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Today's Tids Issue 4,118

For the little people:

Facebook has several legs up on owning the inter activity of the world. No kidding. They just announced their entry into dating services, and the stock for the company that owns Match, Tinder and OK Cupid tanked. This could happen a lot as behemoths look for new ways to grow. Yesterday I talked about monopolies as not being as problematic among infrastructure companies like Verizon AT&T and others. But, software-based companies may be entirely different. They are all about audience building and probably find it easy to move that same base audience from one service to another. It is kind of scary, when I look at this latest FB development. It’s where Facebook could continue to develop new segues to fuel growth going forward. Me, I don’t need no stinking interlocutor.

Children who fail their coloring exams always need a shouldr to crayon.

Owners of restaurants may think Mason jars enhance the cuteness of their eateries, but I hate drinking out of them.

So far, the girl in the Chinese style prom dress controversy is the most insane over reaction of the year. God help us.

If four out of five people suffer from diarrhea, does that mean that one enjoys it.

The Question:

The Simpsons just passed Gunsmoke as the longest running TV show. Which of the Simpson characters do you think the people voted to have a spinoff show?

The Headlines:

--Stocks lumbering Along Ahead of Fed Decision.

--Mexico Could Elect Castro Like President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador; Financial Institutions Worried About Investments There..

--NBC Backing Brokaw; 60 Women sow Support For Anchor Emeritus; Some Women say they Were Pressured By NBC Management To Show Support.

--Arrest Warrant Issued For Repub RI Gov Candidate Giovanni Ferocci.

--Tesla Shareholders To Vote On Ousting Musk As Chair.

--NYC Restaurant Owners Banding Together To Seek Laws That Would Provide Them Relief From High Minimum Wage.

--United To Revamp Its Pet Travel Policies.

Maxine Waters has made some pretty incomprehensible statements over the years. But I have give you her latest word-for-word: “Kanye West is a very creative young man who has presented some of the most revolutionary material in the African-American community. But, we also think that sometimes Kanye West talks out of turn and perhaps he needs some assistance in helping him to formulate some of his thoughts. We don’t think that he actually means to do harm, but we’re not sure that he really understands the impact of what he is saying, at the time he is saying it and how it weighs on, particularly the African-American community – and for young people in general. And I think maybe he should think twice about politics and not have so much to say.” That sounds to me like something the smiling KGB officer might have said across a plain gray table in a darkened gloomy room to a speaker against the communist regime just before sending him to a gulag in Siberia. “Needs some assistance in formulating…”. Read that, we have built a social services empire based on Black people being beholden to politicians. Don’t mess up my gig. “I think maybe he should …not have so much to say.” Read that, His honesty about facts is messin’ with my gig. 

It is not Southern Fried chicken just because you add Southern fried in front of chicken. It is special and best made by real people living in pleasant small towns not seeking culinary critical acclaim. I base all SFC on the delicacy I’ve had while sitting near a little lake full of sunnies, where chickens simmered in a black cast iron skillet atop of grate over a fire. The best part was the smile of the incredibly pleasant elderly woman cooking it. I’m telling you seriously, it doesn’t get any better than that.

The guy was fired from the calendar factory after taking a day off.

Doesn’t it seem that news today is determined by the largest number of meaningless messages forwarded by lunkheads across social media?

The Kentucky Derby is just about 76 hours away. At 3-1, Justify is still the favorite (Note, Tids advanced alert on this three weeks ago.) Next at 5-1 is Mendelssohn and at 6-1 is Magnum Moon. At 8-1 we have Audible and Bolt d’ Oro. After Vino Russo and Good Magic at 12-1, we have Hofburg at 20-1 and all of the rest at either 30-1 or 50-1. If you are looking for long shots with names you may like, we have in the 30 group Free Drop Billy, Promises Fulfilled, Flameaway, My Boy Jack, Enticed, Solomini, and Noble Indy. The 50 group has Combatant, Instilled Regard, Lone Sailor, and Firenze Fire. I was all set to root for the horse named Gronkowski, but he came down with a game time ailment, just like his human counterpart.

The other day a clown held the door open for me. I thought it was a nice jester.

The Answer:

Voted Number 1 was Moe Szyslak. Next at 2 was Mr. Burns followed by Itchy and Scratchy, Krusty the Clown, Ned Flanders, Sideshow Bob, Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, Groundskeeper Willie, Ralph Wiggum and at #10, Comic Book Guy. The first person with the name Simpson to show up on the list was Grandpa at #17. He was followed by Lisa at #26, Bart at #47 and Mona at #49.

See you all tomorrow. The heat arrived here today, and frankly, I can’t take it. I’m going  to go down and walk by the cool ocean waters.