Andrew Tobias: A Letter From Mike [Bloomberg]
"Mike's not a patrician New York Governor, like Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He came from humble beginnings and only ran the city, not the state. But like that other very wealthy New Yorker, Bloomberg might make a fine president for the those less fortunate than he. Others who would be infinitely better than Trump include: Bennet, Biden, Booker, Bullock, and Buttigieg - and that's just the other B's."
Andrew Tobias: The Corporate Tax Rates Are Too Damn Low
Bottom line: [The tax cut] was largely Fred Smith's idea - the kid who famously founded FedEx - and it failed in most ways, though not for FedEx, which went from a 33% tax bracket to paying no tax, so it worked out well for Fred.
Andrew Tobias: The Prices Are Just Too Damned High - And Here's Why
But first: LOW WAGES Wages as a percentage of GDP have stagnated while profits have doubled - with a huge portion of the extra half going for stock buybacks mainly to enrich the very few. Worth 90 seconds to watch billionaire Nick Hanauer lay it out. (Later in the Q&A he says: "We think of the Fox Channel as rich people persuading middle class people to blame poor people. That's sort of their business model.")
Lie Witness News - Trump Watergate Edition (Jimmy Kimmel YouTube)
A new tell-all book called 'A Warning,' written by an anonymous Senior White House Official, was released today. The saddest part about the book and these impeachment proceedings, is that Trump's hardcore supporters don't want to know what he has done wrong. They will support him no matter what. So to prove it, we went out on the street, found people who are fans of Donald Trump, and we asked them how they felt about a bunch of stuff Trump has done. Except none of it was stuff Trump has done, all of the events we described were about Watergate and Richard Nixon.
Euell Theophilus Gibbons (September 8, 1911 - December 29, 1975) was an outdoorsman and early health food advocate, promoting eating wild foods during the 1960s.
His publishing success brought him fame. He made guest appearances on The Tonight Show and The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour, and was awarded an honorary doctorate from Susquehanna University. A 1974 television commercial for Post Grape-Nuts cereal featured Gibbons asking viewers "Ever eat a pine tree? Many parts are edible." While he recommended eating Grape Nuts over eating pine trees (Grape Nuts' taste "reminds me of wild hickory nuts"), the quote caught the public's imagination and fueled his celebrity status.
Johnny Carson joked about sending Gibbons a "lumber-gram", and Gibbons himself joined in the humor; when presented with a wooden award plaque by Sonny and Cher, he good-naturedly took a bite out of it. (The "plaque" was actually an edible prop.) He was satirized by John Byner on the Carol Burnett Show episode which aired October 6, 1973, shown eating tree parts and asking related questions, including "Ever lick a river?" In a 1974 skit on the children's television program The Electric Company, cast member Skip Hinnant (as "Early Gibbons") was a proponent of eating items starting with the prefix "ST-," including a tree stump, a staircase (with a "first step," presumably made of wood) and sticks and stones.
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
Grape Nuts Cereal.
Randall wrote:
Grape Nuts
Mark. said:
Grape-Nuts breakfast cereal.
Dave replied:
Post Grape Nuts breakfast cereal.
That one I didn't have to look up since I worked at Post then, and those goofy ads really drove sales for that product. Battle Creek, Michigan was home to the only Post factory at that time. Post couldn't keep up with demand and Grape Nuts ran 24/7 nearly every week of the year for quite a few years.
If anyone is interested in how Grape Nuts was made, here's a YouTube video from a film made in the 1940s, but that was pretty close to how the product was made in the 1970's too.
Photo: Battle Creek Post cereal plant, probably from Post's centennial in 1997. Since they tore down the Kellogg's South Plant in the 1990's I believe that the Post plant is the largest ready to eat cereal plant in the world.
mj answered:
He claimed they tasted
Like roasted hickory nuts. Grape nuts. I still want to know who
castrated that many grapes.
