Tuesday Chatter Weekly – February 26, 2019

“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.”- Judy Garland

If we were having coffee on this day, Tuesday, February 27th of the year in-

2014-The Swedish Public Employment Service accidentally invited 61,000 people to a job interview in Stockholm resulting in chaos.

2012-5 million emails from private intelligence company, Stratfor, are disclosed by Wikileaks.

1998-1000 years of male precedence ends by giving a monarch’s first-born daughter the same claim to the throne as the firstborn son, agreed upon by Britain’s House of Lords.

1990-It’s the final day of the rum ration in the Royal New Zealand Navy.

1985-U.S.-Farmers converge on Washington demanding economic relief.

1981-Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder record Ebony and Ivory.

1974–People magazine begins sales.

1964-Italy’s government asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from falling over.

Word of the week–masquerade-(noun)-a false show or pretense. A party, dance, or other festive gatherings of persons wearing masks and other disguises, and often elegant, historical, or fantastic costumes. synonyms-pretense, deception, pose, front, act, facade, disguise.

(verb)-pretend to be someone one is not. synonyms-pretend to be, pose as, impersonate.

Words that rhyme or nearly rhyme-abrade, afraid, brigade, charade, conveyed, decayed, dissuade, evade, invade, mislaid, parade, portrayed, surveyed, marmalade, retrograde, serenade.

Profound flashbacks of yesterday

A pompous parade has lost its way

Sheeple in a game of charades

Original ideas often mislaid

Costume masks obscure selfie faces

Perception blurs snapshot places

Festive moments of who’s portrayed

Whilst enjoying their marmalade

A copy/paste as someone else

No face to face with oneself

Those that opt to masquerade

Their alter egos a societal display

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 Eugenia

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