I found the tape, marked “never to be erased,” in New Zealand last year, as I sorted through dusty boxes in Mum’s garage. “I think it’s a message your Dad tried to leave you,” Mum said, as if stumbling across such a thing were an everyday occurrence.
…The first few seconds, the tape only clicked. But then Dad started talking.
By be-hatted graffiti- to-graphic design man James Earley who sez:
The day is usually one monster piss-up with people in a heap puking and falling all over the shop. Instead of focusing solely on this fact, I wanted to celebrate other Irish clichés such as pots of gold at the end of rainbows and our terrible weather.
The committee, meeting in private, was discussing inviting the governor to attend but did not agree a date when that should happen.
Go on.
Fine Gael backbencher Peter Mathews then insisted Mr Honohan should be instructed to attend the committee by Friday week and proposed a motion stating that.
OK.
Colleagues told him this was against government wishes and if he voted for his own motion, he would lose the Fine Gael whip.
Yes, yes.
Mr Mathews then duly voted against, but party colleagues became concerned that not all Fine Gael members had turned up at the committee from a general parliamentary party meeting taking placed at the same time, and they then left the room to look for them.
And then what?
They then found themselves locked out of the committee room and opposition members seized the chance to force a vote on Mr Honohan attending, which they won 11 votes to nine.
Yes.
That’s completely hatstand.
Red faces For Govt Over Committee Vote Defeat (Irish Examiner)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Om17yHZrXtE
On last night’s 10 O’Clock Show on Channel 4.
“It all looks a bit like a shallow T mobile advert, shot by the Pepsi Max pricks, complete with conspiracy theory-style visuals and weird shots of idealistic youths who’ve been recruited to the cause….
“It’s the fastest-spreading viral video ever…In fact the only way a You Tube video could get any more viral is if Susan Boyle and the cat bin lady teamed up to eat shit out of the same cup”
The Angelus to be replaced with scenes of assorted FG potatoheads pausing as they hear the faraway voting gong.
— Nat King Coleslaw (@natkingcoleslaw) March 15, 2012
Sir Charles Colthurst?
Blarney?
St Patrick’s Day?
It almost literally writes itself.
The natives of Blarney were almost in revolt yesterday after being forced to reroute their long-planned St Patrick’s Day Parade.
Organisers have been enraged by the last-minute withdrawal of permission by Sir Charles Colthurst [above feeding his dogs Scotch], who owns the green, to use it as the parade’s finishing point.
Born from an embryo fertilised in a lab dish, frozen, and later implanted in a housecat’s womb.
She really can’t see what all the fuss is about.
Wild Black-Footed Cat: Test-Tube Kitten Born In US (WTV8.com)
My youngest son was asked to do a saint Patrick’s day card in religion class. Results attached. twitter.com/Emmet/status/1…
— Emmet O’Neill (@Emmet) March 14, 2012
There are 3 brothers on the Kerry hurling team.
One is the captain.
They have a match on Sunday, so they train on Wednesday and Friday night.
BUT the manager finds out they played a game of “soccer” on Thursday night.
So he throws them off the team.
Three Boyle Brothers Leave The Panel (Kerry Eye)
UPDATE: Nat King writes: “In light of the fact that manager John Meyler’s son David plays for Sunderland, we accept that this was not a negative reaction to the heady mix of hurling and soccer. “
Thanks FQ