Stephen F responded:
Grape Nuts
Cal in Vermont wrote:
Grape-Nut cereal.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
Post Grape-Nuts cereal
Adam answered:
Grape Nuts
They're made of Pine trees? Sounds about right.
Kenn B responded:
Grape Nuts
Barbara, of Peppy Tech fame replied:
Happy Thanksgiving to you and all your readers!
The answer to the question is Grape Nuts. Not surprisingly, some of those old commercials are on YouTube. Here's a link to one of them.
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• Stan Laurel was funny in his old age. At a stationery store, a man kind of recognized him, saying, "Aren't you…," but the man was unable to come up with a name, so Mr. Laurel suggested a name: "Oliver Hardy." The man replied, "Right. Whatever happened to Laurel?" Mr. Laurel sadly replied, "Oh, he went balmy."
Fans
• Comedians are often writers; for example, Bill Cosby does much writing - both of comic routines and of books. His old comic routines still hold up. One day, some parents brought their nine-year-old son to see Mr. Cosby. The son was a fan, and he started doing Mr. Cosby's 1966 routine "The Playground." In the routine Bill and his friends play safely in a vacant lot despite the presence of broken glass - but they are no longer safe after someone installs monkey bars. The nine-year-old boy recited the routine, using Mr. Cosby's inflections, and Mr. Cosby says that he started "listening to, and admiring, my writing. The kid's performing, and I'm saying to myself, 'This is really wonderful writing.'"
• Comedian Fred Allen was generous with his time. Whenever a fan wrote him, the fan received a personal reply from the great comedian himself. In addition, Mr. Allen did not repeat himself. If 10 requests for autographs came in the mail, Mr. Allen sent back 10 different replies and not one reply copied 10 times. One of his writers, Arnold M. Auerbach, once asked him why he spent so much time answering fan mail. Mr. Allen replied, "Anyone who takes the time to write to me deserves a personal answer."
• At the premiere of stand-up comedian Sarah Silverman's movie titled Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic, which includes music in addition to comedy, an enthusiastic fan told her that she was "the true heir to Lenny Bruce." She smiled and replied, "Wow! Thank you! That is the ultimate compliment! I'm actually not that familiar with Lenny Bruce's work, but from what I understand, he was a really great singer."
• Jack Riley played the character of the insulting, misanthropic Mr. Elliott Carlin on The Bob Newhart Show. Frequently, fans of the show ask him if he is anything like the character he portrayed. Because he is a professional comedian, Mr. Riley's standard response to this question is in the character of Mr. Carlin: "Bite me, you wiener."
• Comedian Fred Allen once met a fan who told him that she had traveled to New York all the way from San Francisco to see him broadcast his radio program. Mr. Allen replied, "Madame, if I had only known you were coming all that way just to catch my little old show, the least I could have done was meet you halfway - say, about Omaha."
• A boy named Bobby once wrote a fan letter to comedian Tim Conway and told him to drop by if he was ever in St. Louis, Missouri. The following week, Mr. Conway showed up at Bobby's front door with his suitcase and said, "Hi, Bobby. You told me to drop in anytime, so I thought I'd stay for a week or two."
• When comedian Eddie Cantor performed at Carnegie Hall, a very old man told him, "Mr. Cantor, I've been a fan of yours since I was a little kid." Skeptical, the 60-year-old Mr. Cantor asked the very old man, "And how old are you?" The very old man said, "Ninety."
• Sometimes people go up to celebrities and say, "Your face looks familiar. Haven't I seen it somewhere?" Comedian George Gobel used to reply, "No, it's always been right where it is now."
Fathers
• When Adam Sandler was a little boy, he had a Diver Dan doll. Unfortunately, he lost it. Fortunately, he had a father who cared about him and didn't want him to be unhappy. His father dressed up as Diver Dan's father, then told young Adam that Diver Dan was not lost but instead was with him, and he thanked young Adam for taking care of Diver Dan. Today, Mr. Sandler says, "Dad would do anything to make me feel better."
