The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for January 06, 2015

A “Catch 22” of course.

Hence “Mr. Yossarian.” Well played, I say.

good catch.

“Loan” is not a verb. He should be saying “Lend” in the 3rd panel.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Don’t waste your breath. People who grew up thinking that ‘loan’ is a verb, will never change. (Just as people who grew up thinking that ‘laying down’ isthe correct usage for ‘lying down.’ The grammar errors have been hard-wired into their brains. (Sort of like religion.). I threw in the towel when I drove past a large billboard with a bank’s declaration that “We have money to loan!”.Sigh……………

Things will never change, nor will people.

This situation reminded me of the catch-22 that young folks encounter when applying for their first jobs: “Sorry we can’t hire you. You don’t have any experience.”

Loan – verb (used with object) …

also from above link – Usage noteSometimes mistakenly identified as an Americanism, loan 1as a verb meaning “to lend” has been used in English for nearly 800 years:

Yep, Brutus, that’s how it works.

The comic David Steinberg had a routine where he said..“America is going to hell…The person who can borrow a million dollars owes a million dollars..They figure if somebody else loaned you that kind of money they would too..America was once on the gold standard.We are probably now on the silver standard, rapidly heading towards the alumininum-foil standard .”