The Demise Of The 30 Second Commercial

It seems like only yesterday that the 30 Second TV Commercial was always there in front of us. We may not have always paid that much attention to it but it was there bringing us information about things we might want to buy, whether we needed to buy those things or not.

All of a sudden they were gone but Fella is here to tell you they that they are not gone. Did you just say, “Fella, did it again. Again he confused us again”.

OK, I get your drift and, even though I promised in the past not to confuse you in the future, I am apologizing to you in the present and admitting I will probably confuse you in the future but, as in the past, I will always do my best to unconfuse you.

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The 30 Second TV Commercial is still seen by us every day as we watch TV but now they only lasts 10 seconds. This, of course, all came about because the TV Networks had raised the cost of their 30 Second TV Commercial so high that the advertisers could no longer afford to pay to run the 30 Second TV Commercials, so they cut them down to 10 Seconds.

Now you are thinking that Fella has lost it (again) because you are thinking, if it is a 10 Second TV Commercial how can it be a 30 Second TV Commercial?

I’m ready for you thinking. It is still a 30 Second TV Commercial because, even though it only lasts 10 seconds, it has all the words you would have heard if the 30 Second, but now 10 Second TV Commercial, had still been a 30 Second TV Commercial.

This, My Dear Reader, is why you often say after you listen to 10 Second TV Commercial things like this...

Ø What did he just say?

Ø Hazel, (provided your wife, partner or significant other is Named Hazel) did you get that?

Ø I’m not sure what the name of the product he was just selling to me was.

Ø Did the announcer mention the name of the product he was selling?

Ø I’m sorry but my ears just don’t hear that fast!

I am sorry to tell you that it’s going to get worse. That will happen when the Networks start charging as much for a 10 Second TV Commercial as they used to charge for a 30 Second TV Commercial and the advertisers respond by stopping the buying 10 Second TV Commercials and start buying 5 Second TV Commercials.

When that happens, the Late Paul Harvey is going to come into my Computer Cave and say to me, “Fella, I would like to introduce you to a late friend of mine. Sergeant Shultz, meet Fella?”

And Sergeant Shultz will say, “Now I really know nothing!”

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

Overnight Fix

As Pogo almost said (yea, go ahead and Google Pogo), “We See The Problem And It Is Us”

Pogo’s actual quote was: ”We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us”

I usual I see the Problem and, as usual, I have a Fix to the Problem.

The Problem is our Administrations of Higher Learning don’t know what to do. While they try and figure out what to do about the consternation and mayhem on their college campuses they are negotiating with the consternation and mayhem creating students controlling their out-of-control campuses.

Fella (hidden inside his potted plant outfit) overheard one of Administration Versus Student Negotiations and it went like this (in bullet point format) ...

Ø Administration: We understand that you want to burn down 5 of our college’s buildings.

Ø Students: That’s correct.

Ø Administration: Are you open to negotiation on this issue?

Ø Students: What’s your offer?

Ø Administration: Would you be agreeable to burning down only 3?

Ø Students: No!

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Fella’s Fix:

The Administrations of Higher Learning could fix this problem overnight if our 9% Approval Rated Congress would pass a law that said that any Administration of Higher Learning that can’t provide an Education to it’s Tuition Paying Students has to Reimburse In Full All Tuition Already Paid for the Current College Session to the Current Paying Student’s Parents.

Fella thinks the Administrations of Higher Learning would fix the problem the day after this law is passed.

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On the other hand, do you see the problem with Fella’s Fix of the Problem?

We have gotten to this low point in our once storied history where laws passed by our congress are being ignored by our congress. This means Fella’s Fix Is No Fix At All. It also means that Fella has given up and he has this message for the Good Ole USofA...

You Figure It Out. I’m Done.

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

Lagniappe:

I'll tell you, son, the minority got us out-numbered!

