The unavoidable message of the past few days is that sporting isolation is no longer splendid.
Perhaps there is a no more splendid tradition than the band's dotting of the i in Ohio.
He said he would "wear the creditors' loathing with pride" and called the "no" vote "splendid".
One might quibble with the wines comparing one to another, but each was no less than splendid.
Because this is a sequel, the role is no longer the splendid surprise it was in 2003, when "The Curse of the Black Pearl" charmed audiences and disarmed critics on its way to the third-best domestic box-office gross of the year.
In full flow there is no more splendid or assured sight in limited-overs cricket in the world.
The 80kg Sputnik seemed to shame the Americans: their kitchen gadgets were no doubt splendid, but they failed lamentably to put even a football-sized satellite into space.
"There was no more splendid fighting in '61, when the flower of Southern youth was in the field, than was displayed in those bloody days of September '63," wrote Hill.
A cheaper but no less splendid way of seeing Seattle and the surrounding mountains is to climb aboard one of the many state ferries, which travel to nearby Bainbridge Island from Pier 52 downtown.
There was, alas, no such splendid performance.
