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Public Schools I Went toHi Mount Elementary School - 1942 - 1949 (K - 6th)I went to grade school at HiMount Elementary which was across the street from our house on 49th Street. Back in those days there was no AC, so of course, we slept with the windows open and I’d hear a quartet of neighborhood boys harmonizing on the street corner. The mid 40s were my elementary school years when teachers were strict and allowed to use corporal punishment to enforce discipline, like the cane, ruler, slipper, or just plain smacking. Children were more respectful then, but they were taught to be prompt and well behaved. Teachers ruled the roost and any child that spoke up out of turn WAS punished. We also got chalk board repetitive 'lines' to do and marched to do anything. There were 'detention' periods for disruptive children where you were kept back in school long after the others had left. Thank goodness that only happened t me several times a month - made my mother crazy waiting for me, but I lived just across the street so it wasn't so bad. P.S. I had a 'Big Mouth.'I flunked kindergarten for pushing an old wrinkled bony teacher into a steel waste paper basket butt first. She was on my back all the time, and when she shook her skinny finger at me and said “Gerald Frederick Luenzmann, stop that” for the hundredth time, I got mad and pushed her. She was old and tiny, couldn't have weighed 80 pounds, and falling backwards she folded herself, butt first into the standard green steel waste basket. She was stuck hip first with only her arms and legs sticking out and the school janitor could only free her by cutting the waste basket open with metal shears. For that little piece of mischief, I was punished by flunking kindergarten and that extra year in school cost me, I was nineteen years old when I graduated from high school when most kids were 17 or 18 year’s old. But where would I be if I hadn't been forced to learn the Shoddish dance with the largest girl in my class when I was easily the skinniest male. Good think it was the Shoddish and not a slow dance.I remember my first grade teacher rapping our knuckles with a wooden ruler. Sometimes she would break the skin. We didn't tell on her because the parents would want to know what we did wrong and we would get it again. And I will never forget my 5th grade teacher, Miss Schultz. She read "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey" to us 5th graders, and we ate it up. She would always have us act out plays in front of the class, and would put the girls on one side of the room and the boys on the other to see which side could have more correct answers in an English language quiz. She was so far ahead of her time….and we practiced penmanship while listening to classical music!We exercised and played outside. At school we had recess twice a day. I was a milk monitor who means that I got to give the other kids milk and Graham crackers. We had fresh food for lunches. We walked home and did not watch TV because there was none. We had party lines on the telephone which was sharing the phone with another family. We walked about carrying gas masks, and running to an air raid shelter when the sirens sounded.The center of our young lives and during summer vacations, Hi Mount Playground, which was across the street from our house, provided sports equipment, chess and checker game, and many organized activities including tours of Milwaukee, Lake Michigan and state parks. Hi Mount had a large playground with big swings and slides and various climbing devises. We would have contests that could swing the highest and get the biggest ‘bumps’ and we swung so high we almost went over the top bar.During the summer, the Milwaukee Parks Commission ran the playground and organized various tours around the city, all of which my brother and I took; there were tours to Lake Michigan’s water front, the Milwaukee Museum, and Tally Rand State Park out in Port Washington. My dad would play catch with us on the playground, and we were involved in daily baseball or softball games.Hi Mount school’s chimney stood 90 feet above the street and was surrounded by a chain link fence to keep interlopers out. I would climb the fence and then the steel rungs fixed to the chimney to the top and sit on top and drop large bags of shit into the chimney, it went down directly into the furnace and I doubt it ever did anything but provide a bad stink but the smell got to the janitor who had an office right next to the furnace. The janitor, an old man named Vancamp, was our next door neighbor and would complain about how his office smelled like warmed over sewer gas. You know, I was never scared climbing 90-feet, that is probably what got me into mountain climbing, or rock climbing to be more exact, later on in my teen-age years.Stueben Jr. High School 1950 - 1952 (7th - 9th) - 52nd Street and North AvenueI graduated Hi Mount from the 6th grade with SATs that put me as a college graduate in reading comprehension. My mother told me that I didn’t talk much until I was five years old. My parents thought something was wrong with me and had me checked out, there wasn’t, and after five my speech became relevant to my upcoming nick name as a “story teller” and now theses days you can’t shut me up. She took my brother and me downtown on Wisconsin Avenue to the city block big Milwaukee Public Library which was also a museum on the upper floors, so on a weekly basis I read two or three books and toured the relics of the Greek and Roman ancients or the knights in medieval armor. I like the historical aspect of learning about people and their things so the museum was a favorite spot for me. It also dictated much what I read, which after reading the entire series of Hardy Boys, Jack London, Mark Twain and James Fennimore Cooper, were historical biographies telling the stories of the ancient world, medieval Europe, settling the American West and a little science fiction.I remember titles like the "The Frontiersmen," "Wilderness Empire,” and “The Conquerors.” I loved the methodology of King Arthur and Robin Hood, and started to read more historical biographies about explorers, outlaws, cowboys and gun slingers of the American West and I got hooked on General Cook exploits fighting Indians on the American frontier. I learned what frontier life was like and all about the French and Indian and Revolutionary wars. I knew all about the Egyptian Dynasties and the Pharaohs, Alexander the Great, the Roman Empire and Charlemagne by the time I got to 5th grade and had become a pretty good history buff. Since I read so widely and could tell adventurous and funny stories, (I take after my father) my Hi Mount Elementary school classes would ask me to stand in front of the room and tell a story. Class favorites were my stories about Don Quixote of La Mancha and his side kicks Sancho Panza. The epic story contrasts between the tall, thin, fancy‑struck, and idealistic aged medieval knight Quixote and the fat, squat, world‑weary Panza with Don Quixote's imaginings being the butt of outrageous and cruel practical jokes. The novel is considered a satire of orthodoxy, veracity, and even nationalism. So I graduated from Hi Mount Elementary 6th grade with a reputation as a ‘Storyteller.’ I was well known all over for my descriptive story telling, including to my brother, who I would tell Peter Rabbit and Mr. Macgregor stories when we waiting to go to sleep. P.S. Another aspect of story telling was embellishment and exaggeration! The result of this extensive reading was that I had a third year college vocabulary and comprehensive knowledge of geography and history when only in elementary school.I proceeded into the 7th grade at Stueben Jr. High School which was located on 52nd and North, with an enrollment of 1000 students and serviced seventh, eighth, and ninth graders from the surrounding neighborhoods. If you stepped into a late 1940s Milwaukee classroom you'd see teachers fostered 'critical thinking' in the classroom on a daily basis. This includes thinker’s guides which focus on the foundations of conceptualizing essential critical thinking concepts and principles. It was all 'College Prep' education. If a student wasn't gaining anything from a college-prep curriculum they were given "life adjustment education." Basically, that was a 'technical education.' Girls making dresses, hats, learning to do laundry in the correct way and beauty culture and boys trained hard in physical education (football as well) which really kept the boys in shape for war. Growing numbers of young people soon filled technical schools. Schools taught lessons in family life, hygiene and health. The focus at Steuben was academics, with college prep classes in Math, Science, English, History, Social Studies, and with elective courses in music, shop, sewing, and health. Being smart was the norm and the only standard accepted among us kids in those days. Flunk a course and you would be made fun of and being surrounded by creative people from all different ethnic types changed my life for the better. Physical Education was mandatory and a fun course where we learned gymnastics, wrestling, and boxing skills and played football and baseball on Stueben’s large playground. In addition, students could participate in after‑school activities that include organized competitive sports, community service and camping. I wasn’t big, but was fast enough with my hands and did well in the boxing classes.We had some big guys who excelled at football, but I learned to pitch softball pretty good. It wasn't until the late 1940s that kids were called "teenagers." It was an era of Zoot suits, bobby-soxers, and soda shops with "soda jerks." There were "sock hops" and the dancing style was "Jitter Bug" similar to the Jive dances of the 1950s. It was also the big band era and the likes of Benny Goodman would get the teenagers up and jitter bugging. Teenagers also learned to ballroom dance! Some girls went nuts over Frank Sinatra -- which I personally could not understand. My music hero was Frankie Lane. The girls all wore saddle shoes -- with the saddles in different colors, even! They wore ankle socks; dresses or skirts-and-blouses at practically all times. Blue jeans were a novelty. In Stueben junior high school, one of our teachers started a Dance Class to teach those dumb boys how to dance! Thank goodness! Now the girls did not have to always dance with each other at the after-school dances.Milwaukee had street gangs and school bullies of young toughs that loved to terrorize young people. I never backed down to these bullies, but would stand and fight, something my father taught me at an early age and I could take care of myself too. One day as I crossed Stueben’s playground, Spike and his gang of five jumped me and tried to beat me up. I fought back, first putting Spike down with a few good punches, and then I defended against his gang and put them down too. Lots of students witnessed the fracas and called the teachers. The police came and three ambulances were needed to get Spike and his friends to the hospital. I was claimed as a hero but some pussies considered me cruel to hurt and hospitalize so many kids. All I could say was they attacked me and I defended myself.Ronald Heller was a much feared school bully but would never mess with me, especially after my fracas with Spike and his gang. He used to say “Luenzmann, one day you will meet someone who can beat you.” Ronald left school at sixteen and joined the US Marines and became a hero in the Korean War. Later he became a Boot Camp drill instructor at Paris Island and was Court Marshaled for getting some of his recruits killed on an ill advised forced night march.Ronnie Mueller’s mother died and his alcoholic father could not raise him properly, so Ronnie became a wild young man, but he was a friend of mine and I stuck up for him all the time. Ronnie was a tough guy and we would fight and put on a show for the other teenagers. My dad said I should stay away from him because he was headed for jail, which is exactly what happened. Ronnie was arrested for armed robbery and sent to reform school, rearrested and sent to state prison.Washington High School(1953 - 1955 10th - 12th Grade)Many public schools had a bible reading in the classroom at the beginning of the school day. There were no sex education classes, and the contraceptive pill had not yet been invented. In some states the sale of condoms was illegal. In the 1950s the baby boom generation born after WWII came into the schools and caused overcrowding. Rock and roll music was invented in the 50s and slowly became popular with radio disc jockeys and American Bandstand on TV. Elvis Presley began his career in the 50s. For some guys having a custom car or a hot rod became important. A common meeting place outside of school was the soda fountain at a drug store; dating usually involved going to a movie or a school dance. In some schools appropriate clothing was important, and you could be sent home if you came to school wearing jeans or a short skirt. Guys worried about the possibility of getting drafted after high school. Of course, different locations and different income levels made some things different.Starting high school is an overwhelming experience for any teenager, especially the academic king in Milwaukee, top ranked Washington High School. Whether you are coming from a middle school (grades six through eight) or a junior high school (grades seven through nine), there are many things about high school that are different from your old school environment, and you will experience many changes.You leave your friends and make new ones; the school has more than 3,000 students from a huge geographic area that had dozens of elementary schools and six Jr High Schools, all feeding into Washington, a college prep high school. New teachers will have higher academic expectations than your middle and junior-high school teachers. They want to help you get into college; in return, they expect you to work hard and improve your skills.Best High School in MilwaukeeWashington High School was the best high school in Milwaukee, it exemplified the academic culture, offered advanced placement courses and was a 10h grade through 12th grade college prep high school, with 9th grade being done in a middle school, which for me, was Stueben Jr. High School. I took the standard