Today's Tids Issue 2,127
Opening Stuff:
It is not surprising to see the stock market make a correction. Most felt it was necessary, especially when you consider the lack of real substance that has been pushing it upward. And we all hope that the klutzboy episode was just an anomaly. The last thing the market needs is to make recent re-investors feel jittery. Fear takes hold too quickly in unstable times. And there is more instability than ever in the world and US economy at any time in my fading memory. It doesn’t take much – a strange suitcase on a corner in Times Square; The dilution of trust on Wall Street; A congress person selling votes; Countries “going out of business.” Wall Street needs “the people” back, and current conditions isn’t making it easy for them. And the people need a steady Wall Street.
You have to wonder what penguins wear on casual Fridays.
The Question:
Who are Jerry Scott, Jim Borgman, Lynn Johnson, Mike Peters, Chris Cassett, Gary Brookins, Chris Browne, Dean Young, John Marshall, Stan Lee, Bill Keane, John McPhereson and Brian Bassett.
The Headlines:
--0-Man To Name Former Harvard Law School Dean, Current Solicitor General, Left Of Center Elena Kagan As Nominee To Supreme Court; Insiders Say She Is Capable Conciliator, And Safe.
--Rhode Island Brother Team Takes Home Million As Amazing Race Champs; Reality Programming Contestant Is Number One Industry For RI-ers.
--$1 Trillion Global Rescue Package Temporarily Stabilizes Euro, Reverses Slide; World Stock Markets Surge.
--Times Square Bomber Was member Of Pakistani Taliban Op.
--Amazing Rondo Matches Stats Of Hall Of Famers “Bog O” and “Stilt” To Lead Celts To Series Tying Win.
--Legend Lena Horne Dead At 92.
--SK Says Torpedo Residue Found In Sunken Navel Ship.
--Euro Nations Beginning To See Sun Through Ash Hole.
--Conservative Cameron Trying To Hammer Out Deal With Liberal Democrat Clegg.
--Blobs Come Ashore On Gulf Coast; BP Fighting To Get control.
Back to More Stuff:
If the only space you can find around your home for a garden is shady…no problem. Plant bulbs.
Lucky are those who dial up http://www.todaystids.blogspot.com each day, for they are recipient of updates and weekend musings.
Some of these historic house tours are becoming more costly than a Broadway show.
At the giant basketball and football powerhouse universities, 300 pound tackles and 7 foot centers are too big to fail.
Where have you gone Lindsey Lohan? One of the great transformations from sparkling ingénue to sultry vamp is now officially complete as the often troubled Lohan accepts the offer to play Linda Lovelace in a new movie.
Did you realize that 40,000 men and women graduate from Law School each year? And finally somebody has figured out that we are producing far too many lawyers. Like any market, laws of supply and demand always win out in the end. Now smart kids will have tot overpopulate new areas of society. I hope it isn't Tids writing.
Instead of cursive writing, you have to expect that first graders will be learning texting techniques in the future. Writing? What’s writing?
Maybe the Muslims have a point about cartoonists. The smug down at the Comedy Channel have on the drawing board a new show named JC. Yes that JC. Apparently the Son of God who came to earth to give his life for all mankind will be portrayed as an average guy moving to NYC to get out from under dad’s shadow. And we will see “Dad” as an apathetic man playing video games. Beware of the chortlers.
Through the Same Eyes: Chapter 71. –“Good afternoon Kent. I didn’t know you were coming in this afternoon.” Sally seemed a little less effervescent. Almost guarded as I walked by to my office.
“You know I’m just one surprise after another!” She started to laugh at that.
“Oh yeah, Mr. spontaneous” she answered quickly. That even got me smiling. “Oh, I just didn’t expect you,” she said again. “I’m having a meeting with your friend Sarah Durham.”
“Oh”. I quickly turned back to her. I hope not too quickly.
“It’s no big deal. She is just curious about what I and others on our team may have thought about poor Seymore.” She seemed to look at me for approval. “I guess it’s part of her knowing everything when she’s paying all of our salaries!” She smiled at that.
“I responded similarly, “I guess when she is somebody who has become a friend you forget about how important she is to our company. Thanks, Sally.” I turned and went into my office. What is Sarah/Maggie looking for?
The phone rang as I sat. “Hello?”
“It’s Laura”. Now what I thought. “The Sherriff wants me to come down to his office again. I thought you had that old man wrapped around your finger?” she added in her surliest tone.
I looked up and saw Maggie walking over to Sally’s office. Strangely, that made me feel better. “Listen Laura. Just stay calm. Answer his questions with as little as you can get away with. You’re smart. I trust you.
On chortling: I often use the word “chortler” to describe those one dimensional megalomaniacs who love to make outrageous comments about things precious to most loving people and then soften their rhetoric with a snorting chuckle (The definition of a chortle). These are among the most dangerous people on earth. Closet atheists, groping liberals and insecure celebrities looking for substance are the most adept at the chortle.
The ten richest men of all time are John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Bill Gates, John Jacob Astor, Frederick Weyerhaeuser, Marshall Field, Sam Walton, Warren Buffet and Mexican Tel com guy Carlos Slim Helu.
The Answer:
Scott and Borgman are the creators of the comic strip “Zits”. Peters is “Mother Goose and Grim”, Cassett & Brookins – “Shoe”, Browne – “Hagar” and “Hi and ois”, Young and Marshall – “Blonde”, Lee – “Spiderman”, Keane – “Family Circus”, McPhereson – “Close to Home” and Bassett – “Red and Rover”. What is your favorite comic strip?
The End:
Maybe that trillion for Europe will keep our retirement funds stable for a week or so. Isn’t it scary how casually they throw around the word trillion any more. Today’s kids will be working to become trillionaires only to find in fifty years that Forbes is out with the Zillionaire 400! That’s Forbes on Twitter, by the way! Enjoy your new found wealth…for a week.
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