[The Wings for Life World Run In Knock Kerry]
Gra writes;
“Incredibly patronising ad currently on bus shelters around Dublin. It seems to be an event designed to exclude the people it’s trying to help. What next? A gala concert to raise money for the deaf, a spelling bee to raise money for dyslexics?”
*backs out of room*
From 1984, an ad for Carlsberg.
Cool continental lager
Brewed in continental Cork in those days.
A fact filled mini feature by UK based game aficionados Do You Know Gaming?
Did you know the game was originally called Puck Man and that it was the first ever video game to feature power-ups?
Shut up, you did not.
How hungry?
“Ronan Ryan [right] didn’t look like a Wall Street trader. He had pale skin and narrow, stooped shoulders and the uneasy caution of a man who has survived one potato famine and is expecting another.”
From crash chronicler Michael Lewis’ new book on high frequency trading featuring Dubliner Ronan Ryan of the IEX Exchange.
Fight!
The Wolf Hunters Of Wall Street (Michael lewis, New York Times)
Thanks Smeeagain
The theremin or aetherphone, patented by Russian inventor Léon Theremin in 1928 and currently manufactured by Moog Instruments, is an amplified proto-synthesiser that uses two metal antennae to generate frequencies based on the relative position of the user’s hands.
But you knew that.
Here’s a Chrome/Safari/Firefox-friendly interactive online player with which to amaze/annoy your family and/or colleagues right this minute.
Pat the Baker (How To Make A Sandwich) by Andy Duff
Contain some product placement.
Rebecca McGrane writes:
“Here’s one for you, pat the baker cover by a lad that lives down the road from me.”
Over to you ‘old’ Mr Brennan.
FIGHT!
You may recall yesterday’s Lindt Gold Bunny competition with a large chocolate rabbit worth €49.99 as the quarry.
We asked: how do you eat yours?
Runners-up
“I feel guilty when I start to eat mine as they sooo cute, so I smash em up into little bits that no longer resemble bunny bit and then sit back flake out and NOM NOM NOM” (Steve)
“Like a demented nun on craggy island administrating an abstinence programme.” (Am I Still on This Island)
“I like my Lindt bunnies to be eaten when I come home from the pub on Easter Saturday, and they belong to your nephew who wakes up the next day and no chocolate for Easter. Yes, this happened. Trying to find Lindt bunnies with a hangover on Easter Sunday was not fun and unsuccessful.” (AH HEYOR)
“As I have a fear of bunnies brought on by a bad experience I once had with some in a lift (they nibbled my cape and everything), I like to name my Lindt chocolate Gold Bunnies Sampras and kill them with a hammer, baseball bat, chainsaw or katana, then I eat them. Simple. (Lisa Powell)
Winner:
“Sobbing in my underwear.” (DNS)
Thanks all.
Previously: Too Soon?
What you may need to know
1. It’s the next Aardman Animation movie. We do love a good teaser.
2. Shaun made his debut in Wallace And Gromit’s Close Shave (1995), before getting a TV spin-off of his own. He’s big with the under tens. And us.
3. Aardman’s feature output to date has been a bit hit and miss since their breakthrough with Chicken Run (2000), but we did like The Pirates! (2012) And Flushed Away (2006) gets better every time.
4. Broadsheet Prognosis: Shear Genius. No, wait, flocking brilliant.
Release Date: Spring 2015