mandatory academic college prep courses and never took study halls, I used that time to sign up for additional advanced placement courses in history and science. For electives I signed up for all the shop courses and even took chorus one year. That meant instead of having three years of academic courses, I had earned a total of five years of academic courses in history, math, and science, all of which stood me in a good stead in the Navy and my future career in computers. The Navy told me that Washington High School was the third best high school in the USA, Julliard in Manhattan being first and the Bronx School Science being second. In addition, I was a pretty fair car mechanic, and fixed most of the problems on my 1941 Pontiac.The population was very heavily Jewish (probably one reason it was the best HS in Milwaukee) and whenever there was a Jewish holiday, many students were missing so we just did art work or special projects as there was no point in doing regular school work. But amazingly, we had a Jewish and Christmas program every year ‑ how times change! But we didn't pray in school, like so many Southerners seem to think kids should. But Southern society was legally racially segregated, what a cruel Christian dichotomy!I was a somewhat lazy student, who preferred working full time at the KRAMBO Grocery Store to support my leisure hobbies; cars, Boy Scouts, DeMolay, exploring, canoeing and camping, rather than being the best student. But I did well enough, maintaining a C plus average with a few As and Bs tossed in, usually achieved in subjects with really good teachers. I remember two in particular, Ms. Greene, my English teacher and nemesis, and Mr. Pestalozzi, my Chemistry teacher, who made the complex subject extremely interesting and allowed me to put all my advanced math courses to work solving difficult differential equations. A lot of us had our own cars and drove them to school and during lunch hours would drive them around the block showing off our rides in front of the girls.I loved Washington High School and felt that I was having the best time of my life there. Most of my friends had been with me since kindergarten in Hi Mount Elementary. At Washington, I was involved in Stage Crew, Audio Visual, and some sports, mostly boxing and wrestling, but I wasn’t good enough to play varsity sports. Washington had more than three thousand students and there were plenty of better candidates for varsity teams. I was satisfied with my friends, my car, dating, and hobbies. In those days, I thought I was really tough, it wasn’t so much as physically tough, although I was in great shape, I just wouldn't take any shit from anyone and would stand and fight.There were always dances to go to and Proms set up by anyone of five different Milwaukee high schools. I still remember dancing to “Unchanged Melody” by Al Hibbler and the other hits of the era. Big Band and ball room dancing music was popular, and we all loved Doo Wop music and dancing to the Jitter Bug, Polka, Foxtrot and Waltz.One of the most popular dances from the 1950s was the Twist. This infamous dance was the inspiration for Chubby Checker’s original 1960s hit song, and it could regularly be seen on American Bandstand. Many of the most popular dances from the 1950s, such as the Jitterbug, the Cha‑cha, and the Lindy Hop, were thought of as group dances rather than single couples’ dances. Perhaps of all the popular dances from the 1950s, single, a couple, or group, the Stroll is the easiest to recognize. The Stroll is one of the first variations of line dancing. Groups of dancers stood in opposing lines facing one another, with a wide aisle between them. Though they all danced, the end dancers from each line proceeded from the start of the line to the end right down the middle, showcasing any moves they might have. Thus, as the dance's name indicates, dancers would take turns strolling down the center lane. Revisiting the scene from the classic musical Grease, in which Rydell High School was invited to perform on American Bandstand, will reveal just how the Stroll was done.The musical talents who lent their voice and style to the accompaniment of the popular dances from the 1950s included The Andrews Sisters, Eddie Fisher, and of course Elvis Presley, amongst others. The 1950s was a period of growth and rebellion amongst America’s youth, and many of the popular dances from the 1950s were an expressions of that. By the time Elvis appeared on stage regularly swinging his hips, the seed that would grow into “dirty dancing” had been planted. I visited all the Milwaukee high schools to attend their dances, and learned to Polka, do Irish dancing, and became one hell-of-a jitterbug dancer. All you had to do was watch Philadelphia’s Dick Clark American Band Stand to see what was popular n the USA and copy it.Prom NightMy high school proms were always fun affairs, what with the various music played by the orchestra being Ball Room, Irish, Polka, and Jitter Bug, that last one being the most fun and my best dance too. I usually took a girl friend, not the romantic kind, just the platonic friendship kind, so we would have a great time enjoying all the other attendees and dance the night away. When I got a girl friend, the romantic kind, Sandy Walhgren, it was more about worrying whom she was flirting with and what was going on. I wasn’t insecure but she could make me feel that way. Maybe it was just her good looks attracting so many young men that I worried about. I definitely would recommend the platonic relationship for a prom.There was always just one prom per high school, high‑school juniors attending the prom may call it "junior prom" while high‑school seniors may call it "senior prom." There were five high schools in Milwaukee and I attended all their proms since I knew people in all of them and that meant every year, I went to five proms. What fun! There was a sixth HS, the Jewish one, and even formal dances at the Jewish Center I went too - they had the best food and the girls were dark and sexy! I especially loved dancing ‘The Horah’ - you get in a circle and danced to the music of Hava Nagila. The themes for each prom were different, some high school being more into rock and roll, some into ball room, and of course the south side Polish being into the Polka. But they all did some Ball Room - you know where you hold the girl close, and Jitter Bug - where you toss her around. I must say, to dance the Irish Jig or Polka will wear you out, so better be shape.I remember the way my mother dressed in the 1950s. She was so glamorous in her dresses, hats, gloves, and high heels. It wasn't just my mother either, most ladies in the 1950s dressed in similar fashion. Of course, during the week, when the women of the neighborhood were tending to the children, the home, and maybe the garden, they wore pretty, comfortable cotton house dresses, often covered by an apron. Weekends might be for going out to dinner on Saturday night, and then church on Sunday morning. On these days, one would see the ladies dressed up in beautiful dressy dresses, with a string of pearls and a spritz of perfume. For adults, the 1950s appearance was all about conservative dress. But teenagers dressed differently, with more pizzazz and clothes that defined the period. Like Poodle skirts, penny‑loafer shoes or saddle shoes, and pony tails for the girls and, drape pants, greasy pompadours, and leather bomber jackets for the boys. For the teenagers, the 1950s appearance was all about cute and sassy - something you would notice, albeit proper too. There was even room for the Beatnik with goatees and long hair. For the prom, girls wore evening dresses and the boys wore suits. I usually brought my Brownie Hawkeye and took photos and we got professional portraits from the school photographer.After the Prom it was time to eat and we usually went to the Boulevard Inn by Washington Park on Lisbon Avenue. The Statue of Stueben, a Prussian‑born military officer who served as Major General of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War stood out in front. He is credited with being one of the fathers of the Continental Army in teaching them the essentials of military drills, tactics, and disciplines. I took my date home after a spaghetti dinner and then it was crazy time with my buddies. A few of my friends and I went into Washington Park and went swimming naked in the Lagoon. We swam out to a maintenance raft and lay on the deck under the midnight sky and had a couple of the beers, and fell asleep. The next thing we are being woken at about 8:00 a.m. by the birds chirping, the sun in our eyes and greeted by the stares and cheers of some of our high school girl friends walking over the lagoon bridge on their way to school. We had nowhere to hide, no clothes, no towel, nothing to cover with, nothing but our good looks and you know what teenage boys wake up with in the morning! Our clothes were on the shore and the girls were nice enough to throw them down to us. You can imagine the stories going around the school that day!My CarsMost of my friends had cars, usually of a 1930s vintage, all requiring massive repair to keep them running. We all became good mechanics and if you couldn’t pay for the parts and work on the car yourself, owning a car was not in your profile. My friends and I became very familiar with car mechanics and salvage yards. In those days, pre war cars didn’t last long, engines were good for only 20,000 miles and then needed an overhaul, mechanical brakes and other running gear needed constant repair, and consequentially I became a fair mechanic and a lover of cars. But those rumble seats were cool and made cars most interesting. At sixteen years old, I bought my first car, a rusted out and beat up 1941 Pontiac flat head eight cylinder Silver Streak for $85.00. My father showed me how to restore it up and it keeps it running. I removed all the rust, did all the Bondo body work, painted it and even learned how to perform tune ups, over haul carburetors and rebuild mechanical brakes. My next car was a stylish yellow 1948 Studebaker Commander Land Cruiser sedan, and then a 1953 Buick Special. At one time I owned all these cars at the same time but eventually sold them. I sold the Buick to my brother when I went in the Navy and then I was car less.I bought my first car when I was sixteen. I paid $85 for it and it was a 1941 Pontiac Silver Streak 4 door six cylinder. It was in running condition, but needed a lot of cosmetic and mechanical work. I drove it immediately and spent the next year fixing it up as I earned the money from my job at Krambo Grocery. There was a lot to love about that old car. It was only a 6-cylinder model rather than a V8 so it was not especially powerful or fast, but after my father and I rebuilt the engine, it ran like a dream. My mother repainted the car with a brush. Ugh! But it looked good and I was so proud of her. Most of my friends had cars from the 1930s and early '40s before production was stopped because WW II converted factories to make tanks. I had a friend who had a Rumble Seat Ford two door - really sexy and I loved it. Between mechanical brakes, Holly Carburetors and trashy engines, you had learned to be a mechanic to keep these old cars running.A lot of us had “hot rods" and "jalopies" and the kids met at the drive-in restaurants where guys would scream around and around showing off their new re-built car. They popped clutches and did "wheelies" or "donuts" or picked out some other guy with a hot car to drag race to gain attention. There was cruising strips to see if they could pick up girls and there were usually 4 guys to a car and you could bet there was a case of beer! Few wanted new cars and most young guys loved to "cut and chop" old cars and would paint them cool colors (metallic) usually with lightening bolds or other designs on the side of their car. Cars that were in this condition were called simply, "cherry!" Kids did get into a bit of trouble drag-racing the streets so they would build drag strips outside of the city limits and the races began. Kids also got into drinking beer (making complete fools of them) but not as often as the kids do today. They were few drugs around during this time and it was either cigarettes or alcohol.One of the activities that were very popular during my high school years was to go out at night and cruise around in my car with Norman, my best buddy. We would run up and down the Boulevards of Milwaukee trying to pick up girls. In those days this was considered an innocent past time and quite proper. We would hang out on Blue Mound Blvd. at Bob's Big Boy drive-in restaurant. The waitresses were normally girls from our high school, Washington High. They wore roller skates and would skate out to waiting cars to take an order, which for me always was some version of a hamburger. It was common for us car jockeys to lay a strip of rubber as we pealed out of the drive in restaurant. One day, after a narrow escape from getting caught me, I decided to lay a trap for the cop cars. I had regularly stuck potatoes up the tail pipe of the cop cars so when they left and got on the street their car would choke to a stop. Now I was looking for something more exciting, so, I got a tow rope, crawled underneath both police cars and tied it to their axles.My buddies and I then covered up our license plates, got in front of the police cars, and sped out of Bob's Big Boy parking lot. The two police cars started to chase us. As they laid rubber, the rope took hold; the two cars jerked violently, swung around, and smacked themselves together end to end. They started to spin around uncontrollably as they bounced off the side of a large semi truck parked in the lot. We didn't get a chance to see the destruction of the police cars. Later we were told that one police car, its axle torn off, careened and jammed itself under a semi truck. Its axle was being dragged down the road by the other police car that was squatting down on its haunches as it entered the Wisconsin Avenue intersection. The axle, mounted on its rear wheels crashed into the police car and sprung open his trunk. By that time, my buddies and I were long gone down the road and we had no idea what damage we had caused. It was a very long time before we went back to Bob's Big Boy.I bought my first car at 16, paid $85.00 for it, it was a 1941 Pontiac Silver Streak sedan. If you knew anything about