Sweet corn.

Today's Tids Issue 4,701

Butter is the answer:

 

A lot of people are complaining that everything in the world has changed in the last 4-5 months, and nothing will ever be the same. Well, from where I’m sitting, sweetcorn is still growing and fresh corn on the cob days have begun again, just exactly the way it did last year. It still tastes great. We gotta stop worrying about what we don’t have.

 

Crows complain infrequently, but generally with just caws.

 

For some odd reason known only to weather people, 3 days in a row over 90 degrees is a heat wave. So?

 

We are seeing corporate quarterly earnings/revenue reports, which from what I can see are only as useful as the estimates are good. It’s the Covid game.

 

In case you haven’t been counting, the election is just three months and a week away. A whole lot of lot of Dems when polled see Joe as a less than ideal candidate of choice, but the hatred for Trump consolidates their vote for mediocrity. Hard core Bernie-ites just signed a pledged not to accept a Dem platform that does not have Medicare for all.  And several Dem heroes of the past like Chris Dodd and Harry Reid are not particularly happy with VP leader in the clubhouse Kamala Harris. They say if Joe is looking for “Loyalty” (Which he has as a requisite) don’t expect it from Kamala. Anyhow, in this race where nobody sees much of anything happening, there has to be a few conflicts to make it interesting. I mean, a public demands entertainment, #1.

 

I’d say that among the many tough jobs as a result of Covid, that President of a College has to be right there at the top.

 

What makes everything good? (See Tids title, above).

 

The Question:

Match the cartoonists with the comic strips: Beetle Baily, Blondie, Dennis the Menace, Mother Goose and Grimm, Rhymes with Orange, Funky Winkerbean, Judge Parker, The Lockhorns, Popeye. Bill Hoest, E.C. Segar, Mike Peters, Mort Walker, Chic Young, Hank Ketcham, Nicholas Dallis, Hillary Price, Tom Batiuk.

 

The Headlines:

-Markets Seem To Be Taking A Step Back as Stimulus 2 Agreement Slows and Earnings Reports Don’t Excite; Store Closings Push Down McDonald’s Profits; Holding Pattern In Place As Street Awaits Fed Meeting And Late Week Reports From FANG.

--China Tensions Affecting 10 Year Treasury.

--AG Barr Testimony Before House Judiciary Committee Could Be Heated. Barr To Tell Reps That “Violent Rioters And Anarchists Have Hijacked Legitimate Protests; Dems Expected To Disagree.”

--John Lewis Praised In Memorial Service.

-Europe Just Re-Opened Tourism Industry Already Showing Signs Of Increased Covid Activity; Spain, France And Germany Now Monitoring Signs Of Second Waves As New Cases Increase By 30-90% In Two Weeks.

--Oprah Magazine To Cease Publishing After 20 Years.

--Woman Swimming Off Baily Island Harpswell Maine Killed; Apparent Victim Of Shark Attack.

--WarnerMedia Investigating Ellen Show Workplace After Complaints.

 

After three days of fishing, the musician hoped he would catch a bassoon.

 

People still smile. People still talk. People still feel. People still laugh at each other’s jokes and antics. Yet there is this sense that everything is wrong because they can’t spend money on things they don’t need.

 

It looks like Democrats are already preparing talking points saying that any vaccine developed just before election won’t work.

 

The techs have held up the stock market lately because logic tends to say that’s where we want to be for our future. But at the end of this week reality will hit the dreamers. as all of the bigs report. This will be interesting.

 

Protestors who destroy property and attack police are criminals. Pure and simple.

 

I don’t think you want me on a jury.

 

When a baker is happy, he has abundance.

 

Some global tension wags are saying that China is behaving like Japan in the 1930’s before you-know-what. I believe it is the musings of those with too much Covid time on their hands.

 

Since 1850 there have been 119 serious hurricanes in Florida, but the last three are due to global warming.

 

The Barr House testimony could be great TV.

 

Bernie Campaign Chair Nina Turner just bought political rhetoric to a new low, I can’t repeat her stomach-churning metaphor here. And most of you probably thought that politics couldn’t get lower. From what I’m seeing on the horizon, we have yet to see as-low-as-you-can-go yet.

 

Subdued: A surfer guy on a submarine.

 

It seems like I have been writing about Covid Catch 22 type conflicts for the last month or so. The latest of interest is that boat sales are soaring as people see this as a great way to social distance in fresh air while on vacation. On the other hand, Covid has limited opportunities for safe boating classes, and accidents are way up as amateurs take to the high seas.

 

The NE Patriots just had two older but key players, Hightower and Cannon, say they are taking this year off because of Covid fears. I have seen that happening across other teams too. The NFL season may come down to Rookies playing rookies. It could be weird. If it even gets going.

 

Canada barred the MLB Toronto Blue Jays Form Playing in their local stadium (They made a deal with Buffalo’s minor league stadium.) But Canada doesn’t seem to have a problem with 12 NHL teams coming to Toronto for a payoff stole series of games. Symptoms of Covid: Incongruity.

 

Apparently replying to a wedding invitation, “Maybe next time” is frowned-upon.

 

The Answer:

Beetle Baily - Mort Walker, Blondie - Chic Young, Dennis the Menace - Hank Ketcham, Mother Goose and Grimm - Mike Peters, Rhymes with Orange - Hillary Price, Funky Winkerbean - Tom Batiuk, Judge Parker - Nicholas Dallis, The Lockhorns - Bill Hoest, Popeye - E.C. Segar. Mort Walker also created the popular strip hi and Lois. I thought it was a guy who took care of dogs named Mort. Thank God for Wikipedia.