Quote from Congersman Frog from Pogo

I’m Always Running Into Strange Happenings

 

I don’t know what it is about me but Strange Happenings are always happening all around me. It may be because I notice things. Maybe that’s not the case at all. Maybe you would have noticed this one because this one was really strange. I’m getting ahead of myself again. Please allow me to explain...

I was in a diner I like to dine in when I noticed this Strange Happening. A couple of men had come in and sat at a table close to me. That’s not strange. The strange part was they had been there long enough to be into their desserts and they had not said a thing to each other the whole time they were there.

You may not know this about me but, besides being a Noticer, I am also Nosey. I asked Jake, the owner of the diner, what was going on. He immediately got a sad look on his face and, in bullet point format, he started telling me the whole sad story...

• The older of the two men is the boss.
• He is a great guy.
• He believes in getting to know his employees.
• For at least a decade he has been bringing his employees into the diner for a Get To Know Each Other Lunch.
• He has 10 employees and he brings them in, one at a time, eager to get to know all about them.
• Over this time the Federal Government has been piling on a List of Subjects that an employer is not allowed to ask an employee.
• The Great Guy Boss recently shared the Don’t Dare Ask List with Jake.
• Jake took the list out of his apron and shared it with me...
  >The total Don’t Dare Asks List is now up to 20.
  >Jake had yellow highlighted the 8 ones the Great Guy Boss told him were the most problematic to him...
  
  1. Questions about your race, religion, skin color, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability...
  >The Great Guy Boss said he understood the need for these restrictions but he had a hard time of it when he had to go to a court hearing because he asked a disabled employee to not leave his wheelchair in the aisle between the desks. He has a small office for his 10 employees to work in and the wheelchair was causing other employees to climb over the desks on either side of the wheelchair to get to the rest room. Some very important paperwork had been stepped on and crinkled up and 2 employees had fallen off the desks and had been out of work for several days each before they could return to the office. The Great Guy Boss said all he had done was ask the disabled employee if it was OK to have someone move the wheelchair so as not to hinder access to the rest room. He was shocked to hear his disabled employee shout back at him, “Are you saying I’m disabled?”
  2. Details about your marital status...
  >The Great Guy Boss said he got in trouble with this one when he asked his newly married employee, “Did the wedding ceremony go well?”
  3. Your age.
  4. Your criminal history.
  5. Your weigh or appearance...
  > The Great Guy Boss said he realized his little joke was not well accepted when his Get To Know Each Other Lunch Guest threw his cannoli at him after he said, “For a fat guy you don’t sweat much.”
  6. Your immigration status.
  7. Your plans for vacation...
  > The Great Guy Boss said he was only trying to show concern for his employee when he asked, “Are you sure Bungee Jumping is safe?”
  8. Your Medical History...
  > The Great Guy Boss said he got a black eye when he asked, “I understand you were hit by a truck over the weekend. Are you OK?”

Jake said, “Now you understand why the Great Guy Boss is reluctant to say anything at his Get To Know Each Other Lunches. He just sits there, chews slowly and pays the check when their meals have been eaten. I believe he is really a Great Guy. I also believe he longs for the days before the 20 Things Your Boss Cannot Ask You List was published on the Internet. Probably his greater fear is the fact that he is certain the 20 List is still growing.”

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

 

I know how to stop all the Violence, Mayhem and Blowing Up of Things in the Middle East

I know I don't have to remind you that I am The Noticer. Here is a recent notice that I noticed but you would not have noticed even if you had run across what I noticed...

The Middle East Terrorist we see on television every night are always driving around in Small Toyota Pick Up Trucks with a whole bunch of armed to the teeth terrorist in the bed of their Small Toyota Pickup Trucks and 50 Caliber Machine Guns mounted in the bed of their Small Toyota Pickup Trucks.

They and their Small Pickup Trucks are responsible for all the Mayhem, Violence and the Blowing Up of Things we see on the Nightly News.

As Usual, Fella has a Fix. It is as simple as this...