those old cars, if you wanted to drive you had to become a mechanic . . . they broke down constantly, the mechanical breaks went bad, the engines needed constant work to keep going, especially the Holly Carburetors. The engines were good for about 20,000 miles and then needed major rebuilds. I learned to all of that!One of the activities that were very popular during my high school years was to go out at night and cruise around in my car with Norman, my best buddy. We would run up and down the Boulevards of Milwaukee trying to pick up girls. In those days this was considered an innocent past time and quite proper. We would hang out on Blue Mound Blvd. at Bob's Big Boy drive-in restaurant. The waitresses were normally girls from our high school, Washington High. They wore roller skates and would skate out to waiting cars to take an order, which for me always was some version of a hamburger. It was common for us car jockeys to lay a strip of rubber as we pealed out of the drive in restaurant.Our favorite past times were going to the beach or Drive-In Movies on double dates, or cruising Milwaukee's boulevards at night trying to pick up girls, hitting the Big Boy hamburger joints, and generally just having a good time driving around. The there was Drag Racing.Drag Racing on Bluemound DriveIllegal Milwaukee street drags were a necessary evil in the world of drag racing. There were no organized drag strips operating except for an old airport strip in Waukesha which operated only on Sunday's, leaving a whole week of idle time for anxious owners of street rods and just ordinary "kids cars." My 1941 Pontiac was no race car but I couldn’t help but test it on the drag strip. The worst that could happen was burning out my tires and having to replenish them. This void in the "need for speed" was easily filled by us eager teenage throttle jockeys by finding relatively remote and little used stretches of straight, smooth pavement. These were not hard to find back in the 1950's. One of the most popular was Bluemound Drive up in the 90s, a two mile long piece of four lane asphalt east of highway 100. This straight piece of blacktop sliced through the few remaining dairy farms and some new subdivision of homes under construction. Bluemound Drive was a favorite drag strip, albeit illegal, and often produced some of the more memorable drags between some very hot cars (For those days). This location was handy because most of the "choosing‑off" took place at one or more of the local drive‑in restaurants in the area like Bob’s Big Boy Hamburger drive in joint. The place was a notorious hang out for Hot‑Rodders and others with ordinary cars and an itch to compete.Drag racing - the straight dash over 1/4 of a mile from a standing start for the shortest elapsed time. This form of racing grew directly from illegal match racing on rural roads by high-schoolers in the postwar 1940s-early 1950s. Teenagers, “souping up” their rebuilt cars, wanted to show off their mechanical skills. The most objective way was the standing-start race of two cars over an identical short distance. The arbitrary distance of 1/4-mile came, according to one version of the story from the fact that it was easily measured on a straight stretch of rural road and because a longer distance would be unnecessarily dangerous. Many worked-over old cars could hit nearly 100 mph in “the quarter.” Of course, many cars blew their engines in the attempt too! A typical drag racing night - At least a dozen cars, probably more, had gathered on Bluemound Drive Clark Ave, my guess is that more than fifty people were there, mostly out of their cars, standing or sitting along the roadside. Very little, if any, discussion takes place between the drivers. There were no "rules" and about the only thing to decide was whether it would be a standing or rolling start. It was decided that my friends and I would make our getaway in my best friend’s (Norman Lindberg) ‘49 Chevy should the local Sheriff or COPs decide to bust the race.The race was great, as usual. The screeching tires and the smell of the burnt rubber is something that you don't forget; the crowd kinda surges into the road to watch the cars, trying to judge which one is ahead as they grow rapidly smaller in the distance. Hearing the "chirp" of the tires and seeing the tail lights dip as the driver’s slam‑shift through the gears. Then the brake lights come on in the distance and the crowd gives a collective cheer, then argue about which car was the winner, not being sure due to the darkens and distance. On this particular night, both cars made U-turns, their headlights arcing across the cow pens and dairy buildings along the roadside. Then they squared away, pointed northward, for another run back. There's a sort of unanimous silence, anticipating the start of the return run. Then the headlights suddenly bounce upward, signaling the start. They bounce again as the shift is slammed to 2nd gear and we begin to hear the whine of the engines.Bob's Big Boy StuntOne clear night in the spring of 1955, Bobs Big Boy was filled beyond capacity with cars. Many were circling the lot, in and out, hoping to find a coveted parking slot where the girl’s roller skated up to your car and took hamburger orders. Mean cars and meaner drivers looked for trouble and a match‑up was made between Junior Thompson, in his built‑up 1950 Ford running a 59A block fathead and another car. A Kennedy tool box and the mounted spare tire were removed from the trunk of Junior's car and left in our care. As soon as the choosing‑off had been done, word spread through the crowd like a bolt of lightning.The whole place seemed to come alive with engines starting, doors slamming, carhop trying to rescue the trays from moving cars, and a noisy hubbub of excitement. There was a general mass exodus from the drive in booths and everyone headed for Bluemound Drive. One day, after a narrow escape from getting caught me, I decided to lay a trap for the cop cars. I had regularly stuck potatoes up the tail pipe of the cop cars so when they left and got on the street their car would choke to a stop. Now I was looking for something more exciting, so, I got a tow rope, crawled underneath both police cars and tied it to their axles. My buddies and I then covered up our license plates, got in front of the police cars, and sped out of Bob's Big Boy parking lot. The two police cars started to chase us. As they laid rubber, the rope took hold; the two cars jerked violently, swung around, and smacked themselves together end to end. They started to spin around uncontrollably as they bounced off the side of a large semi truck parked in the lot. We didn't get a chance to see the destruction of the police cars. Later we were told that one police car, its axle torn off, careened and jammed itself under a semi truck. Its axle was being dragged down the road by the other police car that was squatting down on its haunches as it entered the Wisconsin Avenue intersection. The axle, mounted on its rear wheels crashed into the police car and sprung open his trunk. By that time, my buddies and I were long gone down the road and we had no idea what damage we had caused. It was a very long time before we went back to Bob's Big Boy.Drive In MoviesA drive‑in theater is a form of cinema structure consisting of a large screen, a projection booth, a concession stand and a large parking area for automobiles. In the 1950's, there were over 4000 Drive‑in movie theaters across the USA and a whole bunch of them in Milwaukee. The one we went to a lot was out Bluemound Drive called the “41 Drive In.” Among its advantages was the fact that a family with a baby could take care of their child while watching a movie, while teenagers with access to autos found drive ins’ ideal for dates, the greater privacy gave drive ins’ a reputation as immoral, and they were labeled "passion pits" in the media. To ensure the automobiles had an unobstructed view of the screen, you drove the cars up onto a ramp to raise the front of the car off of the ground at taller and taller heights as you got further away from the screen. You heard the movies visas vie small speakers hanging on a pole next to you car that could be hooked onto the side window of the car. Typically, about 400 car loads of patrons packed the lot. As with indoor cinemas, the concession stand, also called a snack bar, is where a drive‑in earns most of its profits. As a result, much of a drive‑in's promotion is oriented toward the concession stand. The typical snack bar offers any food that can be served quickly, such as hot dogs, pizza, cheeseburgers, popcorn, soft drinks, coffee, hot chocolate, ice cream, candy and French fries. To send patrons to the concession stands, trailer advertisements called snipes were projected before the feature and during any intermissions.Movies in the 1950s were mostly simplistic and very proper affairs, but science fiction was a big drawing card. Hollywood released an output of films that reflected Cold War paranoia and apocalyptic fears. But these films used the science fiction genre to dig deeper into these fears without frightening audiences off from their political messages. One of the most famous science‑fiction film that had the most astute Cold War message was 1951's ‘The Day the Earth Stood Still.’ The movie was about an alien and his robot who came to Earth with a message: if Earthlings didn't restrain their destructive habits, they were going to be liquidated. Following the horror and destruction of the Nazi regime nearly a decade before and the ongoing conflict in Korea, The Day the Earth Stood Still resonated with audiences weary of war. One of the first films to address these concerns was the 1953 classic War of the Worlds.Double dating to the Drive In movie was popular and Norman Lindberg and I went often with our girl friends. Kissing and snuggling was all we did back in those days and any sex was to come many years later, usually with the one you married. Any flick could be tolerated, as long as it was viewed at a Drive In Theater. Some Horror, Westerns and Sci Fi were always my favorites. They also made it a lot easier to get your date to scoot up close. Of course by today's standards those old movies were pretty tame and pretty lame but back then they could scare the fool out of you. I still enjoy watching them once in a while. They don't frighten me anymore. Really they don't!The 1950s was a decade of prosperity, optimism, conservatism and conformity; a counter-culture reared its head along the lines of "Leave It to Beaver" meets "Twin Peaks." Rebellion and non-conformity were the reactions to the “white-bread” texture of American society. And so it was with the Jewish Community Center in downtown Milwaukee. I fondly remember my visits to attend dances there. They were outside the traditional and setting new norms. That's where I learned to do the Cha Cha and the Hava Nagila. The Jewish Center was interesting, besides meeting great looking girls, you took a musical journey connecting Afro-Americans and Jews to their storied past. There were musicians performing on harmonica, guitar, ukulele, dobro and mandolin. We often went after Christmas and started the evening at the Sheraton-Schroeder hotel for dinner. I was surprised that old guys lived there and sat around in the lobby.School - I Was a History MajorThe old world was changing fast, the economy after the war was booming, blacks were immigrating to Milwaukee by droves and vast social changes were taking place, ethnic festivals were the rage, Elvis came to town, high culture was embodied, and personal freedoms were blooming in Milwaukee. In school, we doubted the status quo and formulated a thinking process. What was important was truth based on science and recorded history and not social - religious - political centric ideological myths and legends. In other words we knew the King Arthur story was a legend based on happenings in the time period, a legend built to tell a story. They’re elements of truth in the Arthur legend that traced back to the Roman Empire and Camelot was in France, not England.The earth was just six thousand years old and God flooded the entire earth and only Noah and his animals survived, come on, let’s get real. We knew based on science the earth was billions of years old and man like species had been around for millions of years, with Homo sapiens like us being around for at least two hundred thousand plus years. Today our knowledge on history has increased ten thousand times with the advent of computers and hundreds of thousands of new scientific and archaeological / cosmology / geophysical discoveries and with critical thinking we are capable to absorb all this new information and not get stuck in the past. But there are those who want to disregard modernity, science and our ever increasing understanding of history, they are afraid of change because it disturbs their comfort zone and/or are stuck with religious / political dogma.High School FootballI worked out vigorously with a speed and heavy bag, did several hundred sit ups and push ups every day and was in great physical and mental shape. I had a great six pack and was strong as an ox. Additionally, I was in a number of street fights, never lost one and didn't take any crap from anyone. I thought I was a tough guy and was a natural for physical sports like football. But I went to Washington HS, a school with more than 3,500 students, and that was just 10th through 12th grade and competed with similar big city schools. I was small, weighed only 150 lbs . . . that was real light in my school where football players were around 200 lbs plus. Back in the 1950s when obesity was not a problem like it is today, that usually meant 200 lbs of muscle. I went for the tryouts to see how far I would get, activities like kicking, throwing, catching, blocking and sprinting, which are typically conducted with potential players dressed in shorts or sweats and T-shirts. Like the game itself, tryouts are a difficult process intended to determine who has what it takes to succeed on the football field.Players are sorted into groups based on positions before separating to different parts of the field to perform position-related drills. Well, I discovered I wasn't good enough for varsity but maybe I could be on the B Team. We usually played our B Team Modified games in Washington Park. But I couldn't believe, it, in a stand up fight