Being Smart Can Be Confusing

 

Those radio talk shows where those really sharp money people give advice about finances do a real public service. They logically explain heavy financial planning so that light-weight every day money handlers can understand their money. They do it so logically and simply that even an Idiot can understand their message.

I may be a Smart Fella but I can still become confused. A Smart Money Advice Manager confused me with this bit of Financial Information...

Too many parents have been burned because they have signed on as Co-Signers to their children’s loans and when their children defaulted the parents have found themselves responsible for the loan. As a result more and more parents have been refusing to Co-Sign loans.

The Finance Industry has been getting the parents back on board by setting them up, not as Co-Signers but making them Only Responsible for the Payments.

Now there is a difference without a difference if I have ever seen one. Maybe I am still smart after all because I don’t see the difference.

Would I kid u?

Smartfella Still

Lagniappe: 50 years ago I was a Zone Manager for Ford Motor Company and I traveled by car to the car dealers in my zone 5 days a week. Some of the dealers used to call some of us Zone Managers, “Empty Suits”. I’m sure my dealers did not call me that...Or am I? One Friday I was almost back from my week’s travels and a local Radio Personality was talking his head through my car radio and he said...“On my show I have contests each day that even an Idiot can win. So, all you Idiots be sure to tune in every day”. I’m sure he wasn’t talking directly to me...Or am I?

The Immune System Is In Vogue

 

I am The Noticer and you are not but have you noticed that the easiest way to sell darn near anything in the Good Ole USofA today is to claim that whatever you are selling is Good for Our Immune Systems?

Ø Vitamins that we have known and taken for years which used to claim to be good for something or other inside our bodies now claim to be especially beneficial to our Immune Systems.

Ø Foods we once ate because they tasted good now purport to Benefit Our Immune Systems.

Ø I heard a Talking Head at the end of his news report tell me that Sunshine contributes to a Robust Immune System. He finished up with, “Oh yea, it is also gives you Vitamin D and Skin Cancer”.

If our Congress were not so busy doing Silly Crazy Stuff, I would write them a letter and draw this to their Divided Attention but, I am also an expert on Wasting Time, and I know that would be a Big Waste of Time.

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Here Comes the Serious Foolishness Part of this Blog Posting

I do think that these claims are getting out of hand...

Ø Automobile Manufacturers are pitching to us, “If we ever get enough Semiconductor Chips to start making cars again, be sure to come into one of our cobwebbed covered dealerships and buy a car or two. An independent test by independent testers has shown that each mile you drive in one of our cars boosts your immune System 3 times more than any of our competitor’s cars will boost your Immune System”.

Ø This one bugs me...“Our bug killer does not work that well when it comes to killing bugs but inhaling the bug spray while you are spraying it in the direction of those bugs smiling back at you will Boost Your Immune System”. (Bet you did not know that bugs can smile.)

Ø Pandemic Obsessed Fearful of Everything People had stopped going down to the Bottom of the Grand Canyon. The National Park Service reversed this trend by claiming that the air you breathe at the bottom of the Grand Canyon is “Perfected” by Mother Nature. This perfection comes about because of a combination of River Water Evaporation, Pine Tree Excretions, Bear Poo Odor and Hiker Sweat. This natural process turns the air down there into an excellent way to boost even the most Anemic of Anemic Immune Systems.

LexisNexis reports that “Immune System” has forged ahead of “Transparency” in usage by those of us who once lived happily in the Good Ole USofA but who are now too uneasy about everything going on around us to be as happy as they once were.

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

Lagniappe: If you search the Internet with a phrase like “products that deliver immunity”, you can then spend the rest of the day Reading All About Them.

Here is how some of the manufacturers described their products...

