Monte Carlo

Le 11e RALLYE MONTE-CARLO HISTORIQUE se déroulera du 31 janvier au 6 février 2008.

MadDog is competing, and is no doubt gearing up for the Départ on Friday.

He has written an excellent introduction to rallying. Now I understand what is going on, I am going to follow it - a first for one who has not had the remotest interest in cars before now.

And best of luck to MadDog!

Pretty

Unnerved by WickedRed's picture of a squirrel kissing a slightly injured hedgehog, I steadied myself with this by Jessica May, an Illinois grad art student who works with roadkill, for instance dressing the animals in baby clothes and varnishing their nails.

Dating: How It Actually Works

Flanders & Swann demonstrate



He was old, he was vile and no stranger to vice.
He was base, he was bad, he was mean.

I can relate to that.

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And "
When he asked, "What in Heaven?" she made no reply
Up her mind, and a dash for the door
" is a delight of a prozeugma.

Readers: Oooh.

Let The Groove On

Readers: You're not actually Jeff Castle? I thought your name was

Blogista: No it wasn't, and you don't know his was, either.

An Introduction to Tables

Here is a simple Table from "The People's Romance" by Daniel B Klein.

Later in this series we will be looking at more complex Tables.

I will be wearing a green shirt with a button-down collar, a hand-knitted umber tie, grey flannel drainpipes and shoes like dead pigs' noses. I will have grown a straggly salt'n'pepper Amish beard, so you will be able to call me "Shitface Sam" behind my back.

Readers: No.

Yes, this also I will do for you.

Shopping

Readers: You just can't get the original Doctor Who theme these days.

Blogista: Why yes you can and where else but here? And YouTube, admittedly. And it's a 2006 remix.

Readers: But we will pay you handsomely just to be our facilitator.

How Long Blues

Under the weight of its own contradictions will the EU eventually collapse, and this is a magnificent example of how it will be brought down. Despite our pessimism over the constitutional Lisbon treaty, the collapse cannot be long in coming.

EU Referendum don't add an estimate for how long "eventually" is.

Nobody cares, is the thing.

The Downing Street petition for a referendum has attracted 24,000 signatures (still five days to go, for all you folks who haven't got round to it yet).

The Rally for a Referendum at Westminster last October drew crowds in their... hundreds.

That leaves about another 44.5 million voters who either favour the EU or who couldn't give a shit.

Nowhere else in Europe has anyone succeeded in campaigning for a referendum.

Nobody cares, and it will take a quite extraordinary system failure before anyone begins to notice. The "magnificent example" cited by EU Referendum - that putting up some useless henvironmental windmills is proving to be anti some useless henvironmental laws, is not a deal-breaker.

So "the collapse cannot be long in coming" - in two generations? Three?

I bet you anyway that the readers (ha!) of this blog, the writers of EU Referendum &c &c will be a very long time dead by the time the Starry Blue Rasclat is lowered for the last time.

Meanwhile, commuters on the Hove-to-Croydon line, fear to protest when my slinky new moobile phoone breaks into the Horst Wessel Leid. Just a ringtone, ye sleeples'n'sheeples. If you can't beat 'em...