Today's Tids Issue 5,432
The greatness beneath:
It felt good to be outside this morning. I wonder if 18 degrees doesn’t feel that cold for the same reason somebody in Arizona will tell us that 100 degrees isn't that hot – dry air. I think our bodies normalize to the cold. Unless we talk ourselves into being miserable.
The Biden tuition debt program seems to me to be just a way a way to pay college kids for their vote. It's certainly not good for society to enable people to dismiss clearly agreed basic rentabilities.
Most people don't see color the same way. So color is in reallity is just a pigment of your imagination.
The Question:
Name the top must have toy character Fads over the past four decades that drove parents crazy/
The Headlines:
--Techs Continue to Power Stock Markets Gains; Macy's Rejects $6Bil Takeover Proposal from Arkhouse Mgt and Brigade Capital.
--DeSantis Drops Our Saying there is No Clear Path to Victory.
--FAA Calls for Checks on Second Boeing Model 737.
--Gaza Hostage Families Storm Israel Parliament.
--NK’s Kim Talking War Again.
--Navy Ends Search for two Seals Lost During Raid on Red Sea Attack Ship.
Tim Scott te senator form South Carolina cerayngly racedot endorese trump,. Coukditnbe tath teh Trumpster promsied the VP job for teh the Senator.
It amazing what you can find if you look beyond what peeople expect you to find.
So, did you hear about the African king who redesigned his grass woven house so he could put his heavy throne on the second floor and a new king size bed in the former throne room directly below. On the night after it was finished the king and queen happily jumped into their new bed and were so vigorous that house shook, and the throne broke through the grass ceiling killing them both. The moral of the story: When you live ina grass house, don't stow thrones.
You measure the effectiveness of puns with a sighsmograph
In 1998 I was attending a trade show in Chicago, this really smart guy who had written an incredible piece of software for a program that would analyze and compare data to aid in the purchase of industrial machinery, came up to a group of us and said, “Wait til you see this thing Google!”. Nick was always right with the new stuff, so of course we all jumped into to see what was going on with the “Blue Dress” saga at the White House and there was plenty. Matt Drudge suddenly became biggest source of news on the planet, and Bill Clinton was defining the word, “Is”. So, that's where the national attention was that year. But in Russia teh banks were melting down and in Ireland spirits were burning bright with the signing of the Good Friday truce between Ireland and Northern Ireland. In space we began assembling the International Space Station, and in China the Yanktze River flood was killing 12 thousand. A US Air Force jet plane severed a ski lift line in Italy. Eggs Cost 88 cents a dozen while Bacon was $2.53. Hamburger was $1.40/lb, an average cost of a home was up ot $129 K, a car $17.2K. The average income was up to $38K and the stock market spurted past 0ver 9,000 even though it fell by 500 Points on day in August. The big movies were Titanic, There's Something about Mary, Saving Private Ryan, Doctor Dolittle, and and much too precious critical favorite, Shakespeare in Love which for some oddball reason won the best picture Oscar. Maybe it was because of the boorish producer and Hollywood heavyweight named Harvy Weinstein... Weinstein who during the group acceptance speeches shoved a director aside to move himself into the spotlight. How little we knew then. And ironically, the only story anybody really cared about was Bill Clinton and his young protege Monica Lewinski.
There are people who live in the world of streaming and podcasts and there are other people who live in the real world.
RI Dem politicians are pushing hard for same day voter registration and voting. The mere fact that politicians are for it makes it susopect and really scary to me. The way they say, “Don’;t worry about it (Naive citizenry), it will be fine”. I'm all for one day live voting (Except for real honest necessary mail ballots) and to that point I would make it a national holiday.
A reader just wrote to say he liked the news better when Hughy Lewis was involved.
I attended a lecture on Thomas Green Wiggens this weekend. Thomas is better known as “Blind Tom”. It seems to me that he may have been one of Americas true musical prodgies and absolute genius musicians. He was born a blind slave on a Georgia Plantation. As that Wiley Plantation folded, he and his family were sold to teh powerful lawyer and newspaper Owner/Editor James Bethune. Being blind made Tom pretty useless to his new owner. But Bethune quickly learned of the boy's genius when he was playing the piano masterfully at the age of three. He wrote his first major composition, a rather complex one, when he was five years old. At the age of eleven he was invited to perform for President Buchanan at the White House. Bethune and his daughters recognized it and guided him into his career, finding teh best teachers and interpreters, to where eventually he became world known, playing in all of the great cities of the world. It wasn’t always easy along the way as some promoters chosen as agent used him in sideshow type theatrical environments. But one daughter, Elza Bethune rescued him and found him concert halls worthy of his talent. If you are interested in hearing any of his many compositions, check out the CD album of Pianist John Davos. Or look on you tube for Blind Tom/John Davis.
Rosemary thought this sage advice was along thyme cumin.
The Answer:
Over the years we have a had fads like the Duncan Yoyo, Slinky, Hoola Hoops, Chia Pets, Pet Rocks Mr. Potato Head, but none were as crazy as some of the maniacal cravings for certain doll types. Now I’m not talking about Shirley Temple or Sparkle Plenty or Raggedy Ann and Andy. Barbie was quite sane as were Madam Alexander and American Girl Dolls. And of course, Chatty Cathy, Little Lulu and Nancy Storybook Dolls. But then we had The Cabbage Patch Kids, Barney, Beanie Babies, Tickle Me Elmo and Furbies where people bludgeoned each otehr in department stores to get one.
Today is the birthday of Journey's Steve Perry. Maybe this is a good way to end today.
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