Something to make you smile on a dreary Friday afternoon

This is undoubtedly the best thing i've ever seen....



EDIT: For the benefit of Julien, and myself, i've ripped it as an MP3. Obviously the quality's not great, but I doubt a better version would ever show up. And this is class!

MP3: INDIAN THRILLER

Also, i did have a wee chuckle with myself in yesterday's Telegraph (it's usually lying round at work) after seeing an obituary for a Lt Colonel Pine Coffin.

Foolishly, I didn't read the text. One of the many highlights of his remarkable military career:

On coming ashore, plastered in mud and wearing only a red beret and a pair of flippers, he was confronted by a party of armed Cubans. Mustering as much authority as he could in the circumstances, he informed the group that they were trespassing on British sovereign territory and were surrounded.

The following morning, when the Royal Marines arrived to rescue him they were astonished to find him and his radio operator in a clearing standing guard over the Cubans and a pile of surrendered weapons. He was appointed OBE.

elsewhere:

His parachuting career was brought to a premature end when he landed in the dark on a tractor and broke several bones in his feet.

and I enjoyed the image brought up by the following encounter:

When he came across a number of heavily bearded men hiding in a monastery, Pine-Coffin suspected that they were Eoka terrorists in disguise and asked his sergeant to give their beards a sharp tug. These all stayed firmly in place and he had to make a swift tactical withdrawal.

He sounds remarkably like Peter Cook's creation 'Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling'.

"We like you too much to see you killed"