Weather Alarums

Having got a bit tired of being unpredictably rained on lately and/or being too hot thanks to wearing too many layers, I just checked out the Yahoo weather forecast for Beijing (interestingly, Yahoo Hong Kong is (ineffectually) blocked from the mainland).

Today's weather: Smoke.

Smoke? I realise Beijing overtook Mexico City in the pollution stakes some time ago (though it's still not the most polluted city in the world, that's some industrial pit in near Manchuria or something), but "smoke"? As a weather forecast?

Joke Receptacle

Two jokes I have heard recently.

In South Africa, a gold miner was rescued from a disastrous cave-in, but unfortunately one of his legs had to be amputated. The man was distraught.
"Who's going to want a one-legged gold digger?" he wailed.
Suddenly, the phone rang.
"Hi," said a voice, "Paul McCartney here."

---

What's red and white and goes "beep... beep.... beep"?
Arsenal's open-topped bus reversing back into the garage.