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Today's Tids Issue 5,386 

No, it can't be: 

 

 

How did this happen so fast. It’s less than a week before Thanksgiving. Wasn’t it Labor Day just last week. It’s a good weekend coming up to spend a little less frenzied time thinking about everything we all are thankful for. It’s ok to be positive, even if there are lingering heartbreaks; to smile at cherished memories past; the love received today. And the fact that we still have a marvelous week ahead before they start beating us up with Christmas commercials for Balck Friday. For now, it is all about bright yellows and oranges and blue greens and smiles and happy busyness. Leading up to a day when we all say, Hey, thanks! 

 

A wise world observer on the radio this morning said you don’t believe the promises of the Chian Dictator until they happen.  

 

Frankly. I don’t know what I would o without diet cola.  

 

As a dog wanders through its days, it is thinking, feed me, scratch my head and pick ticks off my body and I'm yours for life.  

 

A guy who just finished a good Arthur Conan Doyle mystery, put the book down and said, “There's no police like Holmes. 

 

The Question: 

Why did the Turkey become the symbol of the Thanksgiving Day feast. Bonus: Who proposed the Watergate burglary and who were the five Burglars? 

 

The Headlines: 

--Markets hovering; Walmart, Target and Gap Offer Bleak Guidnace for Future Sales; Ali Baba Pullback form Cloud Productt Raises Concern about China Economy. 

--Aid To Gaza Halted Even as Possible Starvation Crisis Alarms Go Off. 

--AA Warning of Huge Travel Congestion this TDay. 

--Tim Scott Money Goes to Haley’s Growing War Chest; More Americans Looking for Third Party as G Dislike of Two Top Poll leaders Increases  

--Zimbabwe Declares Atate of Emergency over Cholera. 

 

I have decided that without question my two favorite foods in life are rice and chicken gravy. 

 

And Vanilla Ice cream 

 

That's why I never get excited about some famous Chef coming to town to treat us to a $150 per person dinner. A pure waste of money to this humble gourmand. 

 

Heart breaks seem deeper when the memories of the past are so extraordinarily positive. 

 

I feel much better walking and playing golf on a windless 45-degree day in November than I do slogging along on a humid 85-degree day in July.  

 

1972 was the year that TV began to become a must see and don’t miss after a band of Repub bad guys broke into Watergate and the Nixin Admin blew up. And eyeballs were riveted to hearings and news casts. The Irish and British were fighting, and it was mean and bloody. A plane crashed into the Andes and 16 people survived after rationalizing a cannibal lifestyle. 11 Israel athletes were murdered by Arab gunman at the Munich Olympics. But then, USA and the USSR signed the ABM – Anti Ballistic Missile Treaty. The space shuttle began operations, and the Dow went over 1000 for the very first time to raucous cheering at the NYSE (Today the Dow is 35,150+-) Mark Spitz won 7 Gold Medals, Atari brought us PONG and the amazing digital calculator made multiplication available for all. Hellman's Mayo cost $1.31, strawberries 28 cnets/pound and a ladies stylish over the knee boot $22.97. The average income was up to $11,800. Despite the growing grey cast to the year, people were singing, especially top tunes like “The first time ever I saw your Face”, “Alone again (Naturally)”, “American Pie”, “Without You”, "the Candy Man”, “Lean on Me”, “Brand New Key” and “Heart of Gold”. The top grossing movies of 1972 were The Godfather, The Poseidon Adventure, What’s up Doc, Deliverance, Deep Throat (Whoops), Jeremiah Johnson, Last Tango in Paris, Lady Sings the Blues and Cabaret. Mary Tyler Moore, Ironside, Gunsmoke, Sanford and Son, Hawaii Five-O, The NBC Sunday Night Mystery Movie and all in the Family were hot in the living rooms. Yes 1972 was another in those transformational years, Barriers to everything were breaking. It was the old pendulum thing we experience from generation to generation, and for a lot around 1972, it was swinging the wrong way. We spent delightful summers on Cape Cod and moved into a new house out in the country amidst farmers and horse trails. The water well generally went dry around August, and we’d stretch a hose to our neighbor. And Life worked just fine. 

 

Once again there are few important or even interesting NCAAF games this week. The most interesting game to me is Clemon vesus North Carolina. Clemson is unrated but very capable. NC has been an ACC darling all year. I would watch this one. Georgia-Tennessee could be interesting as will Oregon State and Washington. USC and UCLA is surely a big rivalry but how good are they and what are they playing for. Miami played FSU pretty even last week and think they will give ranked Louisville a tussle. And lastly, UCF has shown up all year against the Bigs and they will again against ranked Texas Tech. 

 

And yes, once again the overabundance of College Football games will wipe out Saturday local and national news programs. 

 

I don’t like to sound like an old fuddy-duddy, but teen electric scooter riders are a minor menace, especially to themselves as they pop up out of nowhere assuming that every driver can react with a car as quickly as they can weave through traffic.  

 

I couldn’t tell you Taylor Swift song One. But she is an amazing businesswoman, and I'm sure a talented songwriter. 

 

I walk around a lot and part of that is observing people. You never know when you need a good character for a story. But what has fascinated me as I observe the meanderings of denizens each day is the heterogeneous persona of the crowds; I see along the way. Tat I can see that they may be driven by so many different cultural norms or fads easily grasps today. I assumed long ago that there are plenty of people who will never agree with me, but I think it's good to be firm in my opinions and observations for those who do travel the same path as I.  

 

Climate activists are now targeting air travel as “a luxury to avoid". Last night I was at a restaurant and asked for Curley Fries, The waitress told me that health authorities made them stop due to a danger they posed the era of Covid. Have we lost our collective minds? 

 

One of terrible things about academia is how quickly a single activist can bring down another professor for telling the truth about something the activist doesn’t want to know the truth about.  

 

The Answer: 

Alexander Hamilton, a turkey Lover proclaimed that, "No citizen from the United States shall refrain from turkey on Thanksgiving Day. But before that the Turkey became popular because it was large enough for a family, roamed in large flocks across people's land and when New Englanders migrated across the country, they introduced their TDay eating habits. Bonus: Gordon Liddy proposed the burglary and wiretapping idea and the five who broke in were Virgilio Gonzales, Bernard Barker, James W. McCord Jr., Eugenio Martinex and Frank Sturgis 

 

I think it was better before social media communications when lovers carved initials and hearts into a tree.  

 

Have a great Weekend, E-v-e-r-y-b-o-d-y!!