Ø Vitamin C Daily Immune Support, Pink Lemonade

Ø Absolute Nutrition, Immunity, Zinc with Vitamin C & Vitamin B

Ø Advanced Immune Defense, 6-in-1 Powerful Blend of Vitamin C

Ø D3, Zinc, Elderberries, Garlic Bulb, Echinacea - Supports Overall Health, Provides Vital Nutrients & Antioxidants

Ø More Vitamin C than 10 Oranges with Other Key Antioxidants

Ø Enhanced Immune Support Formula

Ø Delivers Vitamin D, Antioxidants and a Proprietary Complex with Wellmune, Betaglucans and Arabinogalactans

Ø Daily Immune Support and Botanicals

Ø Immunity Power + Vitamin C

Ø Immunity with Elderberry, Zinc, & Vitamin C – Supports Respiratory Health & Immune Defense

Ø Immunity System Booster Supplement USDA Organic Immune Support with Vitamin C, Oregano, Moringa, Plus Potent 4:1 Extracts: Elderberry, Astragalus & Ginger

They must be selling well because a whole bunch of the products are listed as, “Out Of Stock”.

If you were to take about 10 of these products and drank them in a kind of Immunity Cocktail, after you died your attending physician would have to remove your heart, put it on the floor and beat it to death with a stick.

Prego Used to Advertise All the Good Things In Their Spaghetti Sauce by Saying, “It’s In There”.

 

Chicken Sandwiches are all the rage today but not all of What's In There is good for us.

Much of what is in these sandwiches need not be inside your body, at least not in these quantities. I just got back from a week at a Dude Ranch in Wyoming and I now know a thing or two about horses. These Chicken Sandwiches are big enough to choke a horse. They are definitely big enough to Choke an Artery.

I have a personal favorite Fried Chicken Fast Food Chain. I have not eaten a single piece of my favorite chicken since last year because I am on a diet. My favorite chain’s Big Chicken Sandwich is one of the biggest.

I am not going to tell you which chain it is because I don’t want them to go out of business. My plan is, when my doctor tells me I have a week to live, I am going to spend that week in one of their outlets Pigging Out (or is that Chickening Out?).

Be careful, just reading these quantities can cause you to gain 2 pounds...

Ø 700 Calories (Wow! My diet allows me only 1,500 calories a day.)

Ø 42 Grams of Fat (Wow!)

Ø 14 Grams of Saturated Fat (Wow!)

Ø 1.5 Grams of Trans Fat (Wow!)

Ø 1,443 Milligrams of Sodium (Wow!) (It could be worse. One of the competing Chicken Sandwiches has 2,140 Milligrams.)

Ø 28 Grams of Protein (This is the good part.)

If any of you are lucky enough to be given a week to live at the same time as I am given a week to live, let’s hook up. I can guarantee you we will have a week to remember the rest of our lives!

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

Let’s Think Before We Spend Trillions of Dollars

In preparing for this Blog Posting I became as confused as you are about just how much our Congress is intending to spend. Every time I turn around there is a new shocking number to be shocked about.

I even stopped turning around but the Gargantuan Money Estimates kept coming my way. I’m having a hard time believing what I am hearing.

Members of our Congress are talking about spending $3.5 to $5 Trillion. Some are talking about spending more than $5 Trillion. The other night I heard $7 to $8 Trillion come out of my TV.

I know that Congress does not understand what a Trillion is. The worst part is it is Football Season and the American Public is Football Distracted until after the Super Bowl. Then they will be into Basketball’s March Madness and the NBA Playoffs. Then, before you know it, it’s Football Season.

My Dear Readers, the wheels may be about to come off the wagon.

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In this Blog Posting I’ll use $5 Trillion.  I can just hear Members of Congress, after reading this Blog Posting, standing up in their respective chambers and saying, “By golly 5 ain’t much. It’s not even 6. Why it’s hardly more than 4”.

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How Big Is A Trillion?

The Congressmen who stand up to propose to spend “only” 5 Trillion Dollars ought to be required to say...

I propose to spend 5 Thousand Billion Dollars!

Did that confuse you? Would this help?...

I propose to spend 5 Billion Thousands of Dollars!

How many times have we heard Members of Congress say something like this when they were asked, “What do you want to spend this money on?”...

