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BB1208
: The
Colour Supplement
2nd March 2012
No
adventures to report this week so here is the BOOTboys Colour
Supplement containing:
- a Features
item about
The Three Pint Problem followed by
- our Finance
& Economic Review concerning The Euro's
Ailing Parents, and
- the Sports
Report introducing The
BAGNOLOboys.
I know it used to be a walking blog, but
you have to move with the times. If people will
go away (me included), what more can you expect?
Editor
Features
The
Three Pint Problem
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One
BOOTboy
who wishes to remain anonymous reports the
highly unusual experience (for him) of only being
able to manage three pints in a day due
to circumstances beyond his control.
Obviously
not Pete, who is shown here managing three
pints in as many minutes.
Rumour
has it that for such achievement he won
the pub prize- six more pints to be supped
that night.
Our
correspondent informs me that he took
full advantage of his winnings.
Respect!
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Three
Pint Pete in action
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Meanwhile
our aforementioned anonymous former Greggy's pastie
loving member has confessed that
he too has a "thing" about Ranvir
and reports that he was aware that the hotelier previously
referred to as being an Alex
fan feels likewise. The reason for this biker's anonymity
is that he hasn't been forgiven for calling the other
party's car, a Honda S2000 sports machine, a hairdresser's
car.
Mike
wishes it to be known that he is NOT the BOOTboy
hotelier who is a member of the Alex Polizzi
Appreciation Society (APAS). So that narrows down
the
field somewhat, doesn't it, James?
In
fact Mike is distinctly not a fan of Alex. He
recalls taking his mother-in-law to her hotel for tea
only to find that Alex had a photographer there doing
a shoot and was rather rude. [He actually used
a rather stronger word! - Ed]
On
the other hand, he has total admiration for her mother,
Olga
Polizzi,
who had great taste in interior design. He also
reminds readers that her grandfather was Charles Forte
Here
endeth this edition's gossip.
Finance
& Economic Review
The
Euro's Ailing Parents
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On
the less steep parts of our wanderings,
we frequently put the world to rights. One
regular topic concerns the Euro, about which
there are few enthusiasts.
Lying
in bed on Sunday, half asleep, I suddenly
realised that the 8:45 slot was a discourse
on European Monetary Union.
Or,
to be precise, on previous attempts.
I
had been totally unaware that in the mid
1860s there had been a Latin Monetary Union
(to which Greece was a late and disastrous
entrant) and that it collapsed due to the
individual governments pursuing individual
ends.
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See
The
Euro's Ailing Parents
for a fuller review.
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There
was also a Scandinavian attempt that failed similarly.
The
only one that worked was the German monetary union where
there was much stronger central control.
Plus
ça change!
The
Sports Report
The
Bagnoloboys
John
S draws our attention to a sport that is as old as the
hills we walk, as reported in the Irish
Independent, Daily
Telegraph and
the Hindustan
Times, so it must
be true.
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Laura
Maggi of Bagnolo Mella
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In
a bar in a small town called Bagnolo Mella
in Lombardy, Laura Maggi suddenly found
men beating a path to her door.
Surprisingly,
this was not for the quality of her coffee
and aperitifs, but because she was turning
up for work in (or out of) highly revealing
outfits.
Male
customers started flocking to Le Café
leaving the surrounding streets clogged
with their double-parked cars.
Bagnolo’s
lady mayor, Cristina Almici, is quoted as
saying:
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We
have received several complaints from women about the
bar and we are looking at what we can do with regard
to public order. There has been a huge influx
of traffic into the town since the news of Laura started
to spread and this has led to incidents of bad parking
and some minor acts of vandalism.
We
can’t stop people from going to her bar and I know it
is very popular with men in the town – personally I
don’t see any problem with how she looks or dresses.
Paradoxically,
she then added:
My husband is certainly not allowed to go!
John
wondered if there was a walking group called the BAGNOLOboys?
He suggested some form of cultural exchange with them
and asked for volunteers.
Unfortunately,
Pete misheard John's pronunciation of the name of the Italian club and vowed
that he not have anything or anyone to do with Strictly Scum Dancing,
as he termed it.
Meanwhile,
John was imagining the peaks that could be conquered
by the BOOTboys
and, sportingly, rushed to the travel agent to book
his flight to Italy in order to do the research, As
he said, "The thigh's the limit."
It's
good to know that the spirit of Big
Josie
lives on!
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