Be careful when you are presented with a Bright Idea. Check out the source. The Bright Idea may have come from a Dimwit.
It is not a Giant Leap for Mankind to say that the person who bought a professional sports team is not the owner of the professional sports team he bought but that’s what “they” are saying.
I hope that one day “they” will be brought under control but right now “they” are having their way with us.
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The first time I heard, “The Owner Does Not Own That Team”, it did not come from a disgruntled player but, instead, it came out of the mouth of the Commissioner of the National Basketball Association.
Changing the word from “Owner” to “Guardian” (or “Custodian” or “Keeper”) does not convey anything other than Foolishness to this Fella.
The Owner (now called “Guardian”) paid Millions of Dollars for a Sports Franchise and he has also acquired the right to make or lose a lot of money. It also means he now has many new responsibilities…
- He pays the rent on the Stadium where his team plays.
- He pays the player’s salaries that play in the stadium he rents for his players to play in.
- He pays for the clothing the players wear when they play the games.
- He pays for the Travel Expenses (air fare, lodging, food) when they go out of town to play games.
- When the players get hurt he pays for their medical treatment.
- When they do not play because they are hurt he continues to pay their salaries.
I’ve mentioned in one of my earlier Blog Postings that at the Surrender Ceremony at Yorktown the British Army Band played The World Turned Upside Down. The way things are going, this song just might become #1 on the TV Show Your Hit Parade (if we still had a TV Show Your Hit Parade).
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Today everything is Changing and/or under attack to Change…
- There is a dramatic rise in Divorce and Cohabitation rather than Marriage.
- Some retail clothing stores are no longer selling Blue Clothing for Male Babies and Pink Clothing for Female Babies.
- We are holding panel discussions about whether or not there are such things as Males and Females.
- The percentage of Americans who Don’t Identify With Any Religious Group is up to 26% from 10% in 2010.
- In Africa Christians are being brutally slaughtered by the tens of thousands and no one is taking notice.
>>>There is always the hope that we will take notice, except during Football Season…Or will we? - Candidates for the Presidency of the United States are saying that money is owed by people who never owned slaves to people who never were salves.
- People are suing because they ate a peanut, smelled a peanut or saw a person eat a peanut.
>>>Each year in the Good Ole USofA about 100 people die because they ate a Peanut.
>>>We ought to ban the Peanut!
>>>Each year about 100 people die because of Forklift Truck Accidents.
>>>We ought to ban the Forklift Truck!
- People are falling to the ground because they bumped into things, tripped over things or walked into fountains in malls while they were looking down at their cell phones and then getting up and staggering away while looking down at their cell phones.
- People all over the Good Ole USofA are championing the Health Benefits of Marijuana and people who are against the spread of Marijuana are being labeled Out of Touch with Reality. (Actually a lot of people are questioning whether Reality is Real.)
- People are not paying attention to driving while driving cars…
>>>They drive with dogs in their laps.
>>>They drive while talking on their cell phones.
>>>They drive while eating.
>>>I was stopped at a light a few years ago watching a lady stopped at a light to my right. She had a dog going nuts in her lap because it was excited about something or other. She was talking on her cell phone with one hand. As she pulled away from the light she reached up with her other hand and took a bite out of a sub sandwich.
>>>You might say she got the Hat Trick. (The term "hat trick" as it relates to sports actually originated in British cricket. A bowler who retired three batsmen with three consecutive balls was entitled to a new hat at the expense of the club to commemorate this feat.) - Waiters are walking around our restaurants covered with Tattoos…
>>>One of these waiters told me he paid $1,700 for the single arm he had tattooed.
>>>Does waiting tables pay this much?
>>>Fella Side Note: My Dermatologist told me that Tattooed Skin is hard to diagnose for Skin Cancer.
>>>When lists are published naming the Top 10 Richest People in the Good Ole USofA we now see that 5 of them are Tattoo Artist. (Did you just shout at your computer, “Fella, you made that up!” OK, I admit I did make that up…Or did I?) - Politicians who propose to Lower Taxes are being labeled Evil and politicians who propose to raise taxes are being called Champions of the People.
- Dogs are leading people around retail stores that used to have signs on the front door saying... "No Dogs Allowed".
- As I stagger around my local park trying to keep my heart from attacking me, it is not uncommon for me to see other parkers being pulled around by 4 to 5 to as many as 6 dogs.
>>>To be perfectly honest, the 6 dogged people were 2 people (3 dogs each).
>>>I actually got into a discussion about marriage with one of the two 6 dog people and he told me the only reason he got married was so he could have someone to handle the other 3 dogs. (I did see 2 people being pulled by 6 dogs but I made up the part about their marriage arrangement…Or did I?)
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From watching TV Commercials we are all now aware that Dogs Can Talk. How long will it be before the dogs will be telling us what to do?
I think they would not dare to tell us what to do if we owned them instead of just standing guard over them.
We used to have Guard Dogs but now we have Guard People.
Would I kid u?
Smartfella
Lagniappe: In preparing this Foolishness I DuckDuckGoed “expensive cell phones”. I was looking to see if there were any phones costing more than the $1,400 phone I read about the other day. The answer is yes there are! How much higher? If I told you they can cost into the millions of dollars, you would think I was kidding you. Click below to see if I was kidding you… https://www.wonderslist.com/10-most-expensive-mobile-phones-in-the-world/