I am proud to say I propose to research of the age old question, “If a frog’s front legs were big like their hind legs, would they then be able to jump in both directions?”

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I just found out that the most famous quote of the Late Senator Everett Dirksen of Illinois was never said by him. He did come close many times because he understood Billions. The famous Dirksen quote that he never said was...

 "A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money"

If he were alive today he would be turning over in his grave at the way the word “Trillion” is in vogue in the halls of our Congress.

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

 

Lagniappe: Fella’s Easy to Understand Guide for Members of Congress. Now they are sure to understand ...Or are they?

Trillion...5,000,000,000,000 = 5 thousand billions of dollars

Billion...5,000,000,000 = 5 thousand millions of dollars

Million...5,000,000 = 5 thousand thousands of dollars

The April 8, 1966 Time Magazine Cover Asked, “Is God Dead?” and God Has Been Fighting a Losing Battle Ever Since That Question Was Published

If God has survived up until now, the new President of Harvard’s Chaplains is very likely going to attempt to drive the last nail into God’s Coffin during his tenure in office.

First of all we need to try and remember what the word “Chaplain” means...Or is that Used to Mean?

According to Merriam Webster Chaplain means... “a person chosen to conduct religious exercises”.

This leads Fella to put his tongue in his cheek and ask, Is a Chaplain who conducts Non-Religious Exercises actually conducting Religious Exercises when he conducts Non-Religious Exercises because the word “Religious” is contained in Non-Religious? (That makes as much sense as lots of other things that are happening in our world today).

The New Yorker Magazine

September 20, 2021 Issue

Harvard’s Atheist-Chaplain Controversy

The selection of Greg Epstein, a humanist rabbi, as the president of Harvard’s chaplains led to a small uproar among the school’s other religious leaders. Will it inspire a come-to-Jesus moment of the secular variety?

By Nick Paumgarten

At the end of August, the Times ran a story about a Harvard chaplain named Greg Epstein, an avowed atheist and “humanist rabbi,” who had been selected by his fellow-chaplains at the university (there are more than thirty of them, of diverse faiths) to serve as their president. Here was an ivory-tower man-bites-dog tale that elicited some context about the ascendancy of secularism, both at a particular institution (one founded, almost four centuries ago, essentially as a seminary) and in the culture at large. “We don’t look to a god for answers,” Epstein told the paper. “We are each other’s answers.”

In response to this relatively mild provocation, readers aligned themselves according to their own cosmologies. In the comments online, nonbelievers, generally, expressed versions of “Right on!,” while believers tended toward “How could they?” For the former, it was good to encounter an affirmation that a godless earthling could pursue spiritual and pastoral paths. To the latter, it seemed absurd to apply the word “chaplain” to a nonreligious, chapel-less counsellor, and to elevate such a figure to a position of authority over people of faith; would the College of Cardinals elect a nihilist Pope?

I did the underlining of...

Ø led to a small uproar among the school’s other religious leaders

Ø who had been selected by his fellow-chaplains

Does this confuse you as much as it confuses me?...

There is an small uproar among the school’s other religious leaders who had elected him?

I can’t help but think...

Ø If they are upset about his election why did they elect him?

Ø Maybe that’s why their small uproar is small uproar and not a large uproar.

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Are you ready for the Foolishness...Or Is It?

What’s next?

Ø In his Coronation Speech the new Commissioner of Baseball said he hates Baseball and he vowed to work as hard as he could to wipe Baseball from the face of the earth.

Ø The new Chairman of the Board at Weight Watchers weighs 485 Pounds and during his first address to the membership he attacked skinny people worldwide while he ate 6 Chocolate Banana Coconut Cream Pies in order to Set The Tone for his Course-Changing Administration.

Ø In his Appointment Acceptance Speech the new United States Secretary of Defense apologized to Hitler for all the bullets American Forces sent in the general direction of the German Army during WW2. He stated that he has done research on the Internet and discovered that Hitler told his minions, on more than one occasion, that he did not appreciate the way the Allied Forces were defending themselves. Armed with this new information he pledged to send U.S Armed Forces into the next World War Unarmed.

