2/4/09

Thinking Out Loud In The Silence

Tri-O’s
Oddities, Observations, and Opinions By Herb Kandel


Here is another of an occasional meandering writing of ricocheting thoughts that flash randomly inside one’s skull during the quiet wee hours before sleep sometimes turns them into dreams.

• If you want to hear the correct pronunciation of words listen to Paul Harvey. He seems to take extra pains in his enunciation. The same can be said when you listen to a song sung by Frank Sinatra.
• To exercise my mind after seeing one TV ad after another on the commercial breaks, it is hard to remember the one that came before the one that’s playing, or the one that preceded it. Is it just me?
• Some jeans manufacturers are offering the pants with button front flys instead of zippers. Everything old is new again.
• Do you wonder what your dog is thinking when they rest their head on your knee and gaze up adoringly?
• Speaking of dogs : one of the funniest cartoons I’ve seen is where a high heeled women is standing before her open front door with outstretched arms in greeting to a smiling, wagging tail dog. The balloon above the dog’s head pictures his vision of an open lidded can of dog food atop a pair of high-heeled shoes.
• I wonder if Dave Letterman will continue his Presidential Speech pieces with our new president?
• I tried the new converter analog to digital box on a non-cable TV . It provides a lot more options and channels but with a lot of duplication.
• It seems we read more and more about Alzheimer's patients and children with Autism wandering away. If retail stores can put security tags on inexpensive items such as clothing and CDs to prevent them from leaving the premises unpaid why not provide similar bracelets or anklets to alert caregivers when these folks go beyond a designated perimeter?
• Someone once asked, “Have you ever disliked someone for being luckier or more successful than you?”. I can positively answer “No” as a friend of mine won a recent Powerball Lottery. My wish for him and his family is to enjoy it’s benefits and use it wisely.
• New Orleans has its’ posh and elegant dining establishments, but for pure delicious comfort food you can’t beat the roast beef po’ boys at most of the neighborhood eateries.
• Have you noticed nearly all clothing with the word “American” as a label or brand is manufactured outside the U.S. , i.e., Mexico, Pakistan, China, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, etc..
• Valentine was a priest who performed secret marriages against the emperors wishes ( he could not raise an army as husbands refused to leave their wives) and was sentenced to death. Before his execution on February 14 in the year 269, he sent the jailer’s daughter a note of thanks signed, “Love from your Valentine.” And that’s how it all started.
• I found out that Valentine’s Day is NOT the most popular day to prompt proposals. Christmas and New Year’s Eve have the most knee bending.
• Have you noticed credit card statements seem to come in later each month thus shortening the time of when they becomes due?
• Watching the movie “The Curious case of Benjamin Button” your mind has to constantly shift back and forth to grasp the time sequences as he ages backwards from senility to infancy. One would think that it would end with cell division.
• Ken Follett’s new massive (over 900 pages) best-seller book, “World Without End”, is a “Gone With The Wind” epic that’s set in the 1300’s.
• Will new Monopoly games come with a ‘Bailout’ card?
  
• With the exception of Super Bowl III (Joe Namath, Jets 16 - Colts 7) the last two Super Bowls have been the most dramatic and lived up to the hype.

And now, at last, to sleep.

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