Old Sneezes

Archive for November, 2008

Special Forces Feline

Sunday, November 30th, 2008

I had been on a drug bust the night before so I wasn’t in the humour for more excitement.* The neighbour dropped in. Are you going to the village at any stage today? I need a bag of coal. I’ll come with you to help lift it. Right so. Hop in there. I need a [...]

When a picture doesn’t tell a thousand words

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

I had to hand off a prototype of a site to a client this morning. She has somewhat of a niche business – she offers courses in wedding etiquette for brides, grooms and indeed the whole wedding party if desired. You know the kind of thing. How to throw the bouquet with landing on your [...]

SMEs and the banks

Monday, November 24th, 2008

It is no wonder that when the Irish pound spilt from sterling in 1979 it was renamed the Punt – it rhymes with bank manager. The currency may have changed but the managers are the same – a shower of punts and bankers. In fact, they are worse now than they ever were. All commentators [...]

Sally, the esoteric vegetablarian

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

Look, I have to go. There’s someone at the door … huh? … no, don’t worry. I’m sure it’s perfectly fine to have sex before the first date. Here, I’ll call you in a day or two. I dropped the phone and let Sally in. Not that I wanted to. Sally wrecks my head. One [...]

A terrible thing unhappened

Friday, November 14th, 2008

Many moons, and even many more suns, ago I worked in Ireland for America. I worked hard, the company thrived and the profits were sent back to Uncle Sam. I didn’t mind as long as I was getting paid and I was enjoying the job. Best of all were the folks I worked with. Okay, [...]

A cute hoor?

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

You can never be sure whether Eugene Duggan is extremely intelligent and witty, or just plain dumb. He claims to have been top of his class at school, but with few of his advanced years still with us and none that attended that particular school, he may be referring to seating arrangements. He went to [...]

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