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Author Archives: Primal Sneeze

The ostman

September 23, 2008 – 6:44 am

You’ve probably realised from the title and some previous stories that I take the P out of the postman quite a bit. Sometimes I get the upper hand, sometimes I don’t.
Why is that? you may ask. Well, I may tell you, we grew up together and have been playing practical jokes on each other since [...]

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Guess what I won!

September 19, 2008 – 8:58 am

Six hours with a business coach worth, I don’t know, a stocking load of money. More than six hours with a hooker anyway I’d reckon.
My name was pulled out of a hat in a competition run by the local Chamber Pot of Commerce. I didn’t know there was a competition. I didn’t even know they [...]

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Earwigged gems #5

September 18, 2008 – 1:22 pm

- What’ll they get into next?
- Who?
- BIC.
- The pen crowd?
- Yeah, them. But they make razor blades and razors too. And lighters. And Tippexy stuff. And glue. And crayons. It was in the paper that they’ve even come up with a mobile phone. What’ll they get into next?
- Condoms?
- Jayzez, could ya imagine the [...]

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Snippets #20

September 17, 2008 – 7:53 am

I had a visit from the TV licence inspector. Finally. After writing to An Post many times asking them to stop sending me warnings - I don’t have a damn TV. The inspector’s reaction wasn’t what I expected at all. Apparently more and more are ditching their TVs in favour of other things like reading, [...]

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Internet freedom does not mean free Internet

September 16, 2008 – 9:15 am

A guy I know approached yesterday me about setting up a website for a horseracing syndicate he and nine others have just formed.
He explained the requirements:
We want the name to be theladsfromthepubracingsyndicate.com. Dot COM is cheaper than dot IE, right? It’ll have a password and only the ten of us will be able to get [...]

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Coming clean with the bath

September 15, 2008 – 7:17 am

The holiday makers arrived home from not-Galway at the weekend. I made sure their cat and Gold Finger, the fish, looked well fed and content (using drugs and a stomach pump). They knew their bath was to be used for a project at some point, but they didn’t know it already had been used. In [...]

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