I do not apologize for getting carried away with this Blog Posting. I think “they” (whomever they are) got carried away before I got carried away.

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

I’m not sure why I put this picture here. It must have been the word, “Aaugh!”.

You Are Evil If You Are Successful...Or are u?

  

I notice things but you already know that. Here is something that I noticed while reading through the Internet and it made me think, “Aghhhh!!”

I was reading an article about the Pandemic and this jumped out at me...

Ø The article was making the point that some people became wealthier during that Pandemic.

Ø Take my word for it these Wealthier People were painted as Evil.

Ø How dare them become Wealthier while others were suffering!

While I was trying to understand why Successful meant Evil, my noticing gaze fell upon this “Proof” of Evil the article gave me...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk became 600% richer during the Pandemic!

I will now use my famous Bullet Point Format to throw myself into the Stupid Heap with the Stupid’s...

Ø How dare Elon Musk become rich while we are not becoming rich!

Ø How dare Elon Musk climb up the ladder of money while we are not climbing!

Ø The only way Elon Musk and his Ilk (I love the word “Ilk”) could have done this is to take money and food and stuff from the rest of us!

OK, I’m done being Stupid. Let’s see what Elon Musk did to become such an Evil Terrible Person.

This comes from the Internet...

How does one person balance diverse interests and manage successful endeavors in Space Technology, Sustainable Energy and the Internet? From his early days teaching himself to program computers, Elon Musk has worked to improve the quality of life for everyone through technology.

From the idea of "aggregating all of your financial services seamlessly" to multiplanetary existence for the human species, Elon Musk is driven by ideas that propose to fundamentally change the way we live. Building on the financial success of his Internet ventures, the entrepreneur-inventor has gone on to take risk, reward and unconventional thinking to new levels entirely.

A serial entrepreneur who bought his first computer at the age of 10 and sold his first commercial software at the age of 12, Elon Musk decided to get into “three important areas” after obtaining an undergraduate degree in economics: the Internet, Space, and Clean Energy. As a cofounder of X.com (later PayPal), SpaceX and Tesla Motors, he has created organizations focused on commercializing innovations in all three.

To me (The Noticer) a Jump-Out-At-You Phrase above was, “has gone on to take risk”. I wonder if the “genius” who wrote the words that got me started on this Blog Posting (Tesla CEO Elon Musk became 600% richer during the Pandemic) has taken any risks of note lately or is he busy working on his array of Snacks, Cheese Dips, Humus and Beer for the Big Football Weekend coming up in 2 days?

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

Lagniappe: SpaceX does not shy away from the impossible? SpaceX made it possible for their rockets to come back from flight and land on Earth and be used again, instead of falling into the ocean never to be seen again. Is that Evil or Genius?

Do You Use Their Gasoline Because Of What’s In Their Gasoline?

 

If you make it a point to use Shell Gasoline and, if I asked you why you make it a point to use Shell Gasoline, and you responded, “Because Shell Gasoline has V-Power”, I would wonder if you were smart enough to have a Driver’s License.

I noticed during the 4,391 mile road trip I just completed that I would actually have to spend $.70 extra to get V-Power because it only comes in Shell’s Premium Gasoline. All these years I thought the "benefits" of V-Power (whatever they are) were in all grades of Shell Gasoline!

What are the benefits of V-Power? Shell has never have told me. Have they told you? If they told you, why did you not tell me?

But Wait! ... Wait! (As they say on those “As Seen on TV” commercials) you get more than just V-Power with Shell Premium Gasoline, you also get...

Ø Nitro+ (what is that?).

Ø Plus you get 12X Protection (what is that?).

Would we be lining up to buy Shell Gasoline if they said their Gasoline contained Snake Oil or Dirt from Apple Orchards in New Guinea or Oatmeal?

Very likely, as long as it contains something, we would pull in and Fill ‘Er Up! (I never said we were not all collectively Silly).

