Today's Tids Issue 3.37
Opening Stuff:
If you like whoopin’-it-up
crowds and good old down country livin’-it-up, then hop the next plane to
to Nashville and don’t stop at Go. It’s the big 4 day country fest and it is
expected that 80,000 will be stompin’ and singin’ and dancing in the aisles as every
big star of that Grand ole Opry and more give it their all. My ace reporter down
there says last night was amazing. Three more big days and nights and they can
pour her back onto the plane. Nothing better
Pic – Snoopy hugging
Charlie Brown. Caption: “I like the kind of hugs where you can physically
feel the sadness leaving your body.”
One of those rampant
Cleveland Cavalier’s fans writes to tell me that after last night’s loss they
are thinking of changing the name to Cadaverliers!
I think most of these
police confrontations are simply explained by Newton’s Third Law of Physics.
The Question:
What was the name of the girl who on this day in 1942 received for her 13th
Birthday a diary? Bonus: what are
the Iconic CrackerJack Prizes, The prizes that define the crunchy, Peanutty
snack?
The Headlines:
--Stock markets Sucking.
--Iran Stepping Up Financial And Military Support To Taliban.
--President Going To Hill To Plead With Dems To Vote With Repubs
To Pass His Trade Bill.
--HUD Seems Ready To Implement More Presidential Edicts;
This Time It Will Be A Mandate To Bring Diversity To Wealthy Neighborhoods.
--Florida Principal Ousted After Defending Texas Cop;
Principal Considered One of the ebst before Offering His Opinon.
--Warwick RI Man Arrested In Connection With Boston
Beheading Plot; 3 Activists Had met on RI beach.
--Boko Harem Burns
Diown 6 Villi=ages iN Nigeria Killing 36.
--FaceBook Purges Pages Offering Priceless ISIS loot for
Sale.
--Prison Tailor Gave Prisoners Tools And Supplies That
Enabled Escape.
--Country Singer Randy Howard Shot A nd Killed By Bounty
Hunter; He Was White; 65 Year Old Singer Often performed With Willie Nelson And
Waylon Jennings
The Volvo around the
world race produced a couple of unlikely winners in the leg just completed
from Lisbon to Lorient France. The all Women’s boat SCA won and it may not be
so surprising as the boat has been consistently fast out of the box, and in this
shorter race managed to hang on. Vestas Wind is a pleasant surprise because
this is the boat that was forced out of the race after a serious unplanned
meeting with a reef in the Indian Ocean. So there are smiles all around, I would
expect, even from the leaders in this very competitive race. All of these
sailors are enduring the extreme danger and long nights and days, and they all
always applaud the winner. They know what it takes.
A faithful,
insightful reader who just hates typos sends this advice: “Beware of a
world run by adults who were never spanked as kids, and got trophies just for
participating.”
If Americans were watching the going’s on during
this current discussion and manipulation surrounding the Obama TPA (Trade Package)
I suspect that God might put a giant fence around the country and call it a Nut
House. Because, people would be talking to themselves, or jumping off bridges
wondering how the country could survive with such convoluted gyrations. This is
sausage at it’s best. Or is that wurst.
Did I say wurst?
Shoot me.
Scene a Dannemora, Department:
Guards: “Joyce, what are you lugging in under your coat?”
Joyce Mitchell: “A jack hammer.” Guard: “A jack hammer for the tailor shop?”
Joyce: “Heavy Starch.” Guard: “Oh yeah, I see.”. Thanks.
The Republicans are
passing the Obama signature trade package to give him the legacy he craves?
Is the world crumbling?
Did you read that the
Head of The NAACP in Spokane Washington lied, saying she was black when the
family is highly Caucasian, with perhaps a miniscule tinge of Native American. Her
mother says that as a kid she tried to look like her adopted black siblings.
The woman, Rachel Dolezal (Czech, German, Swedish) has been suspected of
rigging anti black hate instances to gain sympathy for her causes. That’s last thing the black community needs --
delusional leaders. Oh well, now that her NAACP career is doomed, she could go on
to be a Journalist.
Publisher’s Clearing
House Sweepstakes just informed me that driving instructions to my house
are available. I already know how to get to my house. “You might be a winner.”
I was driving on Route
128 yesterday around 2:30 and the traffic was stop and go for 20 miles or
so. Rt. 128 is the circumferential road around Boston, and I’m thinking, “They
want to have th Olympics here!
Actually, it would be
a circumferential road if the ocean didn’t get in the way. Just in case
somebody was thinking of catching me on that one.
Reading Between the
Lines Movie reviews:
--I have generally enjoyed the predictable Jurassic park
movies. So I might check out the new one opening today. Considering it’s a
story told several times now, it is still feels pretty new, It will go well
with popcorn, and if you like this kind of movie, you’ll enjoy this one. I’m going.
--Me, Earl and the Dying Girl is a beautifully written and well
told story ofn awkward HS senior who his mom tells to talk to a girl he hasn’t
talked to since Kindergarten, and she has cancer. What more can I say. It is probably
the best film of the week.
Can the stock market
hang on another month until mid-July when the profit reports will provide
the excuse for a correction that is building up steam as we speak?
The Answer:
Today in 1942 was Anne Frank’s birthday. Bonus: Cracker Jack was introduced at
the Chicago World’s fair. “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” was written in 1905 and
gave a huge boost to the tasty toffee coated Popcorn and peanuts. It wasn’t a coincidence
that the first prizes in 1912 were Baseball cards. In the 20’s Rings in plastic
or metal was the favored prize. (Even today, couples ask for nostalgic CJ
engagement rings) One of the most sought after prizes was the first injection molded piece, The Sea aptain, which just
hapoened to look a little too much like Joseph Stalin. It was pulled, and is
now very collectable. The “Wiffenpoof” found its way into the box in the 50’s
and while not as well known, it was felt it exemplified the whimsical sprit of
the snack…and company. In 1960-70’s era small pinball machines were very
popular. Other popular prizes are plastic figurines, booklets, stickers,
temporary tattoos, and decoder rings. Decoder rings would be my favorite.
Today’s Tids was
no prize.
Have a great weekend,
E-v-e-r-y-b-o-d-y!
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