• Tell Toyota they are not allowed to build any more Small Pickup Trucks.
• Tell Toyota to tell the Terrorist that there is a Return To The Factory Recall in effect that requires the return of all Small Pickup Trucks to the Original Assembly Plant for replacement of the 50 Caliber Machine Gun Bracket.
• Once all the trucks are back in Toyota’s hands, Toyota can send a text message to all terrorists and tell them that they have been tricked and their Small Pickup Trucks will not be returned to them.

It won’t be long before the terrorist are going to be all tuckered out from walking all over the place carrying all those 50 Caliber Machine Guns, Handguns, AK 47s, Explosives and Ammunition. They are going to be so tired they are going to stop with all that Violence, Mayhem and Blowing Up Of Things. Letters the likes of this will be flying all over the dessert, “Dear mom, if I promise not to blow you up, can I come home? I've had it with all this Violence, Mayhem And Blowing Up Of Things. It's not as much fun as it used to be. I’m going to open a kiosk in the mall to sell dates and new and used magic carpets”.

There you have it the Violence, Mayhem and Blowing Up of Things Up In the Middle East will be a thing of the past before they know what hit them and they are going to be so tired they won't hit back.

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

Higher Is Not Necessarily Up There

 

Universities of Higher Education are having a hard time of late. Fella’s opinion is that in most cases they have deserved the hard times that they have been having, however, that is not the purpose of this Blog Posting.

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Fella usually deals in specifics and today will prove to be no exception to that usual dealing position of mine.

Any University of Higher Education that can’t handle Basic Arithmetic ought not be referred to as “higher”. It is insulting to anyone who has gone past the fifth grade to treat these institutions as if they were smart.

Some of My Dear Readers know that I can see in my mind’s eye (whatever that is) the facial expressions on the faces of those who are reading my Blog. At this moment I can see there are 8 of you who think I do not know what the heck of which I speak.

I have been publishing this Blog since right after the turn of the century and I must say I am a bit taken aback that there are so many who doubt me. Eight used to be Enough back in the early days of television but, to Fella’s way of thinking, 8 is a lot when it comes to readers of my Blog doubting me. After all, have I not demonstrated over and over year after year that I am a Smart Fella?

Ø Do you agree that if you count on all 10 fingers and thumbs you get to the number 10?

Ø How many football teams are there in the Big 10 Football Conference?

Ø Every one of My Dear Readers knows the answer because the football fans of you know because you are football fans and the non-football fans of you know because you just Googled It.

There Are 14 Football Teams In The Big Ten!

Above I accused these Universities of having a lack of understanding of Arithmetic, however, that is not right, is it? This is not Arithmetic. This is a lack of understanding of Basic Numbers. Sister Mary Berchman would have taken her Hand Whacking Ruler to the lot of them for sure!

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

 

Why Do People Do That?

The Internet Is Wonderful! It will explain everything to you. It will allow you to learn about whatever you want to learn about whenever you are ready to lean about it.

For example: If you are like me, I’m sure you have a strong desire to be like me, you have often wondered about this one...Why Do People Get Tattooed? Thanks to me, with the help of the Internet, you are about to find out Why People Get Tattooed...

People get tattoos for various reasons, such as for artistic, cosmetic, sentimental, religious or spiritual reasons, for family and to symbolize their belonging to or identification with particular groups, including criminal gangs or a particular ethnic group or law-abiding subculture. Tattoos can also be for attention, self-expression, artistic freedom, rebellion, a visual display of a personal narrative, reminders of spiritual/cultural traditions, sexual motivation, addiction, identification with a group or even drunken impulsiveness.

Have you ever seen a finer example of a waste of words? You can take your pick of any part of this explanation and think to yourself any one or all of these reasons to ignore what you just read and move onto some other endeavor where your time will be better spent...

Ø Who gives a chit!
i.e.: artistic freedom or identification with a particular ethnic group or rebellion.

Ø Huh?
i.e.: a visual display of a personal narrative or self-expression or cosmetic reasons.

