01/05/2003
It's Mayday. Traditionally a pagan holiday which was later taken over by the communist party in the former Soviet Union and turned into a Labour day holiday to celebrate the workers. Here in the city of London it is therefore used by a bunch of "tree hugging commie pinko subversives" who have no jobs, to come into the square mile and riot. Who can forget two years ago when the misfits attempted to invade the old life floor and received a "good old kicking."
The whole of europe is off today which really doesn't make much difference in countries such as Germany where they have 11% unemployment. Still they can mull about who they are going to vote for in the "Great Germans" programme, a version of our "Great Britons" where viewers choose and vote for their favourite compatriot of all time. The UK version saw the public choose an initial list of 100 which was then whittled down to the winner, Winston Churchill. Germans will be allowed to vote for such leading lights as Einstein, Mozart, Bismarck and Freud amongst their list of 100. I am left wondering whether other countries will take this programme and if so who would be on their list. My thoughts keep coming back to one country which must really be struggling to come up with a list 10 let alone a 100. Change that, a list of 5. Lets help them members. We need a list of 5 famous Belgians. Potter and I need to have heard of them and you can't have fictional characters so no Tin Tin or Poirot.
There is nothing going on in the markets at the moment if anyone is interested.
I am going to work on my Muppet of the Month award this afternoon and Potter and I will be going out for a walk with our american flags and the company water cannon.
Harry