I could easily lick anyone on the varsity team but I wasn't big or good enough to play a rough house team sport like football. Even more, when I was in the Navy and got lots of squad weapons and hand to hand martial arts training needed for Military Police and Recon with the Marines. While in the military, I became really one tough mother fucker . . . but I couldn't play high school varsity football.As it was, I did play softball and baseball, did some wrestling too . . . I really loved softball that was my game, usually I pitched or played first base. I got into Golden Gloves and went through the third round of competition before a skinny Italian beat the shit out of me. I will tell you that a good boxer is a hungry mean ass street kid looking to kill someone.South Milwaukee High School 1955Then in my senior year, my dad moved the family to South Milwaukee, a small town that competed with other small schools. Guess what!? They wanted me to play varsity full back right away! I had the opportunity to play football on every level there, and for me there is nothing like high school football. What makes high school football so special goes well beyond the Xs and Os? It reflects in the genuine love and passion that players, coaches and fans exhibit for the sport and for each other. On Friday nights across America, entire cities shut down and everyone convenes at the local high school football game. Players and coaches pour it all out on the field in an effort to prevail. Fans pack the stands to support and cheer on student-athletes they know and have relationships with. There is a genuine love and desire to see the team and players do well. It teaches you to love the man next to you not for self-gain, but for the team. It teaches you sacrifice that you never imagined possible.I was scheduled for a graduation in January 1956 from Washington High School, but transferred to South Milwaukee High School in the fall of 1955. During my time in Stueben Jr. High and Washington High School, I never took study halls but rather additional academic classes, and with South Milwaukee High School reduced graduation requirements, I immediately had enough credits to graduate in 11th grade, but I lacked a required social study’s class, so stayed there for 12th grade and doubled up on even more academic subjects. Consequentially, I had five years of five academic subjects and graduated with 45 credits when only 32 were required. South Milwaukee high school was very different from Washington, it was really a small school and the courses were much easier and not college prep. In January 1956 I walked into the administration office in South Milwaukee High School and the principal came out to give me my diploma and shook my hand. No robes, bands, parades, pomp or circumstance ceremony, just a hand shake and a goodbye and my heart ached! But, I still feel attached to Washington High School and celebrate with them . . . It was the greatest! . For me, public school was a grand and exhilarating experience, it was filled with friends, social activities, great learning experiences and moral lessons on life.Joining the NavyWhen I was a kid, I was asked a hundred times "What do you want to do when you grow up?" Mostly I remember the questions, as I had no good answers. I thought about the standard stuff kids think about, being a Policeman or Fireman. When I got to be a teenager I wanted to be a Forest Ranger. I spent so much time camping and out in the woods and loved it, so why not doing it full time I thought? My folks were both educated people who believed that an education was the best way to get ahead. After the first grade, my mother was always the teacher in my house and my father was always the principal. It was hard to hide from their scrutiny, I had to do my home work and it had to be right.Then I graduated high school and my dad was concerned about paying for college, and asked if I was interested in a college scholarship for training through the Navy Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC). He said there would be testing and physical examinations, and a lot of competition. I said I was interested before I knew what I was getting into. It would be a good deal if I could qualify.Within a month I completed what seemed like 100 pages of application and information forms. The Navy was looking for two thousand men of good character in excellent health who were willing to sign a contract for college training in exchange for service in the Navy. The scholarship portion paid tuition, fees, books, transportation costs, and $50.00 every month for four years of college. Each summer required taking a cruise or other training program as assigned. That amounted to free college plus some spending money, plus one all‑expense paid vacation each summer till graduation. My part of the bargain was to take Naval Science classes every year till graduation, then accept a commission as an ensign in the regular Navy. From that point forward, I was to serve at the pleasure of the Navy for a period of three years. It was a dream deal, but difficult to imagine actually getting into such a program.One of the forms was designed to assist with a background check. It asked for the organizations in which I currently hold or previously held membership. There were many, like the Boy Scouts, YMCA, DeMolay, Church that I listed. Then it asked if you have had any contact with members on a list of organizations two pages long and a box to check for each. It had strange organizations that I never heard of, I think they were communist or something like that. The form also asked about traffic violations, truancy, vandalism, arrests, criminal records, and civil lawsuits. At that point I worried about the streetlights I shot with my BB gun in Derby when I was eight years old. Fortunately my record was squeaky clean. Unofficially if I selected the proper references, I might be able to avoid difficulty with my background check. The forms were all completed, signed, and submitted to the Bureau of Personnel, U.S. Navy Department, Washington, D.C. Then the waiting began.Two months later I was advised it was for psychological testing. The instructions were to get plenty of rest, and prepare for a very long day beginning at 8:00 in the morning. I reported to the Naval Reserve Training Center on Lake Michigan and was shown to the library where the testing would be held. I was one of 100 students in the room. I tried to calculate the chances of being selected. Subsequently I learned that 40,000 students were considered to fill 2,000 slots. At that rate, other things being equal, five students could be selected from the this group. The testing was grueling, taking 50 minutes of every hour with a ten‑minute break. I don't remember ever leaving so many test questions blank in my life. At 5:00 in the evening I was miserable and exhausted, and slept in the car all the way home.A month later I was told to report to the military headquarters in the Main Post Office Building in Milwaukee. It was for a physical examination and career interview. Reporting as requested, I filled out more forms, had an interview with two people, and participated with fifty persons in a group medical examination. A military group medical examination is a phenomenon impressed indelibly into memory for a lifetime. One of the forms was a medical history in which you reported everything you knew you had, or knew a family member had. I reported, among other things, a couple of illness like Chicken Pox and Measles and supplied the details as requested.The group medical was initially a record reading session of the medical histories, with individual follow‑up of questionable items. After this the doctors in charge held a group physical examination. The instructions were simple. Remove all your clothes, including your shoes, and stand at attention in a straight line, shoulder to shoulder, facing east. All fifty stood at attention, naked as jay birds, while the doctors looked us up the front, sides, and rear for any visible sign of difficulty. One might call this a gross visual examination, but it could not hold a candle to what followed.The next instruction was to bend over and spread‑em. I was not sure what em was, so I watched the other guys and did what they did. Up to this time, the notion of mooning ones posterior parts had not been coined. Had I been alone in the bathroom, the experience might have been tolerable. Only my mother had seen this particular exposure before, and that was two decades earlier.There I stood in a room full of 50 naked men, bent over and spreading em. The sight was gruesome. Moon we did. Then we were told to put on our clothes, go home, and forget everything we had seen there that day. Such a sight is difficult to forget.After a month I received word that my application was complete. I had passed the entire test except the physical, I wore glasses and that disqualified me. I was given alternate status, the highest form of rejection. They thanked me for my participation, and wished me good luck. It was now winter 1955 and time to make final plans for college. My application to the University of Wisconsin Engineering Program was accepted. The NROTC became a distant memory.Great Lakes Boot CampI was raised in a middle class home. My father was an engineer, my mother a teacher. My brother and I were taught ‘manners,’ civility and respect for our elders and contemporaries. Nobody, in our home raised their voices, made threats, or used foul language. - well, except for my father who swore profusely in German and sometimes a little French. Exchanges between us were calm and reasoned even if there were some underlying conflict. These practices were reciprocal, you gave respect and received respect in return. We were ‘civilized’ and this was a standard that humans valued. Yes, of course, I’d heard anger and foul language from others occasionally. I generally perceived it as a lapse of decorum that would probably require an embarrassed apology later on.As I grew up through the Second World War and after I watched all the many War Movies that came out during this time, obviously I became a great John Wayne Fan. These movies taught me a lot at that time. So when I turned 18, I enlisted and never had any unusual expectations or problems. I had seen it all in those movies and was ready.When I finally made up my 18-year old mind that I wanted to go Navy vs. the Marine Corps (I loved their pride and discipline), I stopped running every morning and relaxed the rest of the summer because a couple of former Marines told me that Navy Basic Training would be a ‘piece of cake’ compared to Marine Basic. I was 5'11 and about 155 pounds, and figured I was fit enough to saunter through Navy Boot Camp c with minimum effort.I arrived at Great Lakes on July 9th 1955. When the train arrived in Great Lakes, we were met by a tall and muscled First Class Petty Officer covered with tattoos and one of the foulest mouth people I ever saw. "Come on you Fucking Bastards and get your asses on this Fucking Bus because you Asses are mining now." Of course we followed his directions and listened to his foul cursing as long as it took to get to the Great Lakes naval mustering area. You had ten seconds to get off the bus and nine were gone. You piled off the bus under a barrage of yelling at You! About 45 of us got off the bus finding a set of yellow foot prints to stand on while the DIs are coming down on you and everyone else. Name calling, put downs, and they were allowed to beat your ass. You even look at them cross-eyed, smirked you had three or four on you like white on rice. People that tell you they laughed at the DIs or challenged them are lying and full of shit. Yeah some tried and found a DI or DIs beating their ass. These DIs were senior NCOs that had fought in WW II. If the DIs didn’t get you, there was a blanket party waiting for you, given to you by your platoon.This starts another story . . .

“An optimistic attitude is largely inherited, and it is part of a general disposition for well-being, which may also include a preference for see the bright side of everything.” DR. DANIEL KAHNEMANWhile this means changing your disposition is unlikely there is lots of room in all of us to change how we think about problems.It is safer to WORRY ABOUT YOUR MODE OF THINKING than trying to change your disposition. Evidence of past crisis survivors shows in extremis the failure to think clearly is the cause of tragedy and loss of life. How you think about problems for a safer life applies equally to optimists and pessimists and according to Nobelist Kahneman you have two thinking system - Fast and Slow and this makes all the difference.UNWARRANTED OPTIMISM IS YOUR ACHILLES HEELI will look at this question from my personal experience as an optimist who always saw the bright side of life and yet witnessed first hand in my work in Manihiki the pit fall of too little thinking slow and too much thinking fast.If you are an optimistic person like me you may be living in a 100 year flood zone or sometimes taking the unwarranted risk of skiing out of bounds or buying lottery tickets as the prize and odds increase. This behavior is about your mode of thinking as much as anything.I will illustrate how your mode of thinking in a crisis can be life threatening by recounting two major survival stories at sea where bad thinking caused deaths.Manihiki atoll is a ribbon of very small islands circling a big lagoon that big sharks cannot broach. The land is so narrow that when we played softball my hard hitting home run companion Elder College could reach the water which ever way we organized the ball field. When our island was devastated by lack of supplies this food shortage caused by so little land adequate for growing food compelled the islanders to sail away to Rakahanga Island where there was much more land and produce.Manihiki has a famous history with the visits of Robert Louis Stevenson in the 1800s - not to be out done my sea story features Queen Elizabeth taking account of the Manihiki humanitarian tragedy of 1963.Figure 5 Photographer unknown (Lloyd Osbourne?) (from The Cruise of the 'Janet Nichol'), The King of Manihiki in the centre, with the Island Judge on his right and Tin Jack, seated, on his left. The man squatting in the foreground is one of the beach-combers, photograph, c.1890. Source: Stevenson 1914. Reprinted with kind permission of the Writer's Museum and City of Edinburgh Council.The Cruise of the "Janet Nichol"Mr. and Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson on the bridge of the "Janet Nichol"6th.—Sighted Manihiki at half past twelve, an outlying, low coral island with enclosed lagoon, very thinly wooded with cocoa-palms and pandanus trees.Quiros, the first Spanish navigator of the Pacific, gave to an island the name "Gente Hermosa" (Beautiful People), which has always been ascribed to Olesenga or Quiros Island; but since the memory of man Quiros has been uninhabited until the advent of the American Jennings. It is very possible that the navigator meant Manihiki, or its neighbouring island Rakahoa, as the isle of beautiful people. It is significant that Manihiki is always conspicuously marked on even the smallest maps of the world, no doubt from the fact that its delightful people have attracted so much attention[39]from seamen that the place has acquired an artificial importance out of all proportion to its few square miles of reef.The Cruise of the "Janet Nichol"This one minute video verifies Gente Hdfmosa ( Beautiful People)0:29 / 1:33Cook Islands Te Maeva Nui - Manihiki ura pau15,977 views Feb 28, 2013http://www.rarolens.com - A short video from the 2012 Te Maeva Nui (Constitution Celebrations) on Rarotonga in the Cook Islands showing the outer island of Manihiki and their ura pau (drum dance). Manihiki was awarded an A grade for this dance.When I first saw Manihiki after a very uncomfortable trip on a too small trading boat for 4 days and night without refrigeration I was stunned at the simple beauty. The elegance and colors mesmerized me.Here is what I wrote in my diary Jan 12, 1963:“As to Manihiki my first sight of the as we approached by ship, was as though I was seeing some fantasy not of this imperfect world. We first saw two small uninhabited islands of the atoll. The swaying palm trees were arising out of a most luscious growth of deep green plants. It was approaching dusk and the sun was reflecting on the surf as lazily rose and then surely crashed against the coral reef before spreading like a brilliant white table cloth until it disappeared into the inviting land. It was wonderfully breathtaking.”Manihiki is surrounded by waves breaking on the coral reefs like a brilliant necklace.WASHED INTO THE SEA BY CYCLONES“Despite its much smaller population, the Northern Group is probably most at risk of loss of life: as Cyclone Martin in Manihiki, the ca. 1590 cyclone in Pukapuka, the February 1942 cyclone in Suwarrow, and others have demonstrated, a storm surge can raise sea level sufficiently to cause waves to wash completely over the low-lying atolls. Because evacuation of these remote atolls during the approach of a cyclone is not an option, reducing the inhabitants’ vulnerability hinges on properly situated and constructed cyclone shelters and timely warnings.”The potential value of Cook Islanders' oral histories for gaining insights into cyclones before Europeans' arrival is suggested by three events in ca. 1590, 1665, and 1785 as written down by Gill (1894) and Beaglehole and Beaglehole (1938). The ca. 1590 cyclone produced a storm surge that killed almost all of the estimated 1,000 to 2,000 inhabitants of Pukapuka (Beaglehole and Beaglehole 1938).Today Pukapuka has an airstrip but is still like Manihiki very narrow and flat.Unwarranted optimismSeduced by the beauty of my surroundings and the friendliness of the Polynesians I paid no heed when the friendly Polynesians told me that Manihiki was once called ‘Danger Island’ because of the risk of being washed out to sea by big storms. Indeed it is true that Manihki has a devastating history of loss of life when a storm is so strong that it washes over the the island destroying everything and everybody.The Northern Cook Islands Pukapuka Penryhn and Manihiki had been demolished by waves many years ago they said. In each case the atolls did not have enough land and were too flat. When storms hit they can cover everything and wipe out all life on the island for a few days.I am a very optimistic person and I ignored the fears of big storms happening while I lived there. WHY?There had been only two storms in 100 years that wiped everyone so I didn’t think statistics were against our safety. Yes, I have skied out of bounds. I didn’t research it, but I just used my fast brain to create a story that took away the problem. I was lucky in 1963 there was no major life threatening storm as happened just 30 years later when Cyclone Martin washed everyone into the sea.My optimism to ignore the fear of being washed to sea is just like the millions of people who knowingly ignore the risk of living within the 100 year flood plains.41 Million Americans Live in Flood Zones -Three Times the FEMA Estimate, Finds New Study41 Million Americans Live in Flood Zones -Three Times the FEMA Estimate, Finds New StudyWHY DO WE HAVE THIS UNWARRANTED OPTIMISM?Here is what I missed by using on system 1 -WYSIATI: What you see is all there is.Kahneman writes extensively about the phenomenon of how people jump to conclusions on the basis of limited information. He has an abbreviation for this phenomenon — WYSIATI — “what you see is all there is.” WYSIATI causes us to “focus on existing evidence and ignore absent evidence.” As a result of WYSIATI, System 1 often quickly creates a coherent and believable story based on limited evidence. These impressions and intuitions can then be endorsed by System 2 and turn into deep-rooted values and beliefs. WYSIATI can cause System 1 to “infer and invent causes and intentions,” whether or not those causes or intentions are true.“System 1 is highly adept in one form of thinking — it automatically and effortlessly identifies causal connections between events, sometimes even when the connection is spurious.”This is the reason why people jump to conclusions, assume bad intentions, give in to prejudices or biases, and buy into conspiracy theories. They focus on limited available evidence and do not consider absent evidence. They invent a coherent story, causal relationships, or underlying intentions. And then their System 1 quickly forms a judgment or impression, which in turn gets quickly endorsed by System 2.As a result of WYSIATI and System 1 thinking, people may make wrong judgments and decisions due to biases and heuristics.There are several potential errors in judgment that people may make when they over-rely on System 1 thinking:Law of small numbers: People don’t understand statistics very well. As a result, they may look at the results of a small sample — e.g. 100 people responding to a survey — and conclude that it’s representative of the population. This also explains why people jump to conclusions with just a few data points or limited evidence. If three people said something, then maybe it’s true? If you personally observe one incident, you are more likely to generalize this occurrence to the whole population.KahnemanTHE DAY THE ISLAND WAS ALMOST WIPED OFF THE MAPOn the afternoon of 1 November, 1997 - the first day of the hurricane season - cyclone Martin smashed huge waves through the villages and lagoon of Manihiki. 19 people died and 400 were evacuated to Rartotonga by the Royal New Zealand Air Force. 10 others were missing and in 2004 they too were officially declared dead.One report* described the terrifying day: "Housing was flattened, public facilities destroyed, crushed coral roads washed-out, and virtually all of the off-shore accommodation and equipment relating to the lagoon pearl-fishing industry was destroyed. Small boats, timbers and household contents were strewn everywhere, and sheets of cast-iron roofing were wrapped like tape around high trees. Sunken debris littered the edge of the lagoon to a distance of about 30 metres." And at one stage, there were serious discussions about abandoning the island altogether.For years, pieces of boats, tyres, trees and even fridges lay on the bottom of the lagoon, but a big clean up in 2017 removed much of the debris, along with a lot of abandoned pearl farms, lines and other equipment* Extract from "Observations from a Cyclone stress/trauma assignment in the Cook Islands"AJW Taylor Ph.D, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand. Photo: Cook Islands NewsSevere Tropical Cyclone MartinCategory 3 severe tropical cyclone (Aus scale)Category 3 tropical cyclone (SSHWS)Cyclone Martin near peak intensity south of Manahiki on November 3Formed October 27, 1997 Dissipated November 5, 1997Highest winds 10-minute sustained: 155 km/h (100 mph)1-minute sustained: 185 km/h (115 mph)Lowest pressure 945 hPa (mbar); 27.91 inHgFatalities 28Damage $8 million (1997 USD)Areas affected Cook Islands, French PolynesiaPart of the 1997–98 South Pacific cyclone seasonThe dangers of unwarranted optimismMy post recounts a tragedy and loss of life in Manihiki in 1963 when I was 21 working there as a missionary without pay, that came to the attention of Queen Elizabeth because of the courage of one islander, my friend, Teehu Makimare. The Queen personally awarded him the STANHOPE MEDAL OF BRAVERY with his visit to meet her in London.Teehu’s survival story illustrates in my view a powerful lesson about living safely based on the research that your mode of thinking is often the key to staying safe whether you are an optimistic or a pessimistic person.My story looks at understanding a crisis at sea by using the lens and wisdom of the famous book, THINKING FAST….THINKING SLOW winning the Nobel prize in economics by author psychologist Dr. Daniel Kahneman of Harvard University. I will relate research of Kahneman to the tragic loss of life in Manihiki when the captain of an ill fated boat ignored the advice of his crew.Unwarranted optimism is the achilles heel in leadership and government causing untold harm during a crisis as proven by many survival stories. The problem begins with the reality that the majority of well liked people especially leaders are statistically more optimistic than pessimistic. The issue is how do they temper their unfettered optimism with the reality of the challenges during a crisis?“The central idea of this book, “Thinking fast and slow” is a about research into two modes of thought: "System 1" is fast, instinctive and emotional; "System 2" is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. The book delineates cognitive biases associated with each type of thinking.From framing choices to people's tendency to substitute an easy-to-answer question for one that is harder. Framing is also a key component of sociology, the study of social interaction among humans. The book highlights several decades of academic research to suggest that people place too much confidence in human judgment. He explains with the concept he labels What You See Is All There Is (WYSIATI). This theory states that when the mind makes decisions, it deals primarily with Known Knowns, phenomena it has already observed. It rarely considers Known Unknowns, phenomena that it knows to be relevant but about which it has no information. Finally it appears oblivious to the possibility of Unknown Unknowns, unknown phenomena of unknown relevance.He explains that humans fail to take into account complexity and that their understanding of the world consists of a small and necessarily unrepresentative set of observations. Furthermore, the mind generally does not account for the role of chance and therefore falsely assumes that a future event will mirror a past event.” WOPTIMISM FROM THE BOOK -Manihki in the Cook Islands is beautiful like a necklace very thin - no much land for crops.My OPTIMISM GONE WRONG story happened in 1963 on the remote island of Manihiki in Northern group of the Cooks. I was working as a missionary. The island is a very small yet beautiful atoll with a large lagoon. Life was primitive with no electricity, running water, stores, vehicles or hospitals etc.Until you live off grid you do not realize how much the comfort and security of life comes from the advantages instant grid electricity. As Manihiki is just South of the equator it has 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of nighttime when power is most needed.Also because of the outside fires burning coconut husks to cook with, the islands air pollution is visible and uncomfortable. As you walk through the village in the morning your eyes smart from the acrid breakfast smoke everywhere.This is modern photo of ancient cooking at the Polynesian Culture Center in Oahu employed by every family everyday on Manihiki.Making coral cement by hand means spewing harsh smoke for days.I am helping my self sufficient Polynesian friends make coral cement by hand by burning palm logs over a number of days. Not good for your lungs.Our survival depended on for the supplemental necessities of food and medicine coming from the monthly inter island boats bringing supplies from Rarotonga. These boats were often delayed and in early 1963, the boats failed to come for more than 4 months leaving us in rather desperate traits. All of the island ran out of everything - including flour, salt, sugar, canned meat, butter, instant potatoes, baby food and medicine etc. We all became hungry and tired forced to work hard each day to catch fish or climb for coconuts to eat.Our island decided as a community to take action and seek new sustenance by dividing the island into four blocks and sending four small pearl diving sail boats to the neighboring island of Rakahanga - a much bigger atoll and only 25 miles away. We divided the island into four and chose crews to sail four clumsy open pearl fishing boats.This picture is a likeness of the Tearoha lost at sea with survivors saved by Teehu. The pearl fishing boat is totally inadequate for more than a short journey.Rakahanga has three times the land base of Manihiki allowing it to grow much more staples including puraka a protein rich root crop like taro.RakahangaThere is much more and better land for growing crops in Rakahanga than ManihikiThe goal of sailing to Rakahanga was to bring back puraka a root crop like taro to add to our impoverished diet..This humanitarian mission created an unnecessary tragedy and loss of life. The boat named Tearoha for our part of the island was a tiny sloop, not longer than 16 foot, with a huge sail. It was barely seaworthy on the open ocean. Our boat manned with seven strong men was lost at sea.What happened when a storm slammed the boats return voyage back to Manihiki?The following passages are quotes from key pages Barry Wynne’s book, THE MAN WHO REFUSED TO DIE, Chapter 2, Storm at Sea, that show what led to the tragedy in 1963 of the boat Tearoha is the Captain’s obstinance about a course change and the boats refusal to jettison the cargo of food for us at home.Three boats changed course as they left Rakahanga and took the extreme measure of throwing their precious cargo overboard to lighten their boats making it easier to sail to the wind. They succeeded in coming back. Out boat, Tearoha with Enoka as captain did not change course and did not throw away their cargo of food knowing how much it was needed back in Manihiki.But miraculously three of the sailors in our Tearoha boat survived over 60 days impoverished without water and finally landing 2000 miles away in the New Hebrides. Four of the seven died and Teehu Makimare, my close friend, is credited with saving the three remaining.Sadly these mistakes caused Tearoha to fail to return to us and the boat and its survivors became irretrievably lost at sea. We stayed all night burning fires in the hope our boat could see us and get back home but to no avail.Did Captain Enoka form a stereotype for the course back to Manihiki relying past performance ala System 1 thinking ignoring new conditions of the storm and the cargo? Teehu and the crew say the danger and tried to change his mind without success.Terrible sea storms have a long history in Pacific Islands and Manihiki in particular because the atoll is so narrow and flat. These storms can cover all of the land and wipe all inhabitants off the island except for a few who tie themselves to the top of trees. These storms are rare no more than once every century so far. The key reason Manihiki is so vulnerable is that land is so low and small that a big wave covers it all.THE MAN WHO REFUSED TO DIETeehu’s courage and the tragedy came to the attention of the world when Queen Elizabeth awarded the Stanhope Gold Medal for bravery to Teehu Makimare of Manihiki, Cook Islands in 1964. He was selected from all the Commonwealth for showing the most courage and leadership of the highest order.Also Barry Wynne wrote a book, THE MAN WHO REFUSED TO DIE, commissioned by the New Zealand government telling the story in detail. The images here from his book.The Prime Minister of New Zealand’s wrote the FORWARD saying, The Pacific is noted for its epic voyages; Bligh of the Bounty; the Kon Tiki raft and most famous of all, those of our Maori people – the children of sunrise – voyaging from their homeland Manihiki.”The story is of the terrible ordeal of seven Polynesians lost at sea returning from Rakahanga and the heroic efforts of Teehu to save them. Why? Sadly the apparent reason is hunger but the real answer is leadership failure.That they, or at least some of them, managed to survive a drift of 2000 miles shows that the Ocean has kept its clement side, It is the lack of food and especially drinking water that killed four of the seven sailors slowly.Barry Wynne in his book recounting the tragedy, THE MAN WHO REFUSED TO DIE, writes, "Teehu watched the other boats set course for Manihiki and immediately observed that they were all taking a far more easterly direction. He decided to speak to Enoka again: "There, Enoka, I told you the others are sailing much closer to the wind. They are right, we are wrong, let us change course and follow them or we will be blown to the lee of Manihiki and have trouble getting in." Enoka Dean flared in retaliation, "I am the captain of the boat. We were second into harbor on the outward journey: I know what I am doing. Get on with your job!" (Page 39)[Unwarranted optimism ignoring the trap of unknown unknowns “how the boats will sail loaded to the gunnels with vegetables?]Ten years later in 1973 I visited Teehu in Rarotonga.In the end Teehu was right Tearoha missed Manihiki and 60 days later beached on the shores of the New Hebrides 2000 miles away. Four men died of starvation. Three survived the terrible ordeal thanks to the heroic efforts of Teehu.Life is much safer on Manihiki today with the building of a new airport.Work starts on airport terminalWednesday April 25, 2018 Written by Rashneel Kumar Published in LocalPrime minister Henry Puna pictured at the offi cial handover of the land for the Manihiki airport terminal on Friday last week. 18042401Work on the construction of the Manihiki airport terminal has started following the official handover of the land last week.Prime minister Henry Puna, who was on the island, attended the event and thanked the landowners for allowing the government to use the land to build the terminal.The official handover of the land took place on Friday morning in the village of Tukao, where the airport is located.This is the new Manihiki air field adding safety to this vulnerable atoll. The photo shows how narrow is the land and how easy for a large wave to cover it completely.What happens in a sea crisis when the crew’s thinking is too fast too emotional and wrong?IN THE HEART OF THE SEA gives the answer. The failure of fast brain thinking may happen to the crew in a crisis while the captain may have it right thinking slow. This reversal of my Polynesian story is shown in the survival sea story of the Essex the real life Moby Dick tragedy and made into a movie, IN THE HEART OF THE SEA, produced by Ron Hunter.The Essex disaster is a riveting story of survival after shipwreck with an evocative lesson in flawed leadership when Captain Pollard’s ineptitude lets the crew override his plan to seek safety in the nearby Society Islands. Why? The crew feared irrationally the unfounded threat of cannibals at Tahiti.I submit they feared the unknown Tahiti and refused to think slow with the Captain about reality making a terrible decision that caused loss of life just the reverse of thinking by Captain Enoka on Tearoha from Manihiki.“All the sufferings of these miserable men of the Essex might, in all human probability, have been avoided, had they, immediately after leaving the wreck, steered straight for Tahiti, from which they were no very distant atthe time, & to which, there was a fair Trade wind. But they dreaded cannibals, & strange to tell knew not that …it was entirely safe for the Mariner to touch at Tahiti –But they chose to stem a head wind, & make a passage of several thousand miles (an unavoidably roundabout one too) in order to gain a civilized harbor on the coast of South America.”Quote from notes of Henry Melville in his copy of Chase's Narrative.Ref. See my Goodreads leadership failures review: The Man Who Refused To DiePOSTSCRIPT THE MAN WHO REFUSED TO DIE BOOK REVIEWWhat or who directed me towards this book, I cannot recall. Fact is that I finished the 158 pages of this read in only a few hours during a long weekend.The story recounts the terrible ordeal of seven inhabitants of the Cook archipelago who get lost at sea during a crossing between two neighboring islands. Their boat, a tiny sloop, not longer than 16 foot, with a huge sail, is barely seaworthy on the open Ocean. That they, or at least some of them, manage to survive a drift of 2000 miles shows that the Ocean has kept its clement side, It is the lack of food and especially drinking water that kills the sailors slowly.Written in 1966, I suspect the writer, Barry Wynne, to be a missionary or a preacher man of some kind. Much emphasis is laid upon the religiousness of the poor wretches. They are Seven Day Adventists who keep their sanity by praying continuously, give grace and implore God at each moment they find themselves in a dire situation. That is to say all the time.At certain moments, their luck seems to be directed by Jehovah himself; like when a whole colony of squids wash aboard with a rogue wave. I wondered for a moment if it was a Polynesian version of Saint Brendan, I was reading.While the survival is truly miraculous, the book has obviously been written as a religious pamphlet or a Sunday School morality play.Awkwardly enough the writer regrets that these fishermen have become too civilised and have lost the navigating skills of their forefathers. Lost, during the "civilizing" work of the different Christian factions, I would think.Still, the few pages describing the capsizing of their craft in the middle of the ocean and their herculean effort to right it again are of a nail-biting intensity and a disturbing realism.When the poor blokes finally wash upon a desert beach, genuine living dead crawling towards the shade of the first palm trees, you must be heartless if you won't get a lump in your throat.Macumbeira August 2, 2015CONCLUSIONWhy did Enoka make this tragic mistake of leadership?Did his leadership of the boat suffer from overconfidence and an unwarranted optimism? When he answered the crew’s concern that he needed to change direction and throw the food overboard by saying he had done well in guiding the boat on the in coming journey (known known) he seems to ignore the storm and the overweight of the food and the fact the other boats are heading in a different course? (unknown unknowns).A plausible explanation of the Manihiki tragedy is that Enoka was victim of the fast brain cognitive bias for optimism in crisis. Teehu and the crew on the other hand became concerned using their slow thinking system taking account of known unknowns – the storm and the overweight of food.Enoka placed too much confidence in his past experiences and refused thinking slow as Teehu urged.Is there anything we can do to avoid the pitfalls of fast thinking? Can our cognitive illusions be overcome? Kahneman answers that question. Remember despite its flaws, our System 1 works wonderfully most of the time (as in kicking the soccer ball or dancing etc.) and has gotten us to this point in the evolutionary game. In the book: “The best we can do is compromise: learn to recognize situations in which mistakes are likely and try harder to avoid significant mistakes when the stakes are high. The premise of this book is that it is easier to recognize other people’s mistakes than our own.”Think about this premise and Enoka who failed to listen to Teehu who surely saw his error. This is so important for leaders to understand that when you are captain it will be listening to your crew that is the only hope to prevent disaster from your fast brain mistakes!Enoka was likely a victim of his fast brain system and his cognitive and optimistic bias in the crisis moment. This mistake cost Enoka his life.Enoka’s generosity and sacrifice refusing to throw the food meant for us overboard to improve his chances of reaching home like the other 3 boats leaves me under a lifelong debt to do something useful with my life. I feel especially indebted to those like my Manihiki Polynesians who live off grid in the dark suffering energy poverty (> 2 billion worldwide.)

MAYBE THIS IS WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING FORThey say X is Y.But Y is just messed up X.They say Y is about X, they say Y is a more advanced X, but it turns out Y is better translated as Z.Z is part of X, but better translated as X than Y.You say Y is complex, but isn't it really Z, and Z is really X?We know X is not Y, so Z must be X not Y, because Z is like X, and X is not like Y.Of course if Y hss advantage Q, X could be too R, but then it would be too R, and why think that R is important if Y is Z which is X?If Z is the nature of Y, it seems that Z would be more R, suggesting that X would be more Q. If Y does not realize Z, Y still looks messed up.There could also be X that is perfectly Q, after all we already know Y is too Z, Z is like X, and X is important.—Brilliant Strategy…MORE ADVICEFirst of all a priceless tip: Very often those who do the very best simply follow their own good judgment. Situations can be different, the below advice is only if you’ve already decided you stand to benefit.Let’s say your goal is something like being historically great, or taking a course at Yale. Not necessarily literally 200 IQ… let’s say, closer to that than normal. Not everyone at Yale has 200 IQ, as far as I know.I don't define your IQ, YOU DO.I’ll give you a little folio, dictionary actually.DietFirst of all, if you have brain damage or trouble thinking, eating fish can be an important step. Not just one time, but a lot of times. It doesn’t matter if the fish is raw, or cooked, as long as it isn’t rotten. However, most people who eat fish like fish cooked, or from a can. To eat fish from a can you will need to buy a can opener or buy cans of fish that have an easy-open tab (but don’t buy pet food).One of the most important things after fish is to drink / eat dairy products like milk, chocolate milk, milkshakes, yogurt, and ice cream. Dairy can be an important part of being able to think normally.The third most significant factor may be to eat bread. Bread, also called carbohydrates, includes things like sandwich bread, whole wheat bread, crackers, potato chips, pretzels, pizza, and sometimes sweeter things. Eating bread can increase your average mental energy and prevent you from becoming malnourished. If your diet is very poor, you may need to eat a lot of bread before you really get to the milk.StimulationFor long-term happiness, try a mixture of tea, sprite, and occasional chocolate. It can also help to adopt a philosophical mentality and avoid extremes of pleasure and hardship.If you try caffeine, err on the side of tea and milk.For high productivity in the short term, some people drink coffee, but this can become a lifelong habit, so delay coffee as long as possible if you still have control of your caffeine habit. However, you may find you get zero results until you at least eat some sugary things.Avoid hard drugs if the goal is wisdom and survival. Serious drugs can also result in persecution by the legal system, which can result in the dangers of prison-time. Avoid risk, because it can be too distracting.Avoid dependence on weird drugs. One exception is Jiagulan recently marketed from China and Vietnam. Jiaogulan tea (if you know how to make tea from tealeaves using a tea filter) can improve memory and cognitive function allowing you to focus on just what you want to work on. However, it sometimes creates slight vision problems, irregular sleep cycles, and is bad for pregnant mothers.RelationshipsIf your goal is genius in relationships, relationships are unavoidable. However, that might not always be the case unless you are an extrovert.See if you can choose between being an extreme extrovert and an extreme introvert. As you begin to solve problems, try becoming more moderate. Or if your problems are already solved, you may already be moderate.Avoid relationships which kill your inspiration. But try not to be hard on people.Develop diplomatic relationships where possible.Create strategy, avoid adversity.Roughly, become either a philosopher, or develop a career, or be a leader.Sadly, once you assume there is a struggle, being thought of as a genius is more about ambition than it is about human relationships.People will generally think you're not a genius unless you overperform in some way.