And Pigs Will Fly

Well, it looks as though the much dreaded swine ‘flu’ has turned out to be nothing more than a bad cold in most cases. However, its timing was perfect as it gave us all something else to worry about and the world financial situation got pushed into the background for a while.

Now it seems that the virus has reached Asia where there is endemic bird ‘flu’. So called experts say that the virus will combine with the bird flu one and come back as a virulent and potentially deadly ‘flu’ virus this winter.

Warnings from these ‘experts’ don’t seem to hold much water these days. An ‘ex’ is a short burst, and a ‘spurt’ is a jet of water, so what does that make an ‘expert’, I wonder.

Then there’s the question of what to call this new strain of the virus. ‘Flying Pigs’ sounds just about right.