On The Lighter Side
Allo-bonjour,After a failed search for jumbo pasta bags at Tescos, Stuart and I spent today walking in Edinburgh's Tollcross district and witnessed a strange ritualistic spectacle. Scores of people dressed head to toe in red chased a single person among them seemingly chosen by random until an equally random time when the subject of the chase would switch. Like tag, only backwards and without any means of determining whose "it".
This ritual was practiced on and off, interspersed by lying on the ground in a circle and forming arbitrary lines, for about half an hour, at which point we gave up on understanding it and left.
Is it a form of Scottish wrestling? A strange pagan fertility rite? Or perhaps a state-mandated exercise routine? The mystery remains unresolved. But I give my word to you that I for one will not rest until it is solved.
Until then,
John from Canada
Links to today's stories:
Vacuum Sex
Man learns to tell "pigs" from cops
Granny rugby-tackles jay walker
Russian survives snooze on train track
Double amputee fitted for mermaid tail
posted by John from Canada at
17:23
2 Comments:
Well read, well read. I think you have a career at CNN in front of you.
Appropriately enough, the word for today is rations.
DA
Were those folks all dressed in red part of the cast of a movie or TV survival game show? Next time you pass by Tollcross look for strange people all dressed in green. Or white. Or purple. Remember the purple people eater? was he purple, or did he only eat purple people?
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