,000 and MSNBC was barely there with 486K.
Two night’s ago,
David Letterman said that after Tuesday’s trouncing, the Washington Redskins are
asking the democrats to change their name.
The Question:
Name five of the fifteen main Dinosaur types.
The Headlines:
--Ukraine Bracing For New Russian Assault; 60 Russian Tanks
and Trucks Are Said To have Crossed Border.
--Job Growth More Impressive In October.
--President OBama Wrote Secret Letter To AyaTollah Khamenei;
Latter About ISIS Was 4th Time US Prez Wrote Iran’s All Powerful
Religious Leader.
--New Clashes In Jerusalem.
--Alaska Voters Still Awaiting Senate results; NRA
Anguishing Over Anti-Gun Gov Malloy Comeback Victory Over Their Guy Foley In
Conn; Dems Cancel Ad Support For Landrieu Run-Off Battle In La.
--“Fast And Furious” Deceptions Closing In On Holder; Eastern NY US Attorney Loretta
Lynch Emerges As New Possibility as Replacement
Now all of those editorial
writers who have spent he last six years besmirching Republicans and making
excuses for 0-Man, will be pouring out theses high on the smugability scale telling
Repubs exactly what to do with new found power.
I am generally pretty
good at parallelism – literal and figurative. I’m on the level.
The news about a new
TV reality program where an animal photog will allow himself to be
swallowed by a giant Anaconda doesn’t surprise me. There are so many people out
there looking for Andy Warhol’s 15 minutes, or just living an insular world
than is beyond my sensibilities – Like humming bird lovers who strap feeding
stations to their faces, or God help us, people who enable liars cheaters and
thieves.
Alaska is going to
get pounded by Nuri, storm bigger and more ferocious than Sandy, with waves
over 50 feet. It is expected that the famous Alaska fishing ports like Dutch
Harbor will feel the brunt of the ferocity. And so will we east of the Rockies
where the storm will push down to the states as far as Alabama and Florida icy
air below freezing. Get out the Fleece and Cognac!
For all of you down
and dirty, tried and true political junkies, a good friend sent in the following complete
demographics of the voters. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/elections/2014/exit-polls Get out your magnifying glasses! Great stuff,
if you like statistics.
I wouldn’t be
surprised if sometime in the next ten years craft brew lovers will find
themselves drinking Bud owned brewskis. Small breweries are taking off and the
Bigs are noticing the change. And the founders of the breweries are getting
closer to retirement age.
By the way, Yuengling
has been around longer than any other beer in the USA, and now out of nowhere it is the best selling, or at
least one of the most popular. Just shows you how quickly you can motivate
sheep to run from one trend to another.
I remember not so long ago when Stella seemed to come out of nowhere,
and before that I always wondered how “Rolling Rock”, a mediocre local beer
when I was in college which you only bought when your money was low, became the
nation’s beer taste treat. Bring back Miss Rheingold!
I can never say
enough good things about people who rehab, revitalize, restore, readapt old
buildings and keep downtowns vibrant and out of decay. You don’t want to hear
what Is ay about developers who dig up the countryside to build what we generally
don’t need.
Actually, Craft
breweries have been great for graphic designers. Being entirely superficial, I
would be one of those who would always pick my brew based on the look of the
label rather than the taste. I mea, does taste really matter after one or two?
Reading Between the
Lines Movie Reviews:
--Big Hero 6 should be a favorite for kids, and perhaps
adults too. Brilliant kids with different intellectual attribute harness their
power when events catapult them into a dangerous plot in the center of the big
city Sanfrantsokyo. The leader kid Hiro turns ot his pal, robot Baymax and the
band become high tech heroes.
--People seem to like Intersteller, but the critics are lukewarm,
except for the acting of McConaughey and Chastain. With days of humans on earth
nearing an end, scientists go into space to investigate the viability of human survival
among the galaxies. Pretty predictable, but some good beauty shots.
The Question:
This answer is destined for typos! Starting with
Tyrannosaurus Rex, we go to Brachiosaurus, Packyrhinosaurus, Velociraptor,
Minotaurasaurus, Epidexipterex, Choronosaurus, Ornithomimus, Murraburrasaurus,
Stygimoloch, Aardonyx, Stegosaurus,
Therizinosaurus, Carnotaurus and Argentinosaurus.
Doncha feel a
little smarter.
Don’t overlook or
worse, disregard the obvious.
For the weekend
musical interlude, I thought I’d give you the song that we played
endlessly, and sang in cars while driving the ole’ Chevy in 1954 – Earth Angel
by the Penguins! Oh, the other top R&B hits were “The Things that I used to
do” – Guitar Slim; “Gloria” – the Cadillacs; I’m your Hoochi-Coochi man – Muddy
Watters; “Sh-Boom” – “The Chords; “Work with me Annie” – The Midnighters;
“Shake rattle and Roll” – Big Joe Turner; “Hearts of Stone” – The Charms;
“Lovey Dovey” – The Clovers. These hits were dominant on the radio if you were
lucky enough to have Alan Fried as the local radio guy. Many of these hits were
re-recorded by while pop singers in the late fifties and Rock & Roll was popularized.
Hey lost a lot in the translation.
Have a great weekend,
E-v-e-r-y-b-o-d-y!
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