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Today's Tids Issue 4,984

From within:

 

Did you hear about the new bestselling book in dog kennels? “Scents and Scentsibility.” Shoot m.

 

I just took a nice walk down town and passed several groups chatting. A couple of them were talking vigorously about vaccinations. There has to be more to living than that. But perhaps not more to life.

 

Let’s hope that someday Jeopardy gets its act together so we can get back to 17 straight game winner Matt Amodio who is now 3^rd on the all-time regular season money winnings list.

 

A cowpoke wanders into town and walks into the local bar and says, “Scuffle, Brawl, Melee, Altercation. A grizzled guy sitting at the bar turns and says, “Hold it right there stranger. Thems fightin’ words.”

 

There must be some big issue I can talk about. Maybe this will get better. That’s the thing about the Tids, sometimes I wake up near the end.

 

This is a big to me. The NE Patriots just released Cam Newton. That is a big surprise to most, especially to a lot of the local spirts “Experts”. Bill is betting on the rookie. It makes sense in that Mac Jones fits the Patriots offensive system for the future.

 

The Question:

Name five principal characters involved in the OJ Simpson Trial saga (Other than OJ).

 

The Headlines:

--Markets Dip After Good Monday; For Month To Last Day Today, Nasdaq Powered By Techs Is Up 4%; S&P Was Also On Fire For 7^th Month Up 3%; Delta Concerns Had Blue Chip Cyclicals Tied To Recovery Underperforming Down 1.3%; Based On Corporate Earnings, Analysts Looking To Push S&P Target Index Higher From 4500 to 4800.

--Last US Planes Leave Afghanistan; Afghan War Officially Over; Problems Still Persist for President.

--Post Ida Analysts Reveals Catastrophic Damage; Power Outage For Millions Could Take Weeks, Months In Some Instances For Restoration

--US Removed Form Europe’s “Safe Travel List”; It Should Not Change Thigs For Vaccinated Americans.

Illegal Immigrant Killer Of Molly Tibbets Gets Maximum Sentence.

--Theranus Founder Elizabeth Homles’ Fraud Trial Begins With Jury Selection Questions; Trial Could Last Four Months.

 

Today is “International Overdose Awareness Day”. That is one damn serious problem. One second you are on one side of that edge and the next second you are dead. I find it frightening. And incredibly sad for those left behind. It’s easy to slip into the danger zone when you think you can handle anything. Then, suddenly realize you are overwhelmed and entirely addicted. This OD pandemic is one of the worst things ever. And the sad thing is that it could be controlled.

 

I like Irish music. It kind of goes to your heart. My mother would be proud of me.

 

A country boy fell into a guy’s laptop. He called the police to say, “I’d like to report a farmer in the Dell.”

 

Is this mess getting any better yet?

 

There’s a great reader of the Tids who wrote to say she taught school many years ago on Louisiana’s Grand Island. And she tells me that the close-knit fishing community was full of wonderful people. And that now she feels profound sadness. You know we often look at news stories as entertainment without thinking enough that all of these disasters reported of places far away are affecting n people just like our neighbors or our family. It doesn’t take much energy to care.

 

So Biden has his congress looking into adding a massive Dental Health Insurance program to Medicare. It appears that dentists are not very happy with it as they observe meagre Medicare payments to doctors. The big cry is, why pay for service for so many seniors who can afford to pay for it themselves. We are creating much too much gov dependence. But, I guess that is the Bernie plan.

 

Laid is pronounced like paid but not said. Said is pronounced like bread but not bead. And bead is pronounced like lead but not lead. English is weird.

 

A vegetable store clerk catches a snowman rumbling through the carrots. Headline: Frosty gets caught picking his nose.”

 

The Answer:

Well, there was Marcia Clarke, Johnny Cochran, Christopher Darden, F. Lee Baily, Robert Shapiro, Robert Kardasian, Judge Lance Ito, Kato Kaelin, Barry Scheck and Mark Fuhrman. These are indelible images for most.

 

Did you ever see a limo driver standing at the airport departure gate holding a sign with the name, “Godot”? Could be a while.

 

I much prefer a nation of people caring from within as oppose to being extorted into caring through societal pressure.

 

Don’t give up on the past

 

Today's Tids Issue 4,983

The Importance of being human:

 

77 years ago, 15,000 American Soldiers marched triumphantly up the Champs Elysée to the applause and cheers of thousands of grateful Parisians in celebration of the Liberation of Paris from the Nazis. Remember pride in America? The soldiers always fight hard and honorably, and have from before that momentous day and now. It is just the politicians who have become less honorable.

