Today's Tids Issue 5,069
Listening:
“We have met the enemy, and he is us”
Well, the year is winding down.
But you’ll never see me frown
Because as I live each day
Something good comes my way
Which will always override
Anything else that may deride.
I really liked John Madden. From what I have been hearing a lot today, almost everybody feels the same except obviously for all those who seek to find something negative in everything. He was s great coach and wonderful human to human commentator. He did make one memorable error when said at the end of the 2001 Superbowl that, “Tom Brady should take and knee”. But Brady kept o throwing passes to Troy Brown and others and they won their firsts SB Title. And John was the kind of a guy who would admit that he was wrong. We’ll miss you, John. One of a kind.
Also, the senator from Nevada, Harry Reid, died last night. I didn’t like him so much, He was certainly one of the most partisan congressional leaders of all time, but I guess that was his job. But may will miss him and parse him, especially his family. Which despite our feelings one way or another, is the only thing that counts.
The Question:
Who said the opening line for Today’s Tids, “We have met…”?
The Headlines:
Dow and S&P Up Again; Nasdaq and Techs Struggling A Bit.
“Self praise is for losers, be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class and be humble” –John Madden
Yesterday the Russian Supreme Court ruled to close Memorial International, which chronicled historical abuses of the former Soviet Union and identified victims of former Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's purges. Does that sound a little bit like today’s tearing down statues that don’t coincide with current ideological agendas? Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum director Piotr Cywiński tweeted, “A power that is afraid of memory, will never be able to achieve democratic maturity.” Apples to apples? Maybe not. But close enough to serve as a warning against one view spur of the moment decision making.
The reversal of stock fortunes brought on by pandemic news happens so quickly that is better to stay fully loaded with your portfolio whether news anxiety starts. Selling rapidly in the face of Omicron scares more than likely will leave you with less when overnight the market roars back,
“A coach is just a guy whose best class in grammar school was recess and whose best class in high school was P.E. I never thought I was anything but a guy whose best class was P.E.” – John Madden
Todays is “National Tick Tock Day. I do’t know what it means either.
You never know what your kids really hear when you speak. By their often-stoic faces, you never know whether they think your jokes are corny or they are secretly laughing saying to themselves, “I’m to cool to laugh out loud at this stuff, but hope dad never stops telling jokes. A guy named Homer Adams of Nashville, Tennessee remembers the blank stares on the faces of his grandsons when he shared his corny sense of humor. “When the family is eating lasagna, I say, “Lean over your plate, boys. You’ll get less-on-ya.” I say to the ten-year-old, “Don’t yell through the screen; you’ll strain your voice.” And when I took another grandson to the zoo, I asked, “Do you know why that snake’s not pressed against the glass? He doesn’t want to be a windshield viper.” He said he hopes they laugh later.
The Answer:
Most of us would say the phrase was first uttered by Pogo to Porkypie in Walt Kelley’s comic strip “Pogo”. But while that is where the fame developed, that phrase actually morphed from the words of Naval Commander Oliver Hazard Perry at the battle of Lake Erie --- “We have met the enemy and they are ours”. Kelley used the phrase in a 1970 strip to comment on man’s destruction of the environment. Lately it as bee referred to US citizens so divided against each other.
“I never professed to be perfect. I do something wrong or something stupid, I laugh at myself.” –John Madden
Humility is a wonderful thing. Maybe that is why quiet people are so intriguing.
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