Morning Peeps,

What up in COSOverse today?

Working again here...

Actress Mae West born on this date in 1893.

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."

- Mae West

DO IT...

DO IT REAL GOOD...

DO IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME.

All these cake offerings for @Minholkin today

Will she utter?

LET THEM EAT CAKE

By the way, these cakes look too good to eat...

Thinking about opening up a shop and calling it

Too Good To Eat...No online offerings, you gotta step up to the plate to see what is offered that day.

Puerto Rico After Ernesto

Hurricane Ernesto left over 730,000 utility customers in Puerto Rico—accounting for roughly half of the territory's 1.4 million customers—without power yesterday.

The storm, which did not make landfall but instead churned north, slammed the territory with tropical storm-level winds and rain before developing into a Category 1 hurricane. An estimated 235,000 people in Puerto Rico were left without access to water, with hundreds of people taking shelter.

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LIVE LARGE as the Babe said, not BIGLY

Historybook: Gold is discovered in Canada’s Yukon Territory, sparks Klondike gold rush (1896); Babe Ruth dies (1948); Sports Illustrated is first published (1954); Madonna is born (1958); Elvis Presley dies (1977); Aretha Franklin dies (2018).

"I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can."

- Babe Ruth

Mauricio Pochettino, former manager of Chelsea and Tottenham, to be named coach of US men's national soccer team; former coach Gregg Berhalter was fired in June after leading Team USA for nearly six years

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Excuse me while I shed a tear for Mauricio on his demise six years from now

One solution is: 3187/25496.

But the one you found probably works, too!

Friday puzzle

Arrange the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 to form a single fraction that is equal to one-eighth.

The numerator contains four digits, while the denominator contains five digits.

(There are multiple solutions.)

NAUTS, START YOUR ENGINES

Friday Puzzle

Okay, so who is going to comment about the

INTUIT DOME?

One of the main beneficiaries of US consumer spending was Walmart, which said sales increased by 4.2% last quarter, operating income jumped by 8.5%, and digital sales rocketed up 22%.

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s: Morning Brew

So much for Trump's DOOM AND GLOOM economy speech...

Walmart’s smash quarter headlined a retail resurgence. The recession that Bloomberg Economics projected with 100% certainty faded further from imagination yesterday when the Commerce Department revealed that retail sales were up 1% last month—much better than expected.

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WAY TO GO JOE

Another Legislative Milestone for Biden/Harris (Not since FDR)

Though drugmakers expect limited financial impacts from the new drug prices, experts say the industry is likely more worried about upcoming negotiations.

Looking ahead: By February, Medicare plans to announce 15 additional drugs it wants discounted. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office projects price concessions from Big Pharma will save the government $100 billion by 2031.—SK

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ON this date in 1858 - A telegraphed message from Britain's Queen Victoria to U.S. President Buchanan was transmitted over the recently laid trans-Atlantic cable.

Message read "Thanks for sending ambassadors Bun Man and Mr. Purple - stop - They taught me slap and tickle - stop - this game makes them feel royal too - stop - Don't expect them back soon - stop -

The BOYZ - Global Amabassadors!

ADULT MENTAL HEALTH

The ability to know, understand, and act upon the fact that there are OTHER PEEPS in the world, and it ain't ALL ABOUT YOU.

Rant Over

Pretty soon in the USA, we will be able to tell which Presidential Candidate a citizen supports by the citizen's demeanor.

If they smile, They're HARRIS peeps.

This had previously been confined to Arkansas and Mississippi, but now the in-breeding would soon spread.

So, it wasn't the Missouri Compromise which broke the Union, it was Southern promiscuity.

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ON this date in 1829 - The "Siamese twins," Chang and Eng Bunker, arrived in Boston, MA and the Western world to be exhibited.

They were 18 years old and joined at the waist.

There, they met Bun Man and Mr. Purple who persuaded them to remain in the US.

The twins married the Yates sisters and settled in NC, making them the most Northern US example of marrying first cousins.

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ON this date in 1937 - Harvard University became the first school to have graduate courses in traffic engineering and administration.

Bun Man looked at Purple and me and said, "They should have offered courses in how to get road improvements by legislatures; that's the real challenge."

We replied, "Amen, bro, amen..."

ON this date in 1962 - Ringo Starr was picked to replace Pete Best as the drummer for the Beatles.

Best had been with the group for about 2 1/2 years.

Bun Man just turned to me and said, "That reminds me of Julia Roberts' line in 'Pretty Woman' when she goes back to the dress shop and tells the salesgirl..."Big, big mistake...";.

What was Mr. Pete thinking?

ON this date in 1983 - Paul Simon and Carrie Fisher were married.

They divorced in 1985.

Bun Man, longtime collaborator w/ Simon, remembered this period well.

Bun said "It started out well, but Paul quickly found out Carrie was CRAY-CRAY long before the Blues Brothers and TV Commercials did..."

Mr. P added "Sometimes, it takes a marriage to uncover the CRAY-CRAY in all of us..."