Ø That’s stupid!
i.e.: for sentimental reasons or addiction or sexual motivation.

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When I saw the last one Even Drunken Impulsiveness it made me harken back to my youth (are you tired of hearing about my youth?) ...

When we were young and we saw a man (in those days it was always a man) with a tattoo it mean 2 things...

Ø He used to be in the Navy.

Ø One night, while in the Navy, he got drunk.

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

Lagniappe: There was a time, after people looked at their tattooed selves and started to cry, I thought there was a fortune to be made in Tattoo Removal Parlors. As of now, I’m not so sure that will ever happen.

Enough Is Enough...Or is it?

     

(I could have titled this Blog Posting Gone With The Wind)

I hope you appreciate what I do for you. You don’t know what I do for you? What I do is stumble through the Internet and find useless but interesting information and I send it your way to brighten your day...Or is it brighten?

I stumbled across a celebrity (even though I never heard of her) who got divorced. The divorce got her $2.5 billion, plus an extra $100 million for 13 years. Unfortunately, she filed for bankruptcy in her 80’s.

In my younger days when I wanted to be sound clever, I was known to say, “The only thing money can’t buy is poverty”. Either George Burns or I invented this bit of cleverness.

George or I may have been clever but many years later, on at this this one occasion, we were proven wrong.

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

 

You Can Never Be Too Safe...Or can you never be?

Ahh, what a wonderful sight! Can’t you just picture it in your mind’s eye (whatever that is)? Two loving parents holding their breath as they watch their darling child struggle to take its first step. In the future there will be millions more steps but this is historic. The is The Big One because this is The First One!

But wait! Something is amiss in your Minds’ Eye. Something’s not right! Ahh ha! I see it! Today’s ever-protective two loving parents have taken steps to protect their darling child from injury. They surrounded their child with protection. For fear of their child falling and bumping something or other, they have equipped their child with a Helmet for its Head, Palm Pads for its Palms, Elbow Pads for its Elbows and Knee Pads for its Knees.

That’s all well and good...Or is it?

The picture below is Modern Child Protective America going to even more extremes...

Seat Belts Have Made Their Way Into The Baby Changing Stations of America’s Men’s Rest Rooms!...

Are We Really Afraid Junior Is Going To Fall Up Then Out Then Down From Of A Baby Changing Station In A Baby Fall Out Proof Men’s Rest Room?

The answer is, Yes! ... But should we be so afraid?

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

Lagniappe: How long will it be before a Modern American Father, white as a sheet, is going to come rushing out of a Baby Fall Out Proof Men’s Rest Room crying out, “Call 911! I can’t undo the Baby Fall Out Prevention Protective Seat Belt and My Darling Child Is Beginning To Whimper!”

I've Never Done A Blog Posting Like This Before

 

I could not not give recognition to Mr. Anonymous for his Outstanding Commenting Effort to my Blog Posting of February 16, 2024 entitled Somebody Do Something. This was a Herculean Effort if I have ever seen one!

Here it is. Be advised this may bring tears of admiration to your eyes. I only hope it will challenge the rest of you to try to emulate Mr. Anonymous...

Anonymous said...

Are you really blaming the chairs for the company's demise? No joke that my company got rid of all chairs after our CEO read a blog post about how standing desks increase productivity by 35%. Now, everyone is more productive and focused, but worker’s compensation claims for lower back and foot problems are way up. The really bad part is that we had a co-worker in a wheelchair who had to write a memo asking that she be allowed to sit in their wheelchair. The CEO, reluctantly, granted the request, but our co-worker eventually left because she felt singled out when others complained that she wasn’t a 'team player'. The problem isn't the chairs; it's poor management and lack of accountability. Instead of blaming inanimate objects, focus on creating a productive work environment where employees are engaged and motivated. This post is a classic case of misdirected indignation!

I got all teared up all over again!

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

Somebody Do Something!

