S’up?
Apart from, you know, that bollard.
(Pic: Oisín Kane)
Monthly Archives: April 2013
Served between the Murdoch gags (with any luck).
A promo for the re-tooled Kilkenny Comedy Cat Laughs Festival, sponsored by Sky.
Featuring: Laurence Kinlan, Aoibhinn McGinnity, Charlie Murphy, John Purcell, Michael Burke, Tracey McKeon, Aisling Flynn, Pauline McLynn, Neil Delamere, Chris Kent, Barry Murphy, Gearoid Farrelly, Eleanor Tiernan, Fred Cooke, and Karl Spain.
Fair play though, in fairness.
Meanwhile,
The line up for the first Cat Laughs festival in 1997
Video directed by Hugh O’Conor; Written by Mark Doherty; Director of Photography – Piers McGrail; Camera Assistant – Tommy; Fitzgerald; Sound recorded by Hugh Fox; Sound mixed by Graham Bolger; Assistant Director – Nick Thomas; Produced by Andy Bradford for Sweet Media; Edited by Niall Campion; Post production by NOHO
An aerial of the Woodstock music festival (August 15-18th, 1969). An estimated half a million people attended.
Some of whom may not be in shot. On account of being higher than the plane.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwEsyxEYiHA
Gnarly.
Munster’s Paul O’Connell (kicker) and Dave Kearney (kickee) during their sides’ match at Thomond Park. Limerick on Saturday.
Lions’ captain, you say?
Sex Talk
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In! In! In!
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Don’t remember this in the movie.
“Children who need to be taught to respect traditional moral values are being taught that they have an inalienable right to be gay.”
Margaret Thatcher, at the Conservative Party conference in 1987.
She had Jimmy Savile around for Christmas that year.
G0od times.
Margaret Thatcher Delivers Anti-Gay Speech In 1987 (VIDEO) (Huffington Post)
Och here.
Thomas Sheridan.
He was literally high-brow.
Sibling of Daedalus writes:
Further to the dialect post from Friday. This is Thomas Sheridan, born in Capel Street, Dublin, whose Course of Lectures on Elocution, delivered in Edinburgh in 1761 to an audience ‘anxious to cure themselves of a provincial or vicious presentation’, led to the development of the famed Morningside accent.
Sheridan’s subsequent Academy for the Instruction of Young Gentlemen in the Art of Reading and Reciting proved a financial failure, and he returned to Ireland and the management of the Theatre Royal.
His most enduring legacy, the pronunciation of ‘girls’ as ‘gels’, lives on today in the so-refined tones of Maggie Smith as Morningside resident Miss Jean Brodie in her prime…
Pics via Ebay
How Lance Armstrong Ruined My Life.
By David O’Doherty.
RayRay writes:
A hilarious story read by David O’Doherty at the Fan Fiction show at Melbourne International Comedy Festival at the weekend…
Filled out a bit.
*reaches for fourth bun of morning*
Scapegoat time!
Yay.
It said the repeated errors had been made by a “small team of about four economists” within the department, and said it “failed to predict the sharp economic downturn”.
Also:
“The 2012 exchequer deficit was consistently overestimated by the Department of Finance,” it said…the projection on Budget Day in December still overestimated the deficit by €0.8bn.
Anyone name names?
Bodger’s checking with Doheny and Nesbitt’s.
State watchdog savages Department of Finance over ‘failures’ (Independent.ie)