Trendspotter Gifts

"Excuse me, which do you think is better—this yoga studio, the one next door, the one upstairs, the one across the street, the one on the corner, or the one of the other corner?"

Start-up businesses that generate a profit once again in vogue with investors

"It's no fun wearing my Tintin shirt now that the masses know who he is."

"While you were out, tiny ponytails came back."

I'm thinking of becoming a radical alt-right internet sensation. Ok, that's it. You can't just go along with every new trend there is. Some people are painters. Some are musicians. Some compose symphonies. My innate talent is sensing incoming trend waves and surfing their peaks and troughs as with the grace of a dolphin. Being a lemming is not a talent, little buddy. And I'm not sure dolphins "surf." Hold on ... trend wave incoming! It involves ... corduroy ... No, wait ... pancakes.

It's the Fad Herald. On a weekday? I know, he usually visits on Sundays to make his pronouncements of what's trendy and what's out. Nice. Terrific way of summing up a character in this feature who, despite appearing with some regularity, some readers might not recognize. But we digress. Proceeding ... what mystery could explain his appearance during the week?

"Run away and make a mental note that tie dye is back in style!"

'Good to know my whole social life hasn't been a complete waste.'

'Which fashion magazine do you recommend?'

'I forgot - did we find our style or are we stuck in a rut?'

'Mon Dieu! This year, your collection is really daring, mon cher Karl!'

'Tuscany . . . looks like a footballer's hair-do.'

"Wise up. You and me do not make a ferret craze."

'The prevailing wisdom is that markets are always right. I think that luck is always right.'

'We need to change our luck. Let's move our headquarters to Redmond, the home of Microsoft.'

"He's no hat and all corgis."

Emergency Hipster Beard

The Popularity of Pickleball Inspires a New Wave of Hybrid Sports.

"We're counting on you to reverse this trend before this afternoon's investors meeting."

'Miss Raleigh. I'm studying megatrends. Bring me some megavitamins.'

Men on escalators reading newspapers, shares are going up on the up escalator and down on the down escalator.

Coronavirus

Evolving Changes in Medical Lingo

"I always end up buying way more black-truffle honey than I intended."

"I'm sorry, JB, we still haven't worked out how we did it."

'Why don't you use more blue? -- Blue is very popular these days.'

The Euro - R.I.P.

'What's this I hear about you going long?'

'Our new simplified energy bills just have a few options starting with 'Grossly inflated' and progressing to the premium 'Bloodsucker' package. . .'

#notblessed

Utility Chic.

The ROI on social media was not yet optimized.

'So, summing up: we 'like' you and you 'like' us.'

"When did everybody stop jogging?"

"Halloween stuff already? It's August!"