This could be serious.

Today's Tids Issue 4,484

Hilarious Hysteria:

Dick: Jane, you look cutish this morning!’

Jane: Cutish! You mean darn cute! And, you can just stop with the unwanted flattering observations.

Dick: Stop with simple and spontaneous flattering observations?

Jane: It could lead to something that I would have to report to authorities in the future.

Dick: I liked you better when you spoke in short uninspiring sentences.

Jane: Like, “See Spot run.”.

Dick: Exactly. Have You seen Spot lately?

Jane: Yes, he is nuzzling the cutish poodle.

Dick: Is she complaining?

Jane: No.

Even I am becoming irritable when I read my own typos. So, I can only imagine how cantankerous they make organized people like you all.

I look at the glittering, designer clothed, often smug Emmys’ audience who are regularly involved in ridiculing wealthy business people, royalty and super wealthy, and I wonder, -- do they ever look at themselves?

Why don’t pirates shower before they walk the plank? Because they’ll just wash up on shore later.

The Question:

Inc. Magazine has 27 words job applicants should never use in describing themselves. Name 10.

The Headlines:

--Mnuchin Speaks; Trade Concerns Ease; Markets Opened Higher; Dow Up, Nasdaq Down In Late Moring.

--More Dems Now Jumping Onto Impeachment Wagon After New Concerns Over Ukraine Dealings Surface; New Info Says Trump Said To Have Put Hold On Ukraine Military Deal Before Phone Call; Focus On Trump Does Not Let Biden Off The Hook; Mitt Romney Says Trump Should Release Transcripts.

--UK Supreme Court Says Johnson’s Suspension Of Parliament Illegal.

--Trump Speaking To UN; “Future Doesn’t Belong To Globalists”; Condemns China On Trade, Iran On Aggression.

--Lockheed Martin Gets New NASA Deal To Produce Space Fleet.

--Painting Found Hanging In Kitchen Of Elderly French Woman Is 13^th Century Masterpiece That Could Fetch $6.5Mil.

With social media, fads will come and go quicker than the proverbial Jackie Robinson. Thousands will only first notice new cultural trends and phrases when they have faded from popular acceptance and wonder, Did I miss something.  What are they talking about?

I’m a pretty big fan of country music, but I have to say I got a little bored with the latest Ken Burns special of the same name. I found it depressing, repetitive and frustrating. Maybe I was looking for something else.

When the Autumn winds blow 15 mph off the water, a rise in temperate doesn’t really mean that much.

First Impression: That Teen International Climate Warrior is one scary looking dude. She reminds me of “Chucky”.

When Bluebeard fell overboard in the Red Sea he got marooned.

Bernie: “Billionaires Should Not Exist.” Can you spell R-o-m-a-n-o-v?

Do you think that Mitt Romney may be lying in the grass sending up reminders in the event that the Ukraine impeachment possibility gets serious.?

What do old Readers’ Digest readers read today?

How about that Downton outdoing all of the big adventure movie intros last week? I live downtown in a small city near a popular older one-screen theater. It was showing Abbey, and you could see the visible increase in traffic within minutes of its opening. It is also quite apparent that the majority those movie goers are women over seventy.

How many times over the past two and a half years has somebody proclaimed about Trump: “This could be really serious.”

Why does it take so long for a pirate to learn the alphabet? Because they spend years at C.

The Answer:

The 27 non-no words are innovative, World-Class, Driven, Extensive Experience, Authority, Results Oriented, Responsible, Global Provider, Motivated, Creative, Rack Record, Organizational, Dynamic, Guru, Curator, Passionate, Unique, Incredibly, Serial Entrepreneur, Strategic and Collaborative.

There will be a lot happening over the next 12 to 14 months. And there will be a lot of people trying to advance happenings and an equal amount of a lot of people trying to prevent happenings form happening at all. An most of us who just happen to live in the confusion will be sitting there wondering -- What’s happening?

I give up.

Spot. Where are you spot?