New Medicare Card-Part 2. Filling In That Blank. Oops! That Blank Is Gone! That Must Be A Mistake...Or is it?

Being The Noticer I noticed a change to the New Medicare Card that is not being talked about by anyone except me. Some may call it Silent Progress. Fella does not think it is.

 

In a concession to the Objecting People who are objecting to anything having to do with Male and Female...

Ø The old card had an Entry Location for Sex and, on my card, it was filled is as “Male”.

Ø The new card has no Entry Location for Sex.

 

Those Objecting People may not accept that I am a Male but I know I am a Male.

 

A sobering thought just hit me...

Ø If the Objecting People knew that I know that I am Male would they bring action against my thinking I know that I am Male?

Ø Said another way, am I allowed to think in contradiction to the way the Objecting People think I ought to think?

Ø If I kept my thinking to myself (a growing practice in the Good Ole USofA today) would they find out what I was thinking to myself?

Ø Would they bring back that dead guy who used to be on the Ed Sullivan Show to read my mind? Certainly you remember him...Or do you? He was the one who stood on Ed’s stage and read the minds of Ed’s audience.

Ø He did his standing before the Internet was invented. If we used to be able to put a man on the moon, we certainly could invent an App that would allow that Dead Guy to read my mind while I sit in my home in my La-Z-Boy.

Ø If the Objecting People did bring back that dead guy and he read my mind, would they be able to bring action against me for Secret Thinking?

Ø The way we are headed Secret Thinking is certainly going to be declared a crime in the not-too-distant future.

Ø It won’t be long before we are going to required to Think Out Loud at all times so the Objecting People can know what we are thinking and correct our thinking before our thinking gets out of hand and, for our own good, drastic action can be brought against us to get us to think correctly.

 

I’m going to quit now. I always quit when I begin to confuse myself.

 

On the other hand, can I quit without permission? If not, where do I go to get permission to quit?

 

Now this is really getting confusing.

 

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

It Seems Everyone Today Has A Movement. Why Should I Be The Exception?

It is my hope that, once you have read this Foolishness, you will want to join me in my Movement.

 

I have recently become aware of a Scourge that is killing one of my Fellow Americans every 3 Days and no one is paying this Ongoing Humanitarian Disaster a single No Never Mind (whatever that is).

 

This National Unawareness needs to change and I intend to be the Driving Force behind that change.

 

I have been in contact with a Shadowy Bulgarian Billionaire who has more money than he knows what to do with (All Shadowy Bulgarian Billionaires have this “problem”) and he has pledged his full support for whatever course of action I decide to take to make this right.

 

I am already in Full Frenzied Action Mode because I know that I am going to be the catalyst that will save 121.7 Lives a Year (1 every 3 days) and prevent 94,570 Injuries a Year (one every 6 minutes).

 

I hope you are ready to join me in my quest and I don’t need your money because I have my Shadowy Bulgarian Billionaire’s Financial Support but you can make change happen by joining me on the Picket Line.

 

Oops! My Bulgarian just told me I don’t need you on the Picket Line either because he has a full stable of protestors all over the Good Ole USofA ready to demonstrate as soon as he Tweets.

 

Since I am still in my Full Frenzied Action Mode, I told him I will get to work on a Training Program to convey to the demonstrators the significance of the issues we face and get them motivated to deliver believable and sincere protest demonstrations.

My Bulgarian looked at me with sustain and anger and told me that he was a professional instigator and he only employed professional demonstrations. There was no need to train his demonstrators because he pays them well and past attempts to train them about what they are demonstrating about has only served to confused them.

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Did I forget to tell what has sent me into this frenzy? Here it is... 

I was walking to the rest room in Costco the other day and I noticed this poster in the Employee Only You Can’t Go In There Area...

 

(This is further proof that I am a Prodigious Noticer.)

 

I don’t like to tell my Dear Readers what to do but may I suggest that the next time you see a Fork Lift Truck run for you lives!

