Now for something completely different: markets 'joined the bleedin' choir invisible'

摘要

There is a scene in the original Pirates of the Caribbean film - the sequel was so dismal I haven't watched anything beyond - where Captain Norring- -ton tells Jack "Mr. Sparrow, you will accompany these fine men to the helm and provide us with a bearing to Isla de Muerta. You will then spend the rest of the voyage contemplating all possible meanings of the phrase 'silent as the grave.' Do I make myself clear?"Captain Norrington would have approved of the current domestic coal market for it is indeed "silent as the grave." Indeed we can recall Mr. Praline as played by John Cleese in the Monty Python "dead parrot" sketch assessing for the pet shop owner played by Michael Palin the state of the bird Praline has recently purchased.