THE NEWS FROM BRITAIN

We suspect college students were involved in this.

(Thanks to Claire Martin)

Comments

[Sarah J]

Clearing rocks from the top of the mountain? Isn't the mountain made of rocks? Why would they want to take the mountain apart?

[fivver]

Keep looking under the cairns guys. I'm sure there's a piano teacher around there somewhere.

[Musically Challenged]

fivver ~ I wouldn't be suprised if they found an orchestra underneath.

[obi wan]

*snorks* to Sarah.

[reneviht]

Bah, mountains these days are all made out of cheap plastic.

[Wurm42]

I say some lovestruck fool hauled the piano up the mountain.

Memo to unknown UK lovestruck fool: Arranging a romantic musical evening under the stars for your lady fair is all well and good, but there are limits! Stop making the rest of us look bad! :-P

[CoastRaven]

I wouldnt be surprised it the piano scaled the mountain all by itself.

[fivver]

snork @ CR

[BillyJoeJimBob]

He added that a biscuit wrapper with a best before date of December 1986 was found under the piano, giving a clue as to when it was taken there, but not why.

I doubt people have been climbing that 4400 foot high "mountain" for 20 years and hadn't noticed the piano before now. I'm sure it's a recent prank. Inquiring minds want to know: Why did the pranksters stop 200 meters before the top? Did they suddenly sober up and/or run out of beer?

[Schadeboy]

I find it sad that they broke it up and carted the pieces away. It would have made a very cool monument, I think.

Still, maybe they'll try to sell off the pieces on eBay.

[CoastRaven]

Maybe there will be a couch that suddenly appears for a moment with a couple hitchhikers sitting on it as well.

[Meanie the Blue]

Stonehenge II, The Piano....

[TC]

OK, I'm picturing a husband and wife climing team:

the husband, exhausted, flops down all out of breath

i know we're only 200 meters from the top, but i can't take another step

wife: but we're so close to the top - can't you just try a little harder?

husband: it's just that this packs so damn heavy - what'd you put in here anyway

wife: well, only things i thought we'd need

husband, digging thru pack: THERE'S A PIANO IN HERE FOR CRAP'S SAKE!!!

wife: well you never know when you might need a piano

i suspect that if they dig under the piano, they will discover the wife's corpse as well

[ScottMGS]

Hmmm... I'm from Iowa and even I don't think 4,418ft qualifies as a "mountain" (unless you're talking a "mountain of trash" or something like that).

[markhh]

CR: only if there is a pitch nearby...

[sharon share-alike]

He added that a biscuit wrapper with a best before date of December 1986 was found under the piano, giving a clue as to when it was taken there, but not why.

I would have expected a large box with ACME on the side, and the body of a squooshed, accordian-like coyote in the vicinity, instead.

[ScottMGS]

Sharon: 'Toons. Why'd it have to be 'toons?

[swilmor]

*flight attendant to passenger sitting on strangely elevated seat cushion*
"Excuse me mam, is that a piano under your seat? If so, I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask you to store in the overhead... *intercom crackels*
"This is your pilot speaking. Our right engine has just died so we'll have to begin jetisoning all extra weight to maintain altitude. Please remain calm."

hence the piano in the alps (what?! the alps aren't in britain?)

[Annie Where-but-here]

Wait a minute - didn't somebody play Glasgow a few years ago? where's my piano.

[marfie]

On top of Ben Nevis,
all covered with rocks,
I lost my piano
while adjusting my socks.

It rolled out of my backpack,
and onto the ground.
Now thanks to the John Muir Trust,
my piano is found.

It landed on top of a wrapper,
from twenty years past.
a package of biscuits,
a hiker's breakfast?

So if you want music,
when hiking yon and hither,
consider a harmonica,
or maybe a zither.

(and before you start posting, yes, I know Biscuits are what Brits call cookies, but haven't YOU ever had chocolate chip cookies for breakfast, or a least wanted to?)

[Annie Where-but-here]

Um....who is Ben Nevis, and why is there a piano on top of him? Must've been a heck of a party.

[O. the U(manity)]

... a biscuit wrapper with a best before date of December 1986 was found under the piano, giving a clue as to when it was taken there ...

Anybuddy seen Arlo lately?

[CoastRaven]

Or his pickle?

[ScottMGS]

You have a point, there, O.

Did any one take 8x10 inch color, glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what it was?

Don't bother. The judge is blind.

[Punkin Poo]

Oh!! THAT'S where I left my piano! (Last time I saw it I was on top of Ben Nevis...mmmm....ah...nevermind...)

[obi wan]

Punkin, know you've probably used it before, but "Is that a piano on top of Ben Nevis, or are you just happy to see me?"

[Annie Where-but-here]

On top of Ben Nevis,
All covered with rocks,
I lost my piano,
In the British boondocks.

It rolled off the airplane,
From such a great height,
And now my piano,
Is no longer upright.

[marfie]

Bravo, Annie!

[Annie Where-but-here]

Thanks.
*waits for uo to point out that it was never an upright, but a grand piano*

[marfie]

Heck no, I would never Stein in the Way of a good parody.

[Punkin Poo]

Oh trust me - Old Ben was both upright and quite grand!

[Wavey]

Climb every mountain, with a pi-a-no
Haul it up those slopes, ev'rywhere I go
Climb every mountain, why do I climb?
Just sorta seemed like a good idea at the time.

[ScottMGS]

Punkin, I thought that was Big Ben.

[Lisa Bisa Fo Fisa]

So far authorities only have two suspects; a coyote who has evaded capture by dropping anvils on searchers; and a roadrunner who will be questioned as soon as the Ben Nevis PD can catch him.

*sharon beat me too it, but I posted anyway* ;-D

[O. the U(manity)]

Phew!

Ben Nevis PD must not have an Officer Obie in their department ... that means Arlo isn't gonna hafta pay $50 ...

[obi wan]

graces and deep bows to punkin poo, your grace and decorum exceed this article... (but that doesn't say MUCH, now does it...) And as far as being "upright and grand," where is the blogagra?

[Annie Where-but-here]

I think TC is boa-guarding the blogagra. But can you blame him? I mean, what other guy on this blog really needs it? Hmmmm?

[MoFaux]

Refer to your Bibles, fools! Remember the part where Noah is like all scared and stuff, then he like, plays that great Blues thing on the piano? DUH!

[obi wan]

Yeah, Julie Andrews roamin' over Ben Nevis... "The hilllllllsssss are alive, with the sound of... what, you have no keyboard??? I'm moving to Switzerland to do this movie. Can you get me a few kids and a few background shots? Maybe Chrisopher Plummer as my leading man? Some nuns singing, "How do you solve a problem like Maria?"............I'm thinkin' the studio took her offer...

[Annie Where-but-here]

His name was Noah,
He liked the water.
But that was many years ago,
Now he has a Vegas show.

[O. the U(manity)]

Cést moi?

[Ellasmom]

Well, there was that big windstorm a few years back....

Do they get hurricaines in Britain?