 

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

 

TV Dinners In Restaurants

Mr. Bob Brody has hit this Awful Nail on its Awful Head. TVs in Restaurants is part of the Decline and Fall of the Good Ole USofA. Yes, we have lots of other problems but these pervasive TVs are dumping more Slippery on our Slippery Slope every day. 

Mr. Brody addresses the problem masterfully but Fella has to disagree with one aspect of the picture he paints. He says that the sound of the TVs are Blaring at us as we eat. In my experience, they do not blare sound at us but they still blare at us because they are a constant visual distraction to us.

 

Even if we are determined to not pay attention to them, we find that our eyes are continually catching sight of something or other that interrupts our conversation, our concentration, our chewing or our interaction with those we came into the restaurant with in order to get away from It All. Sadly we find that It All followed us into our favorite restaurant.

 

I just pecked out “favorite restaurant”. My favorite restaurant is no longer my favorite. Years ago it had No TVs. One time I asked to see that owner and congratulated him on the fact that he did not have a TV in his establishment. His response to me was he would never have a TV in his restaurant. Today he has 2 TVs for his diners to “enjoy”.

 

Below I have inserted Mr. Brody’s article on TV Dinners and followed that with part of a Blog Posting I published about this awfulness on July 5, 2018.

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First, Mr. Brody’s Article...

·         Opinion

·         Commentary

If I Wanted a TV Dinner, I’d Stay Home

Restaurants should ditch the screens and allow conversation to flourish.

By

Bob Brody

Sept. 20, 2018 6:06 p.m. ET

Live television at Shaw's Tavern in Washington, June 8, 2017. Photo: Manuel Balce Ceneta/Associated Press

As soon as I set foot in the restaurant, I hear it. The sound is unmistakable. It’s a television.

Let me state for the record how I feel about TVs in restaurants. I hate them. TVs in restaurants are a scourge and an epidemic.

Restaurants were conceived as places you go to eat. Someone would buy, prepare and serve food to you. This business model has held up well since the first modern restaurant opened, reportedly in Paris in 1765.

But in the late 1940s, a few taverns started putting in TVs to draw fans for boxing matches. Then traditional restaurants installed sets. Nowadays, television has infiltrated not only diners, coffee shops and pizzerias but also upscale steakhouses, romantic Italian bistros and chic cafes.

I hold to three basic principles about eating out. First, focus on the food. Devote your senses to admiring its appearance, savoring its composition, inhaling its aromas.

Second, you typically gather to eat with other people—family, friends, colleagues, clients. Restaurants serve a social purpose. You might chance upon a long-lost classmate at the next table or see a marriage proposal.

Third, restaurants give you the opportunity to carry out the popular activity known as having a conversation. A laugh might ensue, or a heart-to-heart moment. You can get to know, and perhaps even better understand and appreciate, your parents, your children and others. Such exchanges lubricate the wheels of our culture, our economy and our society.

These objectives are hard to accomplish with a blaring TV in the background. Discussing career issues with a friend can be a challenge when you can’t help overhearing some sportscaster go berserk over a dunk.

The National Restaurant Association has not collected statistics on how many restaurants house televisions. Nor has it performed any research on customer attitudes toward TVs in restaurants or expressed a public point of view about the issue.

I hereby implore the restaurant industry to give us a break. (Sports bars are exempt.) Let’s face it, our attempts to interact with each other face-to-face these days already encounter enough distractions. We spend ever more hours of our lives staring at our screens. TVs follow us wherever we go, from airports to our doctor’s waiting room. Let’s preserve the places that are left where we can hang out together uninterrupted.

I’ve adopted my own personal policy. If a restaurant has a TV going, I ask a manager to either turn it off or lower the volume. If my request is honored, as it often is, we’re all set to enjoy a proper meal. But if it’s declined, I have the advantage of consumer choice. I can vote with my feet and leave.

Mr. Brody, an executive and essayist in New York City, is author of the memoir “Playing Catch with Strangers: A Family Guy (Reluctantly) Comes of Age.”

