Paolo Bolzoni

LONG LIVE CHRISTMAS, © I GUFI, 1966 I Gufi are a legend of Italian cabaret. I wish you all the joys of the season. May the festivities be a celebration of joy and love, and may they bring hope for a better 2023. Please read the lyrics. Don’t waste your money with useless presents, consider helping those who need it. And, give your dears the most beautiful and valuable of all presents, your love! ***** To my dad two ties, even one was enough to sync He didn't even wear the one I gave him last year To my mum, special long gloves in black silk Yes, but I'd have to convince her to go out and cheer Long live Christmas We love each other New Year’s coming soon Happy New Year Then the Epiphany will come Takes all holidays away Then the Epiphany will come Takes all holidays away For you a sporty scarf with a perfume and two LP’s OMG, what a blunder, you don't have a record player You gave me a black coat, it has a long tail I can't even change it, it was a winter sale Long live...

 FOUR-MINUTES LONG STANDING OVATION FOR PRESIDENT SERGIO MATTARELLA. Yesterday, 7 December 2022, Maestro Riccardo Chailly inaugurated the 2022/2023 season at La Scala in Milan, and conducted Modest Mussorgsky’s “Boris Godunov”. Upon his entrance to the “Royal Box”, the President of the Italian Republic Sergio Mattarella was welcomed by a four-minutes long standing ovation. The audience, 2,000 selected guests (politicians, artists, Nobel Prize winners, musicians, journalists, etc.) kept on shouting ‘“GRAZIE PRESIDENTE” and “BRAVO”. Next to President Mattarella, you can see the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, the Lord Mayor of Milan, the President of the Italian Senate and the Italian Prime Minister. Immediately after, Maestro Chailly conducted the Italian national hymn AND the European Union hymn. To remind you, President Mattarella was re-elected on 29 January 2022, after SEVEN voting rounds, where none of the candidates received the required vote quorum...

THE SCHRÖDINGER'S CLOWN QUIZ © Paolo Bolzoni, 3 December 2022 THERE IS A CLOWN AT DOWNING STREET NUMBER 10. Curious? Take a couple of minutes to take this quiz... Please note: 1. You are NOT required to give your e-mail address. Please ignore the “*Required” message in red on the top of the quiz. 2. You do NOT need a Google account, nor have you to register to any account. 3. You will take the quiz on an entirely anonymous basis. 4. You will be the only person who gets feedback and see the score result. 5. You can repeat the quiz as many times as you like. 6. Please encourage your friends to take the quiz. All you have to do is to send them the link below. And, 1. All questions which require a mandatory answer are marked with the asterisk * 2. The quiz is divided into short sections. You must answer all mandatory questions to proceed to the next section. Good luck and have fun. May the Britons save Britain! TAKE THE QUIZ