…GreatnessBasically, no one has more than 2.5 / 3 properties of Wealth, Popularity, and Originality. And 0.5 above two actually requires cheating.Jesus cheated by being famous and obscure. Henry Ford cheated by being a poor rich boy. Nathan Coppedge cheated by being a stupid genius. Basically everyone who reaches 2.5 points has at least one primary method of cheating using contradiction.Greatness can be complicated to master, but very basically you want to either be artistic or famous.If you are not at least a little bit famous at some point, the chances that you are extremely artistic are small. You need to see this logically.It also helps to maximize money, but this is not common with artistic people.You may need to be unique. But if you change your actual name people will not trust you enough to make you famous.The biggest cheat remaining if you assume an average life is to work hard, using the best available information. However, the ironic truth here is you will probably benefit most from using results already suggested from Nathan Coppedge’s work. If you do this, don’t feel guilty, just make sure you use the material legally. The major benefit here is for computer programmers and engineers.…Great Philosophy, ShortcutGREAT PHILOSOPHY HISTORICAL MODEL BY NATHAN COPPEDGEWhat is obvious? [input]Opposite of obvious? [input]What is trivial in this time? [input]Pathetic argument that might win? [input]What is the better 2-step of [trivial]?WISE ANSWER? [input]What is most required for [trivial]???You will find it is [WISE ANSWER]PRIMARY INVENTION [WISE ANSWER]That wishes for [trivial]Philosopher is remembered as studying [Opposite of obvious]MAJOR WORK 1: [Opposite of obvious] application of [WISE ANSWER].MAJOR WORK 2: Theory missing [trivial]MAJOR WORK 3: In more than one way [trivial] is [obvious]MAJOR WORK 4: [trivial] is also [opposite of obvious]MAJOR WORK 5: [obvious] IT IS… BUT IT IS ALSO [opposite of obvious]MAJOR WORK 6: Variations on concepts of [trivial]Higher Art Form: [opposite of obvious] WITH [trivial]…Inventing, ShortcutCome up with your own unique ideas!Major categories: Practical, Abstract, Logic, Combinations, Languages.Then apply each major category to the following list:[biggest idea] super useful[biggest idea] applied everywhere[biggest idea] working with it’s opposite[biggest idea] applied to a big problem[biggest idea] involving applied communication—Credit: Brian Coppedge…Inventing, Harder-working method:Inventing, Research method:1 IMPOSSIBILITY, 2 ACCOUNTING, 3 MATHEMATICS, 4 ABILITY TESTING, 5 ANTIMATTER, 6 AOPPOSITES, 7 AARCHITECTURE, 8 ALOGIC, 9 SEMANTICS, 10 ART, 11 UNIVERSAL GOVERNMENT, 12 EXTREME EXCEPTIONS, 13 TOTALLY ROMANTIC, 14 IMPOSSIBLE RIDDLES AND QUESTS, 15 THE PERFECT CRITICAL OBSERVER, 16 DELICIOUS REALIZATION, 17 HUMBLE SERENITY, 18 GREATNESS, LARGELY AMBIGUOSITY, 19 IMPISH VIRTUES, 20 BIG EXPLOSION, 21 SUPREME EXALTATION, HUMBLE MASTERY, 22 TOUR OF THE KINGDOM, 23 SIMPLE LANGUAGE, 24 FLYING FLYING A KITE, 25 GNOSTIC SPECULATION, 26 CONJURY STRANGE CONJURATIONS, 27 PARADE OF YOUR DREAMS, 28 BIG FETISH, 29 IM GONNA TAKE A BIG VACATION, 30 OBSCENE CLEVERNESS, FABRICATION, 31 THE GRAND WORK, 32 SAVING IT FOR A RAINY DAY, 33 PERVERSITY, 34 TO INNOCULATE ONESELF AGAINST THE WORLD, 35 ISOLATION, 36 COMEUPPANCE, 37 GEOMETRY, 38 FIGURES, 39 DRAMAS, 40 FRIENDSHIP, 41 A QUIZ, 42 GETTING TECHNICAL / EASY TRICK / (EVERYONE GETS SERIOUS), 43 GOOD HYGIENE / GOOD HI / CHECK UP / MAINTAINING CONDITIONS, 44 REWARDING BEHAVIOR / TREASURE HUNT / MATTERING MORE, 45 TRIVIALITIES, 46 DEVILISH TEA PARTY / DEVILICIOUS / DEVIL-I.G.S.H.S., 47 YARDWORK / OCCUPATION / GARDENING / SKETCHING, 48 SIMULATION / SIMULATING GOD, 49 MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE / HEAVEN ON EARTH / PLENTIFUL OPTIMISM / LYING THE LIE / DIFFICULT SAVE, 50 TELLING THE LIE / MAKE UP / ESTRANGEMENT / PECULIARITY, 51 BON VOYAGE / GOOD VOYAGE, 52 VAIN CONTRAPTION / UTILITARIAN / FREE INCOME, 53 IN A DIFFICULT WAY / THE DIFFICULT WAY / IN HARM'S WAY / TESTING THE LIMITS / PRODIGY / EMANCIPATION / TRAPWORK / LIMITS / CALCULUS / IN DANGER OF BURNING UP / INFLECTION (NOT REALLY / SERIOUSLY), 54 SACRIFICE / WAR / MASTURBATION / WIPING THE DECK / TRAGIC CHARACTER, 55 REQUISITIONING / THE CHASE / FOOL'S ERRAND / FIND ME ON EASY STREET / PICKETING / COLLECT TAXES / A PROCEDURAL, 56 THROW A PARTY / HOST HONORARIES / DEMAND REPARATIONS / APPLAUD BEHAVIOR, 57 EXTREME PUZZLEMENT / SELECTIVITY / SHOT IN THE FOOT, 58 IMPOSSIBLE STANDARDS, 59 ROLL OUT THE RED CARPET / GOD THE CELIBRITY / ALONE WITH TIME / BIG LIE, 60 PLAY DEAD, PLAY GHOST, KEEP HOUSE, ORDER OUT, MAKE MATTERS MEET, BE CAREFUL WITH THE INSTRUMENTS, DAY AT THE PARK, 61 MAKING THE WORLD MY CANVAS, HISTORIOLOGY, PHOTOGENICS, BOLD STATEMENTS, LOUSY DAY AT THE FAIR, 62 EXPLORING, ASSESSING THE LANDSCAPE, CHECKING THE CURVES, EATING UP TIME, MAKING MY SIGNATURE ON THE WORLD, 63 SHOWING OFF, MAKING A GRAND AFFAIR, BREAKNECK SPEED, TIME IN THE SANDBOX, RESILIENT STATEMENTS, MASTER MAN, 64 HARD WORK, BIG ORGASM, FRESH PRODUCE, DIFFICULT LIFE, FIRST DIBS, ITERATION, WINDOWS, 65 PICKING UP THE PIECES, KIGORI, WINDOW REPAIR, THERE IS GOLD IN THE DETAILS, DECORATION, 66 COMMONNESS, SATISFACTION, STRENGTH, STAMINA, CONSTITUTION, VERVE, PANACHE, 67 SPOOKY HOUSE, CAREFUL ARRANGEMENTS, BIG SURPRISE, APOLOGIES, 68 KARYGMA, SPECIAL TOUGHNESS, STICK-TOITIVENESS, DINT, EN MAJORE, REVOLUTION, ADVANCED INTELLIGENCE, ESPIONAGE 2, 69 DO A LITTLE TIDYING, SERIOUS WORKMANSHIP, UTILITIES, HOPOVER / HELICOPTER, WISHING FOR GOLD AT THE END OF THE RAINBOW, SENTIMENTALITY, SAD AND GLAD, PEACHES AND CREAM, DELICIOUS REWARDS, KIND WORDS, 70 BIG CONTRAPTION, BRINGING ON THE GUNS, IN THE WORKS, HEAVY INDUSTRY, SHADOW OF A DOUBT, HARD-HITTING, CONTRABAND, REGULARITIES, HISTORIC ANOMALIES, GHOST OF HISTORY, 71 INDRA'S NET /NET OF IN-GRID, TEST-TABLE, REAL VIRTUES, HELPER OUT, RUDE PREDICAMENT, RISING FROM THE DEAD, SUMMONS-SUMMONING, CROSSFIRE, DEAD WISHES, SENTRYMAN, GHOST OF CHANCE, 72 VIBRATOR, OBLIGATION, COMMITMENT, TURN THE TABLES, PHYSICAL PRECEDENT, MOVIE, ABILITY, TENT FORT, TALKING TO THIN AIR, HALLUCINATION, 73 SUPERFICIAL, SEE INVISIBLE, (INFRAVISION), 74 TRY IT ON, POSSIBLY TRY IT, POSSIBLY YOULL LIKE IT, HALF-OFF, PRICETAG, NICELY WORN, SCARF, BAG, HANDKERCHIEF, BRACELET, NICE SHOES, DOLL UP, 75 THOUGHTS OF SUICIDE, GATOR HUNTING, TROUBLE IN THE BREECH, HARMS WAY, CALLING IT QUITS, CERTAIN DEATH, UNCERTAIN EXISTENCE, 76 PLAIN NOODLES, (SPAGHETTI NOODLES), UNCLE SAM, (AMERICA], HUNGRY DAD, (ZOMBIES), MARGARINE, (BUTTER), BUTTERED CRESCENTS, (CROISSANTS), ENTITLEMENT, (PRIVILEGES), 77 THE EMBARGO, PLAY IT AGAIN SAM, (JAPANESE), HOODIES, PERISHABLES, WITNESSING CHANGE, TEMPERATE ART, (SHAKESPEARE), 78 SHUCKS, STUPIDITY, CROSSING MYSELF, THE IRON ROAD TO WHATSIT, CANDY CORNS, (CANDYLAND), HALLOWEEN, 79 SECOND REGRETS, PILGRAMAGES, LATENT POSSIBILITY, HEAVY CRUMB, 80 DOORLATCH, LATCH KEY, HISTORY MUSEUM, PSYCHIC INFERENCE, LOGICAL RATIOCITATION, TURN THE KEY, OPEN THE LOCK, IT IS A GREAT MYSTERY, BLINDFOLDED, 81 SMALL VICTORIES, CALMING DOWN, ASSESSING THE GAUGE, AWAKENING IN THE MORNING, TURNING THE DIAL, SWIFT EXIT, CHANGING THE ORDER, PARENTOIA PARETONIUM, 82 BUSY TOY, BUSINESS TOY, HIT A BRICK WALL, 83 LIGHTLY TOUSSLED, HETEROGENEOUS, MIXED UP, QUIT LINE, FED UP, BRICKLAYERS GILT (BRICKLAYERS GUILD), 84 THE LABYRINTH (MAZES), QUEST ITEMS (MAGIC ITEMS), FABULOUS (WONDER), A TALL ORDER (HIGH QUALIFICATIONS), SACRILEGE (BLASPHEMY), MEN ON MARS (MARS MISSION), LAWS OF LOVE (RATIONALISM 2), TREANT (ANIMISM), 85 LETS HAVE A QUICK CHAT, 86 DAYDREAMING, 87 SOUR CREAM, DENSE VEGETATION, CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS, 88 SMALL DIFFERENCES AND LIMITS, CALCULUS, PROPERTIES ENTRY, DESPERATE CASE, PSYCHOLOGY, MACRO, CATCH IT WHILE YOU CAN, 89 DEATH, SEXUAL EXPLOITATION, THE GRUELING ENCOUNTER, COMING TO A BLANK WALL, DEAD END, 90 DENIAL, SICK FEELING (Flip of 89), 91 SIMPLE TRICK, EXPLAINING HOW IT WORKS, TEST SUBJECT, TOUGH NOOGIES, 92 SELECTING A VICTIM, MAKE THEM DISAPPEAR, WHO WILL BE WISER, WHAT DO YOU KNOW, SHES GONE, 93 STARSTRUCK, SECOND DENIAL, TYING UP BUSINESS, GETTING OUT OF JOHNSON CITY, 94 SINCERE THOUGHTS, POSSIBLE PROBLEM, TALL TALES, HE GOT A WHATSIT, 95 NEXT WINDCUMJIG, HORRIBLY BIG WONDERFUL IDEA, KEEPING HOPE ALIVE, 96 WIND BLADDER, HORSESHOE MAGNET, THIS IS A TYPICAL IDEA, GOD GAVE ME THIS SOLUTION, PIPEDREAM, 97 LETS FIGURE THIS OUT, LONG-TERM PLANNING, NEXT ITEM ON OUR AGENDA, THE PRESSING CONCERN IS, 98 A WORKING WINDCOMEJIG, ITS DIFFICULT, TRY OUTS, DONT QUESTION MY METHODS, ITS GOD, DOOR TO DOOR SALESMAN, 99 EYES ON THE PRIZE, PRACTICAL MAN, EVERYDAY JOE, THE DEVIL TELLS IT LIKE IT IS, HISTORYS WAITING, 100 THE ARTIST, WISE MANS DREAM, COMING UP TO A STATUE, A PIECE OF LANDSCAPE, IM NOT AN IDOLATER, BEWARE OF WHATS INSIDE, WERE IN A PICKLE, ITS A METAPHOR, REAL TRUTHS ARE COMMON PLACE, THATS THE DREAM, 101 THE OVERWHELMING, THE UNDERWHELMING, MODUS PONENS, EQUATIONS AND EQUALITY, EQUAVERACITY, THE PELTLAND, 102 THE HEADLANDS, BLARNEY, DIFFICULT METER, CROOKED THINGS, FOMENTATION, MAGIC WORD OF OZ (WIZARD OF OZ), 103 UNDERTAKER: AHEAD OF THE CREEPS, UNDERTONES: REASSURING SOUNDS (?), UNDERWENT: UNDER THE WORLD, UNDREMPT: ANGELS, DEADLY FALLS: ARCHETYPES, TERRIBLE TURNS: TARRY IN A TURNING, TAKING A NIGHTY: NIHILISM, BLIND DREAM: THE DREAM WITH THE MASTER, HARROW'S TURN: WITCHERY, DEATHLY HORRORS: BOGUS SUMS, DEADLY CREEPS, DAWN OF REALIZATION, 104 ATOM BOMB, BIG SECRET, TERRIBLE EFFORT, CONFUSING WINE, DOUBLE DUTY, BIG PICKLE, DEVILED EGGS, BREEZY NIGHT, PLAYING IT QUICK, LOOSE SKIPPER, FINAL DESTINATION, 105 BATON ROUGE, COMPUTER DEPARTMENT, FILM GUIDE, PICTURE CHART, DIVING, GOING OUT TO DINNER: REALISM, 106 FADE AWAY, HOLSTERS, DICKENS, DICKENSON, CALLING YOU OUT, PICKING UP THE GOODS AT THE GREEN GROCER, LITERALITY, BIRMINGHAM, 107 COVER YOUR EYES, WHAT DO YOU SEE?, THE GREAT ECLIPSE, FAMILIARITY, RECOGNITION, JUST AS WISE, 108 THE OL' THING, OLD PROGRAM, COINCIDENCE, MOTHER CULTURE, PHARMAKON, 109 WHATSIT CALLED, NOT FAMILIAR WITH THAT ONE, SENSING SOME NEGATIVITY, WHAT IN TARNATION, DOING A DOUBLE, STRANGE CREATURES LIVE ABOUT THESE PARTS, COURAGE TAKE HIM, 110 WIZARD SPELL, 111 NOTA BENE, NOTE FOR LATER, STIPULATION, SWEET IDEA, CHINESE, 112 ERECTION, MOSSY ROCK, PET PROJECT, MUSICAL ENSEMBLE, EASY LISTENING, RETARDED IDEA, 113 CLASSICAL ARTISAN, STAPLER, HOLEPUNCHER, BINDER, RIVETING MACHINE, ARCHER, WELDER, FRAMER, PIXIE, TEACHER, TYPER, MORTIMER, FAMOUS PERSON, HARLOT, GRINDER, SCULPTOR 2, 114 DIVING BELL, SHANK, PICCOLO, DERVISH 2, AURORA, HASPBURG, MIXTURE OF, PUT ON THE HEAT, TEMPERATURE, GRADIENT, MOISTURE, COLLECTION, WHIPS, RAISSONEMENT, PASTURE, FLAVOR, PASTOR, MITERING, CORNICE, BEVELING, ORNAMENT 2, GRAVATO, CRENULATIONS, WORCESTER SAUCE, 115 SUICIDE, SELF-EMOLATION, INTENTIONAL PROBLEMS, AESTHETIC TRAP (GOD TRAP 2), 116 GETTING THE CREEPS, IMMOLATION, WHAT A LOVELY WATERFALL, PAN-DIMENSIONAL, GODS CONSPIRING, BROKEN ROOF, NOT ALL IS WELL IN PLEASANTVILLE, 117 AESTHETIC PUZZLE, BLOCKHEAD, METAL PIECES, LITTLE SCREW-HOLES, TENUOUS CONNECTIONS, LITTLE PINS, FIGURE-IT-OUTER, WHAT A DILEMMA, CUT IT DOWN TO SIZE, MARBLE AND PLASTER (IF YOU GET MARRIED YOU NEED A BLASTER), CUTTING THE GORDIAN KNOT (BIG COMEDY), YOU CAN MASTURBATE TOO, 118 BALANCE, HAZY GUESSES, PURE THEORY, TRAINING WHEELS, 3RD WHEEL (AKHENATON), ESCAPE INTO NIGHT, ECLIPSE, APOCALYPSE, ELLIPSIS, DAQUERY, QUERY, COMMAND LINE, DEAFNESS, CLIMBING ALTITUDE, 119 PERFECT PUZZLE, 120 NEWTON'S CRADLE, KNICK-KNACKS, APPORTIONATE NUMBERS, GLUER'S GLUE, MONTEPELIER, ATTENTION-GRABBER, ORCHESTRATION 2, DIFFIDENCE, CROP ROTATOR, 121 JUST DREAMING, ROBOTS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP, CYBORG SEX, PERFECT CARTEL, TAKE-DOWN, TALK ABOUT TOWN, EXTREME CONDITIONS, NERVOUS BREAKDOWN, 122 ARC OF THE COVENANT, TITANIC SHIP, BULL MARKET, GREEDY PROFESSOR, TECH BUILDUP, CASTOR AND POLLOX, FIGURING OUT THE FUTURE, DIRE TEMPTATION, ELICITATION, SOLICITATION, ELLICIT BEHAVIOR, TACIT CONSENT, ROBOTIC EMOTIONS, ENTIRE IDEA, 123 WHAT IN TARNATION, CONSTERNATED GLADNESS, EFFEMINISM, ARE YOU SURE?, LUMP OF SUGGA, MARIGOLDS, CRESCENT CAKE, DIVERTING BEHAVYA, SEXY ATTRACTION, NO MISBEHAVIN', BUCK BOARD, ABOVE BOARD, LAY OF THE LAND, 124 PLANTING SEEDS OF SHAME, INCREDIBLY LUCKY, FORTUNATE MAN, WISDOM OF THE ANCIENTS, TOLLERAND, HIS COMEUPPANCE IS MOOT, PICTURE ME LUCKY, THE SAME MAN WITH THE SAME SUN, LUCKY LUNATIC, ARMAGGEDON'S A-COMIN', IMPOSSIBLE NOTIONS, RISING OCEANS, TROUBLE AFOOT, DEEM ME LUCKY, A REDEEMED MAN, TENDERFOOT 1 OR 2, DEEP TRAGEDY, HISTORY'S LESSON, LESS IS MORE, FIGURE IT OUTER 2, 125 HELLSA COMIN', SIGNS OF THE ZODIAC, SPECIAL CALENDAR, YOUR CHRISTIAN, PICTURE ME LIKE THIS IN A MILLION YEARS, GODFORSAKEN UNCLE HENRY, REASONS A SHIP, PILOT CAREFULLY, GOLDEN'S THE DAWN, REASON IS WINNIN, BIGGER FISH TO FRY, PLEASURE IS A WOMAN, ONUS, FEAR FACTORS, DIFFICULTY TEST, 126 BAD ATTEMPT AT MC ESCHER, WATERFALL TRICK, RUDE AWAKENING, BAD FIGURES, FORTUNATE LADIES FORTUNATE LADDIES, HOT CROSSED BUNS, DIFFICULT PREDICAMENTS, RICE PUDDING, HOT PORRIDGE, FIRE-SIDE CHAT 2, WHISTLE WHILE WE WORK, MAN OF OXBRIDGE HORSE IS IN TOWN, SPIN ME OVER AND POUR ME OUT, DEVIL IS A COMIN' DEMON ON THE RUN, HISTORY IS A DEVIL'S WISH SOMETHING'S GOT TO GIVE, 127 ODD CORNERS, BUSTED RHYMES, BUSTA RHYMES, BUST-, BROKEN LION, BITTER-, BITING-, BES-, BUT, UNFINISHED PROBLEMS, BROKEN WALL, THE BOY WHO KEPT THE OCEAN FROM POURING OUT, THE GOLDEN LION, THE GREAT WALL, BY PROXY, POLITICAL GLYPHS, POLITICAL CARTOONS, POLITICAL MYTHS, POLYMANDERING, POLYAMORY, POLYGONY, POLYLAUNDERING, POLY-, 128 PENSEES, PLAGIARISM, PORTIONS OF RUM, BAD DAY FOR PIRACY, DANGEROUS HANG-OUT, MILITARY HANGAR, FIT FOR DUTY, DECKED