The “X” in 12X Protection probably means 12 Times Protection but Protection from what? I’m not saying the last sentence of this Blog Posting is true because I am just playing Goofy...Or am I?

Could it possibly be it is 12 Times Protection from the engine destroying effects of V-Power and/or Nitro+?

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

I Would Like To Be Of Help to You but I Can’t Explain Things I Don’t Understand

I apologize for all the ads that now appear throughout my Blog Postings. It was not always that way. Google BlogSpot does this. I have no control over these ad insertions. I know it makes my Interesting Commentary harder to read. Stick with it because it is worth the effort...Or is it?

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 When the Supreme Court handed down its now-infamous Roe v. Wade decision, it did so based on a new, previously undefined "right of privacy" which it "discovered" in so-called "emanations" of "penumbrae" of the Constitution.

I will now proceed to let you figure out the above 35 Words because I can’t be of any help to you but I know you can handle it...Or can you?

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

Truth Isn’t Always Silly But It Is More Fun When It Is

 

My local paper keeps telling me things that are True But Silly. This is the latest headline to catch my eye...

Georgia Judge Appoints Lawyer to Represent Dog

The case in question is about a Pit Bull that bit a small child. The judge took this drastic action because, if the dog is “convicted”, it could face The Death Penalty.

What’s next for court appointed lawyers?...

The Shirt...

Ø A T-Shirt was arrested in New York City for the message that was written on it.

Ø That offending message was...

“People With Warts In The Middle Of The End Of Their Noses Are Ugly”

Ø The Wart Lovers of America National President happened to be walking by the Offending T-Shirt and he saw what he considered this Crude and Offending Message and was immediately horrified.

Ø He reported the T-Shirt to a near-by Policeman who arrested the T-Shirt on the spot.

The T-Shirt was ordered to Lay For Trial. (Since T-Shirts cannot Stand on their own it could not be ordered to Stand For Trial.)

I can hear the court appointed defense attorney making the following cogent points...

Ø Let’s face it. A T-Shirt should not be persecuted for what is printed on it.

Ø The T-Shirt actually has no control over what is printed on it.

Ø Another actually...Actually people say “T-Shirts Say” but they don’t “say” anything. They are but innocent victims at the mercy of the people who print words on them.

Ø Most of all, let us not forget, T-Shirts Are People Too!

The Open Space...

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Some of you may not be aware that I have the ability to change postings after they have been posted. If any of you would like to add another silly Court Appointed Lawyer Story, I will be more than glad to add your foolishness to my foolishness.

Most of you are hesitant to add comments. If you prefer to write me a personal email with a silly idea to fill in The Open Space above, I will be glad to publish your words and make you as famous as I am famous.

It might make you nervous to contemplate the fact that your words will be read all my followers. Don’t let that bother you. I don’t have that many followers. L

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

Lagniappe: If you are not the type that does what I tell them to do (write me a personal email with a silly idea) and you just prefer to read about Silliness, click here and Read All About It... https://www.iveyengineering.com/hilarious-true-court-cases-wont-believe/

Laws That Prove We Are Silly

The federal government has gone to a lot of trouble to pass laws requiring shippers to make sure that mail order items are received by the customer by the date promised by the shipper...

Ø How will the Feds know if it is or it is not received by the date promised?

Ø Are there bureaucrats with green eye shades and clip boards following the progress of each shipped item?

Ø Now you know why the sellers always say it will take 6 to 8 weeks for the product to arrive and then it arrives in about a week.

Ø Shippers are not silly but Congress is.

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The buying customer can dispute the charges if an item was bought on-line but it was never received by the buyer...

Ø We need a law for this?

Ø We are not capable of disputing charges for something not received without Federal Help?

Ø Without this law would we be saying things like this to ourselves?... ”Self, I did not get what I am being billed for. I sure wish there were a Federal Law that required sellers to actually give us what we order from them. Oh well, I guess I will send them a check for $500 but this sure does not seem fair”.

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Examples of Laws in My Home State of Georgia That Look Silly...

