We smile and they don’t.

 

 

Today's Tids Issue 5,132  

Plugging along: 

 

 

Today is National Medal of Honor Day. Thank you one and all.  

 

Does anybody have any brackets left? This is madness. Oh yeah, that is what it is called. I am definitely rooting for Arkansas and St. Peters in the championship game. And not just because two of my closest friends who went to these two schools threatened to drop the Tids if I didn’t support them. The final eight will be played out the this weekend. The ACC was said to have had a down year, but now has 3 of the 8. And the Big 10, the league with the best PR people, started with 9 and has zero. You have to wonder how the team that lost to St. Petes by a couple of points would have done? Or any other runner-up from a so-called minor league might do instead of just going too deep into the power conferences, the one’s with the money. 

 

I wonder how the bookies are doing? Not that I care a whit. 

 

Well, we are ending March next week and it looks like old man winter will not just have one last gasp but possibly two next week. But last gasps are pretty normal around here.  

 

Next week begins earnings reports for Q1 2022. The keys are like every quarter but more significant considering the current obstacles real and imagined. Are top lines still robust? The answer could be yes, considering that Americans appear to be still out there spending money. The other of course is profit. How will inflation squeeze the companies? Will inflation make top lines robust enough to overcome higher costs. That sounds pretty simple doesn’t it. Yet recently, simplicity is a little more profound. 

 

(Sorry I used “considering” twice in the above paragraph. The alternatives looked cumbersome to me.) 

 

The masked man with the pleasant body aroma was known as the Cologne Ranger. Thanks to a Comic strip for making me laugh out loud this morning.  

 

I heard a great description of our government yesterday, “An insurance company with an army.” 

 

I have to say that while watching the plight of the gritty and suffering Ukraine people, it is very hard to be inanely political these days.  

 

The Question: 

Name the leading cast members for the TV series, Sex in the City. Frankly, I have no idea myself, So I’'ll be looking at the answer just like you. No elitism here. 

 

The Headlines: 

--Markets End Week Moderately Positive; Analysts Gaging Serious Negative Fallout Form War, From Nickle To Wheat Shortages. 

--Biden Calls Putin “Butcher”. 

--Left All Over Ginny Thomas Emails; SC Justice Wife Says There Is No Involvement From Calrence. 

--Final Men's NCAA Eight: Duke, Kansas, St. Peters, Arkansas, Miami, North Carolina, Villanova And Houston. 

 

A company describes themselves as: “A company that provides coaching, project and crisis management and executive brand building. Centered on a leader’s unique experiences, needs and challenges, our Group creates sustainable solutions anchored in everyday realities and adaptable to inevitable change." What do you think they do? I haven't slightest idea either. They may have stolen my old Phrase/sentence generator that provides a way to link a broad range of disassociated words into an intellectually curious sentence or phrase that could mean anything on any given day.. The above is a self-description of a company that incorporated on the same day they received a $5 Million dollar contract from our governor on his first day in office. It was said they were hired to open our schools! Say what? 

 

Do you know how much fun it is to sit there in the morning drinking your coffee, munching on a scone or something while reading a newspaper and something grabs oyu and you just laugh out loud with no restraint.  

 

I had a pretty close ancestor or won an almost medal of honor during WWI. It made me feel proud.  

 

Today is also National Lobster Newburg Day. If you can afford it. 

 

I wonder who came up with the idea of ough, ought, igh, ight endings for words.? The GH lobby? 

 

The press is certainly in the back pocket of SC Nominee Jackson. The elite “journalists” were all over maniacal accusations of recent Repub candidates but have entirely brushed off anything negative about Bidens choice as hysterical political maneuvers. She sounds like the activist judges the left liked when the SC was circumventing the WH and Congress to make laws in the 70’s. 

 

When a web site invites you to join their “Rewards Program” they are basically asking you to give away the deepest secrets of your life for a few paltry points which might add u0p to a ticket to a bad movie.  

 

If I was a Wall Street analyst writing a report on the US Government, I would say, the burn rate is off the charts with no passivity I on the horizon for a profit. Sell. And if another currency becomes the world standard, sell faster. And PS: A series of suspect CEOs have only added to the d financial mismanagement. 

 

I know a lot of people thought it was an endearing speech for Jackson, but the last person I’d want endorsing me is the ever-hyperbolic Cory Booker. 

 

The Answer: 

I never watched second of this. Oh, maybe a few seconds, but the voices got to me. The Cast is Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, S Cybthia Nixon, David Eikenberg, Chris Noth, Willie Garson, Kyle Maclachlan and John Corbett. Lots of more men.  

 

Sorry I’m late yesterday. Had a seriously peasant engagement with really old friends. 

 

Have a great weekend, E-v-e-r-y-b-o-d-y!!