Siobhan Ward writes:
Received this morning – Government’s new plan to sort out the country?
Yearly Archives: 2013
Surely by now you’ll have heard,
That they’ve dug up King Richard the Third,
No more will the boffins,
Go poking in coffins,
For they’ve found out where he was interred.
John Moynes
Advertisement for Magdalen Asylum Laundry in Galway from April 1913.
Good times.
Earlier: Whose Sheets?
Via Limerick1913
Bon Jovi at Slane!
Elton John at Oxegen!
And now the ‘Mac will play the mobile phone sponsored arena venue in the Dublin docks.
Our middle-aged corporate concert demographic overfloweth.
LEGO Who
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LEGO builder Thorsten Bonsch is planing a series of 11 LEGO dioramas celebrating Doctor Who‘s 50th anniversary this year, starting with this scene from The Snowmen Christmas special (click for a larger version).
[via The Brother Brick]
‘wtfdublin’ writes:
This (above left) is a life size statue of convicted rapist Mike Tyson currently on display in Westwood gym in Clontarf [Dublin]. I suppose it’s a good incentive for the advert behind it for ‘Box Fit self defence style class for women.
Thanks @wtfdublin
In a promo for Betabrand clothing, BASE jumping team Maryland Crew & Co. leap from heights in Greece, Switzerland and Malaysia.
It’s a hard oul’ station, the life of a sponsored extreme sportster, right enough.
Ah.
Small ad in The Irish Times, November 1975.
Earlier: Out Of Sight
Postcard via John Hinde archive
Thanks Sibling of Daedalus
A Cape fur seal predating blue sharks (it killed and ate five of them) off the South African coast, spotted by shark expert and diver Chris Fallows, who offered the following sobering thought:
If karma does indeed exist, the seal had better watch out if it returns during the great whites’ winter hunting season.
Killjoy.