The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn for October 20, 2022

“The largest inauguration crowd in history.”

The economy is booming!

who you gonna believe? Me? or your lyin’ eyes.

An overestimator would not know he’s an overestimator.

And it’s going to get thinner still.

The thin crowd are some near-skeletal fashion models. The big crowd are a few sumo wrestlers and basketball players. When called on his phony figures, a skilled over-Estimator has his excuses well-covered.

Is this event sponsored by Dunning and Kruger?

we forecast that dewey has won the election…

2001…The War in Afghanistan should wrap up in short order. We’ll just smoke ‘em out of their caves and we’ll be done.

Putin is giving the keynote speech.

Jimmy’s crowd will be bigger than tRump’s.

Oh hey, its the Fyre Festival!

You think, not so well.

I guess the mimes where all booked up.

Bah, they clearly haven’t seen software engineers estimate schedules for their projects.

Typical topics of the Marketing Department trying to convince engineers, bean-counters, and accounting of new product profits.

The crowd is thin because of the estimate used to make sure ticket prices covered expenses.

The “first annual” of anything is the “inaugural”.

… I’m likely overestimating how many people care.