All of my faithful followers will know my views by now on global warming and all the other various doom merchants predicting the end of the world as we know it. It has to be said, however, that the weather over the last few weeks has been none too special (to put it mildly) but as ever, this is nothing new. On this day in 1988, snow fell on the Syrian desert and in Damascus for the first time in fifty years. When I think how demented Nolan becomes at the first flake of the white stuff - and he has seen snow in all of his winters so far - I can only imagine the hysteria among the sand dunes when everyone under fifty was experiencing snow for the first time. I wonder if anyone could remember where they had left their sledges?
In other news ...
The first Marx brothers film, Coconuts aired on this day in 1929. Don't get me started on the antics of Groucho, Karl and the gang, if only because I have watched several minutes of several of their films several times and to date can't find anything to laugh at, although I really have tried, honest. Sorry if that makes me a curmudgeonly old git, but that's just the way it is. The lines are funny - 'What's a thousand dollars? Mere chicken feed - a poultry matter' - but only when you see them written down, or hear them delivered by someone else! Harpo, perhaps.
PS - thanks to my faithful follower, I know now why Warren Beattie loses his sunglass lens. It is in homage to A Bout de Souffle starring Jean-Paul Belmondo in 1963. See - I knew someone would know!
