Open Fred

I was looking for suitable pic to go with the "open thread" (pronounced "fred" in the part of the world where I was born and bred, where they still speak proppa). And google images came up with this. There is a story here, but I'm not actually sure I want to know it.

Anyhow, it seemed a nice colourful attention grabber to go with a post which is there for you to put anything you wish on the comments, without let or hindrance, subject to divine retribution if you break any of the rules, most of which we haven't even made up yet. The last open thread, I thought, went quite well, but – as they do – it gets stale, so here we go.

COMMENT THREAD