The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for February 25, 2023

♫♪ Tell the truth, tell me who has been fooling you?

Tell the truth, who has been fooling who? ♪♫

Eric Clapton, Bobby Whitlock, 1970

Can’t hang on to friends? try using a head lock or a full nelson.

How can you be sincere if you don’t mean it?

Reminds me of George Burns, quoted as saying, “Sincerity – if you can fake that, you’ve got it made.” (Had to look it up. GB’s active years were just slightly before my time.)

It sounds a lot like the old McGoo from Christmas in Connecticut.

That one reminded me of an old Pink Panther cartoon when he was explaining manners. He said: “Be Polite, Always Be Polite”. . .

The Bible speaks often about encouraging each other. Ephesians 4:29 and Proverbs 27:17 for example.

teaching deception again, Brutus?

Spot on Brutus. Sincerity, second thing preachers and politicians learn to fool folks with. First thing is lying. Ref TV preachers.

“Son, son son, I admire your sincerity. Always be sincere, whether you mean it or not.” – Flanders & Swann, “The Reluctant Cannibal”

I draw a line between having a friend and an acquaintance. I have very few friends and those I do have, I trust completely. A sign I saw once read: “I’d rather not have any friends than have a fake one.”

George Burns was the best cleanest one liners.

Marketing. Sales, HR, Barista, etc. Faking sincerity is relatively easy. It’s the extended sigh after ‘they’ have left. That’s why it’s called work.

“So, would that be ‘sincerely insincere’, or ‘insincerely sincere’?”

“Yes.”

good advice… it also helps to get your foot out of your mouth when you say something you don’t really mean it.

If you wear your heart on your sleeve, make sure it’s on the first of several layers.

If you don’t mean it, it’s not sincere.

Brutus is smarter than we think. If you act in love toward others – even if your heart isn’t into it – they usually reciprocate and soon you have real friendship

If a person is a true friend, you can be yourself without faking anything. They’ll accept you as you are, warts and all. Be yourself, and be patient, Wilberforce. You might not have a lot of friends, but the ones you have will be golden. It’s not the quantity of friends one has, but the quality.

He was oh so close. That’s the advice you would give to someone wanting to go into politics without adding the additional requirements of being selfish, self-serving and having so-called knowledge of the issues. He needed to add the Golden Rule, “Treat people the way you would like to be treated under the same circumstances”, also. Friendship will follow…..

Sounds like something Yogi Berra would’ve said!

Brutus is not a good example.

I bet they wrote ’you’re so sincere’ in Brutus’s yearbook…

The Burns and Allen Show was meta WAY before anyone knew that word or its meaning. I loved it.

I say he’s making the wrong friends.

Brutus I bet you learned that from your father, because that kind of thing usually runs in the family.

Wilberforce, you need to consult with Jeff. He knows all about sincerety.

And I mean that sincerely…

“A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.”—Oscar Wilde

A hanger-on not good, they’d think you’re sycophantic…

Who wants long lasting relationships with ten year old kids…

“So…always show them the best sincerity you can fake!”

Question is, “can you be sincere and not mean it”? Oh an oxymoron,

I get it – sincerely unsincere……

Ya gotta understand, Wilberforce, friends aren’t tree branches for you to be hanging onto…

ba dum tss

also, he might try a lariat…

Wilberforce could use some time with Uncle Ted.