 

This is the first day of the last week of official Summer. It seems to get here faster and faster.

 

Confucius did not say: Wise man does not keep sledge hammer and slow computer in same room.

 

Think of all the kids who will find their summer romances coming to an end in the next several days as school days come around again. Life can be a bummer, and nobody but the kids in love know it.

 

Rewriting is when writing really gets to be fun... In baseball you only get three swings and you're out. In rewriting, you get almost as many swings as you want and you know, sooner or later, you'll hit the ball. --Neil Simon

 

The Question:

Name five Neil Simon Plays.

 

The Headlines:

--At Mid-Morning S&P and Nasdaq Reach New Highs; Dow Comes Off Early Morning Lows; Consumer Confidence Index Being Eyed Closely As Delta Variant Encroaches.

--Ida Makes Landfall With 150 Mph Sustained Winds; Storm Surge Described As Catastrophic; Barges And Ferries Seen Floating Free In River, Crashing Into Bridge; New Improved Dike System Seems To Hold. Power Outages Widespread; Ida Now Tropical Storm Veers Off Towards Carolina.

--President Biden And Forst Lady Jill At Delaware Dover AFB To Honor Returning Bodies Of Heroes Killed In Kabul Bombings.

--Giant Caldor Fire Very Difficult To Fight; Just Two Miles From Tahoe Basin; Tourists Leaving Rapidly As Smoke Gathers.

--Rocket Hits Close To Kabul Airport Day Before End Day.

--Israel Increases Booster Shot Activity.

--Patrick Cantlay Beats Bryson Dechambeau In Tense, Historic 6-Hole FedEx Golf Playoff.

 

I always respect the deceased because I know I’m going to be one. But I read a line from an Obit that struck a funny bone, “She will finally fulfill her dream of being in medicine. She is donating her body to the Brown U Medical department.” Maybe it is just my sense of humor. Depraved.

 

Never underestimate the stimulation of eccentricity. --Neil Simon

 

This maybe the laziest week of the laziest month. I may have an excuse for missing typos. Heavy eye-lidded head rapidly falling on laptop key board

 

How horribly odd was it that Ida would ravish New Orleans 16 years to the day that Katrina raped the Crescent City.

 

Do you know what I worry about the most? The loss of the human factor in the digital homogenization of society

 

While the inane arguments bout Covid vaccinations go on and on, we have to get ready to inoculate against regular flue season. Don’t forget regular flu season.

 

When you look at a storm like Ida, and have knowledge of New Orlean’s precarious lowland geographic positioning on this Earth. You have to wonder if that City has a chance of surviving in the future.

 

Today is National Frankenstein day. I call it Monster Monday.

 

Confucious did not say: Lady who goes camping with man must beware of evil intent.

 

Why is there such a gap between the last FL exhibition game and the beginning of the NFL season? In case you missed it, Tampa Bay will meet Dallas on September 12^th. My beloveds, The Pats, don’t play until two weeks. Oh the ache in waiting.

 

I love living. I have some problems with my life, but living is the best thing they've come up with so far. --Neil Simon

 

This is a week when a lot of Wall Street denizens take little time off before the big September reawakening. So, what happens this week may not be very indicative of anything, but hold on to your earnings reports around September 9^th.

 

The Answer:

Simon was one of the greatest of all Broadway playwrights, and before that, he wrote some of the funniest stuff for the most popular TV comedy shows.  For a number of years playgoers just existed waiting for the next Simons comedy, romantic tale to appear. The Odd Couple was one of his most memorable. But h people loved Barefoot in the Park, Come Blow Your Horn (His first), Sweet Charity, Plaza Suite, Good-Bye Girl, Last of the Red-Hot Lovers, Prisoner of Second Avenue, The Good Doctor, California Suite, Chapter Two, Biloxi Blues, The Sunshine Boys, Brighten Beach Memories, and Lost in Yonkers These are just 15 of 32 plays he wrote. Actually, I b never really liked Lost in Yonkers.

 

But I did like Good-Bye Girl, the romantic comedy movie, with Richard Dreyfuss and Simon’s wife at the time, delightful Marsha Mason.

 

Simon always had people laughing, We good use more of that.

 

“If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.” --Neil Simon

 

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian. --Dennis Wholey