Old Sneezes

Archive for August, 2007

I’m a bit sheepish

Friday, August 31st, 2007

Well I’m impressed, Primal. The extension is coming along very well. I love the gun turret. Great idea. It’ll be right handy come the council elections. Listen, if you need to borrow the tractor and trailer to take away that pile of rubble just let me know. I’ll have it hitched up, filled with diesel [...]

The Sands of Time

Monday, August 27th, 2007

While most of the country were glued to the Kerry-Dublin match a few of us had another great sporting occasion to entertain us – Ireland’s one and only all-weather track in Dundalk held it’s very first meeting.
For those who aren’t familiar with the terminology, an all-weather track has a sand surface as opposed to grass, [...]

Nicknames

Sunday, August 26th, 2007

In the town where I was born, bred and buttered, you were nobody unless you had a nickname. Lack of a nickname meant you didn’t stand out from the crowd in any way. Nicknames derived from your job, your hobby, your appearance, your family background, something totally stupid you did at some stage, an infirmity. [...]

In Britain they …

Friday, August 24th, 2007

Now some crowd called the Metropolitan Police Sikh Association (MPSA) in London have gotten into the should Gardaí be permitted wear turbans debate. They say the uniform policy was 40 years behind the United Kingdom and accused the Gardaí of racial discrimination.
Well lads, do you know what you can do? You just go fuck off! [...]

Back to School #3

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

Read Back to School #1 and #2 …
We were a group of six. From three different countries. Spoke three different languages – four if you count two distinct dialects of one. Varied in age from 20 to, well, to my age. Six different educational backgrounds: Maths, Agriculture, Economics, Physics, Civil Engineering and Robotics. Six different [...]

Snippets #10

Sunday, August 19th, 2007

Here I go again, quoting Annie who wrote: If you’re still using Internet Explorer please do the world wide web a favour and download Firefox instead. It’s free and it will get you laid.

Well, lads, lets me tell yez, if Firefox’ll get you laid, then the latest release of Thunderbird will get you laid by [...]

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