Interesting taste experience

I bought some Tic-Tacs I thought were wintergreen flavored. When I got them home I realized they were actually green apple. The first couple I tasted I thought were terrible. Later, after some noshing and some dining, I tried them again and they were delicious. I realized that my first reaction was because I expected them to be wintergreen and they weren't. Then later when I knew what they were I could actually taste them. Hmm. There may be a lesson to be learned here.

Retired Numbers/Names

You know how in baseball they retire the numbers of famous players after they retire? On the Yankees, the numbers of Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra, and others are all retired, i.e. nobody else on that team will ever get to wear that number.* I think in India they should retire the name Gandhi. It's just weird to see that name on some minor actress. In fact, it always bugged me that Indira Gandhi had it because she was so un-Gandhiesque.

*Interesting sidelight: Mariano Rivera has the number 42. That number has been permanently retired throughout major league baseball because it belonged to Jackie Robinson. Mariano was grandfathered in, i.e. he had the number before they made the rule. So when he retires, nobody will ever wear that number. The odd thing is that he should certainly have his number retired but they can't really do that because the number is already retired. I wonder what they'll do.

Tea Bags

This would probably require some research but I think at the time of the Boston Tea Party nobody used tea bags. Also if I remember correctly the Boston Tea Party was about no taxation without representation. The problem is that the people whom the Tea Party elected to represent them are interested in taxing them and not in taxing the place where most of the money resides--the coffers of the rich. The way it works is this: if the tax is 10% and I make $20,000 a year, the government gets $2,000. But if a person who makes $200 million a year pays 10%, the government gets $2 million. Get it?