Picking a title for this Blog Posting was not easy. Alternative titles just flowed out of me. I could have used, “You Have a Job So Why Ain’t You Working?” or this one would have worked, “Why Are You Just Sitting There?” or this, “Don’t Just Sit There, Do Something!” or, “Are You Asleep?”.

Why are so many “workers” sitting around doing nothing? It’s not their fault because they can’t help themselves. It’s where they are that’s the problem. To be more specific, it’s where their butts are that’s the problem.

If you are their employer, it’s now a really Big Problem for you and the saddest part is you are the one who paid for your own Big Problem and you Paid Big Time!

Did you just say, “Huh?!”

Please allow me to explain.

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I’ll explain by telling you a story...

There once was a Up And Coming Company that was owned by an Up And Coming Entrepreneur. This entrepreneur was flush with money because his employees were top notch and hard working as all get out. He was so grateful to his hard-working employees that he decided to do something very nice (and very expensive) for his hard-working employees. No employee was left out because, as I said, without exception they were all hard workers.

What he did was buy every employee his/her own X-Chair. Before he made the final decision to authorize this big an expenditure he did pause for a moment because this was a really large amount of money but he quickly moved forward with the purchase because he felt his workers deserved the best because they were the best.

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And now for The Rest of the Story...

Six months later the company went out of business.

Are you wondering how this could happen? The chairs were very expensive but their cost was not the reason the Up And Coming Company owned by the Up And Coming Entrepreneur went out of business.

It was the chair itself that was the reason for the company’s demise.

I am the Noticer you are not the Noticer. If you were the Noticer, you would know why the Up And Coming Company went out of business. X-Chair actually demonstrated why the Up And Coming Company was going to go out of business in every X-Chair Commercial they ran on your television.

You should have noticed that all the people sitting in their X-Chairs in the X-Chair Commercials were not doing anything. They just sat in their X-Chairs staring into the distance looking content and smiling contentedly.

In other word, they were not working! They were not getting anything done! They were not doing anything except comfortably getting paid To Do Nothing in their Extremely Comfortable X-Chairs.

It’s a wonder it took a whole 6 months to go out of business.

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

Lagniappe: On the other hand maybe it was the cost of the X-Chairs that made the Up And Coming Business go out of business. I looked up the cost of X-Chairs on the Internet. The web site quoted the price of a X-Tech Ultimate Executive Office Chair to be, “From $1,899”.

Another way of saying “From $1,899” is, “$1,899 and Up”. Do you realize how much Up there is above $1,899?

X-Chair knew how much Up there was. The Former Up And Coming Entrepreneur never should have said, “Pick out whichever model you want”.

It Was Worse Than That Was Bad

If Sunday’s Super Bowl...

Ø Did not have a single pass completion by either team.

Ø Did not have a single yard gained rushing by either team.

Ø Only ended because all the fans either fell asleep or had left the stadium.

The time spent watching it would have been a lot better time spent than watching the halftime show.

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

Lagniappe: Click Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ2dVKbAUIs

Why?

I guess this qualifies as Foolishness but it’s not Funny...Or is it?

Where have I been? I did not know this was an issue. I did not know this was going on. Why is this an ongoing issue?

I just heard that the Black National Anthem is going to be played at today’s Super Bowl. I went online to see if this was really true only to find out that, not only is it really true, but this divisive issue has been with us for several years and I thought I knew what was going on in the Good Ole USofA.

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Looking at the bright side, it could be worse. What would be worse would be if the National Anthem were not played at all.

Oh my gosh, it has been worse and I did not know about that either...

Last year at the U.S. Open Tennis Tournament the National Anthem was not played at all. Instead, what was played was the Black National Anthem and America the Beautiful.

America the Beautiful is a beautiful patriotic song but that’s not the point. The point is it’s not Our National Anthem.  

Maybe what we need is the National Anthem of Every Country in the United Nations be sung before the game can begin. We need to be mindful that the people at the game or not at the game from the likes of...

