The Steak Bouquet: a dozen roses carved from strips of sirloin by Antony Bowness of Quality Standard Beef and Lamb in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, who sez::

I get asked every year what I’d like for Valentine’s Day and I never know what to suggest. Soppy cards aren’t really my thing and it got me thinking about what I could make for other men out there like me. I had a ‘Eureka’ moment one day when a customer came in with a bunch of flowers. I started playing around with the idea and realized it was actually quite easy to do! I mean if you can make a dress from meat, then why not a bunch of roses?”

Why not indeeNOMNONOM

 

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Yeah.

Call this hardship:

Eh, actually…

Quarterly National Household Survey-Response of Households to the Economic Downturn-Pilot module Quarter 2 2011 (PDF)

Runners-up:

Roses are occasionally red,
violets tend to be blue,
sugar is somewhat on the flavourable side,
and when the mood takes so are you. (Peter Kearney)

Roses are occasionally red,
violets tend to be blue,
When you open up Photoshop, and mess with the hue. (Colin)

Roses are occasionally red,
violets tend to be blue…
I’m 75th generation neolithic, ugh; me, you. (Continuity Jay- Z)

Roses are occasionally red,
violets tend to be blue,
I have a knife,
Get in the van. (Stalker)

Roses are occasionally red,
violets tend to be blue,
Sometimes when I equivocate, I’ve been known to think of you. (Nigel)

And the winner?

Roses are occasionally red,
violets tend to be blue,
I broke up with you last Friday
So no card for you. (Sneville)

Previously; Win A Candlelit Dinner With 40 Strangers

“The Map Of Britain That Looks Like Ireland. Found in Stirling Castle, Scotland.” (Ronan McGuire)

“The baby scan That Looks Like Ireland. My best friend who is living in New Zealand :( I’ve told her that the baby is sending her a message to come home :) (Lisa Sheppard)

The Unspecified Thing That Looks Like Ireland to Broadsheet@broadsheet.ie

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U6JceV4j84

The Earth has been conquered by the Oortesian Alliance. The Ministry of Reason, a Vichy-style government, now runs Ireland. Can one man make a difference?

Dave Duffy heads up the deadpan cast of part 1 of Victory? One of the eight shorts competing in the RTE Storyland competition.

Vote here

Anglo’s auditors.

A secretive waste firm fined €1.3m for overcharging Iarnrod Eireann.

And Dublin City Councillors.

What could possibly go wrong?

For some unknown reason, the former Anglo auditors were employed by the council to choose a new waste firm for its juicy waste contract. For some even less obvious reason E&Y were given an outrageous €250,000 for coming up with the name of Greyhound.

It is far from clear why the council could not pick the waste operators themselves. They have a waste department, presumably with a more specialist knowledge than Ernst & Young. Instead, they lashed out €250,000 of taxpayer’s money to Ernst & Young, the villains of the Anglo fiasco.

What more, in the name of God, does a company have to do to find itself struck off the State’s list of favourites?

If Ernst & Young cannot be blacklisted for their Anglo howler, they should surely have been given the cold shoulder for State or local government work for several years? If they had waved the red flag on Anglo we might never have been left in our financial pickle. They didn’t. Every year for eight years they missed their chance to rumble Anglo.

So the council’s award of a contract to Ernst & Young, and then to Greyhound, demands public explanation. The big question is: how much did Ernst & Young or Dublin City Council know about Greyhound?

Not much. Or so it seems.

 

Stench As Rubbish Firm Wins (Shane Ross, Sunday Independent)

Earlier: Oh, Wheely

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