Appeared in the September 21, 2018, print edition.

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Now please reread this part of my Foolishness...Or Is It about TVs In Restaurants...

Ø Little did he know that the restaurants of the Good Ole USofA were going to be populated with somewhere between 2 (Chinese Take Outs) and 53 (Sports Bars) TVs in each dining place.

Ø Some of these restaurants used to actually be places of relaxation (Sports Bars never were relaxing).

Ø Hardly anyone pays any attention to what is playing on the TVs (Sports Bars excluded), but everyone is continually distracted by what’s going on on these TVs.

Ø No one can hear what the TVs are saying to us but every one of us periodically loses track of the table conversation because we find ourselves staring at the silent TV thinking, “I wonder what he just said?”

Ø The TVs do an excellent job of destroying what little Person to Person Interaction remains after the Smartphone has had its way with us.

Ø An example of the few people who are not distracted by the TVs during the meal are those that are telling their fellow diners that, since no one pays any attention to them, they are going to commit suicide when they go home tonight because they feel so utterly ignored.

Ø The people who are told about the impending suicide do not get alarmed because they are distracted by the TV they are not watching and, therefore, are not listening to the future suicidee (yea, I know that’s not a word).

 

Mr. Brody and I are two peas in the same pod and we are glad the pod is not big enough for a TV.

 

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

 

Did You Know That Fella Is Known The World Over?

BlogSpot (where I publish Foolishness...Or Is It?) allows me to see where in the whole wide world my viewers come from. I bet you are just dying to know where they come from...Or are you? If not, read on anyway, since you have come this far...

Ø Good Ole USofA 73,551

Ø Italy 11,320

Ø Russia 6,416 (I sure hope I will not be prosecuted for Collusion)

Ø Canada 1,219

Ø France 1,068

Ø China 1,057

Ø Poland 748

Ø Ukraine 706

Ø India 693

Ø Germany 565

Ø Others 8,300

 

This could mean I am in the process of changing the world.

 

Sometimes I wish I did not have the ability to hear what my dear readers are thinking when they read my blog because I just heard 12 of you think to yourselves, “Change the world? It’s more like Confuse the World!”

 

Thankfully I also have the ability to ignore my Dear Readers thoughts.

 

What all these views of my blog from around the world does tell me is that a whole bunch of the world can read English.

 

I want to now speak to that Whole Bunch...

 

Dear Bunch,

Have you noticed that my Blog now has the new feature that allows my silliness to be translated into other languages? It’s right there at the top left of every posting...

Ø My most recent blog title in English is... “I Did Not Write This But I Sure Enjoyed Reading What Mr. John Steele Gordon Wrote”

Ø My most recent blog title in Russian is... “Я не пишу это, но я уверен Пользовался Чтение Что г-н Джон Стил Гордон писал”

 

Why have I gone to all this trouble to tell you this? It’s because, since you live in all these different countries, I bet you know Potential Dear Readers Who Can’t Read English like you can. Please tell them to use Fella’s New Translate Feature and translate my blogs into the language of their choice and become a New Dear Reader.

 

I sure would appreciate it.

 

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

I Did Not Write This But I Sure Enjoyed Reading What Mr. John Steele Gordon Wrote

This article appeared in the August 31, 2018, print edition of the Wall Street Journal.

Things That Make You Go Hmmmm

Odds are these historical coincidences will strike you as unlikely.

By

John Steele Gordon

Aug. 30, 2018

Sen. John McCain died Aug. 25 of a brain tumor, a glioblastoma. Sen. Ted Kennedy died of the same disease, also on Aug. 25, nine years earlier.

That’s quite a coincidence. But in a world as wide as this one, extremely unlikely things happen every day. Last spring a friend of mine had a straight flush in a hand of five-card draw poker. There are 2,598,960 possible hands in five-card draw, only 36 of which beat the lowest straight flush. So the odds of losing while holding a straight flush are about 1 in 72,000. He lost anyway.

