Cheetle & Other Trivia

The Bureau of Labor Statistics shows a record 158.8 million Americans are now employed, while the unemployment rate continues to hold steady at a 50-year low of 3.5%.

The residue left on fingers by Cheetos has been given a name: Cheetle.

Each episode of Jeopardy’s The Greatest of All Time tournament has outdrawn the first four games of the 2019 NBA Finals, the first five games of the 2019 World Series, all but one of ESPN’s 17 Monday Night Football telecasts and seven of Fox’s eleven Thursday Night Football telecasts.

Through the first third or so of the schedule Kansas City’s defense was woeful against the run. I imagine the Tennessee coaching staff will use stud RB Derrick Henry to test if that problem has really been fixed… I would be surprised if San Francisco didn’t thump Green Bay except for the fact that the Packers seem blessed by lady luck this season.

This morning I landed one of the two top parking spots in terms of the floating book shop. Unfortunately, rain, not in the forecast, cut today’s promising session in half. My thanks to the woman who bought four cook books, and to the gentleman who selected a book in Russian; and to Alice, who purchased the 1986 Mets Media Guide for her brother, an avid fan of the Amazin’s. She was on her to a radiation treatment for breast cancer. Undeterred, she’s still smoking. In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever encountered her not smoking.

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