Optics

 ALTERED FOR COMEDIC PURPOSES

Is this a possibility of things to come? One may argue in light of Taoiseach Brian Cowen, and finance minister Brian Lenihan's joint press conference to announce cap-in-hand as official government policy, or as Vogue magazine might put it: In Ireland this winter-season and every other season thereafter, for the foreseeable future; blue is the new green. 


They are here, armed with brushes and paint to rebrand Ireland, the Emerald Isle, Pantone Reflex Blue. Or so it seemed as the two Brians, or Brian², stood shoulder-to-shoulder, well not quite, but perhaps they are practitioners of the Kahlil Gibran model of unity - "and stand together but not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart." D'uh, don't you read philosophy? The Brians do. But it's not brains the Brians lack. Is it?


Perhaps when I refer to either one of them in the singular, I should use the expression square-root-of-Brian. Though that could generate some erratic and contradictory results, as in this case, Brian is a variable.

NOT ALTERED IN ANY WAY

So while the marionettes please their new masters by painting the postboxes blue (RGB: 0, 51, 153), maybe it's not so bad. After all when Jon Hague tweeted this:

"Breaking News. Steve Jobs is to buy Ireland to solve the debt problem. It will be rebranded iLand."

I thought of this:







Chin-up folks, things could be worse.

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