History provides endless examples of odds even longer than that...

Ø Thomas Jefferson and John Adams were the only signers of the Declaration of Independence to become president. They are also the only two presidents to have died on the same day. That day was July 4, 1826, the 50th anniversary of the signing. Jefferson’s last words were, “Is it the fourth?” Adams’s last words were, “Thomas Jefferson survives.” He was wrong; Jefferson had died a few hours before. President James Monroe also died on July 4, in 1831.

Ø Of the dozen or so most significant men of the 19th century, two, Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin, were born on the same day, Feb. 12, 1809. Lincoln was born in a dirt-floored one-room log cabin 3 miles south of Hodgenville, Ky., Darwin in upper-middle-class comfort in Shrewsbury, England.

Ø In the 1940s, the president of General Motors and the president of General Electric were each named Charles E. Wilson. They weren’t related. They were known as Engine Charlie and Electric Charlie to keep them straight.

Ø Chief Justice Earl Warren was succeeded on the Supreme Court by Chief Justice Warren Earl Burger.

Ø The town of Codell, Kan., founded in 1888, had never been struck by a tornado until it was hit on May 20, 1916. It was struck again on May 20, 1917, and yet again, this time severely, on May 20, 1918. It has never been hit since.

Ø In his only novel, “The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket,” published in 1838, Edgar Allan Poe tells a story of a shipwreck where the starving survivors draw lots to see who will be killed so that the others can survive by eating his flesh. The man who lost was named Richard Parker. In 1884, a British yacht named Mignonette was lost in the South Atlantic. The survivors decided to sacrifice one so that the others could live. The man killed was named Richard Parker.

Ø The number of documented cases of meteorites striking a house is extremely small. Only three are known to have occurred in the U.S. in the 20th century. But two of those houses are in the town of Wethersfield, Conn., 13.1 square miles in size. They were struck only 11 years apart, in 1971 and 1982. There were no injuries in either case.

Ø On Aug. 18, 1913, a roulette wheel in Monte Carlo came up black 26 times in a row. The odds against that happening are approximately 136,823,183 to 1.

Ø A total of 112 men died in the course of building Hoover Dam. The first person killed was J.C. Tierney, who drowned on Dec. 20, 1922, as he was surveying for a location for the dam in the treacherous waters of the Colorado River. The last man lost died on Dec. 20, 1935, exactly 13 years later. He was Patrick Tierney, J.C.’s son, who fell off an intake tower shortly before construction was completed.

Ø The RMS Titanic had two far less famous sister ships, the older Olympic and the younger Britannic. They were a hard-luck class. On Sept. 20, 1911, when the HMS Hawke collided with the Olympic, both ships were badly damaged but no lives were lost. On April 14, 1912, the Titanic hit an iceberg and sank in mid-Atlantic with the loss of 1,500 lives. On Nov. 21, 1916, the Britannic, which had been converted into a hospital ship after World War I broke out, was hit by a mine in the Aegean Sea and sank with the loss of 30 lives. On board all three ships at the times of their respective misfortunes were Violet Jessop, a nurse, and Arthur John Priest, a stoker.

Ø The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austrian throne, set off World War I. He and his wife were riding in a car that bore the license plate A111 118. The war ended four years later when the armistice came into effect on 11/11/18.

Mr. Gordon is author of “An Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American Economic Power.”

 

Would Mr. John Steele Gordon kid us?

Smartfella

 

The Mother Of All Things To Worry About

The News Media loves to scare all those it comes in contact with. I am not ready to label this as the Essence of Evil but I do wish they would ease up a bit.

One of the best examples of their unending desire to make us worry is Hurricane Season. More often than not their scare predictions turn out to be not as bad as predicted.

I am not saying I wish I lived where this latest Storm of the Century has passed but our weathermen were talking about this one as the Storm of the Century when it was a Category 4 (and predicted to be a Category 5) and still calling it the Storm of the Century when it was down to a Category 1.

