Get ready to get down, Greek-style

A lot of the P-Club are of to Santorini for the Scout's nuptials next week, which seems like a pretty good excuse to post this great scene from Zorba the Greek:



Yiamas!

- Mr. Ed and Beigey

Speaking of silly...

Late update: Labour holds penistone.

Swing spares Balls...

And it seems a hung parliament beckons. Despite the lack of a decisive outcome, it certainly has been an exciting election. I've been glued to the BBC livestream all evening, it's uncanny how similar the coverage is to this classic:



Plus ca change...

Mr. Ed

We Had a Hell of a Good Time Together

I found this in our stable shortly after Bluecupboard physically left our Earthly Pastures - I know I was meant to find it.

Taken from What Do You Care What Other People Think? by Richard P. Feynman.

"It's hard to explain. If a Martian (who, we'll imagine, never dies except by accident) came to Earth and saw this peculiar race of creatures - these humans who live about seventy or eighty years, knowing that death is going to come - it would look to him like a terrible problem of psychology to live under those circumstances, knowing that life is only temporary. Well, we humans somehow figure out how to live despite this problem; we laugh, we joke, we live.

The only difference for me and Arlene was, instead of fifty years, it was five years. It was only a quantitative difference - the psychological problem was just the same. The only way it would have become any different is if we had said to ourselves, "But those other people have it better, because they might live fifty years." But that's crazy. Why make yourself miserable saying things like, "Why do we have such bad luck? What has God done to us? What have we done to deserve this?" - all of which, if you understand reality and take it completely into your heart, are irrelevant and unsolvable. They are just things that nobody can know. Your situation is just an accident of life.

We had a hell of a good time together."

Beigey. x

Won't Someone think of the Ponies

- Via No 1 Fan Grace

Snow my god!

It's been a mighty cold and snowy winter all over the northern hemisphere. Now, it seems even little old Chucktown might get a taste of the white stuff. From teh Wethurdotcom:

The storm will reach a position just off the South Carolina coast by late tonight. Once it reaches this point it is expected to intensify which will spread snow up the South Carolina coast bringing accumulating snows to places like Charleston and Myrtle Beach before pulling out to sea Saturday morning.

Very excited about seeing palm-trees with snow on them!

- Mr. Ed

How do they do that?

- Philip

Grey

Grey. Grey is the theme. Grey is created through the mixing of complementary colours - colours on opposing sides of the colour wheel doing battle and finding agreement in mulch. Grey is the colour of the day at present. However, it is also the hue of better things. In the grey corner then I present to you, mon petit chaumes, Papercuts - Future Primitive:



And the chromatically similar and similarly sinister, Acts Of Man, by Midlake:




A final wikipedic raid tells us that the first recorded use of grey as a colour name in English was in AD 700. So, um, there.

Monotonously yours
Chives