Ø Andorra

Ø Dominica

Ø Lao People’s Democratic Republic

Ø Mali

Ø Nauru

Ø Palau

Ø Saint Kitts and Nevis

Ø The Democratic Republic of São Tomé

Ø Príncipe

...and so on and so forth are people too and they will be sorely offended when they come to the realization after the singing is done that their tune had not been sung.

After all, there are only 193 Countries in The United Nations. It won’t take long for each country to have its chance to be proud. Then there will probably still be enough time left for some football.

Yea, I’m being silly...Or am I?

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

Lagniappe: Oops! I forgot Grand Fenwick...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053084/

Lagniappe Another: Moving on from Foolish to Downright Stupid...

• A ticket to the Super Bowl in 1967 cost $10, or just over $90 adjusted for inflation. 
• As of Wednesday, the average price of tickets was $8,600. 
• Last week, seats were going for more than $12,000. 
• Resellers have been asking up to $45,000 a ticket.
• A 20-person suite will run you a cool $1.8 million, including the cost of tickets as well as food and alcoholic beverages. 
• A more modest 8-seat accommodation plus tickets and amenities is going for $330,000.
• A “cheap” 4-seater suite can be had for $150,000. 

Here's what 30-second Super Bowl ads have cost through the years:

Super Bowl I, 1967 – $37,500

Super Bowl II, 1968 – $54,500

Super Bowl III, 1969 – $55,000

Super Bowl IV, 1970 – $78,200

Super Bowl V, 1971 – $72,500

Super Bowl VI, 1972 – $86,100

Super Bowl VII, 1973 – $88,100

Super Bowl VIII, 1974 – $103,500

Super Bowl IX, 1975 – $107,000

Super Bowl X, 1976 – $110,000

Super Bowl XI, 1977 – $125,000

Super Bowl XII, 1978 –$162,300

Super Bowl XIII, 1979 – $185,000

Super Bowl XIV, 1980 – $222,000

Super Bowl XV, 1981 – $275,000

Super Bowl XVI, 1982 – $324,300

Super Bowl XVII, 1983 – $400,000

Super Bowl XVIII, 1984 – $368,200

Super Bowl XIX, 1985 – $525,000

Super Bowl XX, 1986 – $550,000

Super Bowl XXI, 1987 – $600,000

Super Bowl XXII, 1988 – $645,500

Super Bowl XXIII, 1989 – $675,500

Super Bowl XXIV, 1990 – $700,400

Super Bowl XXV, 1991 – $800,000

Super Bowl XXVI, 1992 – $850,000

Super Bowl XXVII, 1993 – $850,000

Super Bowl XXVIII, 1994 – $900,000

Super Bowl XXIX, 1995 – $1.15 million

Super Bowl XXX, 1996 – $1.085 million

Super Bowl XXXI, 1997 – $1.2 million

Super Bowl XXXII, 1998 – $1.29 million

Super Bowl XXXIII, 1999 – $1.6 million

Super Bowl XXXIV, 2000 – $2.1 million

Super Bowl XXXV, 2001 – $2.2 million

Super Bowl XXXVI, 2002 – $2.2 million

Super Bowl XXXVII, 2003 – $2.2 million

Super Bowl XXXVIII, 2004 – $2.3 million

Super Bowl XXXIX, 2005 – $2.4 million

Super Bowl XL, 2006 – $2.5 million

Super Bowl XLI, 2007 – $2.385 million

Super Bowl XLII, 2008 – $2.699 million

Super Bowl XLIII, 2009 – $2.999 million

Super Bowl XLIV, 2010 – $2.954 million

Super Bowl XLV, 2011 – $3.1 million

Super Bowl XLVI, 2012 – $3.5 million

Super Bowl XLVII, 2013 – $3.8 million

Super Bowl XLVIII, 2014 – $4 million

Super Bowl XLIX, 2015 – $4.25 million

Super Bowl 50, 2016 – $4.5 million

Super Bowl LI, 2017 – $5 million

Super Bowl LII, 2018 – $5.2 million

Super Bowl LIII, 2019 – $5.3 million

Super Bowl LIV, 2020 – $5.6 million

Super Bowl LV, 2021 – $5.5 million

Super Bowl LVI, 2022 – $6.5 million

Super Bowl LVII, 2023 – $7 million*

Super Bowl LVIII, 2024 – $7 million*

*I’m relieved to see that Ad Inflation is under control.