Ø It’s illegal to give a state senator a speeding ticket when the state assembly is in session in the State of Georgia.

Ø Spitting on sidewalks at night is not allowed in St. Mary’s, Georgia.

Ø The floor of a porno store must be smooth and none absorbent in Roswell, Georgia.

Ø It’s illegal for a chicken to cross the road in Marietta, Georgia.

Ø It’s illegal to say “oh boy” in Jonesboro, Georgia.

Ø It’s illegal to eat chicken with a fork in Gainesville, Georgia.

Ø It’s illegal to play catch with your son on the sidewalk in Dublin, Georgia.

Ø If you want to spit from a moving vehicle it must be a truck in Marietta, Georgia.

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Are you feeling superior to us people from Georgia? Before you get too full of yourself you ought to look up your own State of Residence...Y’all Are Probably Just as Silly as Us Georgians.

To see how Silly, click here... http://www.idiotlaws.com/

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

 

It’s Like Prego. It’s Already In There. If You Have Everything You Want, You Have No Need For Everything You Need.

 

The excerpt below is from an article entitled, “What’s Behind the Push for a Fourth Stimulus Check”. The way things are going we are going to have more Stimulus Checks than there were Rocky Movies. There is a difference between the Rocky Movies and the Stimulus Checks. The Rocky Movies came to an end but the people behind the push for Guaranteed Annual Income show no indication that they are going to stop their demand for more Stimulus Checks.

This is Slick Manipulation. Certainly in the beginning the far greater majority of us would say we were opposed to Guaranteed Annual Income but the Stimulus Check is seen as Temporary and is necessitated by THE Pandemic. After the Pandemic is over some of us feel that all the people who have been getting Stimulus Checks will put up their hand and say, “Stop! That’s enough”. Fella is not Silly enough to believe that’s going to happen.

Within the Excerpt is a link (new analysis) to a very long and very frightening article about what our future might be. Read it, if you must but it just might ruin your day.

The Excerpt: “Despite that financial assistance, millions of Americans remain in financial distress, with about 4 in 10 people saying their income remains below its pre-pandemic levels, according to a survey from financial services firm TransUnion. The pandemic worsened the hardship that many families experienced even before the crisis, with more than 1 in 4 households unable to pay for basics like rent or food in at least one of three years from 2014 to 2016, according to a new analysis of data from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.”

Allow me to introduce you to the Sidney Gotitall Family. This family is one of the 1 in 4 families that were unable to pay for basics like rent or food in at least one of three years from 2014 to 2016. (Do you ever wonder how the people who write article like this come up with such statistics? I sure do.)

Why did the Sidney Gotitall Family run out of money to pay rent back in August 2015? Thanks to my Potted Plant Outfit I know the why and now, thanks to my little known Blog, Foolishness...Or Is It?, you are going to know the why also.

Rather than pass judgment on Sidney (something we used to be able to do but have not been able to do since somewhere around 2012) I’ll simply list a few Could It Possibly Be’s...

• Could It Possibly Be because Sidney recently bought a 75 Inch Flat Screen TV?
  >When asked why he felt he needed a 75 Inch Flat Screen TV he responded, “I was comfortable with my 50 Inch Flat Screen TV but I knew I needed bigger when My Cousin Vinnie bought his 65 Inch Flat Screen TV. I had never been behind Vinnie by any measure of anything that is measurable until then. I felt sick. I felt inadequate. I felt ashamed. I did the only thing any red blooded American would have done. I jumped back in front of Vinnie where I belonged. It’s at times like these when I am thankful for my Costco Executive Card Membership!”
• Could It Possibly Be because Sidney drives a Fully Electric, Fully Connected, BMW iX Sports Activity Vehicle?
  > When asked why he felt he needed a Fully Electric, Fully Connected, BMW iX Sports Activity Vehicle he responded, “I can’t believe it! You dare ask me this question! I will not apologize for my determination to Save The Planet so that future generations can have a future!”
• Could It Possibly Be because Sidney goes to the South of France every February to get away from it all?
  >The look of distain that Sidney gave the lady with the microphone when she asked about his travails to the South of France could have melted another 12 square feet of the Polar Ice Cap. He could hardly contain himself when he replied, “Well I never!” He then walked out of the interview room as he flicked the remote for his Fully Electric, Fully Connected, BMW iX Sports Activity Vehicle so he could get the engine started so he could get the air conditioning started so his ride could be nice and cool when he climbed in.

