On Monday, Herman van Rompuy told the media:
“The euro area member states are determined all the more after the choice made by the Greek people. We are confident that the new government will take ownership of the adjustment programme to which the Greek authorities committed earlier this year.”
Twenty four hours later, the EU announced that Spain and Italy were completely broke, but because both Brussels and the ECB are also 100% deficient in money substances, a Zen bailout would be organised using 10% of the money required, two loaves, five fishes, a levitating Buddhist bazooka, and the entire British Museum collection of petrified bollocks.
Interpol is now describing itself as “extremely concerned” that nothing has been heard of Greece since Antonis Simmerarse, the Nude Democracy leader, went to see the Greek President yesterday.
“This may be another Atlantis,” said ever-hopeful Commissioner for Athens-Shafting Veteatomar Porelculo, who was previously the Spanish ambassador to Zimbabwe, “or alternatively, it could be something Barroso and I dreamed up in the car on the way here.”
But leading satirist Kathimerini Loppadopaloppoloss later told Greek police, “It was Eviljello Verijealous who caused Greece to subside. I warned him not to sit down too quickly on an Aegean beach, and it’s clear that his weight was too much for our continental shelf to withstand. So it has always been, so it is: the Greek elite has rendered the Hellenic Republic underwater.”
Following the Italo-Spanish bail-in, The Slog’s Bankfurt Mole and pro-am cross-dresser Heidi Valderee (speaking from his eyrie ‘Wurstmitkartoffelnsalat‘ in the Salzburg mountains) said “I haff my luger mit me and I am goink to kill this Schweinhund piece of SchnitzelSheisse Schäuble mit it.”
The British Foreign Office confirmed that it was remaining abreast of events.
“It’s cleary gone tits-up,” said a spokespillock, “but as to the outcome, quite frankly Squire, your guess is as good as mine, and probably a lot better.”
@Nick: That’s true. Ideally, as a performer, you need communication not just with your fellow musicians, but with an audience as well.
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@Hb: Aretha Franklin is just so Great! Nana Mouskouri grew up in Crete indeed, and yes she has been mainly into folk music (she has also sang in English language among many).
My taste in music is pluralistic. From Greek folk, to Celtic folk, to Rock, 80s New Wave, Rap…Heavy Metal…whatever – as you said, only good and bad music. Jazz and R&B also, with a bit more preference to the latter. IMHO, Jazz and RB, is at it’s best at when live – that kind of music loses a lot of it’s spirit in studio.
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@david & @jimmy: You two see me after prep and tell Matron to get some iodine.
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@Nick: Sorry, it seems we were interrupted by a couple of wags maybe only one, out slumming it. I do love jazz yes, and spent the 80’s and early 90’s working as a rhythm guitarist in various swing bands around London doing my miserable best to play like Freddie Green from the Basie band who wrote the book on that kind of playing, although a lot of people never realised he was there. I love other kinds of music too; like Thelonius Monk said, there are only two kinds – good and bad.. Nana Mouskouri has a pure, beautiful voice but didn’t, to my knowledge, ever sing in that genre – her repertoire has strong traditional/folk roots and she excels at interpreting that kind of material. She had a classical conservatoire training and, like you, is from Crete I think? Comparisons are useless, and in this case even stupid, but for me the best ‘popular’ female singer of that generation was Aretha Franklin. After leaving Mahalia Jackson she cut some small group jazz standards for John Hammond at Columbia, which are gold, before moving on to the r&b/soul that she is probably best known for; her voice has a range and quality that is truly extraordinary and hard to beat. Above all, the best kind of music is live – even if it’s a recording!
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you didn’t like my joke about the para-olympics, did you jackass?
funny…when i was a lad, tax was generally considered to be an ‘unavoidable evil’, yet now it is deemed evil to avoid it…
…well, maybe not so funny, actually…more like bloody scary to see how much even the staunchest conservatives have been brainwashed and brow-beaten by the nanny-in-a-state…
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ah yes, i see…the greek nation could now assume a false identity in order to evade its tax-paying responsibilities toward the frankfurterland…and whilst we are on that subject…may i just say that i consider this is a great day for calling open-season on all my dodgy, or (as we chaps in the hokey-cokey offshore club of conservative social commitment prefer to denominate them) ‘tax-efficient’ friends in the city. furthermore, i believe that the only way, and the right way, and, indeed, the only right way to kick-start our already fiscally-flooded economy, is to lay-in to all small and medium-sized businesses (such as jimmy carr and co limited) and screw from them the last drops of their liquid-assets, so that we high-priests at the altar of democratic deviance may pour the pressed-profits, by-way-of a loony-liberal libation, down the euro-gutter, in the vain and glorious hope of assuaging the thirst and wrath of the great green greasy greedy god, balderdash – the bringer of barefaced bank-bailouts and other bundersbunkum.