AAUGH!

 

I don’t watch Morning TV. Oops, it looks like I started this Blog Posting with a lie. I need to remove the lie before I move on...

I used to not watch Morning TV but I gave it a try starting a few weeks back.

It was a mistake to have given it a try. I know you are dying to know why I decided it was a mistake...Or are you dying? I’ll give you a hint and the hint has to do with none other than Tom Brady...

Ø Morning talk show hosts shout at us all the time!...AAUGH!

Ø Morning talk show hosts talk faster than my ears can hear and understand....AAUGH!

Ø Morning talk show hosts appear to be in a constant state of happy but they must think that the awful news they shout at me faster than I can hear is happy news because they look so happy while 99% of what they report to us is Awful News. Why does Awful News make them Happy?...AAUGH!

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Enter Tom Brady...

They don’t know it yet but the talk show hosts just convinced me that I need to stop the insanity (listening to them is insanity). They just broke for a break. When they break for a break, they always give us an interesting News Hook that makes us want to sit through the commercials and still be there when the commercials are over to hear the You-Just-Gotta-Hear-This-Interesting-News-Hook-After-The-Commercial-Is-Over.

Here is the You Just Gotta Hear Interesting News Hook they tried to hook me with...

Stay with us because after the break we are going to tell you about Tom Brady’s Favorite Dessert!

Really?! Do they really think I am so stupid I would want to know what Tom Brady eats for a Dessert? They don’t have any respect for me! That’s it! I’m done!...

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=i%27m+not+gonna+take+it+anymore&atb=v355-1&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DsdQCPlAZjbY

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This Is The Bottom Line Area Of This Blog...

The Bottom Line is where is I put is something that is Fella Catchy, Fella Inspirational or (usually) Fella Foolish. None of that today because Fella can’t top Peter Finch’s forever to be remembered tirade.

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

Lagniappe: Have you noticed that Nightly News Shows are crammed packed with one disaster after another and at the end the Happy Talking Head looks at you through the camera and says something like, “Have a wonderful weekend!” If we truly had Accuracy in The Media The Head would say, “I hope you survive the weekend”.

 

A Museum About a Great Aircraft and A Book About Someone Who Really Knew How To Fly It

Bullet Came In The Front and Went Out The Side

There is no Foolishness in this Blog Posting...

The book was written by a Dustoff Pilot (Medical Evacuation Pilot) who flew with the 57^th Medical Detachment in Vietnam and who is regarded by us as one of our Legends. His name is Colonel Douglas E. Moore.

I recommend the book to you as a good read about the military unit I happened to be part of which established an astounding history of life saving in Vietnam starting in 1962.

The book does not cost that much and a part of the proceeds from the book goes towards a museum that is still under construction which will be dedicated to the UH-1 Helicopter (The Huey) that we flew in Vietnam.

 

The Museum Link Is:

https://museumspedia.com/en/i/15174-american-huey-museum/

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This is a copy of an email I received from Colonel Moore...

Douglas Moore 

From: xxxxxxx@xxxxxxx.net

To: AlexO

Tue, Jan 2 at 6:52 AM

Did I ever tell you guys that I wrote a book? Years ago, Phil Marshall called to say he had read a couple of articles I wrote for Army magazines and wanted to ask a favor. He told me about the Huey 369 project at Peru, Indiana where he and others were planning a Huey museum and had acquired their first aircraft, a former Dust Off bird. Following a VHPA reunion in Indianapolis, my wife and I stopped by and Phil gave us a ride in that a/c and then talked us out of a couple thousand dollars to go into their building fund. Later he asked me and others to put together a book that could be sold at their museum project. I complied with the understanding that all my proceeds from the book would go into the building fund. The title is A Bullet Through The Helmet and is available from Amazon. Four dollars from each sale goes to the museum. If you haven’t read it, you might recognize some of the characters and places and you could help the museum scheduled to open this summer.

