Did you hear the latest news about jobs? As expected, fewer new workers were added than expected.
No, you didn’t read that wrong. That’s what happened.
Seems the experts expected more jobs to be added than were added. And this happens a lot. Go back and read all the news reports about jobs and prices and such. You’ll see the phrases “unexpected” or “worse than forecast” and phrases like that.
Today’s is a report from Bloomberg that says, essentially, “Whoops! Not as many jobs as the experts thought“:
Companies in the U.S. added fewer workers than forecast in May, a sign that job growth is struggling to gain momentum, data from a private report based on payrolls showed today.
How many weeks, months, and, now, years, do the “experts” that are carrying the water for Obama and his Merry Band of Misfits have to be wrong before the media quit considering them as experts.
Trick question! The mainstream media is part of Obama’s Happy Horde!
I wonder what all surprises that crew.
- A man fell into the river and was unexpectedly wet.
- A man poked a live alligator with a sharp stick and was unexpectedly bitten.
- A man stuck his hand in the fire and was unexpectedly burned.
- The home team was outscored by the other team and unexpectedly lost the game.
- A couple went on vacation to Florida and unexpectedly encountered several beaches.
- The wind blew and the trees unexpectedly swayed,
- A child bit into an ice cream and it was unexpectedly cold.
- The sun unexpectedly rose in the east this morning.
- A blogger wrote a post reusing some of the same examples he used in a post less than 24 hours earlier and readers unexpectedly noticed.
I think we have the new campaign slogan for Obama: Expect The Inexpected!
Experts were shocked that there was far less hope and positive change than predicted.
® You traveled to Seattle and it unexpectedly rained.
® You’re a Welfare mom with six kids on Food Stamps and all of them are unexpectedly fat.
® You went to Minnesota and unexpectedly got bit by a giant mosquito. I mean, the sucker was unexpectedly HUGE!
® You read IMAO recently and you unexpectedly wonder where Frank is.
* Contrary to predictions, a man on the television program Swamp People spoke with a peculiar accent.
* Scientists say they are stunned to learn that men find attractive women attractive and vice versa.
* Surpisingly, a television network has cancelled a new show.
The roadrunner unexpectedly escaped the coyote’s attempts to capture him because all of the Acme products unexpectedly malfunctioned.
I lit the fuse on a bottle rocket the other day and it unexpectedly flew across the yard and almost hit a squirrel.
Reminded of this exchange:
Vizzini: HE DIDN’T FALL? INCONCEIVABLE.
Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
I closed my eyes the other night and unexpectedly fell asleep.
I laid down to go to sleep last night and my wife unexpectedly wanted to talk…literally wanted to talk…unexpectedly…no really
I hate a chili dog from the Varsity and unexpectedly blew a hole in the ozone layer.
Some clown voted for Obama and was unexpectedly disappointed.
Waving a Wiener weiner in public unexpectedly got some attention.
>> hwuu unexpected posts something un-humorous to anyone but him.
>> DamnCat unexpectedly posts about Tuna
Lemme borrow from my previous post. New York State unexpectedly denied what would be an assured economic boom to a region that is one of the most economically depressed in the entire nation.
Does anyone remember how during the 80’s, Dan Rather was consistently forced to report that the economy was improving, yet each time he did, he added a phrase such as, “…but economists warn that these improvements may be temporary,” or something like, “…but economists warn that we could be headed for a downturn.”
@Joe Schmo: Bottle rockets are sometimes lacking in the accuracy department. Did you ever think about firing them salvo style a la the British Congreve rocket?
@hwuu: As I used to say to a sweetie I had, “As long as one of us [that would be me] is laughing, there is humor.” Which is to say, if I have entertained one person (me), I have made the world a happier place.
Burma, those Rather quotes are vastly more funny when read in a Rather voice. Ah! I miss him.
@Burma: “Bottle rockets are sometimes lacking in the accuracy department.”
A slight understatement? 🙂 I’m lucky if I get the bottle rocket into the same quadrant as the squirrel, let alone ever hitting one. Maybe I’ll try you suggestion. Even if it doesn’t work, it’ll certainly make a lot of noise. Cool, now I have to go to Lowes…
I was unexpectedly surprised to hear Anthony Weiner tell Wolf Blitzer, in an interview conducted today, that he didn’t not want the FBI to investigate his Twitter problems because he wanted to ”save the American taxpayers” the costs of an investigation. In fact he told Wolf he was retaining a company at his own expense to investigate the whole incident. What a guy. Hard to believe this is the same Anthony Weiner who has no problem helping his fellow Democrats spend billions in taxpayer money on a right regular basis. I wonder what his private investigation will turn up? Perhaps the folks he hired will find he did indeed send that message himself; I doubt it though, as that would really be rather….unexpected.
By the way (according to Monty Python)…no one expects the Spanish Inquisition!!
I had tuna for lunch – unexpectedly.
hwuu unexpectedly crapped in the woods.
My formerly fluffy cat, who went from winter coat to summer coat in less than one week, unexpectedly hacked up a hairball the size of a squirrel. And it was extra-specially unexpected that he did so on the pile of newly-folded clean laundry.
I never met a trans-fat I didn’t like. Unexpectedly, these pants make me look fat. (It’s like a pants-conspiracy or something. ALL my pants make me look fat. Stupid fashion designers.)
The country unexpectedly went went down the toilet after 40 years of allowing welfare recipients who, unexpectedly, have turned out to be government leeching baby mills to vote and they unexpectedly voted for the guy who promised them more welfare which is unexpectedly bankrupting the country faster than a 14 yo Mexican who came here and unexpectedly began collecting welfare can unexpectedly reproduce.
A democRAT from New York is in a sex scandal, after twittering himself,
in-expected-ent-ly, he hasn’t resigned.
Nothing surprises me anymore.
When I was in the service, the guys used to play practical jokes on each other all the time; but I never flinched or even blinked.
I acquired a reputation for ‘nerves of steel’ when actually my secret was slow reaction time!
As the future gets suckier, I compensate by spending more time in the past.
i unexpectedly inhaled, and the headline read: “obama policies forecast ever-increasing lung volume”. i unexpectedly exhaled, and the headline read: “bush tax cuts diminish lung volume”).
The MSM unexpectedly reported that the negative economic data was unexpected.
My skin unexpectedly burned when I went outside and didn’t use sunscreen.
I drank alcohol and unexpectedly became drunk.
I got in the pool and unexpectedly got wet.
Anthony Weiner got on TV and was unexectedly a d-bag.