OUT, CRUMBLE CAKE (CRUMBBLE CAKE), HISTORY'S LESSON, LEARNING TO READ, MYSTERIOUS FIGURE, CROSS GAME, 129 BAD PROMO, BAD PROM, BAD PROMOTION, MEAGER PORTIONS 2, PROFIT FROM LOSS, MAROONED 2, DEBT FILLABUSTER, CRAZY CRAY-ONS, CREON, BURDEN OF CREATION, 130 PAPIER MACHE, INGLORIOUS DAY, SH**STORM, FANCY MUSTARD, DIFFICULT PAYOUT, DIRTY PLAY, DIRT BIKE, BUTTON UP, STORMS WINDIN THIS WAY, SAD DAY FOR PABLO, PICADILLY, PICADDILION CURSES, 131 BIG BERTHA 2, SH***Y STATEMENT, ROGUES, WE ARE THE PEOPLE, COME WHAT MAY, KEEP THE PEACE, RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE, FOR GOD AND CHRISTENDOM, 132 PHONY, PHONY LIES, PHONY STORIES ABOUT THE POLICE, FOAM CUSHIONS, MAKESHIFT BACON, VEGAN BACON, TEST SUBJECTS, BAD DAY FOR TELEMETRY, 133 FOOD CART, EASY GAMBLING, PICTURESQUE SCENE, DILL PICKLES, RELISH, SPAGHETTI NOODLES FIT FOR A KING, DELICATESSEN 2, FLIP FLOPS, HUGE WAGER, DESPERATE MOVEMENTS, CITY IN PERIL, JULIES FRUITNESS (Flip of 132), 134 PHOSPHOROUS, PHOSPHORESCENT, LUMINOUS ILLUMINATION, GRAVEL PATH, HAND-PICKED, IRONIC GUESSWORK, PICTURE ME IN THIRTY YEARS, GROWING RIPER AND RIPER, FORTUNATE MAN 3, 135 EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED, THE BIGGEST DUMPLINGS, HEAPS AND HEAPS OF CASH, BETTER UNDERWEAR, A HUNDRED ROSARIES, FINE FINE FINE, LOOKING FOR A DUCKLING, 136 BAD HABIT, HUMPING, HUMPALOT, HUMPBACK, HISTORY IN THE RUNNING, DIRTY OLD WOMAN, HYSTERICAL HISTRIONICS, LAUGH AT IT OUT LOUD, DEGENERACY, 137 KEEPING APPOINTMENTS, SMALL MATTERS, INHIBITIONS, INHIBITED THINKING, DEW-RAG, DIRGE, DERRIGIBLE, DERRINGER, BAD DUNK, LOW DUNK, TOO-HIGH DUNK, CRYSTALLIZATION, PREMIUM STOCK, 138 PIN, BULLETIN, BULLET PIN, PENETANT, RADICAL PENDANT, INDIGENT, PERTINENT, LITTANY 2, MERRIMACK 2, PIGGYBACK , 139 HANDY WARDROBE, MACHINAW, GRADE A DRUGS, THIN MISSILE, DREADED PATTERN, GORGEOUS BUT DEADLY, FREAKATHON, FREAKONOMICS, BAD PORRIDGE, 140 BETTER BEER, ILLUSION OF TASTE, SNEAKY DEALINGS, 141 THE MYSTERIOUS CUP, THE MISSING ISLE, THE FORBIDDEN FOREST, THE LONG-HAUNTED VALE, THE CORNROWS, THE MISSING, 142 GENUINE PROMPTNESS, PROMPT GENUINENESS, FINE WORDINESS, ILLICIT LEADERSHIP, THE FURTHER VOYAGE, INCARNATION OF JESUS, SARDINES ON THE MENU, 143 DOMINO HOUSES, MARBLE MACHINES, SECRET DEPOT, SLEAZY BANKING, 144 PICASSO, OWNING FORT KNOX, WINNING THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO, 145 HANGOVER, FLYOVER, OVER-PREPARED, OVERDONE, EVENTUAL WITHDRAWAL, EVIDENCE OF SHAMEFUL ACTIVITY, POSSIBLE COURTMARSHAL, 146 MEXICAN PARADISE, FANTASY VACATION, EGGS DEVILISHOUS, 147 LONE ACT OF BRAVERY, BRAVING LONELINESS, INTROVERTED BEHAVIOR, PERSONAL STATEMENT, NOTA BENE, FEELING PROUD ONE MORNING, HISTORY HAS ITS WINNERS, IDENTICAL SOCKS, 148 METAPHYSICS, MACRO PHILOSOPHY, OBJECTIVE JUDGMENT, PRECEDING ANALYSIS, IDENTITY LAW, 149 SLINKY 2, BIG MESS, BABYLON TOWERS, LONG DRIVE, LEFT WITH THE DIRTY CRUMBS, PIG STY, STILL SPEAKING WITH MR GILE, 150 CREATION PROBLEM, GREAT POSSIBILITY, ENTIRE NOTION, IDEA COMPLETE, THE EEDES, 151 HOT TAMALE, SPICY FOOD, 152 FALLING IN LOVE, 153 SUICIDE GUN, EVIL PLOT, DANGEROUS MOVE, BITTER END, JUST THE JUICE WAS LEFT, 154 PUZZLED DISAPPOINTMENT, SNAFOOS, BIG BAD NEWS, A CHANGE CAME OVER HER, PICTURE ME THEN WHAT HAPPENED, THE APPLES HERE AINT ALWAYS RIPE, GARDENER OF GLOOM, MOTION OVERTURNED, 155 DOWN IN THE MUD, FUNK, MYSOGENISM, FIGURATIVELY DRAGGED BEHIND THE BUS, PUMPED OUT AND DUMPED OUT, DIGERIDOO, STRANGE FAIRY MUSIC IS PLAYING, BRILLIANT HALLUCINATION, FAME FALLS SWIFT, 156 TABS, BODS, BABES, WORDS, LEADS, COURSES, TETHERS, HOODS, FULL FRONTAL, BUYING BOOKS, INFORMASHUN CENTRAL IS NOT A LOBOTAMY, 157 FLIPSIDE OF EXISTENCE, EXCELLENT CRITIQUE, WHOLE HOG, ORIGINAL FRAPPUCCINO RECIPE, 158 PLAIN ORDINARINESS, EXTREME BOREDOM, UNFORTUNATE CLAIMS, EMPTY PROMISES, 159 TYPICAL DAY TYPICAL ANSWERS, HUMDRUM, BEATING THE OLD KETTLE TOP, RAP MUSIC, PLENTY TO SING ABOUT, BEAT AROUND THE BUSH, ANXIOUS PRONE, WIZENING THE STORM, 160 INFINITE WATER FOUNTAIN, CORNUCOPIA, CHEAT MODE, EXTRA DEXTERITY, TURN IT AROUND, ROTATING BOOKSHELF, SECRET KINGDOM, AUTHENTIC MADNESS, MAKE A DEAL WITH YOURSELF, PARADOXICAL BUSINESS, 161 CONFUSING RESEARCH, LOOPY STUDIES, ADVANCED NAVEL-GAZING, PROTEAN WORKLOAD, EMBARRASSING SCHEDULE, FINE MOTOR SKILLS, IMPROVING THE ALGORITHM, MAKING BUNNIES HOP, 162 THE BEST OF PSEUDOSCIENCE, THE BEST TOASTER-TESTER, THE BEST BOASTER-BLASTER, THE BEST SLOWER-STARTER, THE BEST FLAN LEAVENER, 163 DIRTY JOB, CLEAN HANDS, BIG WASTE, USING THE JOHN, 164 BIG SUPER BIG PROMISES, BIG SUPER BIG HOPES UP, BIG EYES FULL OF BIG BIG TEARS, GIVING UP HOPE FOR THE LOST, 165 EXTREME HYPOCRISY 2, WHATS THE BIG IDEA, CAN YOU MAKE IT IN A WEEK, MAKE WHAT, SOMETHING BIG, I DONT HAVE TIME FOR THIS MALARKY BUSINESS, 166 CONCEPTUALISM 2, GETTING AN IDEA OF THE PROBLEM, WHAT DO YOU THINK, BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME, SAVE IT FOR A RAINY DAY, IMPOSSIBLE DIFFICULTY, TRY IT AGAIN SAM, READING THE JAPANESE, 167 LAWS OF PHYSICS, PHYSICAL PRECEDENT, FOR YOUR ETERNAL CONSIDERATION, THE GREATEST MISSION, IMMORTAL LOVE, IMPOSSIBLE INSIGHT, THAT IMPOSSIBILITY IS IMPOSSIBLE AGAIN, 168 PERPETUAL MOTION MACHINES, STONE AGE TECHNOLOGY, CLEVER MACHINES, PLAIN AS TRUTH, INTRIGUING PROPERTIES, DIABOLICAL PROBLEMS, INTRIGUING ANSWERS, POSSIBLISM, IDEA MANCY, IMPOSSIBLE MAGIC, 169 IMPOSSIBLE IMMUNITY, IMPOSSIBLE GUESSES, NEWNESS FIELD, MAGIC HANDSHAKE, DIFFICULT DIFFICULTY, TRY YOUR BEST GODS WITH YOU, HISTORYS ON OUR SIDE, THE DEVIL MADE THE DEAL THIS TIME, 170 MYSTERY INVENTION, THE DEVIL'S IN THE DETAILS 2, 171 THE BIG PROJECT, LATE ARRIVALS AGAIN, IDEA OF MAGIC, 172 THE WHOLE THING, UNFATHOMABILITY, WIPE OUT, PEOPLE GOT TO KNOW, 173 PIECE OF JUNK, WHY NOT I THOUGHT, WHY NOT DUMP IT ALL ON SOME BIG DUMB WASTE OF TIME, 174 ULTIMATE FUNNEL CAKE MACHINE, LEARNED MY LESSON, PEACE ON EARTH GOOD WILL TO MANSON S, 175 DIVINE DIVINATION, 176 ACCESSORY ENTERTAINMENT, 177 THE EXPERIENCE MACHINE, 178 THE DIFFICULTY, 179 THE SALIENCY, 180 CONTINUITY PROBLEM, 181 ENDLESS FEAST, 182 GREAT ACCEPTANCE, 183 TIME OF PLEASURE, 184 ENDLESS OPTIMISM, 185 DIABOLICAL MACHINES / ARCHANIC AGE, 186 ANGELIC MACHINES / MACHINES IN HEAVEN, 187 MULTIPLE ORGASMS / PLEASURE CENTRAL, 188 ARCHAIC AGE, 189 EXTENSIONS OF HUMANITY, 190 POSTPOSTMODERNISM, METAMODERNISM, 191 HOMEMADE WHIPPED CREAM, CONFECTIONERS SUGAR, REDOUBLED EFFORT, COOKING LIKE A MAD WOMAN, duplicate somehow don't delete, 192 “DAD'S DEAD IN THE TREE HOUSE CALL THE POLICE”, CAUSE OF DEATH: ARSENIC, WHAT'S MAKING YOU SO ANTSY, PORN, 193 MOMMAS FRYING UP SOME EGGS, WANT TO COME, THIS WAY IM RICH THAT WAY IM POOR, WHATS THE REAL DIFFERENCE, FOR SHAME: duplicate somehow don't delete, 194 JEW-HATING, MONGREL CRY, FAKE PRESENTS, DIFFICULT DREAM, THE HUMANITY OF IT ALL, 195 CHAMPIONSHIP TROPHY, OLD DAYS PLAYING CHUMP TO THE BASTARDS, FAITH DUMP, MANAGERIAL ANXIETY, 196 BASEBALL, THE BIG GAME, WINNER TAKE ALL, ODD MANNERISMS, DEFYING THE ODDS, BLEACHERS, PITCHERS MOUND, CONCESSIONS STALLS, RIDE A PONY UP TO TOWN UP TO TOWN WHOA PONY, BREAKING INTO A CRY, 197 MASTER GUESSER, GAMES UP, TAKE YOUR WINNINGS, WE WERE HOG TIED, CAR WASH, REGULAR SERVICE, 198 TOUGH GAME BASKETBALL, HOPING FOR SECOND, TEAM SPORT, HOPE IS AWAITING, PICTURES OF HEROES, THROWAWAY GAME, I DON'T CARE I CAME IN SECOND, PSYCHIC PREDICTION METHODS, HES GOT A METHOD, GET HIM HES QUICK, FASTEST GAME IN TOWN, FASTING, STARVING ON THE STREET, THE STREET, THE STREET KEEPS ITS OWN, 199 STREET LITTER, RICKSHAW, CARIVANSERIE, STREET CARRIAGE, AMALUMENT, CITY TRACERY, OUTSKIRTS, TIMBUKTU, CHEAP ADVANCED CITY, 200 CHANGING IN A PHONEBOOTH, ORDINARY HEROES, LONG KISS GOODNIGHT, AVERAGE JOES DOING WHAT ORDINARY JOES DO, 201 TEDDY BEA, 202 Encounters of the Supernatural Kind, Praeternatural Things, Things, Encounters, Supernatural, Supernatural and Superstitious (Added to vary previous), 203? Small Matters, The Matter at Hand, Making the Perfect Flaky Crust, Minor Accomplishment, Minor Accomplishment En Majore, In F Major, Accomplished Aesthete, Fauxfarraux, Small Deal, Symbol of Veracity (Added to vary previous also), 204 DEMONIC POSSESSION, TELEKINESIS, SUPERSTITIOUS BEHAVIOR, CERTAINTY OF A PSYCHIC, INCREASING CONCERN, 205 LOST ARCHIVES, DIFFICULT DIVE, STRANGER LESSONS, HARD SOAP, REASON IT CURES WARTS, DUMPSTER DIVING, PRETTY GOOD CREDENTIALS, 206 CAREFUL EXPLORATION, ASSESSING PARAMETERS, CAREFUL FORENSIC ANALYSIS, FORENSIC TESTING, POTABLE WATER, 207 PROPERTY DAMAGE, WHOS THE BIG IDIOT THIS TIME, DARE YOU TO REPEAT THAT, BAD IMAGE, ILL TAKE YOU TO COURT, 208 ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THAT, CASH ME OUT, FIGURE ME OUT, PICTURE ME DIFFERENT, WHATS THE REAL DIFFERENCE, SOMEBODY SCHOOLED YA, 209 BIG SHOW, BIG AND FAKE, SEE HOW YOU LIKE IT, DEEP AS IT GOES, LONELY AND WAITING, SEEDS AND HOES, GERMINATION OF AN IDEA, LOVE OF THE EARTH, TENDER SEED, NOBLE SHOOTS, GREEN GRASS, FIRST BLUSH, GREATNESS DREAM, 210 BEAUTIFICATION, ANNUAL SHOW, FLOWER-ARRANGING, 211 CITY DUMP, DUMPING GROUND, COLLECTING DEAD FLOWERS, TRAGIC SLUMP, FIGURE-IT-OUTER 2, MEAN STREETS, GIVING YOU A HARD TIME, MISCELLÉ, MELANGE, FLEURS, SPREAD, TOUR D, ALLIANCE, TRADING CARDS, AVERÀGE, GARAGE, GARROT 2, MIRÁGE, CLÚSTRE, VID-A-VIS, 212 MARMELÀDE, COVER-UP, HISTÓIRE, DEBÁUCHE, LE DRUG STOIR, FEISTEI, GRIMOIRE, 213 SECOND SKIN, BIOSKIN, PUDDLE BOAT, TRASH CITY, GREEN MONSTER, 214 ANTI-WASTE COLLECTIVE, BURNING GARBAGE, SAVE ALL THE FISH, TEACHING THE MONKEYS TO WRITE, SOCIAL COLLECTIVISM, COLLECTIVE ANXIETY, 215 THE EARTH HAS RIGHTS, REASONABLY GOOD PICTURE, THE ENTIRE IDEA IS MOOT, DIFFERENT TACTICS CALL FOR DIFFERENT METHODS, 216 NOT FEELING GUILTY, NOT TRYING MY HARDEST, NOT DOING MY BEST, NOT CARING ABOUT ANYTHING, 217 HANGING OUT AT THE PIER, FEELING WACKO, TRADING CLOTHES, MOVING AROUND, PLAYING CARDS, LETTING IT FLOW, ADMITTING WE MIGHT BE FRIGGED, IGNORENTIA EN ABSTENTIA, 218 TAKE A LONG LOOK AT THE RIVER OR WHATS LEFT OF IT, IT LOOKS PICTURESQUE, IT USED TO BE PRETTIER, WHERE HAVE ALL THE OLD DAYS GONE, 219 CENTRAL WORKS, PRECEDENTIAL ANALYSIS, OUT-DEVIL THE DEVIL, ARDUOUS PROCESS, THE PLIGHT OF SISYPHUS, 220 NINJA MOP, CATSPUR SHOES, FOOLS SILVERWARE, PHILOSOPHERS FURNITURE, BROKEN TOYS, FIRST GREAT INVENTION, 221 PARTY BLOWERS, CHAMELEON-COLORED, CHAMELEON WITH A PARTY BLOWER, EIFFEL TOWER, PARTY AT EIFFEL, LOSING TRACK OF TIME, 222 EXTREME DISAPPOINTMENT, BIG FAILURE, BIG HOPE, BIG HYPE, BIG DOG, BIG TRIP, JUST BIG, BIGGIE, FEELING BIG, REAL BIG OF YOU, 223 DILDO, FINE BROOM, BIG PILLOW, OLD UGLY A** HIERLOOM, 224 IMPOSSIBLE IDEA, GLIMMERING, TROPHY WEAPON, A+, DIFFICULT CHOICE, MISTER ESTER EATER, THE EASTER BUNNY, SECRET ELVES, 225 PICKER-UPPER VEGGIE-WRAPPER UNDERWEAR-CLEANER FISH-DESCALER PILL-TAKER SUIT-IRONER BUG-ZAPPER, 226 ADVANCED CALLIGRAPHY, 227 POISONOUS MUSHROOMS, HALLUCINOGENS, 228 trip 1, duplicate do not delete, 229 trip 2, duplicate do not delete, 230 TRY IT OUT MIGHT BE ‘FUN’, PICTURE ME ON MIRACLE DRUGS, 231 BASICALLY ITS JUNK FOOD, NOW YOURE HAPPY, 232 ITS YOUR MISSION IN LIFE, YOU HAVE TO DO IT, NECESSITY CALLS, ITS FATE AT YOUR DOOR, DONT MISS YOUR FATEFUL CALLING, CALL HIM LUCKY, HE WAS ON A WINNING STREAK, 233 REFRIGERATOR ART, ALERTS, STICK-Y NOTES, 234 GOD TRAP, THORNY PROBLEM, HYPERDYNAMICS, LOOK AT HISTORY, 235 UGLY DECORATION, 236 UNCOMMON SENSE, 237 SHARPENED CORNER, SHAPE OF COLOR, MINOR DETAIL WORK, MAGNETIC FLOATATION, 238 POLE-VAULTING / ALTERATION / EXCHANGEABLE OPERATION / HIGH ACHIEVEMENT 239 THE SECOND REAL MCCOY, 240 HIDING BEHIND A ROCK / ACTING PRIMITIVE / WATCHING REAL TELEVISION, 241 ANSWERING THE CALL / PURE COURAGE / COURAGE UNDEFEATED / TACKLING THE PROBLEM, 242 LEVITATION / WALKING ON AIR / WALKING ON WATER / CROWD SURFING / DOING THE WAVE, 243 MARRY A GRAMATICIAN / SOLVE A BASIC PROBLEM / EAT YOUR HEART OUT / SMALL DIFFERENCES, 244 UMBRELLA / OUTWARD PERSPECTIVE / RAIN OF PLEASURE, 245 —-flip of previous. CHANGING YOUR MIND / FUTILE DECISION / ONGOING EFFORT, 246 MAKING A GIZMODO / ENGINEERING WONDERS / PICKING WHEN RIPE, 247 —-flip of previous. MAGICALLY GROWING UP / ARBITRARILY TRYING HARD / TOUGHING IT / PICKING CLOSE TO THE TREE, 248 MAKING THE CURVE / ASTONISHING REALIZATION / BETTER IDEA, 249 —-flip of previous. ATTEMPTING TO DO IT, TRY BEING DIFFICULT / ORDER OF THE DAY, 250 DEVIL COMMITS SUICIDE, 251 —-flip of previous. FALLING A LITTLE BIT IN LOVE / LOVE OBSESSION / PERFECT ECSTASY, 252 TURNING AROUND / COMPLETION / PERFECT RIDE, 253 REAL AUTHENTIC ANTIQUES, 254 -—(flip of previous) NIRVANA ENLIGHTENMENT IDEA ETC., 255 A WINNEBAGO ILLUSION, 256 EPIPHANY SAVES THE DAY.Inventing, Research Method Continued…COMPARE TO INVENTIONS IN THE “PERFECT BOOK OF KNOWLEDGE”:ENERGY: Arcadian Apparata, Stygian Automata, Compati-Volition, Standard Volition, Natural Torque, Natural Momentum, Coincidental Motion, Volitional Momentum, Real Windows, Impossible Magic, Volitional Equations, Volitional Energy, Ubiquitous Mobility, Mobile Channels, Rube Goldberg Pieces, Immortal Aesthetic, Conducion meaning hyper-compatible energy systems, Exponential Energy, Master Angle, Vescension / Devescension.MAGIC: Soul, God, Wish-Blessings, Immortality, Spells-Enchantments, Magical Character, Enchanted Memory, Enchanted Warding, Summon an Evil Element, Summon a Good Element, Possess Person, Charm Person, Fortitude, Circle-of-Protection, Magical Channeling, The Power, The Sorceror, The Psychical, Wizardry, Satrapy.PHILOSOPHY: The Meaning of Life, Philosophy, Perception, Transcendence, Knowledge of Absolutes, Psychology, Character, Greatness, Extremity, Neutrality, Paradoxical Paradoxes, The Problem of Evil, Justice, Contradiction, Illumination, Consciousness, Complexity, Incompleteness, Patience, Satisfaction.MATH: Power, Equation, Desirability, Advantageousness, Law of Identity, Law of Proportion, The Supernatural, The Natural, Law of Inherency, Law of Correlation, Mathematical Trickery, Mathematical Law, Mathematical Derivatives, Mathematical Integrals, Material Forms, Universals, Law of Sufficiency, Law of Sequences, Law of Joined Identicals, Law of Complete Completeness.PREFERENCES: Pleasurable Orgasm, Guilty Pleasures, Amazing Grace, Alien Emotion, Extreme Loyalty, Growing Attraction, Sensory Awareness, Perceptive Acquisition, Nether Intuition, Inner Meaning, Idyll Pleasures, Great Passions, Indulgent Good Taste, Reserved Good Taste, The Great Synthesis, Metaphysical Reality, True Meaning, Coherent Meaning, Truth Truism, Real Reality.—A Coherent List of Inventions (…)