15th July: St Swithin's day

Today is St Swithin's Day. The old superstition says that If it rains today, the next 40 days will be wet; but if it is fine, we'll get 40 fine days. As I write, at 8.20am on St Swithin's Day, it's not raining where I am, so I'm cautiously hopeful about the next month or so. 10 quotes and jokes about rain.

1. In the Bible it rained for 40 days, they called it a disaster. In England we call it summer.
2. Life isn't about preventing the storms, but about learning to dance in the rain.
3. No rain - no rainbows.
4. We felt we needed an umbrella organisation to help flood victims. Sky News
5. During a drought the congregation met to pray for rain. "Brothers and Sisters," said the priest, "How can we ask the Lord for rain if we do not have faith? I see not one of you has brought an umbrella."
6. There is a word for a sunny day which follows two rainy ones. It's called Monday.
7. What is the most dangerous weather for rats and mice? When it's raining cats and dogs.
8. What do you get if it rains beer? An Ale storm
9. Where do stupid people do rain dances? In puddles
10. The weather service had to dispatch employees to read its Civic Center rain gauge after an automatic gauge failed because of the rain, said a weather service spokesman, Los Angeles Times