When markets look like a surreal comedy, turn to Monty Python. Try to explain current goings on in the commodity market and two sketches might help.
Both involve John Cleese as a customer in a shop run by Michael Palin. In the immortal parrot sketch, it is a pet shop, and he is complaining that Palin has sold him a dead parrot. Palin protests that the parrot is alive but Cleese tells him the only reason the parrot is still on its perch is because it has been nailed there.
