--- title: Commercial Loans and Fun Blog | Friday Funnies and Tidbits description: Friday Funnies and Tidbits | George Blackburne, owner, offers insight into the commercial loans and mortgage industry in this Commercial Real Estate Loan Tips blog. --- [![c-loans-logo-2025](https://info.c-loans.com/hs-fs/hubfs/images/c-loans-logo-2025.png?width=183&height=86&name=c-loans-logo-2025.png)](https://c-loans.com) [Terms of Use](https://www.c-loans.com/terms-of-use) | [Disclaimer](https://www.c-loans.com/disclaimer) | [Blog](https://info.c-loans.com/) # Commercial Loans and Fun Blog ## [Friday Funnies and Tidbits](https://info.c-loans.com/friday-funnies-and-tidbits) Posted by [George Blackburne](https://info.c-loans.com/author/george-blackburne) on Fri, Apr 18, 2025 - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) A dog knows when you're sad, and he'll try to comfort you. Cats don't care how you feel, as long as you remember the location of the can opener.   [![Free Book, "How To Invest in 12% First Trust Deeds"](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/37671/23901fd2-646a-4871-be41-d3adcf3c588f.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/37671/23901fd2-646a-4871-be41-d3adcf3c588f)    ![Pair](https://info.c-loans.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Pair.png?width=470&height=488&name=Pair.png) If you don't have an account on X, you are missing out on a dozen non-political belly-laughs everyday. [![Follow George on X (Twitter) Hit the Follow Button Next](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/37671/8ece6f95-5245-4c5e-af9a-b1a255850a22.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/37671/8ece6f95-5245-4c5e-af9a-b1a255850a22)   According to Gordon Chang, the well-known commentator on Chinese affairs, a high-ranking general in the People's Liberation Army ("PLA"), was recently "disappeared."  This wasn't President Xi eliminating one more opponent.  This general (the third-highest ranking member of the PLA) was a *supporter* of Xi.  Xi's opponents are now "wielding knives."   [![Apply For a Commercial Loan to Blackburne & Sons](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/37671/34e9010d-6f3b-4979-93c2-9e705da5a9fc.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/37671/34e9010d-6f3b-4979-93c2-9e705da5a9fc)   ![Viagra](https://info.c-loans.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Viagra.png?width=458&height=458&name=Viagra.png)   [![Free Commercial Loan Placement Kit](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/37671/752b4698-f1ce-4837-be5e-e00e0a994532.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/37671/752b4698-f1ce-4837-be5e-e00e0a994532)   Speaking of wielding knives...  any salad can be a Caesar salad, if you stab it enough.  Haha!  When Caesar won the Roman civil war, he allowed the Senators who had opposed him in the war to return and sit in the Senate.  As Dr. Phil might have asked, "How did that work out for you?"  So far the new Republican administration has not prosecuted anyone.   [![Free Commercial Loan Software](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/37671/f8924837-4c27-4eb1-a5d8-c49f9b09d9e8.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/37671/f8924837-4c27-4eb1-a5d8-c49f9b09d9e8)   ![Hot Body](https://info.c-loans.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Hot%20Body.png?width=464&height=466&name=Hot%20Body.png)   [![Video Course - How To Market For Commercial Loans](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/37671/c1051bad-ef5d-4c65-b573-e4432b1769ef.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/37671/c1051bad-ef5d-4c65-b573-e4432b1769ef)   "What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun".  --  Ecclesiastes 1:9     [![Nine-Hour Video Training Course How to Broker Commercial Loans](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/37671/2fa994cb-f6ac-4671-821f-b4bd48cb5f1f.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/37671/2fa994cb-f6ac-4671-821f-b4bd48cb5f1f) Cisca and I had just finished watching the movie, "Twisters," when a tornado storm passed over our Indiana home.  It missed. ![Tornado](https://info.c-loans.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Tornado.png?width=524&height=267&name=Tornado.png) How many times have I told you to get loan servicing income??? Servicing fees keep you open during crashes. [![Become a Direct Lender Approve Your Own Deals](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/37671/3340a345-5631-4c56-940b-320f3d14bbda.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/37671/3340a345-5631-4c56-940b-320f3d14bbda)   [![Get Both Video Training Programs For Just $849.](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/37671/d0fb44bc-2893-4551-8a92-6a5080c4296e.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/37671/d0fb44bc-2893-4551-8a92-6a5080c4296e) One day a man approached Groucho Marx and asked, "Please insult my wife. She loves your work. It would really give her a thrill if you insulted her."  Groucho turned to the man and said, "Sir, you should be ashamed of yourself...To be married to a woman like that and not be able to think up your own insults!"   [![List of Commercial Lenders 2,500 For Just $79.95](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/37671/9488a761-b4e6-4b02-b82c-4ccc932612bc.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/37671/9488a761-b4e6-4b02-b82c-4ccc932612bc)   ![Cake](https://info.c-loans.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Cake.png?width=438&height=509&name=Cake.png)   [![Submit Your Loan to 750 Commercial Lenders Using C-Loans.com.  It's Free!](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/37671/dcd11210-cbb0-42bd-b761-d0cb0da003c9.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/37671/dcd11210-cbb0-42bd-b761-d0cb0da003c9)   Please send me (George Blackburne III) an invitation to link on LinkedIn.  I post a cute, clean joke every day.  It's like a personal joke service.  It's fun! You realize, of course, that gold has been marching relentlessly upwards.  If you decide to buy gold, take physical possession!  Own the Maple Leafs in your own grubby little paws.  :-)  Paper gold will likely prove as illusory as the gold in Fort Knox.     [![How Are Your Stocks Doing? 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