Levity is good. 

Issue 5,184. 

 

If you look around you, almost everything can be funny in some way. You just have to be careful about when you tell the joke you see, and who maybe listening. 

 

I have to say that the reasoning for the ups and downs of teh srock markets thrust upon us each day by various and sundry national experts are becoming quite humorous, not unlike the daily comic strips. If it wasn't so painful, I’d be laughing all day long. What it seems to say loud and clear is that nobody knows. The “Genius” season is ver. 

 

Today is National Chocolate Ice Cream Day! Need I say more? I wish you all sweet eating, and that is from a plain vanilla guy. 

 

Kleptomaniacs often don’t get puns, because they take things literally. 

 

You may have noticed I avoid telling wife jokes in the Tids. I'm smarter than I look 

 

The Question: 

Prez Biden is to host the Summit of the America’s minus a few uninvited communist leaning countries and one major supporter of tis disinvited, Mexico. Fir5t: What four regions comprise the members of the summit. Second: Name 7 countries in South America. 

 

The Headlines: 

--Markets Open Lower; Target Planning To Move Too Much Inventory With Aggressive Price Cutting; Markest Punish Stock. 

--Zelensky Says East Ukraine Full Of Dead Cites; Fighting There Intense; Ukraine Tales Back Cities in Central U; Russai Becoming More Aggressive. 

--Weakened Boris Begins Again After Surviving No Confidence Vote. 

-- Mysterious Radio Signal Picked Up From Space Has Astronomers Baffled 

 

What did the fast tomato say to the slow tomato? Ketchup. 

 

Yesterday at the end of this mess I inserted a pretty nice pic of a reader's beautiful flower boxes on the front of their house. It looked good here when I pressed send, but I'm not sure it showed up when oyu received o it. So, I'll send it as an attachment today. The Tids cyber-neighborhood is a comfortable place. 

 

 

If you are on Jeopardy and the Question is, Name the country on the Bosphorous, don't sat “What’s Turkey?’ Turkey is officially changing its name to “Türkiye”. I don’t know why. If it looks like a turkey, walks like a turkey, then it’s a turkey.  

 

 

It appears the Dems will use the Jan 6 hearings as a basis for their fall paint-the-Repubs-black-campaign. The hearings start Thursday, and it will be the beginning of the crusade. 

 

Dustin Johnson Just became the biggest name to resign from the PGA Tour. He will be among those looking for big, guaranteed paydays on the Saudi Arabia/Greg Norman effort known as LIV. In other words, they get paid regardless of how well they do, which in some ways is not quite the American work ethic. This could be the first serious step that wakens various tour officials for interleague discussions. Johnson joins seasoned PGA pros Kevin Na, Sergio Garcia, Louis Oosthuizen, Charl Schwartzel and Brandon Grace. And seems to open the door for Phil Michelson who seems in serious need of a lifeline. Johnson is a big PGA name but so far most of the players leaving are older, not on the upside of their careers. There are many super talented younger people coming along. We shall see. 

 

Commercial real estate is under a lot of pressure as cyber buying takes precedent over plodding Main Street and people work from home. It will be interesting to watch the transformation of this huge source of financial assets. The question that remains, though, is why when there appears to be a glut of empty buildings
and store fronts is rent going up.  

 

Have you heard that Ironman is in reality Fe-male? 

 

The White House says they are increasingly frustrated by all that is happening – Inflation, gas prices et.al. -- and why they can’t seem to be able to get anything done. Well, it seems to me this so-called moderate president whose big campaign promise was to unite, didn’t. So, a lot of people just don’t trust him.  

 

The confused appearance of the stock markets these days is most likely more about expectations than anything else. And the new expectation is all about earnings reports in July. There's always something. 

 

You really have to be careful about how you ask questions in Google. Today I asked, best new one liners. I got for an answer a lsit that included wastepaper basket paper liners, One by Poise Panty liners, Hue lace Shoe Liners, Dr. Scholl’s shoe liners and assorted other feminine liners. I was looking for the punch lines that never came. I wasn’t laughing.  

 

Just two weeks until the longest day and the beginning of the slow march to the dead of winter Just in case you are feeling too happy today. 

 

Did you know that Skuba divers fall out of the boat backwards because they fell forward, they woud still be in the boat. You probably never thought of that, did you? 

 

The Answer: 

The Summit, this will be the ninth, is comprised of the countries in North, South and Central America and the Caribbean. The countries of South America are Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil, and three I always have to look up because the names change – Guyana, Suriname and French Guyana. The Continent also includes the UK’s Falkland Islands sand South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands. 

 

The fairy who forgot her deodorant was called Stinkerbelle. 

 

There must be a better ending than that.  

 

“It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.” --Thomas Aquinas