Doug

The Book Link Is: https://www.amazon.com/Bullet-Through-Helmet-Vietnam-Dustoff/dp/1726311724

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In writing my Blog Foolishess...Or Is It? I have been known to exaggerate, some say I lie but this time I did not lie when I said, “There is no Foolishness in this Blog Posting...”

Not being Foolish is not easy for me and I promise not to do it again.

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

 

Yes You Earned It but You Have No Right to It!

I spend more and more time trying to Hide Who I Am and Trying To Prove Who I Am To Those I Don’t Want To Hide From and Trying To Figure Out Who I Am or Who I Was Before I Hid Who I Am/Was. (If you can figure out what I just pecked out, send me a text message and explain it to me.)

The bad guys have been coming at me ever since way back when I first asked myself, “Self, is it spelled ‘computer’ or ‘computor’?”

I thought I was holding my own against them with all of my different passwords but it appears they are on the verge of having their way with me and there is no longer anything I can do to stop them...

From Malwarebytes:

EXPLOITS AND VULNERABILITIES

The Sound of You Typing On Your Keyboard Could Reveal Your Password

Posted: December 12, 2023 by Mark Stockley

As if password authentication’s coffin needed any more nails, researchers in the UK have discovered yet another way to hammer one in. The technique, developed at Durham University, the University of Surrey, and Royal Holloway University of London, builds on previous work to produce a more accurate way to guess your password by listening to the sound of you typing it on your keyboard.

The slight differences in the sounds each key makes is an unintentional leak of information, known as a “side channel”. Computers typically have lots of side channels, such as noises, heat, and changes in electromagnetic emissions, which can be hoovered up and analyzed by adversaries to learn more about what’s happening on the computer.

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The Subject of this Blog Posting is not more of my Foolishness. You had better take me seriously. On the other hand, it actually will make no never mind if you take me seriously or not because they are winning and we are losing and they know it.

There will come a day when you will end up losing all you have to those who want all you have. Actually I understand that a Federal Judge that was appointed by President Garfield (yes lifetime appointed judges do live too long) presently is considering a cause of action that will allow all of what you thought was yours to be transferred to those that wished they had what you have. Here is what the Judge has on his legal plate courtesy of the slick lawyer from the law firm Dewey Obfuscate Anhow...

Your Honor, those that have too much should be required to share what they worked all their lives to earn with those who did not lift a finger to earn anything because the non-workers whole heartedly believed that eventually they would be given what they did not work to earn the same as if they had worked to earn it.

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In the last 30 years the above foolishness has been taught in our formerly excellent education system. It is called Leveled Playing Field Syndrome. More and more the Leveled Playing Field Believers had been assured that it was not fair that hard workers should be rewarded in such a disproportional manner.

The Slackers r Us Movement knew that if this Rewarding of Hard Work were allowed to spread throughout society it could become accepted as a bedrock principle and then where would we all be?

The Slackers, therefore, sat on their hands and waited knowing that the old adage, All Good Thing Come to Those Who Do Nothing would eventually come to fruition.

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Fella Fix...

Since they are going to get all that you have sooner or later, I recommend you send a Text Message to those who want what you have and ask how you would go about sending all of what you own to them now.

This will save you a lot of grief. Watching everything you own slowly being transferred to the Do Nothings over a period of years could prove to be very stressful and agonizing. The Slackers Vision Statement says it all...

Why should you have what we want just because you earned it? You know we are going to win and you are going to lose. Hand it over. Just do it! ... Now!

Would I kid u?

Smartfella