25 minutes ago.
Literally flogging a dead horse at this point.
(Pix: Oisín Kane)
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Apologies for the sporadic posting this hour,. Bloody man flu Circumstances outside our control. Normal service will resume shortly.
Cobraphiliac
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Meanwhile in Siberia, to mark the upcoming Chinese Year of the Snake, Yolba native Mikhail Bopposov sculpted this huge spitting cobra from 400kg of frozen cowshit. Last year he a made a dragon, previously he made a Russian tank. It’s not art, he maintains:
“I made it so the kids could play around and have some fun,”
Good times.
(Hat tip: Sheila Larkin)
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Outside Leinster House, Dublin, this morning.
Aine Ni Chonaill, founder of the Immigration Control Platform (ICP), protests the issuing of student visas to foreign students while a photo call takes place for Retailers Against Smuggling, who are protesting at Government plans to standardise all tobacco products.
It’s one of those days.
(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)
Power Lunch
atLatest Paddy Power stunt takes place in Dublin at lunchtime – equine-themed burger van to offer a free “Shergar burgers with cheese”. lovely
— Samantha McCaughren (@SMcCaughren) January 16, 2013
Previously: What!? / A Limerick A Day
Some men see things as they are and say why.
Eoin (above) dreams things that never were and says: why not, dude?.
He writes:
I’m in a competition to get into space, as you do. Could be the 1st Irish person in space! =) How it works is I need online votes.
It’s very simple;1.Click this link:
2. Hit vote beside my name.
3. Enter your email and you’re done!It takes no more than 30 seconds. I’m second and just have a small bit to catch up! I just need to get a boost. If you could I would be very grateful. Thank you.
One small click from you.
One giant leap for anti-perspirant marketing Eóin.
It was literally our poison.
Ether drinking was common in Scotland, Norway, Russia and France. But it was particularly popular in Ireland, where the Catholic Church promoted abstinence from alcohol. People pledged not to drink alcohol but from the mid-1840s the Irish consumed ether as a way to get around their pledge – it was drunk neat and the mouth was washed out with cold water before and after.
The British government had worked hard to prevent the illegal distillation of alcohol, but ether was a legal substitute. Like alcohol, it was sold in pubs. It was also available from shops, and groups of women would hold ether parties in their houses. From 1890 the sale of ether was strictly limited in Ireland by the British government after it was classified as a poison.
Hic.
Thanks Sibling of Daedalus