Time for Wiki Wednesday.
You know - you go to Wikipedia, you click on "random article," you report on the outcome.
Here's my random Wiki Wednesday find for this week:
Cemaes is a village on the north coast of Anglesey in Wales (grid reference SH369933), on Cemaes Bay, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, which is partly owned by the National Trust. It is home to both a wind farm and a nuclear power station (Wylfa). It is also a fishing port and is known for its beach. The village also has a football team, Cemaes Bay F.C., that play in the Welsh Alliance League, but once got as high as the League of Wales, becoming the first team on Anglesey to do so.
Cemaes is the most northerly village in Wales and its development has been shaped by the natural resources available to it. Cemaes Bay is an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, some of which is owned by the National Trust. The village includes a sheltered natural harbour that looks north to the Irish Sea and is a site of an ancient settlement that in more recent centuries has become a centre for maritime activities. [etc. etc. etc.]
Why do I get the feeling that "Outstanding National Beauty" is proudly and boldly stated by the residents of Cemaes as often as possible?
"I was out there at the area of OUTSTANDING NATIONAL BEAUTY today just admiring those cooling towers."
"I hear those windmills over at the area of OUTSTANDING NATIONAL BEAUTY are killing hundreds of birds a day."
"Seriously? The local footballers have made it into the Welsh Alliance League? Wow, that just makes living in an area of OUTSTANDING NATIONAL BEAUTY that much more OUTSTANDING."
Eh, maybe not.
[In my mind's ear all those quotes were said as if they were spoken by the two guys in the Brilliant! Guinness ads. This post is a lot funnier if you read them that way.]
[Eh, maybe not.]
I just like saying "Brilliant!"
Except when actually drinking Guinness-- then I say "mmmm...."
Posted by: yoko | 2007.02.15 at 09:05 AM