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Daydreams, pipe dreams, nightmares, and other such visions… This week’s Tidbits ex-amines those subconscious “movies” in our heads.

Humans sleep in different “stages,” and it •is during the REM (Rapid Eye Movement) stage when we dream. REM sleep occurs about every 90 minutes, and the resultant dreams last longer during the later cycles of sleep. We typically experience our lon-gest and most vivid dreams during the two hours just prior to waking up. What’s more, the body is temporarily paralyzed during REM sleep. The “imagination” por-tion of the brain is extra-active during this sleep cycle, so the parts of the brain that control our muscles shut down so that the sleeper doesn’t become physically over-active during a vivid dream.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I Have •a Dream” speech was delivered from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Wash-ington, D.C. on August 28, 1963. Michi-gan residents, though, had been given a “sneak preview” of the speech two months earlier. Dr. King used key portions of his “Dream” oratory during a civil rights march along Detroit’s Woodward Avenue.Three days before his death, Abraham •Lincoln told his wife about a disturbing dream he’d experienced the week before. In the dream, he was wandering around the White House when he heard the sound ofpitifulweeping.Atfirst,hecouldn’tfindthe source of the noise. Upon entering the East Room, he saw a group of mourners sobbing around a coffin. “Who is that?”he asked a soldier standing guard. “The President,” the soldier replied. “He was killed by an assassin.”

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One of the most common recurring dreams •is being caught in a public place wearing little (or nothing). Naturally, most of us are embarrassed during these dreams, but one company decided to “empower” women by using that image in an ad cam-paign. In 1949, the Maidenform company introduced a series of print ads depicting beautiful models wearing brassieres in-stead of blouses. They were pictured in a variety of situations that were described by captions, such as “I dreamed I went to the circus in my Maidenform bra.”MadameC.J.Walker was the first self-•made female millionaire in the United States. Walker lost most of her hair due to a combination of poor nutrition and antique hair-straightening methods. In a dream, a man came up to her and dic-tated a list of ingredients. Once awake, she copied down the list and discussed it with a pharmacist friend. Experimenta-tion led them to the creation of Wonderful Hair Grower, a salve that Walker person-ally sold door-to-door to other African-American women. The product ultimately launched her cosmetics empire.

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While recording their multi-platinum al-•bum Rumours, the members of Fleet-wood Mac were in the midst of assorted romantic entanglements. Arguments be-came commonplace in the studio, and one day, Stevie Nicks wandered off to a separate studio to soothe herself by play-ing piano. A half-hour later, she came up with the song “Dreams.” Keyboardist Christine McVie dismissed the tune as “boring” because it only had three chords. But the band recorded the song for the album and then released it as a single, where it became their first #1 hit in theUnited States.Do you own •(or have you ever seen) a decorative item called a dream catcher? Typi-cal examples are shaped like a small hoop and draped with loosely-woven web. Feathers, beads, or other ornaments may dangle from the bottom of the hoop. The dream catcher originated with the Ojibwa Nation. It was traditionally hung above the beds of young children to protect them from the bad spir-its that delivered nightmares.A “pipe dream” is a fantastic goal that is •nearly impossible to achieve. The “pipe” in this case refers to an opium pipe; the term was coined when opium dens were a popular form of relaxation. While under theinfluence,smokersexperiencedloftyand fanciful visions while disconnected from reality.When “Daydream Believer” was pre-•sented to Davy Jones of The Monkees to sing in the studio, he admittedly disliked the song. He felt it was in the wrong key for his voice, and he didn’t care for the lyrics. (He was born and raised in Eng-land, where there are no “homecoming queens.”) It wasn’t until the song went to #1onthepopmusicchart inDecember1967 that he grudgingly admitted, “May-be it’s not such a bad song after all.”Mary Shelley was an aspiring 18-year-•old writer when she had a bizarre dream about an inanimate, man-like creature that was stretched out on a table. When the powerful engine attached to him was fired up, the body showed signs of life.When she awoke the next morning, Shel-

ley began work converting the dream into a short story. But by the time she was done, the tale ended up as a full-length novel. Her 1818 book, Frankenstein (or The Modern Prometheus), inspired the “mad scientist” literary genre.One of the most famous guitar sequenc-•es in rock history is the riff that opens the Rolling Stones’ hit “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction.” Those raucous notes came to Keith Richards in a dream he had in a hotel room one night in May 1965. Richards woke up, grabbed his guitar, switched on the portable tape recorder on his nightstand, and played the notes that were stuck in his head. He then fell back asleep. Richards later said that when he played back the tape, there was just one minute of music, while the rest of it was him snoring.Scientists describe a nightmare as a •dream that causes feelings of terror or extreme anxiety. Nightmares only occur during REM sleep, and are most likely to occur in the last few minutes of sleep. Illness, stress, and reactions to certain medications may cause nightmares to occur more frequently.Writersweretaskedwithfiguringouthow•to bring a character back to life when Pat-rick Duffy decided to return to TV’s Dal-las in 1986. They did so by revealing that the previous season had been a dream. The network wanted to keep it a secret, however, so they came up with an elabo-rate scheme. Afraid that someone on the Dallas set would blab, producers went to another set with a new camera crew andpretendedtofilmDuffydoinganIrishSpring commercial. The actor lathered up in the shower, turned to the camera, and said “Good morning, I’m Patrick Duffy.” As the Dallas season wrapped, editors dropped footage of a soapy Duffy saying “good morning” into the cliffhanger epi-sode.