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I’ll now stop being silly now and dare to make some of you really mad at Fella. Fella does not think that all people who were unable to pay for basics like rent or food in at least one of three years from 2014 to 2016 are throwing their money away willy-nilly on frivolous frivolities. On the other hand I also believe that the people who are proposing increased never-ending ever increasing funding of all of us are pulling the wool over our tax-paying eyes when they tell us that all of us are managing our money using a good common-sense decision making process while keeping in mind that their current income is not a never-ending stream that, if over spent, can be supplemented with what I would call Unearned Income and they would call their Just Desserts. (I do not apologize for the prior sentence being too long. It is too long because it had to be too long.)

If making you laugh will make you less mad at me for daring to say what I think, then read what Merriam-Webster has to say about “Just Desserts and Just Deserts”. If Mr. Merriam and Mr. Webster can laugh at what they put in their Dictionary, we can allow ourselves to allow Fella to poke fun at Child Poverty...Or can we?

The English language is fond of occasionally embracing its whimsical and illogical side, in order to keep things interesting for the people who attempt to use it. For instance, the most common noun form of desert (“arid land with usually sparse vegetation”) is pronounced the same way as the adjectival form of this word (“desolate and sparsely occupied or unoccupied”), but not the same way as the verb (“to withdraw from or leave usually without intent to return”), even though all three words come from the same source (the Latin deserere, “to desert”). The verb desert is pronounced the same way as the dessert you eat after dinner (which comes from the Latin servir, “to serve”). And, to make things even more interesting (by which we mean confusing), there is another noun form of desert, spelled the same as the “arid land” word, but pronounced like the thing one eats after dinner, and with a meaning that is similar to neither.

OK. Some of you are mad at me again. Will you forgive me if I promise never to be Silly or Foolish in any future Blog Posting? Ok I promise...Or am I serious about this “promise”?

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

 

 

There Is A Worldwide Shortage Of Computer Chips Out There! So What? Here’s What!

The Shortage of Computer Chips is causing all kinds of Consternation all over the World. Don’t look now but Computer Chips are everywhere and seem to be in everything.

A good example is New Cars. Today's average car has between 50 and 150 Computer Chips in them. Those of you who have been reading my Foolishness for awhile already know about my climbing up the Automotive Industry Ladder of Success to the height of my Mediocre Automotive Career. Long ago I can remember being part of a discussion that went something like this...

Ø Did you know that one of our cars now has a computer chip in it.?

Ø No. I did not. Why would we do that?

I get my Toyota’s serviced at a dealership that is probably one of the biggest sales volume dealerships in the Atlanta Metropolitan Area.

They store most of their new car inventory in the big parking lot behind their dealership. In the past I have always seen this lot more than full. By “more than full” I mean all of the parking spaces had cars parked in them and the overflow was parked in the driving aisles blocking access to much of the inventory.

Here are 2 pictures from yesterday that show that the “full” has been taken out of this lot...

The cars on the left are customer’s cars in for service.

The single row of cars on the right is the dealership’s entire New Vehicle Inventory. (They are all Camry’s).

Ø In the old days Henry Ford said, “You can have any color you want, as long as it is black.”

Ø In the new days Acme Toyota says, “You can have any vehicle you want, as long as it is a Camry.”

Wanna make a salesman laugh? When “negotiating” for your new Camry ask him, “How much discount will you give me?”

Picture the look of disbelief on the Sales Manager’s face when this happens...

Ø Mr. Acme Toyota Big Guy says, “Mr. Sales Manager, you are fired!”