 

Weathermen love to make us worry. They can’t help themselves but this one made me go over the edge...

Ø I heard a Talking Reporting Head say on TV that, even though the winds of Florence were down to only 100 mph, this was twice as high as recent hurricanes.

Ø I shouted at her but she did not hear me, “Half of a hundred is 50 mph! 50 mph Is Not A Hurricane! Hurricanes don’t become Hurricanes until they reach 75 mph!” (I shout at TVs a lot.)

 

This posting is getting near the Bottom Line so I better tell you the Bottom Line I referred to in the Subject of this Blog Posting...

The Mother of All Things to Worry About

This is the first time they have used this new worry and you can bet it won’t be the last because it scared the people in Nebraska...

This Hurricane Was Expected To Dump 10 Trillion Gallons Of Water On The Good Ole USofA!

They can’t know how many Trillion Gallons it will dump! (As I have been known to do in past blogs, I feel obligated to point out that 10 Trillion is 10 Thousand Billion.)

 

When I heard this 10 Trillion Gallons Prediction I shouted at the TV, “You can’t know that!” but I still worried about this new worry they saddled me with.

 

I have to admit they got to me. They succeeded in increasing my Worry Factor and weathermen all over the east coast of the Good Ole USofA fell asleep that night with a smile on their collective faces.

 

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

Lagniappe:

I’ve been asked about where I got the 10 Trillion Gallons of Rain Figure I used in this posting. Could that possible mean there are those who think I made this figure up. Oh ye of little faith...

Ø He bets 10 trillion:
http://fortune.com/2018/09/13/hurricane-florence-rain-totals-10-million-gallons/
            The storm could dump as much as 10 trillion gallons of rain on North Carolina alone, according to meteorologist Ryan Maue of weathermodels.com. That’s higher than the maximum capacity of Lake Mead, the reservoir that serves water to Arizona, California, and Nevada. (To visualize that, the lake is currently only filled to 38% of its capacity.)
            Maue’s prediction is based off of the seven-day rainfall summary from the National Weather Service, factoring in the average and maximum rainfall estimates.
            He further notes that the initial estimates from Harvey were much lower than the actual totals. (Harvey ultimately dropped 33 trillion gallons of rain on Southeast Texas and Louisiana.)

Ø  He raises himself to 18 trillion: https://www.lmtonline.com/news/science/article/Truly-deep-Florence-to-dump-18-trillion-gallons-13229992.php
            Meteorologist Ryan Maue of weathermodels.com calculates that Hurricane Florence is forecast to dump about 18 trillion gallons of rain over a week over the North Carolina, South Carolinas, Virginia, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky and Maryland. It doesn't include rain after it dissipates and its remnants circle back to the northeast.
            That much rain is 2.4 trillion cubic feet (68 billion cubic meters). It's enough to cover Manhattan with nearly 3,800 feet (1.1 kilometers) of water, more than twice as high as the island's tallest building, One World Trade Center.
            Florence's 18 trillion gallons is as much water as there is in the entire Chesapeake Bay. It's also enough to cover the entire state of Texas with nearly 4 inches (10 centimeters) of water.

 

 

If Our Federal Government Sees A Significant Threat To The Citizens Of The Good Ole USofA And Decides To Take Immediate Action To Remove That Threat, How Long Does It Take To Do Immediate?

This bit of Foolishness is going to point out how slow our Federal Government can be when it sets out to fix something that really needs to be fixed and it recognizes that something as a Great Danger to the citizens of the Good Ole USofA.

 

The Great Danger I am talking about is the fact that our Social Security Numbers are used by Medicare as the Medicare Identification Number.

 

Being slow to fix this obvious problem is one thing but the larger stupid is how dangerous it was for Medicare to ever start using such a sensitive number in the first place.

