Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for October 13, 2012

or a boat

I’ve learned to never tell a bank that I need the money, but instead that I want it. They are more likely to lend you the cash if you seem like you are just gonna blow it on a vacation or something, rather than needing it for something important.

That must mean Perfessor has plenty of liquid assets.

Cut your calories in half. Then you should be able to float.

In Pogo there was buzzard cast as a mortician named Sarcophagus MacAbre. http://www.postmodernbarney.com/category/pogo/

give’m a cup and a red & white cane

Good analogy

you want to always have plenty of cash? spend less than you make. works 100% of the time.

It is a reputedly true story that the fellow who started Johnson’s Products, makers of Afro-Sheen, George E. Johnson, went to the bank to borrow money to start his business, and they refused him.But when he came back later and said he needed the money for a vacation, they lent him the money happily.