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Today's Tids Issue 4,389

Keep on smiling:

Lest people forget, everything in life isn’t just fun and games.

Whenever Tom Conway walked on to a stage, I just sat back and smiled.

I’m not smiling at reports of increased hostility on the Iran front. Some wars bring peace, and others only futility and death; wars in the Middle East just go on and on with little hope of resolution. And US soldiers die.

After yesterday, one of my most creative friends ever, sent in this limerick:

“There was an old man from Nantucket

Who kept all his gold in a bucket.

His daughter named Nan.

Ran off with a man,

And as for the gold, Nantucket.

We grew up together enjoying corn.

So, did you hear about the motorcycle cop who came alongside of a car and yelled “Pull over”. The driver turned and said, “No, cardigan”.

Media proclaimed super star Beto O’Rourke is certainly stumbling along now that he’s in the big time.

Things we have thought would never change, do. The latest disruption to generational contentment is from the Hershey company which just previewed its first packaging change in 125 years. It features big yellow emojis! Yikes!

The Question:

On the same day that the fist McDonald’s Hamburger joint opened, Dupont introduced a major beauty item to women. What was the item, and in what year was it? Bonus: Who was Arthur Bremer? Extra Bonus: Who is Am Chow?

The Headlines:

--Non-Emergency State Department Employees Ordered To leave Iraq As Iran tensions Escalate; European Allies Resist Joining US Claims Of Iran Threats.

--President Denies NYT’s Report That Said He Will Send 120,000 Soldiers To The Iran Area; Says, If Serious Hostilities Arose He Would Send More Than 120K.

--Chinas’ eCommerce Giant Alibaba Smashes Through Earnings Number; China New Economic Numbers Disappoint US China-Watchers; Dow Lower, S&P and Nasdaq Up In Early Trading.

--Alabama Passes Even Stronger Anti-Abortion Law Than Georgia; Only Exception Is Mother’s Health At Risk; No Exceptions For Rape Or Incest Allowed; Controversial Pro-Abortion Law Fails To Get Out Of RI Senate Committee.

--American Crisis: US Cities Out Of Control Debt.

--Monet’s “Haystack” Painting Sells For $110.7 Million; Sotheby Sale Is World Auction Record.

--Newark’s Liberty Named Worst Airport In US.

I’m expecting there will be a lot of complaints about The Voice results show last night after Blake’s country singers landed 3 of the four final spots. I think that Kelly’s Rod Stokes should have made it, but then he is a country boy too.

There are some words Like NASDAQ and DOW should be typed with all Caps. But, I think all cap words are disruptive to reading. As are Bold faced and italic mid paragraph sentences which tend to move the eye away from the beginning…or end.

Landline: Cellphone finder.

Today’s comedians basically just rant, and if the rant is directed against somebody the audience hates, the audience laughs. That’s not humor.

Grammar police visit the “Oldies but Goodies” music world; James Brown – “I feel well”; Bob Dylan – “Lie, Lady, Lie; And then we have “The Whom”.

Speaking of the Whom, Roger Daltrey went berserk last night in Nassau County Long Island after a front row concert goer lit up a joint. The Tid’s management will not allow this typist to repeat the words of his tirade against pot smoking.

Mary Shelly’s novel ideas made her famous.

There is no truth to the rumor that Mark Wiener is set to become the 23^rd Dem candidate. “I got serious name recognition,” he said as he walked out of prison. He added, “What else would I do, I’m a politician. I don’t know how to do anything but run.”  And, operate a smart phone camera.

The Answer:

It was 1940 when Dupont introduced Nylon Stockings!! And Mac first opened in California. Bonus: Arthur Bremer was the guy who shot Alabama Gov George Wallace supposedly for his racist views. Hmmm. Extra Bonus: Amy Yuen Yee Chow was an American Olympic Gymnast, a member to the USA’s “Magnificent Seven”, the first US team to win a gold medal in gymnastics. Aren’t you glad I asked?

In typing the Chow answer I originally wrote that she was, “the first Asian American Olympic Gymnast…”. Then I thought, hey, she was just an American like each of the others on the team.  People who think ethnic and racial and sexual grouping is helpful are just promoting differences, furthering distinctions and possibly the isolation of millions of good people.

Problematic: A situation caused by a leaky roof.