CBS begins the night with the chestnut 'Frosty The Snowman', followed by 'Frosty Returns', then a RERUN'Hawaii Five-0', followed by a RERUN'Blue Bloods'.
On a RERUNStephen Colbert (from 10/29/19) are Jennifer Aniston and Thomas Middleditch.
On a RERUNJames Corden, OBE, (from 5/22/19) are Elizabeth Banks, David Tennant, and Billy Ray Cyrus.
NBC starts the night with the RERUN'The National Dog Show', followed by 'Dateline'.
On a RERUNJimmy Fallon (from 11/12/19) are Kristen Bell, Judd Apatow, and Danny Brown.
On a RERUNSeth Meyers (from 11/19/19) are Robert Pattinson, Al Gore, Nicole Rucker, and Jon Theodore.
On a RERUNLilly Singh (from 11/6/19) is Ashley Graham.
ABC opens the night with a FRESH'American Housewife', followed by a FRESH'Fresh Off The Boat', then '20/20'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 11/20/19) are Garth Brooks and Mike Birbiglia.
The CW offers the chestnut 'Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer', followed by a FRESH'Penn & Teller: Fool Us'.
Faux fills the night with FRESH'WWE Friday Night SmackDown'.
MY recycles an old 'CSI: Miami', followed by another old 'CSI: Miami'.
A&E has 'Live PD', followed by a FRESH'Live PD: Rewind', then a FRESH'Live PD'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Polar Express', followed by the movie 'The Polar Express', again.
BBC -
[6:00AM] THE POLAR BEAR FAMILY AND ME - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 1-Spring
[7:00AM] THE POLAR BEAR FAMILY AND ME - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 2-Summer
[8:00AM] THE POLAR BEAR FAMILY AND ME - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 3-Autumn
[9:00AM] PLANET EARTH: FROZEN PLANET - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 1-The Ends of the Earth
[10:00AM] PLANET EARTH: FROZEN PLANET - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 4-Autumn
[11:00AM] PLANET EARTH: FROZEN PLANET - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 5-Winter
[12:10PM] PLANET EARTH: FROZEN PLANET - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 8-An Epic Journey
[1:20PM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 2-In The Grip of Seasons - Arctic
[2:20PM] PLANET EARTH: THE BLUE PLANET - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 4-Frozen Seas
[3:20PM] WILD ALASKA - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 3-Winter
[4:20PM] PLANET EARTH: YELLOWSTONE - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 1-Winter
[5:20PM] PLANET EARTH: DYNASTIES - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 5-Emperor Penguin
[6:30PM] HAPPY FEET (2006)
[9:00PM] ICE AGE (2002)
[11:00PM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - SEASON 26 - EPISODE 8
[12:00AM] ICE AGE (2002)
[2:00AM] HAPPY FEET (2006)
[4:30AM] PLANET EARTH: DYNASTIES - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 5-Emperor Penguin
[5:30AM] HIDDEN HABITATS - SEASON 1 - EPISODE 3-Namib Desert (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has the movie 'Catch Me If You Can', followed by the movie 'Edge Of Tomorrow'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'The Internship', followed by the movie 'Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story', then the movie 'Wedding Crashers'.
FX has the movie 'Trolls', followed by the movie 'Sing', then the movie 'Sing', again.
History has 'Ancient Aliens', followed by a FRESH'Ancient Aliens: Secret Files', another 'Ancient Aliens', then a FRESH'In Search Of'.
IFC -
[6:00A] Pee-wee's Playhouse - Playhouse in Outer-Space
[6:30A] Big Momma's House
[8:45A] The Princess Bride
[11:00A] I Love You, Man
[1:30P] Tommy Boy
[3:45P] The Dukes of Hazzard
[6:00P] Two and a Half Men - David Copperfield Slipped Me a Roofie
[6:30P] Two and a Half Men - I'd Like to Start With the Cat
[7:00P] Two and a Half Men - She'll Still Be Dead at Halftime
[7:30P] Two and a Half Men - The Ocu or the Pado?
