Tuesday 11 May 2010

A question and a few odds and ends on the election...

Recently there has been an intermittent whiff of veiled threat during the post election limbo as regards what the financial markets would and would not like and what consequences may follow if the outcome is disobliging from the point of view of the financial markets.

A question.

Who elected the financial markets?

Perhaps to paraphrase Brecht, the financial markets may care to dissolve the people and award themselves a new one.



The Rabbit has blogged on Joanne Cash before. Oh dear! She lost! And she would appear to be a sore loser too. Oh dear oh dear.... Hat Tip to Mahal




While on the subject of angry people, here are Alan Boulton of Sky News and Alistair Campbell of - well - of very angry indeed having a difference of opinion. Just settle back and enjoy...

At the time of writing it appears that we are indeed to be governed by a sack of blancmange, propped up by the Lib Dems as Labour have given up on the subject, the BBC news website reports. Some wag put Nick Clegg up for sale on e-bay but the humourless gits at e-bay took it down, Hat Tip to Random Blowe. I leave the last word - okay image not word - to Beau Bo D'Or (link to left)


Weird fact of the day from the BBC website: 'The ancient Greek punishment for adultery was to shove a radish up the adulterer's bottom'. As one does...

5 comments:

Petit fleur said...

Oh dear, oh dear indeed.

simply wondered said...

'The ancient Greek punishment for adultery was to shove a radish up the adulterer's bottom'.

this canard has been doing the rounds since the C4th BC athenian banking crisis. still scholars are uncertain - although stephen fry said it on qi so it must be true. what i know is that juvenal makes a reference to adulterers having a red mullet stuck up their arse. yoinks! you have to pay good money for that where i come from.

white rabbit said...

Little Flower - what troubles you?

SW - It would be an unorthodox way of baking the red mullet. Is it inserted live or dead? A good stoning to death is less wastful of food methinks.

JoJo said...

Ummmm.....OW!!!!!

Daniel Hoffmann-Gill said...

That final image is pretty grim isn't it?