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Doodles

18th century Internet

Most of the following were written ages ago as part of a Twitter hashtag game (if you don’t know what that is, just forget I said it). If you want to see this sort of thing done with much greater skill on a daily basis, follow @DrSamuelJohnson.

  • Prithee, rest here awhile, and allow me to consult with Mr Google in your stead.
  • Wherefore the clamour regarding Mr Jobs’ latest novelty? ‘Tis but its elder sister clad in more voluminous skirts.
  • The later dramas of Mr Lucas are works of folly and can only serve to blacken the reputation of their forebears.
  • I grow tired of Mr Psy’s musical travesty. Whatever small amusements it once offered have long since vanished into the ether.
  • Does some semblance of automaton dwell within thee? Prove thyself fully human by the unravelling of these cyphers.
  • Sir, your pamphlet has confounded me by virtue of its sheer dimensions; hence, I have not considered it in full.
  • Many men shall pass judgment on the afore-going treatise, but mine own is the inaugural appraisal.
  • Your enjoyment of the entertainment in question leaves me in no doubt, sir, that you are wont to lie with men. I bid you good day.
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Pictures

The Fool on the Hill

This is my little girls’ copy of Jack and Jill. The part of Jack, you will notice, is played by Paul McCartney. (When I tweeted this yesterday, someone pointed out that Jill appears to be played by Heather Mills – which is clearly not funny, and very wrong.)

Next up: Sgt Peppa's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
Next up: Sgt Peppa’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.
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Doodles

Tag gag

I have of late been amusing myself in the production of taglines for movies that never were, and hopefully never will be. Examples:

  • For the first clown on the moon, life is no joke.
  • Part shark. Part spider. All cop.
  • He said he would love her forever. He was drunk.
  • They picked the wrong day to give Detective McAlpine a slightly disappointing haircut.
  • Julie went back in time to kill Hitler. She didn’t know she would fall in love …
  • Two priests. Two vampires. One crazy game of bridge.
  • Hmmm – revenge is a DISH!
  • Justice has a new pair of glasses.
  • Whatever you do, don’t pull his finger.
  • They messed with the right guy. No, wait – wrong. The wrong guy.
  • Grandpa got her nose. Now she’s taking his soul.
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Uncategorized

When Wile E. Coyote went skiing

I saw this video on The Poke the other day. I’ve watched it 437 times.

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Uncategorized

Seasoning’s greets

I found this delightfully festive image on the web. Happy Christmas, one and all.

Tree

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Doodles

The great divide

The other day I found myself, for reasons that are too boring to recount, having to do some long division the old fashioned way, with pen and paper and brain. Long story short: I couldn’t. It was amusing at first, a brief stumble soon to be forgotten. Then I tried again. This goes into that, and you put the new number down there and then … no, wait. You put it on top and then you add the … no, that’s not it either. Oh, I see, you put a nought where … I was at it for fifteen minutes, eyeing each new answer with increasing suspicion, before I was forced to give up and wait until I got to my phone. This episode is clearly a damning indictment of something, and while I would like to think that the something is the Department of Education or possibly the entire field of mathematics, I suspect that it’s me. If I’m going to forget anything, why can’t it be the names of eighties one hit wonders? But oh, no. It’s the useful stuff that’s seeping away. What’ll be next to go? Multiplication? Subtraction? Please God, not addition. The worst part is that my relationship with my phone has been ruined. Cocky little bugger. So smug in its plastic overcoat. ‘Oooh, look at me, I can do long division.’ Huh. I bet it wouldn’t know Cutting Crew or Spagna if they walked up and punched it in the Home button.

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Music

What’s the opposite of a Christmas miracle?

Nothing says ‘Christmas’ like flying your own private jet in a t-shirt.

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Doodles

11, 12, 14

Our house is number 13 in our street. 13 – the so-called ‘unlucky’ number. It’s never caused me a moment’s thought. You know why? It’s because I’m not fucking stupid, and you have to be fucking stupid to be afraid of a number. It’s nothing to do with being old-fashioned or folksy. It’s not about sensitivity or world-view. It’s about ability to process information and draw reasonable conclusions. I bring this up now because Ireland’s Minister for Finance, Michael Noonan, announced today that there will be a change to vehicle registration plates in 2013. For those who don’t know, Irish plates take the format ‘Year–County of registration–Number of registration’. So the eight hundred and fifty-third car registered in County Sligo in 2013 should have a plate saying ’13–SO–853′. But it won’t. Under pressure from the motor industry, Noonan has decreed that cars registered in the first half of the year will have plates saying 131 instead of 13. Cars registered in the second half will have 132. No-one will have to have an unlucky number on their car.

‘Psychics’ on TV. A call to prayer before the evening news. Avoiding unlucky numbers. Giving billions to banks that don’t exist. You can draw a straight line.
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Television

Trivia is over

RTE have decided that there will be no third series of Trivia. I’m extremely disappointed, not least because the story hasn’t finished. We needed a third series to tie things up.

I’m too pissed off to say much else at the moment. So, that’s it – back to the drawing board.
Janet Moran as Molly and David Pearse as Lawrence.
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Music

Fitzpleasure – Alt-J

I’ve become dangerously obsessed with Alt-J’s Mercury Prize-winning album, An Awesome Wave. Every track makes everything else I’m listening to sound like an old man farting into a tin bucket.