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The Law ... H.R 2 of the One Hundred Fourteenth Congress of the United States of America

On January 6, 2015, to protect seniors from identity theft, President Obama signed a bill that requires the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to issue new Medicare Cards that Don’t Display, Code or Embed Social Security Numbers.

 

Some Background...

On 4/29/15 in a communication from the Office of Inspector General of Social Security Administration this was said...

 

--> Fella did the Bolding and Underlining below. <--  

• For more than a decade, we and other Federal Agencies have recommended taking SSNs off of Medicare Cards.
• U.S. Rep. Sam Johnson, Chairman of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Security, has long advocated removing SSNs from Medicare cards. Johnson once said to the New York Times, “The Social Security number is the key to identity theft, and thieves are having a field day with seniors’ Medicare cards”.
• The 4,500+ seniors who are enrolling in Medicare every day are receiving Medicare Cards with their SSNs on them.
• In 2006, we recommended that Social Security encourage HHS to modernize the Medicare Card.
• In a memorandum to the heads of federal departments and agencies in May 2007, Clay Johnson III, deputy director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, said they should draw up plans to eliminate the unnecessary collection and use of Social Security numbers within 18 months. (Fella received his new card 9/12/18. This proves that “within 18 months” in Washington takes more than 11 years.)
• In 2008, we reported that, despite the increasing threat of identity theft, Medicare continued to issue cards that displayed SSNs and unnecessarily placed millions of individuals at risk for identity theft.
• On June 22, 2008, the Inspector General called for immediate action to remove SSNs from Medicare Cards. (Fella received his new card 9/12/18. This proves that “immediate” action in Washington takes more than 10 years.)
• With a stolen SSN, identity thieves can commit any number of financial crimes in the victim’s name or they can just steal money from the victim.
• Thieves might attempt to change the victim’s Social Security direct deposit information or redirecting benefits to other accounts.

 

I wonder how many Vacations, Home Work Periods, Recesses, Happy Hours and Post Office Renamings have taken place while thieves were having a field day with our Medicare Cards with our Social Security Numbers on them.

 

Senator Snidley Whiplash defended Home Work Periods by saying, “Why, son, Home Work Periods are very important! Why, son, this is when we go home and get our marching orders from the folks back home”.

 

Fella would like to peck out what those Ignored Marching Orders are... Senator, you have sat there too long for any good that you are doing! In the name of God, Go!

 

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

 

Lagniappe: At least we have the protection of only being asked the Last 4 Digits of our SSNs. Thank heaven that the Good Ole USofA has the Common Sense to be cautious about my SSN...Or does it have?

 

The Dangers of Giving Out the Last 4 Digits of Your SSN

The first 3-digits of your SSN represent the geographic region you were in when you applied for your SSN. (If the thief knows where you were born, he usually already has these 3-digits.) The second 2-digits represent a group number that is assigned for administrative purposes. (Thieves have little problem determining 2-digit numbers.) The last 4-digits are the only part of your SSN that makes your number unique from all others. This means that giving out the last 4-digits of your SSN is riskier than any other part of your SSN.

I Just Became Rich in 93 Minutes And 1 Second (Part 3)

(Originally Published on 1/13/11 and Modified 9/4/17 and Republished 9/12/18)

 

Today, 9/12/18, this Stroke of My Genius is republished because of the Hurricane that is headed (hour after hour) toward the Carolinas as I peck this out.

 

As you watch the pictures of the disaster that is about to capture our attention (hour after hour) remember, if the pictures seem familiar, it’s because they are familiar.

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It came to me in a flash (that’s the 1 second referred to in the subject line above). I then spent 93 minutes calling the heads of the news departments at NBC, CBS, ABC, the AP, Fox, CNN, TNT, Reuters, MSNBC, CNBC and a couple of others. The brilliance of my proposal was seen immediately and was accepted by them as a real concrete way for each of them to save a lot of money.

 

I proposed they pay me a minuscule remuneration in the form of 5% of all the money my brilliant idea would save them in the next 25 years. They accepted my payment plan as quickly as they had accepted my original money saving idea. That’s it. I am rich!