[8:00P] Two and a Half Men - My Son's Enormous Head
[8:30P] Two and a Half Men - The Two Finger Rule
[9:00P] Two and a Half Men - Hello, I Am Alan Cousteau
[9:30P] Two and a Half Men - Above Exalted Cyclops
[10:00P] Two and a Half Men - Sir Lancelot's Litter Box
[10:30P] Two and a Half Men - Good Morning Mrs. Butterworth
[11:00P] Two and a Half Men - Baseball Was Better With Steroids
[11:30P] Two and a Half Men - 818-jklpuzo
[12:00A] Two and a Half Men - Cab Fare and a Bottle of Penicillin
[12:30A] Two and a Half Men - How to Get Rid of Alan Harper
[1:00A] The Dukes of Hazzard
[3:15A] Tommy Boy
[5:30A] Pee-wee's Playhouse - Playhouse in Outer-Space (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00am] The Andy Griffith Show
[6:35am] The Andy Griffith Show
[7:10am] The Andy Griffith Show
[7:45am] The Andy Griffith Show
[8:20am] The Andy Griffith Show
[8:55am] The Andy Griffith Show
[9:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[10:05am] The Andy Griffith Show
[10:40am] The Andy Griffith Show
[11:15am] The Andy Griffith Show
[11:50am] The Andy Griffith Show
[12:25pm] The Andy Griffith Show
[1:00pm] The Andy Griffith Show
[1:30pm] The Andy Griffith Show
[2:00pm] Law & Order
[3:00pm] Law & Order
[4:00pm] Law & Order
[5:00pm] Law & Order
[6:00pm] Law & Order
[7:00pm] Law & Order
[8:00pm] Law & Order
[9:00pm] Law & Order
[10:00pm] Law & Order
[11:00pm] Law & Order
[12:00am] Law & Order
[1:00am] Law & Order
[2:00am] The Silence of the Lambs
[4:30am] The Andy Griffith Show
[5:05am] The Andy Griffith Show
[5:40am] The Andy Griffith Show (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'The Green Mile', followed by a FRESH'Van Helsing'.
A Storm Trooper helmet is expected to fetch up to $77,000 (£60,000) at an auction featuring more than 100 pieces of Star Wars memorabilia.
The sale, called Star Wars Online and hosted by Sotheby's, will begin on Friday, 29 November and will continue until 13 December.
It features 102 lots, with the cheapest one (a Star-Wars-themed Christmas card sent by the production office in England) expected to go for $130 to $260 (£100 to £200).
Other items include a 1976 poster signed by Mark Hamill, estimated between $6,400 and $10,000 (£5,000 and £8,000), figurines, and a photo album dating back to 1977 and containing original images taken on the set of A New Hope.
The Simpsons showrunner Al Jean has denied suggestions by the show's composer that the long-running sitcom is coming to an end.
Danny Elfman, who wrote the the series' classic theme tune, recently gave an interview hinting that The Simpsons was preparing to bow out after 30 years on air.
"Well, from what I've heard, it is coming to an end. I don't know for a fact, but I've heard that it will be in its last year," Elfman told the website Joe.
In response, Jean tweeted: "We are all thankful the following article is NOT TRUE."
The Simpsons is the longest-running scripted series in TV history, having overtaken Gunsmoke and Law and Order last year, and continues to deliver strong ratings for Fox.
On this, the day before we stuff our faces on some arbitrary Thursday, let us pause for a moment to give thanks, for the swiftness with which another celebrity controversy news cycle has come to its natural conclusion. It's only been two days since Rolling Stone published its profile on The Who, in which band member Pete Townshend had nothing but unkind words to say about former bandmates Keith Moon and John Entwistle-both of whom have long been deceased. More specifically, Townshend said he "thanks God" that Moon and Entwistle are dead because "they were fucking difficult to play with."
