Six Nations
and 28
Nations
IS ENGLAND rugby winger Johnny May any relation to Theresa? His hat-trick of tries last weekend typified England's all-round performance in demolishing France, and how edifying it was by comparison with the Brexit performance.
The latest in Brexit is that the British government's frantic attempt to establish a port at Ramsgate to relieve likely customs congestion at Dover in the case of a no-deal Brexit, has (to stay with the rugby metaphor) run head-first into a goalpost. The shipping company contracted to set up an alternative cross-Channel service turns out to own no ships, so the deal is off.
Nothing like that happened at Twickenham last Sunday. Maybe Eddie Jones should take over the Brexit business.
Meanwhile, there is speculation that the Northern Ireland border issue could bring to life to a clause in the Good Friday Agreement, requiring that if there is support in Northern Ireland for unification with the Republic, this should be tested in a poll.
Northern Ireland voted against Brexit (as did Scotland). If those same voters should see the prospect of a "hard" border and the possible resumption of sectarian violence as impossible to contemplate, things could become tricky.
Theresa has to be careful not to give away a penalty goal, as happened at Twickenham. No, it wasn't England who gave away the penalty goal, it was the French.
There's this strange inverted resemblance of Six Nations rugby to the Twenty-Eight Nations Brexit process.
"SCAT" is a word used by veterinary scientists to describe animal ordure. Such scientists often find themselves examining and analysing scat.
Marine biologists were doing just that in New Zealand recently. They were examining the scat of a leopard seal when, according to Sky News, they found in it a USB memory stick.
They cleaned it up, inserted it in a computer and – presto! – lovely holiday shots videoed from a kayak in the waters round South Island.
What kind of data dump is this? How did the leopard seal get to ingest the memory stick?
The scientists are hoping the owner of the UBS stick will come forward, claim his holiday shots and give them some idea of how they ended up inside a leopard seal.
WILL this Obama-Trump feud never end? A New York man heaved a cinder block through the front window of a lingerie store in Harlem.
In the shop window were mannequins – one of former president Barack Obama dressed as a prince, the other of President Donald Trump dressed as a princess and wearing a "Make America great again" hat, according to Huffington Post..
Was the block heaver incensed at this representation of Trump? It's not clear. But he dragged the Obama mannequin out and threw it to the ground, damaging it. He then scarpered, followed by a store employee who alerted the police.
But before the cops could arrive, the employee had to protect him from a crowd of women who had gathered, threatening to kick his head in for damaging the Obama likeness.
America is sadly riven.
Tailpiece
THE owner of a golf course in Georgia is confused about paying an invoice. He asks his secretary for some help.
"You graduated from University of Georgia and I need some help. If I were to give ya $20 000, minus 14%, how much would ya take off?"
"Everythin' but mah earrings."
Last word
We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.
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