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Today's Tids Issue 5,253 

Discovery never ends: 

 

 

I’ve wasted nearly two and a half hours this morning and I don't have a good idea for Tids yet! What a terrible waste of wasting time! 

 

I have noticed lately, as have many friends (Yes, I have friends) that there seem to be fewer people in restaurants and events and even on golf courses. Is that just a set of coincidental converging circumstances or is the high cost of living finally moderating people's expenditure habits? 

 

BTW, I believe a lot of spending is a habit, addiction or obsession – whatever you want to call it. Not spending is also an addiction. 

 

Speaking of crazy spending, Taylor Swift is coming to Foxboro (Patriot's) Stadium just up the road a bit from RI and the two thousand train seats for the quick trip there sold out in less than a half hour. Now, that seems manic it me. Yes, people can be led en masse.  

 

After inventing the auto air conditioner, the four Goldberg brothers, Lowell, Norman, Hiram, and Maxwell, walked into old man Henry Ford's office and told him they had the most exciting innovation in the auto industry since the electric starter. Henry invited them into his office, but they suggested that he come out to the parking lot to their car. Henry got into the car, which felt about 130 degrees, and the four bros turned on the air conditioner, and cooled the car off immediately. Almost immediately, Henry offered them $3 million for the patent. The brothers refused, saying they would settle for $2 million, but wanted the label, 'The Goldberg Air-Conditioner,' on the dashboard of each car. Now apparently Ford was more than just a little anti-Jewish, and there was no way he was going to put the Goldberg's name on two million Fords. After much haggling, the Goldburgs agreed on $4 million and that just their first names would be shown. And so to this day, all Ford air conditioners show -- Lo, Norm, Hi, and Max -- on the controls. 

 

 

The Question: 

Wat were the ages of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI when they were married? Bonus: At the first Academy Awards ceremony in 1929, who won best Actor and Actress awards? 

 

The Headlines: 

--Retail Sales in April Only Rise Half as Much as Estimates; HD Reports Lower Earnings and Significant 4.2% Drop in Revenue; Markets Open Mixed. 

--China Envoy Due in Kiev Today; Ukraine Downs Russia Drone Barrage in Advance of Visit.  

--Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI/ChatGPT to Testify Before Congress Today. 

 

I was thinking the other day, "What ever happened to Debra Winger? I mean Debra was atop the acting heap and I thought she was pretty darn good in Black Widow, Betrayed and Legal Eagles, even though I realize she was bigger more acclaimed movies. It appears mainly she just got tired of the Hollywood thing, though many directors and actors said she was tough to work with. 

 

 

In case you missed it, over the weekend 7 companies went bankrupt mainly because of higher interest rates. Now you see why the Markets go down when Powell says up! 

 

I hear a lot of people saying that we don’t have to worry about open borders because we have everything under control. But then nobody ever thought 20 Arabians could hijack four jumbo jets and turn them into missiles.  

 

Frankly, I always mixed-up Debra Winger and Jodi Foster. I should read more movie magazines Nah! 

 

But I would like to see more movies like Betrayed, Legal Eagles and Black Widow. 

 

Did you read where Ukraine downed Russia's so-called invincible Kinzhal Hypersonic Missile... with USA Patriot missiles. Maybe after all, we still got it. 

 

 

The latest warning is, “Don’t pee in a pail of Bleach!” Yikes! Who knew. But such an act would produce deadly chlorine gas, or Nitrogen Trichloride with is explosive and extremely dangerous or Hydrazine which is both toxic and explosive. Just think of large gangs of suicide terrorist pee-ers taking down a large US city.  

 

The Answer: 

Louis XVI and Marie were 15 and 14 when they got married. That’s nice to know when oyu look back into your "Ancestry” pages and find really married young multi-great grandparents. Bonus; Janet Gaynor and Emil Jennings won the first "Best’s” for “Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans”, and “The Way of all Flesh.” Charlie Chaplin won a Special Honorary Award. 

 

There are so many wonderful lives,  

Here, and across the sea. 

How much pain and sacrifice,  

Laughs and victories there must be.  

How little we know about what’s inside 

With whom we all walk stride for stride.  

Why our focus should seek kindness 

Instead of living merrily mindless. 

 

Tuesdays are good.