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According to , the Beatles’ hit song “Yesterday” has been(recorded in a new version in the studio) by more singers more than any other popular song in history.The melody for this legendary song came to Paul McCartney in a dream he experienced late one night.

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On • Jan. 13, 1128, Pope Honorius II grants a papal sanction to the military order known as the Knights Templar, declaring it to be an army of God. Their mission was to protect Christian pilgrims on their way to the Holy Land during the Crusades.

On • Jan. 14, 1870,thefirstrecordeduse of a donkey to represent the Democratic Party appears in Harper’s Weekly, drawn by political illustrator Thomas Nast. Four years later, Nast originated the use of an elephant to symbolize the Republican Party.

On • Jan. 17, 1916, a group of golf professionals and several leading amateur golfers gather at the Taplow Club in New York City in a meeting that will result in the founding of the Professional Golfers Association (PGA). On April 10, 1916, the PGA was officially established with 35charter members.

On • Jan. 16, 1945, Adolf Hitler takes to his underground bunker, where he remains for 105 days until he commits suicide. Both he and his wife, Eva Braun swallowed cyanide capsules, which had been tested for theirefficacyonhisdogBlondiandher pups.

On • Jan. 18, 1958, hockey player Willie O’Ree of the Boston Bruins takes to the ice for a game against the Montreal Canadiens, becoming thefirstblacktoplayintheNationalHockey League (NHL). It would be 16 years before another black player, Ontario’s Mike Marson, played in the NHL.

On • Jan. 15, 1981, “Hill Street Blues,” television’s landmark cops-and-robbers drama, debuts on NBC. “Hill Street Blues” not only changed the way Americans viewed policeofficers,italsorevolutionizedtelevision drama itself. The full squad house of regulars on the show rarely resolved cases in one episode.

On • Jan. 12, 1995, Qubilah Shabazz, the daughter of Malcolm X, is arrested for conspiring to kill Louis Farrakhan. Shabazz believed that Farrakhan was responsible for the assassination of her father in 1965, and sought to exact revenge through a hired killer. Shabazz admitted her “responsibility,” but not her guilt, and the government accepted a plea bargain.

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1. MYTHOLOGY: A satyr is a mythical creature that is half man and halfwhat?2. MILITARY: What is a dreadnought?3. FAMOUS QUOTATIONS: Who said, “That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.”4. PSYCHOLOGY: What fear is represented by the condition called gamophobia?5. LANGUAGE: What does the Greekprefix“intro”mean?6. GEOGRAPHY: Where is the DenaliNationalParkandPreserve?7. MOVIES: What is the name of Sigourney Weaver’s cat in the “Alien” movieseries?8. ENTERTAINERS: What was the name of ventriloquist Edgar Bergen’s mostfamouspuppet?9. HISTORY: What land did AlexandertheGreatruleasking?10. MUSIC: Which rock group recordedthehit“WalkThisWay”?

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battleship 3. Thomas Jefferson4. Fear of marriage5. Within6. Alaska7. Jones or Jonesy8. Charlie McCarthy9. Macedon, or Macedonia10. Aerosmith


Barrel of KnowledgeGermany is the world’s second largest •consumer of coffee in terms of volume at 16 pounds per person. An acre of coffee trees can produce up •to 10,000 pounds of coffee cherries. That amounts to approximately 2,000 pounds of beans after hulling or milling. Each year some 7 million tons of green •coffee beans are produced world wide, most of which is hand picked.


PICK OF THE WEEK“Appaloosa” -- I’m not a huge fan of Westerns, but there are two -- John Wayne’s “The Shootist” and “Tombstone” with Val Kilmer -- that I absolutely love. So, it’s always a pleasant surprise when I come across a Western that really entertains me. “Appaloosa” is one of them.“Appaloosa” stars Ed Harris, who is also thedirectorof thefilm.Youcantell this isa labor of love for him; his passion for the genre and this story comes through in every frame. Also starring is Viggo Mortensen. The two men play Virgil Cole (Harris) and Everett Hitch (Mortensen), guns for hire in the Old West. They go from town to town, running out desperados and bringing peace to simple folk who just want to start a new life.Which brings them to the town of Appaloosa. The marshall (an old friend of Cole’s) and his deputies are murdered by a sinister rancher named Bragg. Cole and Hitch take on the rancher and his crew, but things get a little complicated when a widow (Renee Zellweger) moves to town and begins a love triangle with the two lawmen.“Appaloosa” is an entertaining, well-acted and -directed film. Fans of Westerns willdefinitely want to add this DVD to theirlibraries, and it is well worth a rental for folks like me who aren’t fans of the genre.

