“Unexpectedly” Jokes Become Unfunny — Unexpectedly
Another Thursday, another report of first-time jobless claims well over 400,000:
The number of people who filed for unemployment assistance in the U.S. last week rose unexpectedly, official data showed on Thursday.
In a report, the U.S. Department of Labor said the number of individuals filing for initial jobless benefits in the week ending August 19 rose by 5,000 to a seasonally adjusted 417,000, confounding expectations for a decline to 405,000.
The previous week’s figure was revised up to 412,000 from 408,000.
In a couple Fridays from now, we’ll get the BLS jobs report for August — and it’s going to be another ugly one. I might have to forego my monthly analysis and go straight for the tequila.
Yeah, these days even my booze is made in Mexico.
If you have to drink tequila, please use Jose Cuervo. At least tequila is something that’s not supposed to be “Made in America”.
Oh, and I fully expect the jobs reports in August-October of 2012 to be super duper awesome. And then get rounded down Post November 2. Obama’s going to go full-Chicago this time out. And that’s one of the reasons he’ll lose.
For brown liquor, i prefer bourbon, which is made in America. Clear, I go with vodka, but have switched from American Skyy to Swedish Svedka, which is cheaper, but of comparable quality.
“confounding expectations” well at least they’re using another adjective. But i don’t expect anything to get better until Rick Perry gets inaugurated.
A good buddy of mine is trying to switch me to scotch, but I’m pretty hard-core vodka. And, dude – Skyy? Svedka? Might as well drink kerosene.
“Why’d you name your kid “Unexpected Lee”?”
“Well, we can’t figure it out. We just kept, you know, “doin’ it,” and my woman got pregnant. We don’t know what happened – it was unexpected, so we went with that for the name.”
Anyone else tried Boru, a nice (to my tastes anyway) vodka from Ireland?
Never even heard of Boru, but now I’m itching to try it.
Don’t know if any here are into gin, but the smoothest gin and best for a martini is Plymouth Gin. A fifth is only around $22, too. A few years back, the New York Times dubbed it the best martini.
I swear to you all, it’s damn near the only true thing the NYT has published in ages!
How ’bout drunkblogging the monthly BLS jobs report?
It’s the only thing that makes Obama’s speechifying remotely tolerable. Perhaps you can work the same magic with the BLS reports.
In fact, upon reflection, it seems like our patriotic duty to boost the economy by investing in (even larger) quantities of adult beverages.