Being Mr. Kenny

Firstly, it’s only just occurred to me that I have two mice on my desk. Well I knew that anyway, but the luscious thing is that one is made by Microsoft and the other by Apple. I refer, of course, to my lovely wonderful new Mighty Mouse that I got for Christmas. I’m hoping that the Microsoft mouse and the Apple mouse will fall in love and have babies. That would be brilliant. Imagine, a mouse that was made by the two best computer companies in the world, it would be unstoppable.

No silly Microsoft-being-crap jokes please.

Anyway, the other best thing ever was a line from the film The Madness of King George. This is a great film, written by Alan Bennett (originally a play), in which Nigel Hawthorn plays the lead role. One of the things that most puzzles me is that the king recovers in the film and retakes the throne, but in real life he never did. I don’t know why Mr Bennett changed it, but there must have been a good reason.

Anyway, the best thing ever (finally) was a particularly fabulous quote by the King. The King and some of his advisors are outside in the winter air, and someone remarks that it is cold. The King asks, “Do you find it cold?” and someone replies that yes they do. As they go back into the asylum, the King says to someone, “I control the weather, you know. By means of mental powers.”

All today I have had that going round and round in my head, and I think it is the best two sentences that ever were.