Wednesday 19 October 2011

Not the Holy Grail

Combined with all the hysteria over Harold Camping's latest prediction of worldwide annihilation on Friday, we've been consumed with excitement over the discovery of what is claimed to be the Holy Grail. Hidden in a rabbit burrow by Joseph of Arimathea, it has passed the centuries safely until last night, when Young Keith put his foot in that same rabbit hole and wondered what he'd trodden on.

He's doing a roaring trade at a fiver a time charging people to touch the precious cup. But can I point out to you two things:

1) The Normans introduced rabbits to Britain. The Romans gave us many things, including writing, sanitation, roads, aqueducts and edible dormice. But not rabbits.

2) The "Grail" seems to have the kind of bottom that was designed to sit on a Bakelite base.

3) It carries the inscription "ABA - Beds light-heavyweight winner 1961".

I'm sorry but Cardinal Fang is going to have to confiscate it. A bit of light file-work and I'm hoping to rebrand it as the original FA Cup.

1 comment :

  1. Why is the rapture always on a weekday?

    You'd have thought Sunday would be so much more handy, at least most of the people it supposedly affects would be conveniently gathered together?

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