Eoin Butler: writer, journalist and Mayoman of the Year
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To the cyclist who yelled “Love the blog, Eoin”… and then cycled into a wall
Thank you. That was one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen. But I probably shouldn’t have laughed. I think you said “Love the blog, Eoin!” But it might have been “Love the bog, Eoin!” I can’t be 100% sure. It was late Sunday afternoon. I was crossing the street with some friends, near the Gravediggers pub in in Glasnevin. You flew past me, I finished crossing and when I looked back, you were off the bike on the far side of the road. Hope you’re alright. If you’re reading this, please tell us what the fuck happened at all!?
May 24th, 2010.
May 24th, 2010 at 5:47 am
He could have said You look like Phileas Fogg Eoin!!”
May 24th, 2010 at 9:32 am
And the gentleman Butler declined to go back and help?
Or were you too busy pointing and laughing your head off with your friends?
May 24th, 2010 at 9:42 am
Or possibly “lob the gob”?
May 24th, 2010 at 10:04 am
“Dyou want to buy a dog Eoin!!”
May 24th, 2010 at 10:57 am
I doubt it was a funny as the time you were feckered and had a go at driving some poor girls scooter, proceeded to crash it and then feigned injury so she wouldn’t be mad with you.
May 24th, 2010 at 12:33 pm
@ Phil – those mutton chops will be the ruination of me.
@ everyone else – it was a man, by the way, not a woman. Don’t think j made that clear..
May 24th, 2010 at 2:16 pm
Love The Fog Eoin – referencing the classic seventies horror film with Jamie Lee Curts??
May 24th, 2010 at 3:05 pm
It could well be any one of those. Come on cycling man, speak up. Don’t make a liar out of me!
May 24th, 2010 at 8:53 pm
I saw you once in the Trinity dining hall a few months back while I was having lunch with my grandad. I didn’t shout “love the blog” because I didn’t feel like explaining what blogging was to my grandad. A few minutes later he says out of nowhere “Twitter, that’s a bit like blogging but with more back and forth, isn’t it?”
May 24th, 2010 at 9:08 pm
I could easily write a Top 100 Stupidest Things My Father Ever Said About Technology. All time funniest was probably “I’ll say one thing for these paedophiles… They’re great with computers. Jesus, I can barely send an email!”
The You-Had-To-Be-There moment was the time (circa 2004) he scoffed at me for buying a new laptop, saying these days it was all about iPods. I think they were both buzz words he’d picked up. I don’t think he had any idea what either actually did…
May 24th, 2010 at 9:10 pm
P.S. Andrew, having lunch there again tomorrow. If you could shout “Hey Eoin, love the blog!” and then either knock over a dish trolley or fall down a flight of stairs it would really make my day!
May 24th, 2010 at 9:45 pm
Sensationalist! I didn’t fall, just had to re-adjust as I was cycling the wrong way down a one way street and there was a car coming. Kept cycling though sir, don’t think my foot even touched the ground. I shouted “Love the blog, keep it up!” Now, to slip back to just reading the blog..
May 24th, 2010 at 10:02 pm
@ Cyclist – ahh, when I looked back you were on the footpath on the far side of the road, completely stopped with your right foot on the ground and your right shoulder against the wall. I just assumed you’d cycled into it.
Either way thanks a lot for the good wishes. Keeping it up as we speak!
May 24th, 2010 at 11:35 pm
As the actress said to the bishop….
May 25th, 2010 at 2:37 am
Fair enough.. there may have been a bit of a stumble, only because I saw your omg famous mug though! kayp ‘er lit
have you seen rap against rape??
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKMTSGgJPGA
May 25th, 2010 at 10:40 am
@ Cyclist – Yes, I suspected that might have been it. I really shouldn’t leave the house. I’m a menace to the public.
Re: Rap Against Rape. Believe it or not, I actually remember that. Simon Young rapping about sexual assault in his cheesy DJ voice. Wrong on a record-breaking number of levels…
May 25th, 2010 at 6:18 pm
Rape Against Rape is all over Twitter now. You could have had the scoop Eoin!