 

Did I forget to tell you exactly what was my Brilliant Money Making, Money Saving and Make Me Rich Idea? I apologize. Here it is in all its brilliant simplicity...

Ø I was watching the news broadcast on TV today about the floods in Australia.

Ø I said to myself, “Self, that looks like the pictures of the floods in Iowa last year”.

Ø That’s when it hit me.

Ø The news organizations spend millions of dollars every year sending cameramen all over the world to take pictures of one disaster after another.

Ø The pictures they send back all look the same as the pictures of the last disaster.

Ø What they needed to do is build up a video bank of all the various disasters that we see over and over each night on TV: Floods, Fires, Earthquakes, Tornadoes, Hurricanes, Rabbits Attacking Presidents, etc.

Ø Then when one of these bad things happen again they just go to their computers and pull out a stored video of that particular type of happening and send it out over the airways for all of America to be amazed at or saddened by.

Ø They have then saved the expense of salary for the travelers, meals for the travelers, airplane tickets for the travelers, new equipment having to be purchased, worn out equipment that needed to be replaced, shirts and baseball caps with logos on them and so on and so forth.

 

Did I not tell you it was brilliantly simple?

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I just got a phone call I got from a cameraman from NBC. He told me that he was going to sue me.

 

At first, I assumed that he was suing me because he was losing his job. I was surprised when he told me that he was suing me for Nifty Idea Infringement.

 

He explained he had been putting my brilliant idea into actual practice for 32 years and I had stolen it from him. My idea was his idea.

 

During his 32 year career at NBC he said he had sent in On-The-Spot “Live” Disaster Film/Tapes/Videos from 4,286 Floods, Fires, Earthquakes, Tornadoes, Hurricanes, Rabbits Attacking Presidents, etc. and no one had ever taken note that the current disaster looked a lot like all prior disasters.

 

The only one that never was repeated was that Rabbit Attacking that President.

 

All this time he had never left Altoona, PA.

 

I offered him 2% of my 5%. He accepted. Now we are both going to be rich.

 

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

The F Word is OK

USA Today 10/8/03...U2's Bono was found not guilty by the FCC after using the F Word on that year’s January Golden Globe telecast. The FCC said he used the word as an adjective and using it as an adjective is OK because that means it was not used to “describe sexual...activities”.

How sure are we that the people who heard him (especially the children) thought to themselves, ''Oh my heavens! Did you hear what that terrible person said! ... On the other hand, he did use it as an adjective. I understand fully. More people ought to use that bad word as an adjective and the world would be a better place.''

(To be perfectly honest most Modern Day Americans do not know what an “adjective” is.)

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What if those Golden Globe Officials made a mistake and invited me to their Golden Microphone at their next ceremony and I used the F Word? Since Bono was exonerated, I’m sure, because of his ground breaking precedent, I would be exonerated also...Or would I be?

 

Ground Breaking Precedent or not, me thinks this is what will actually happen to Fella...

Ø The Golden Globe Officials and Celebrities in the Golden Globe Audience would all turn to their collective selves and say, “Who is that that just used the F Word as an adjective?”

Ø In short order they would all come to the conclusion that I was a nobody but, most important of all, I was not a Celebrity.

Ø I would be immediately thrown out on my ear.

Ø Then the FCC would find me, fine me and bring charges for Not Being Bono.

Ø I will have to get a lawyer.

Ø I will have to spend all my life’s savings paying my lawyer.

Ø My Lawyer will buy a Lexus.

Ø Everyone who had ever known me will rush in to testify that they never heard of me.

Ø Eventually, I would get a Certified Letter in my jail cell from the US Congress that would read as follows:
Dear Fella,
You are not very smart.
It will be signed, “535 Smartfellas”.

 

Rest assured, if that Golden Globe Mistake Letter ever arrives in my mail, I will not accept its invitation to attend. I’m smarter than that.

 

Would I kid u?

Smartfella