The Problems roll on

When they started talking about "Brexit" over in Great Britain, I got confused and thought they meant "Weetabix," the cereal that is high on whole grains and low on taste.

But No! Brexit is this deal that they have agreed to over there, to leave the European Common Market (BRitish EXIT) that was all figured out by the English version of our adipose president, one Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson. Call him "Boris."

I'll tell you this right now, if my middle name were "de Pfeffel," I'd be working on an exit from that, I wanna tell ya.

But there are many things to be figured out before October 31, which is when Brexit is supposed to take effect.

For one thing, there is no deal in place to guarantee that items can be shipped into and out of Merrie Olde Englande. This means food and clothing and cars and fuel and those plaid Andy Capp caps so popular over there.

And now comes word that they are worried about running out of toilet paper! Jonathan Edwards, a Member of Parliament (and probably not the Jonathan Edwards who had a #4 hit with "Sunshine" in 1972) mentioned, on the floor of Parliament, and probably in the mens' room as well, that he was concerned about running out of "loo roll."

So he asked the government ministers in charge of such things for a guarantee that he would have enough Charmin to go around, and here is the answer from Cabinet Office minister Simon Hart: "The government would prefer to leave the EU on October 31 with a deal. If this is not possible we will have to leave with no-deal."

It's almost impossible to argue against that. "Either we'll have a deal, or if we don't, then we won't have a deal."

But, Hart also vowed that the government would "prioritize the flow of goods."

So there's that. Deal or no deal, there will be a flow.

There's also the matter of bread and milk to consider, with winter coming on.