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Author Archives: Primal Sneeze

Sugar, the Irish Times, GPS Ireland and a big Hairy Baby

June 29, 2008 – 10:33 am

What a digitally delicious weekend it has been for me. All sorts of interesting stuff happening online.
Sugar Britches tried, unsuccessfully, to let her blogiversary pass without fanfare or post. I like Sugar - the blogger not the commodity - where else would I read expressions like it’s raining pitchforks and hammer handles and I am [...]

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The blogger and the editor

June 26, 2008 – 6:47 am

Sitting next to me in the barber’s was an old sparring partner of mine. Some of the best discussions, debates and arguments I’ve ever had were with this man. A lifelong newspaper man, he is a fountain of knowledge and difficult to trip up. Over the years I seldom won, or even came close.
I enquired [...]

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Car salesmen

June 22, 2008 – 6:06 pm

Listen, Sneezy, I was wondering …
I hate it when it starts like that.
That usually means I’m about to asked to do something soul destroying like go to Boots and pick her up a jar of Wrinkle-Eze™. And I can’t find it on the shelf. And I have to get help. And they snigger and ask [...]

Posted in Driving, Friends, Irish identity, Plonkers, Relatives, Women | Comments (25)

No. I don’t like it either.

June 22, 2008 – 3:21 pm

But it has to stay the way it is for now. Maybe until the next night that I can’t sleep and I go about playing with (yet!) another new theme.
At least all that AJAX junk is gone. The verdict in Sneezy Manor on AJAXed WordPress is that it’s “more fekin trouble than it’s worth” - [...]

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Laughing in the face of death

June 19, 2008 – 5:58 am

A man I never knew passed away the other morning. I wish I had known him.
I know his son-in-law since we were infants. In Infants. Baby Infants. I know his wife almost as long.
The Irish grapevine might get messages mangled more often than not, but if the message is important it spreads fast and clear. [...]

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Irish Times - Exam Times

June 16, 2008 – 9:12 am

Who would write this?

I miss my home, my baroque princess bed, Romeo my iguana and, of course, my family.
Tiffany’s has yet to open a branch in Co. Meath but Mum was kind enough to treat me to a full Irish in a posh café.
Medicine seems like the trajectory for me, but if I don’t like [...]

Posted in Education, Gaeilge, Kids, Life, Media | Comments (34)