Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

"Yesterday was bitterly cold with driving sleet and occasionally hail; the girls and I popped down to Selbourne Walk to do the shopping, and were 'treated' to the spectacle of one of the local charismaticblack evangelical churches putting on a re-enactment of the Passion. We all felt very sorry for the poor chap playing Jesus; it was definitely not the sort of weather you'd want to be stripped down to a loincloth and hoisted up on a cross in! Amongst the many torments Christ went through on the cross, I'm pretty certain hypothermia wasn't one of them....`" -- arkadyrose, 2008-03-23

[Around here the forecast for today -- Western Good Friday -- does not include precipitation, nor should it be as cold as Monday was, but with a predicted low a mere degree above melting and a predicted high in many folks' "maybe I want a sweater" range, I figured it was maybe chilly enough to go ahead and use this quote this year.]