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Today's Tids Issue #3,743

For winners:

Ho. Ho. Ho! I like Ho-ho’s. Kind gets the old spirit going, gets December rolling along towards the big day. Yes, we are on the downside of another year, but looking forward to snow angels, skiing and nestling in by the warm glow of a fireplace. I walls pause in December to remember Pearl Harbor. It kind of makes you think what is really important among all of the gift buying. And, around the 23rd or 24^th I tend to look up into the clear Winter heavens to see if I can find a single magnificent star a glowing. Just to put our angry world in perspective. The light that illuminates. Happy December everybody!

Well, you can tell Dems are still in a debilitating shock over the Trump victory because they elected Nancy Lala-Pelozzi!

Early data is saying that the new Google Pixel smart phone trounced Apple IPhone 7 over the black Friday and Cyber Monday activities. Fortune Mag reports that mobile app analytics company Localytics (Which draws data from 2.8 Billion smartphones worldwide.) said that where Phone 7 activations were only up 13% and Galaxy S7 slightly higher at 36%, Pixel was up a whopping 112%. Obviously, Pixel probably comes off a smaller base than IPhone and Galaxy, but, the number say for sure that Google is a player. I imagine that Cook’s computer Kids are grinding it out in the basement looking for a new whizzbang product. Apple invented the Smart phone and now they are running to keep up. Nothing is forever except love.

In case you are wondering, The Chip and Johanna Gaines HGTV show “Fixer Upper” recorded a 3.4 rating for its season premiere on Tuesday. That is huge for any cable program putting it in the rarified atmosphere of the Bill Riley, typically the ratings leader among all cable programs. The Gaines have an industry going on down there in Waco Texas. Johanna has a design sense that is comfortable for a broad spectrum of people, and a family sense that probably stimulates the hearts of loving families everywhere.

The Question:

Name five works of Oscar Wilde.

The Headlines:

--Bank Robber Surrenders Releasing 11 Hostages In Jacksonville Florida Bank Heist Gone Wrong..

--Another Police Officer Murdered After Being Lured To Domestic Violence Situation In Tacoma.

--Oil Prices Soaring After deal To Cut Production; US Jobless Claims Up 17K To 2268K; Auto sales Get Big Boost Form Black Friday Promotions; Ford, GM Beat Estimates; Dow up 75, Nasdaq, S&P Down..

--National Debt Goes Over $19 Trillion For First Time; Expected To Hit $20 T Just After Obama Drives Away From White House; Debt Will Have Doubled During 8 Year Obama Reign.

--Officials Say that Tennessee Fires That Killed At Least 7, Destroyed Over 700 Buildings, Were “Human Caused”.

--Trump Begins Midwestern Swing to Thank Voters.

Kraft is introducing a new Mayo which they are saying spreads smoother than Hellman’s. I know there is always that urgency in Advertising to identify the Unique Selling Proposition, but spreading easier? Spreading mayo does not cause rotator cuff disability. But there are many inane toutings from marketers that the various consumers use to justify purchases. For instance, one of the popular ones these days is the lightness of computer tablets. Hey, we’re generally talking about 3/10ths of a pound differences. And to get there, manufactures may have to sacrifice battery life. Like so many buying stimulations, the essence of coolness always comes trough as the overriding consideration.

There are some huge tussles this week in the NFL, which will surely test the minds of the Tids Pickers, now at 113-62-2. Now some of the tussles don’t mean squat but they are either way games because each team is very good at stumbling, like SF and Chi. I will go Chi. Ok, but let’s start at the beginning tonight featuring a game where earlier in the season Dallas versus Minn looked like a showdown, but now Dallas is hard to pick against and Minn is hard to pick for. I have stay with the Cowboys. A real battle will be between KC and Atlanta. I personally don’t have a lot of faith in Atlanta, but KC can lose away. So I will pick Falcons. Rogers woke up and will keep it going for GB against a tough Houston team. I have loved The Lions all year, but NO has found away to win and they will this week at home. My Pats, if they can find enough healthy players, should squeak one out against LA. Jax is always upset minded but Denver needs this one and they are better. Philly seems to have hit a wall, but Cinn looks like the wall has collapsed upon them. The Eagles . Balt is playing well, and Miami is looking invincible lately The home team advantage is for the Ravens. The Bills can be formidable when they come together, but they won’t out in Oakland. Another superclash is the Giants against the Steelers, two bruising original NFL teams. I’m stickoing out my neck and picking Pittsburgh. Arizona is at home against the Skins, and that is the only thing that makes this game interesting. Skins will dig down. Everybody likes the Chargers against TB, but everybody liked Seattle against the Bucs last week. I go TB. Seattle will bounce back against Carolina in another really good game. Lastly we go to the disappointment bowl, Jets vs Colts. The Jets actually have a pretty good “D”, and I think they will surprise Indy at home.

Two days ago I talked about the Dictionary.Com’s number one word of the year…but I forgot to tell you what it was. It is Xenophobic. Sorry folks, I must have been having an immigrant panic attack.

In case you are interested, the five “Most Streamed” music artists are 31 rapper Drake, by a wide margin, followed by Justin Bieber, Rihanna, Twenty One Pilots and Kanye West. I hum their tunes often.

It looks like the East Coast/West Coast social democrats have won again, leaving out the backbone of the old Dem party in the Middle West, you know, the folks that Trump went after.

Obama said yesterday that the reason that Trump beat the Hill is because Fox News is on in all of the bars. Is he implying that Trump voters are generally soused.

It now appears to me that we have two new different parties going forward in the US now – The Socialist/Progressive party and the Democrat/Republican fusion.

That “Bath Fitter“ commercial we see around here often looks like a full Rhode Island. The singer sounds like her real job is providing music for Miss Cuthbert’s Dancing School recitals. Or, maybe it is just me.

The Answer:

Oscar was wild and crazy at times but he wrote some terrific plays: Two of his best known are a play, The Importance of Being Earnest, and a book, The Picture of Dorian Gray. Some of his other plays wee A Woman Of No Importance, Lady Windermere’s Fan, An Ideal Husband and The Duchess of Padua. He wrote stories like The Happy Prince. The Devoted Friend and The Nightingale and the Rose. Oscar was also an essayist, one of is best known being “The Soul of a Man Under Socialism.”

I’ve been eating so much lately, I could be hired to play the Jolly Old Elf in various plays around the community. . But, Orange Cheeto dust on my Red Suit wouldn’t look so hot.