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@Hieronimusb…from a previous post of yours, i think you are into jazz…If i may…do you also like Nana Mouskouri?
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@Just sayin: Do you feel the same way about the Spanish, Italians, Portuguese, Irish, French or is it just the Greeks you’ve got it in for?
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@yana: If that was a joke I’m Nana Mouskouri. Just another smug boating accident.
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Its true! ….We are missing! I am indeed lost.
Welcome to the twilight zone… where millions become zillions.
And castles in the air require no foundations.!
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OK, so the Greeks have disappeared for a while, but they will make their comeback tomorrow, as we finally managed to produce a government.
Desisions have been very difficult, and here’s the latest insider news:
There will be no Ministry of Interior. Will be replaced by a Deputy minister under Minister of Foreign Affairs, as most of the population is about to immigrate to other countries.
Ministry of Commerce is renamed to Ministry of Barter Trade.
Ministry of Tourism is renamed to Ministerstvo Turizma, as only Russian tourists are willing to come here lately…
The following ministries are abolished, as they have no practical activity any more:
Treasury
Labor/Employment
Industry
Justice
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Say any joke you want about us but the truth is we saved the world from boredom .At least give this to us please .
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Bulgaria Fulfils All Criteria for Eurozone Membership, But Will Not Join for Now…
http://www.bta.bg/en/c/ES/id/396270
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kfc, you know RSPCA can sue you for proposing that :-)
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@kfc: Dunno, I bet JW wouldn’t let him near his doggies ;-) ha-ha.
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@Sitc: Absolutely fabulous, thanks. Despite his few alleged warts, Farage talks a whole load of truth and commonsense. The EU-crats must hate him..
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@SITC: Indeed, I always enjoy his rants at those two clowns.
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@BT: ‘Things may change when he has to find himself a proper job :-)’
I wonder who would actually give him a job? Battersea Dogs Home, kennel cleaner perhaps?
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A Wedesday evening chuckle: Farrage at his finest: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/farage-barroso-hes-deluded-communist-idiot
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I was thinking more in terms of going missing while canoeing or some such. The whole Greek nation goes off in a canoe, presumed dead, insurance pays out, the whole thing blows over and voila, they come back from the dead a couple of decades later. The insurance people won’t be happy but everyone else will see the benefits.
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But it’s the first time I’ve seen him get rattled and it’s good to see. Things must be hotting up in his addled brain. Who knows maybe at some point he’ll lose the plot completely while there’s a camera on him. If we’re very lucky he’ll foam at the mouth and start biting a rug.
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I don’t think anyone did think he was there to receive lessons. It was perfectly obvious he was there just to pass round the begging bowl again.
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Coffins? Very appropriate methinks.
And I noticed Barreloso slipped into a Latin double-negative in his rant…”We’re not here to take lessons from nobody“. Things may change when he has to find himself a proper job :-)
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@Nick: Either they were standing on risers or we’re going to have to chop their legs off..
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I’m sure the CIA/Fed/Obama could arrange that in no time at all. They may even have already done so.
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Please have a look at this photo:
http://tvnewsroom.consilium.europa.eu/event/g20-summit-june-2012/joint-press-briefing-van-rompuy-barroso-qa111/P6/
Barosso and Rompay speak about EZ using coffins as tribunes?
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By God, JW, I think youy’ve got it! Greece simply needs to dissappear for a while…..
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Give the British Foreign Office some credit. By being a breast of events is the best place to spot when things go tits-up and boobs are made.
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Iran is becoming a desirable re-location spot in
comparison to the Euro Bedlam hospital wing..
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http://www.scribd.com/doc/97663301/Germany-Repeats-No-EFSF-ESM-Bond-Purchase-W-Out-Conditionality
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It’s been tits-up for a while now but, in true Foreign Office tradition they have only just noticed…
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Is that Kathimerini Loppadopaloppoloss any relation to the owner of the laundrette on Albert Square ..?
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