In the two days since, Townshend's quotes have made the predictable rounds, been appropriately clowned, and inspired slightly more controversy than one might expect from the shit-talk of an old rockstar. Normally that kind of thing is cute, in the way that it's cute when your mom gets drunk and tells you what she really thinks about her sister-in-law. But this is a slow news week, and thankfully, Townshend has seen fit to put this controversy to rest by way of issuing the inevitable public apology for the hurtful things he said. Sort of. In a lengthy Facebook post, Townshend said he understands that fans of The Who might be upset about his words, but "I only hope that they know me well enough that I tell the truth as much as I can, but I also tell both sides and the upside is missing in the headlines." Townshend went on to share some fond feelings of Moon and Entwistle before addressing their families directly:
To those family members of Keith and John, especially Chris Entwistle and Mandy Moon, I apologise for the headlines - and for carelessly providing the words that were used - but in the past three months I have done so many interviews I am losing focus and patience. I forgive myself. I hope they can forgive me too. I loved their dads and still do.
It's so easy to forgive Pete Townshend that even Pete Townshend can do it! Truly, a Thanksgiving miracle.
A Cambridge University college said on Thursday it would return an antique statue of a cockerel to Benin City in Nigeria, more than 120 years after it was looted by British colonial forces.
The move by Jesus College will likely step up pressure on other institutions holding plunder from the historic Kingdom of Benin and other objects from other cultures taken by colonialists during the 19th century.
Nigeria said it was delighted by the announcement and launched a broad appeal for museums across the world to return its heritage.
"Considering the hundreds of Benin Bronzes looted during that occupation, the decision to return the cockerel is like a drop in the ocean, but it is an important drop and we welcome it," the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said.
Jesus College staff said research had shown there was no doubt the cockerel had been looted from the Court of Benin, the seat of the once-mighty West African kingdom.
Almost half of all Europeans fear climate change more than losing a job or of a terrorist attack, a study by the European Investment Bank (EIB) showed on Thursday as EU lawmakers declared a "climate emergency".
The symbolic vote by lawmakers was designed to pressure for action against global warming at an upcoming United Nations summit..
The EIB survey of 30,000 respondents from 30 countries, including China and the United States, showed 47% of Europeans saw climate change as the number one threat in their lives, above unemployment, large scale migration and concerns about terrorism.
The EIB, owned by European Union governments, is the world's largest international public lending institution and has the task of financing climate-change related investment that is a priority for the new European Commission.
The survey, the first of four planned by the EIB, showed the level of concern about climate change was even higher in China than the EU, with 73% of respondents seeing it as the biggest threat to society, compared to 39% in the United States, where most people worried more about access to health services.
If you receive a blood transfusion, you might also be receiving a free dose of caffeine, Xanax, and cough medicine.
While the tainted blood is nothing to worry about for most people, it does give surprisingly accurate insights into the stresses and strains of 21st-century living.
Researchers from Oregon State University (OSU) sifted through 18 batches of supposedly pure human blood serum bought from a biomedical supplier using a technique called mass spectrometry. Reporting in the Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, the team was attempting to demonstrate a new method for looking at interactions between botanical dietary supplements and drugs.
While carrying out the research, they noticed that their samples were laced with cocktails of drugs.
All blood samples contained caffeine, while a number of other samples were found to contain alprazolam, an anti-anxiety medicine known as Xanax; dextromethorphan, an over-the-counter cough medicine; and tolbutamide, a medication for type 2 diabetes.
An 18,000-year-old puppy unearthed in Siberia could prove to be the missing link between dogs and wolves, scientists believe.
The puppy was discovered perfectly preserved by permafrost near Yakutsk, eastern Siberia last summer and carbon dating has revealed it has been frozen for around 18,000 years.
Researchers at the Centre for Palaeogenetics in Stockholm, Sweden announced this week that extensive DNA tests have so far been unable to confirm whether the animal was a dog or a wolf.
The experts believe this may be because the canine comes from the period when dogs were domesticated and hope the creature will prove crucial to uncovering when exactly the evolution began.
"It's normally relatively easy to tell the difference between the two," researcher David Stanton told CNN.
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