PICTURE OF THE DAY: Pink Elephants are real

It is always good to be able to have an excuse for a quote from Scott Walker. And when it is an excuse for a quote from Scott Walker singing a song originally sung (and written) by Jacques Brel it is even better:

"And tho' pink elephants I'd see

I'd sing the song they sang to me

About the time they called me Jackie"

BTW Jacques Brel has a minor claim to cryptozoological fame. ASs well as being a singer and songwriter of enormous talent, he died in 1978 on an island in French Polynesia called Hiva Oa - part opf the Marquesas Islands. Hive Oa is home to potentially one of the most exciting cryptids of all time; a purple rail which could possibly be an out-of-place takahe...

But thats's another story.

In the meantime read the rest of the pink elephant saga:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7951331.stm

And it's friday, so here is Scott Walker singing `Jackie`: