I am looking forward to the first Super Bowl ad,  “Bud, when you’re having more than… oh look, colors, pretty."… With President Trump and Congress apparently headed for a deadlock on federal funding, odds makers in Las Vegas are establishing the over-under for the length of a looming government shutdown. … Every time I see one of the Christmas ads in which one spouse buys the other a car as a surprise gift, I imagine the next scene is “You bought a car without telling me? Are you kidding? I hate that color”. …. After watching the offerings on one rerun station with endless Xmas movies such as “Snow White Christmas”, “A Cinderella Christmas”, and a “Golden Christmas 10”, the late night lineup looks like the station ran out of ideas end with “A Pitt Bull Christmas.” ...  Speaking of Bud beer, in the latest episode of the TV ads built around a medieval castle theme, the emissary to the King responds to his ruler with “Dilly, Dilly,” and is immediately led off to execution … I arrived early at the hospital. “I’m here to pick up a new knee, can you show me your catalog. What do you mean it doesn’t work this way and I have to have surgery?”