Roman Holiday

 

Joe Biden visited with the Pope this week which prompts me to repeat the following post: A fellow was in the barber chair and told the barber he was planning a trip to Rome. there then ensued the following exchange:

B - Where do you plan to stay?

C - We are booked into the Excelsior Hotel.

B - It's overpriced and over rated - you won't like it. what else are you doing?

C - We plan to have dinner at Alfredo's famous restaurant.  B - That place is a tourist trap - you won't enjoy it.               C - And we have arranged to have an audience with the Pope.                                                                                   

B - You will be behind the ropes, you won't get near him.

Fast forward one month and C is back in the chair.

B - How was your trip?

C - Great - the Excelsior had flowers in our room and the concierge couldn't have been nicer. Alfredo himself greeted us and we had a private audience with the Pope.

B - I'm very impressed. What did the Holy Father say to you?

C - He asked me where did I get the lousy haircut. tjs

Climate change

 

 President Biden will be heading to Glasgow, Scotland in a few days for the U.N. Climate Conference. Whoever selected the time and place? Perhaps they wanted to observe the melting ice flows floating down from Greenland... ....Scotland in November? Joe will need his muffler, hat and gloves - and mask. (Mask rhymes with flask) which he might also carry in his hip pocket.

I was last in Glasgow in October 1964 compliments of USLines visiting the distillers and sampling their wares. That was when I switched from Canadian to Scotch. That's  when the barmaid asked "Want any ice, Yank?"

There was an old Scotsman entertainer, Sir Harry Lauder, who sang something like this: "I belong to Glasgow, dear old Glasgow Toon, but there's something the matter with Glasgow, for it's going round and round -- Now I'm just a poor old working man as anyone here can see - but when I get a couple of drinks on a Saturday, GLASGOW BELONGS TO ME! Bon Voyage, Joe Biden. tjs