 

The Tids editors have been serving up sweet corn for years. It helps with the insanity.

 

I picked up a hitchhiker. he asked me if I wasn’t afraid, he might be a serial killer. I told him that the odds of two serial killers being in the same car were highly unlikely.

 

In case you haven’t noticed, the world’s still here. Pick a flower.

Society Needs a good Comedian.

Today's Tids Issue 4,700

It's funny, but nobody is laughing:

 

William F. Buckley: “Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other points of view and then are shocked and offended when they discover there are other points of view.”

 

The biggest new threat to the economy is that furloughed employees are now looking like permanently cut employees. The next biggest threat on the horizon, not only on the economy but to society, is evictions.

 

The front page of our big statewide newspaper had a large headline Sunday morning: “The Comeback of the Loons.” I thought it was about the Oregon pretests, so I didn’t read it.

 

Regis Philbin was a good guy. The world needs more Regis Philbin’s.

 

The Question:

Many of Beethoven’s 9 symphonies have names. Which are they and what are the names?

 

The Headlines:

--There Major US Stock Indexes Point To Higher Week Start; Stimulus Package Looks To be Nearing Approvals; AMD, EBay, McDonald’s, Pfizer, Amazon, Starbucks, Apple, Visa Among Key Companies Repirt8ng Earnings This week; Moderna Gets $472 Million For Coronavirus Vaccine Development.

--NFL Players Report This Week; NBA Basketball Resumes In Earnest; The Red Sox Pitching Is Dreadful.

--Florida Leaps Over NY To Take Second Place After Cal In Most Covid Infections Derby

--Hawaii Bracing For Douglas.

--Albertsons Reports 276% Increase In Digital Sales; Hasbro Sales Down 25% Due To Store Closings.

--New Trillion Dollar Stimulus Package To Include $1,200 Checks, Evictions Moratorium And Reduced Unemployment Aid.

--Great Actress Olivia De Haviland Dies At 102. Double Best Actress Oscar Winner Was Also Start In The Excellent Classic, “Gone with the Wind” Movie.

 

Catch 22:

During Covid employers are discovering new efficiencies using fewer employees to the point where they will need fewer employees when Covid ends, which means there will be less income dollars available to jettisoned employees to buy whatever employers are selling.

 

You are soon to be treated to a nasty kangaroo court where the House Judiciary Anti-Trust Subcommittee will face down Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and Sundar Pichai (Google). If you are looking for fairness when the Washington gang goes after big successful business, be wary. The Chair is David Ciciline, about as single-minded, unfair lawmaker as any. And being from Rhode Island he was well trained to oppose business success; the state that never saw a business it couldn’t regulate to death.

 

How come there is only one manufacturer of the board game Monopoly?

 

Bill Engvall is one of my favorite comedians. “The last time I had a flat tire I pulled into one of those side of the road gas stations, A guy slowly walked out, looks at my truck, looks at me and, I swear, says, ‘Tire flat?’ Nope, I said. I was just driving around and those other three just swelled right up on me.”

 

Just to be clear, I’m not interested at all reading about when a player takes a knee when the National anthem is played. I’m interested in the game, the flag and the Star-Spangled Banner.

 

“If you thought Stairway to Heaven was a long song, you should listen to it played on a lute.” –Bill Engvall

 

Will the eviction moratorium protect landlords from their creditors too?

 

Speaking of games, it’s great to hear the announcers back on the air again for radio and TV broadcasts of Red Sox games. It is just one big part of summer that has been missing. Unfortunately the new sports talk loons will find something to criticize about the presentation of these games I think they are doing a wonderful job in stadiums with no fans, and especially considering the threat of deaths form a bug now body can control.

 

From “Shoe” comic strip creators Brookins and McNelly: There’s a new Congressional social media site called Fleecebook>

 

People who can smile when things go wrong have someone in mind to blame.

 

A 16-person rescue team carried massive Saint Bernard down a large mountain in England. There is no truth to the rumor that he drank his own brandy.

 

Spell-Check has an aversion to the word just. Spell-Check can be quirky at times. Maybe it’s joined the new culture.

 

Did you hear about the race horse farm owner who was saddled with debt?

 

Another of my favorite comedians is Brian Regan. He says “It’s difficult to know who to feel sorry for in today’s different world. Like Arab Americans who really want to get into crop dusting. It could be their lifelong dream, and very time they ask for pamphlet, all hell breaks loose.

 

The Answer.

I believe a lot of people know that B’s 3^rd Symphony is “Eroica”, the 6^th is “The Pastoral” and the 9^th is “The Choral”. But the 7^th is often called “The Apotheosis of Dance: and even the 8th has a moniker ^– “The Little Symphony”. And that renown “Fifth” is not the “Booze Symphony, but it has been known as “Schicksals-Sinfonie” (Fate Symphony).

 

I have been a big fan of Fleetwood Mac, maybe mainly because of the singing of Stevie Nicks. But Peter Green their controversial, often reclusive founder died over the weekend. Sometimes people forget how great these musicians are because they only see the music as something they don’t like…or often, something that has nothing to do with music. Peter Green was a great talent, period.

 

Play it softly, Peter. We heard you.

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