DOG OF THE WEEK“Swing Vote” -- Kevin Costner stars in this ridiculous election-year comedy about the presidential election hanging on the vote of one man. And I use the term “comedy” quite wrongly.What was intended to be a satire of the American political process and a sort of Frank Capra-esque love letter to America is instead an overacted, Pollyanna-ish glop of treacle with all the bite of an earthworm. “Swing Vote” is a waste of your time and my time, and every copy of this DVD should be used to construct a prison for Costner so he never makes another movie again.

NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART“Tokyo Gore Police” -- From the same demented crew that brought us “The Machine Gun Girl” comes “Tokyo Gore Police,” an over-the-top action-horror flick about agroup of engineers who can grow weapons out of any wound inflicted on a person.The results are perverse, grotesque and shocking. The Tokyo Police Department therefore trains a special squad to combat these hideous and sadistic criminals -- with gory and spectacular results. Fans of cult Japanesecinemawilldefinitelywant thisin their collection.


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Cliff was terribly upset andwent to see a psychiatrist.

“Doc,” he said, “I keephaving these strange

dreams. They alternate:first I’m a teepee, then I’m

a wigwam, then I’m ateepee, then I’m a wigwam.

It’s driving me crazy!What’s wrong with me?”

The doctor thought amoment then replied, “Itshould be quite obvious,Cliff. You're two tents.”

1. What country singer had ahit in 1968 with the song“Dreams of the EverydayHousewife”?

2. What musical artist hit#2 on the pop chartin 1976 with“Dream Weaver”?

Unscramble this word:

A S M I N I O NThis word means: theinability to fall asleep

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According to Sigmund Freud, thefour most common dreams areteeth falling out, falling from aheight, flying, and being caughtnaked or near-naked. As to what

each of these dream symbolsmeans, scientists admit that

explanations are strictlyguesswork. Some psychologists

believe the teeth dreamrepresents a concern for

one’s appearance, whileothers think it means

the sleeper grinds his orher teeth at night.

“I have a dream that one day this nationwill rise up and live out the true meaning ofits creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident: that men are created equal.’”all

~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

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HAHAHAHAHA. HUH?The problem with topical references in a TV sitcom is that by the time the series goes into syndication, many people won’t remember the name or event being discussed. Here are several examples we found just from watching a few TV comedy reruns from the 1980s-90s:

“Excuse me, •Krystle Carrington.” This remark was directed at those who were “putting on airs” or acting as if they were “above” everyone else. Krystle Carrington was the oh-so-elegant and wealthy character played by Linda Evans on the 1980s prime time soap Dynasty.“You got Madge and Martha Raye mixed •upagain,didn’tyou?”Whenacharacterdiscovered her elderly mother’s dentures in the dishwasher, she spat out this quick quip that referred to two commercial spokeswomen. Madge promoted Palmolive dish detergent (“You’re soaking in it!”), while Martha Raye hawked Polident denture cleaner.“How gullible do you think I am? Do•I look like Donna Rice?” Gary Hartwas a frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1987 when reports of marital infidelities surfaced.Hart denied the rumors and invited reporters to “follow him around.” Two Miami Herald reporters did just that, and captured Hart aboard a yacht with 29-year-old Donna Rice (clad only in a T-shirt) on his lap. Rice later told the press that she was unaware that Hart was married, or that he was running for president.“FiguredoutwhichonewasShinola?”In•the early 1900s, Shinola was a popular brand of wax shoe polish. Because of the alliteration of the name and the appearance of the product, a common phrase used at the time to emphasize someone’s ignorance was: “He doesn’t know [censored] from Shinola.”“I am the battered consumer. I drive a •Gremlin, for god’s sake!” The Gremlin was a sub-compact car manufactured by the American Motors Corporation during the 1970s. It was the subject of much derision over the years and placed

number four in Car Talk’s “Worst Car of the Millennium” poll.“Sort of like a deer caught in the •headlights. I only thought pregnant sixteen year-old girls had that look until I saw Dan Quayle on TV.” During the 1988 Vice Presidential debate, Dan Quayle defended his youth by stating that he had as much experience as JFK had during his presidential run. Opponent Lloyd Bentsen drew shouts and applause from the audience when he responded, “I knew Jack Kennedy, Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you are no Jack Kennedy.” An obviously wounded Quayle had to pause before replying, “That was really uncalled for, senator.”“Right now, Squeaky Fromme has •a better grasp on reality.” Lynette ‘Squeaky’ Fromme was a member of the notorious Manson Family and was one ofCharlie’sclosestconfidantes.In1975,she made history by pointing a gun at then-President Gerald Ford as he glad-handed a crowd. Her pistol didn’t fire,butshewillalwaysbeknownasthefirstfemale held for attempted assassination of a U.S. president.“You thought Giorgio Armani was a •puppet on The Ed Sullivan Show!” Giorgio Armani is, of course, a noted fashion designer, but his name is somewhat similar to Topo Gigio, an adorable mouse puppet that appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show. This variety show ran from 1948 until 1971. For many years, it was the television venue for entertainers that were “hot,” or at least on the verge of becoming hot.

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