Ø Mr. Sales Manager says, “WhatDoYaMean I’m fired? Last month you told me I was great and you gave me a big raise and I went out and bought a big boat on a long-term monthly installment plan.”

Ø Mr. Acme Toyota Big Guy replies, “At Acme Toyota we pride ourselves on Results. For the last 17 months you have averaged selling 237 vehicle sales a month. Last month you sold 12. You are fired!”

Ø Mr. Sales Manager says, “I see your point.”

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Since we are talking about cars, let’s shift gears...

Another Worldwide Shortage is the Word “No”. Word processors are running woefully short of “No’s” and here is why.

The products we buy are plastered with the word “No” all over them...

Ø No Artificial Colors

Ø No Artificial Flavors

Ø No Artificial Flavors Colors Or Preservatives 

Ø No Artificial Ingredients

Ø No Artificial Preservatives

Ø No Certified Synthetic Colors

Ø No Dairy Ingredients 

Ø No Fat

Ø No Gluten

Ø No GMO

Ø No High Fructose Corn Syrup

Ø No Preservatives

Ø No Soy

Ø No Sugar

Ø No Synthetic Preservatives

Ø No Trans Fat 

Ø Not Fried

Ø Not Preserved

Finally this from Fella’s Department of What the Heck Does This Mean?...

“Contains 18% of a Solution”

If you want to be an expert on the subject of the Global Chip Shortage, Read All About It here: http://www.scmdojo.com/understanding-the-global-chip-shortage-how-supply-chain-leaders-are-addressing-disruptions-today/

If you have better things to do and you didn’t Read All About It, allow me to give you this to think about. Here is an ingredient list on a bottle of seasoning that I saw in a store the other day where I did not pay the $10.99 asking price. It looked to Fella that, had I bought it, I would have paid $10.99 for a bottle of almost nothing...

Proof that I am still somewhat smart lies in the fact that I said to myself, “Self, don’t buy this. You already have Salt in your Shaker at home.”

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

Lagniappe: Want proof of which I speak?...

Ford Will Halt Production at US Truck Plant for Week Over Chip Shortage:
https://link.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/ford-will-halt-production-at-us-truck-plant-for-week-over-chip-shortage_3955330.html

Ford to Shut Some North American Plants for Few Weeks on Chip Shortage
https://link.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/ford-to-shut-some-north-american-plants-for-few-weeks-on-chip-shortage_3882093.html

Confusion Has Become More Important Than Communication

 

I apologize for all the ads that now appear throughout my Blog Postings. It was not always that way. Google BlogSpot does this. I have no control over these ad insertions. I know it makes my Interesting Commentary harder to read. Stick with it because it is worth the effort...Or is it?

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There was a time when we knew a person was smart because of what they said and/or wrote. Today we know people are smart because we can’t understand what they say and/or write and their hair is a mess.

I’m told that smart people know what the Jambalaya of Words below means. I must not be smart because I don’t know what the heck the people who wrote these words are talking about. Actually I hope I never get this “smart”....

"Assigning Sex Using Binary Variables In The Public Portion Of The Birth Certificate Fails To Recognize The Medical Spectrum Of Gender Identity."

We have “progressed” to the point where it is not important that what we say and/or write actually makes sense. It is only important that we confuse those who are hearing and/or reading our thrown-together words.

Here is an Intelligent Sounding Collection of Words I made up that will have today’s “smart people” shaking their head up and down in agreement as if they understood what they just read...

We have come to the point in our development as a people that we are in dire need of a parallel linguistic time-phase projection. Many are saying that an optional digital concept analysis is required to achieve a functional monitored flexibility conclusion in order to reach a complete balanced policy projection sequence referral.

If you say you understand the above paragraph, you are either lying or you have progressed to the point in your own confusion where you have become a true Connoisseur of Convoluted Phraseology.

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

Lagniappe: Try again... "Assigning Sex Using Binary Variables In The Public Portion Of The Birth Certificate Fails To Recognize The Medical Spectrum Of Gender Identity."