Eoin Butler: writer, journalist and Mayoman of the Year
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Tripping Along the Ledge: Still Vertical After All These Year
Tripping Along the Ledge is one today. Now personally, I don’t celebrate birthdays. I consider them kinda effeminate. But this my website’s birthday we’re talking about. And a one-year-old website is kinda like a child. And well, fuck it, I can’t think of anything else to write about today. (Shit, the anniversary isn’t even really until Sunday!)
So what the hell… This was my first ever post (boring.) These are my most viewed posts of 2009 (funny.) This is a photograph you haven’t seen before that I guarantee will make you smile. And this a link to a video that will go to hilarious, pointless lengths to depress the shit out of you.
It might be appropriate at this point to thank all of you for visiting my site and leaving comments etc. over the last twelve months. But fuck it, I did all the work. The rest of you can go and shite. Yee-haw!
February 26th, 2010 at 8:24 am
Congrats Butler nice to see all the top celebs have turned up for for ur bash. Tell Steve Staunton I said hi!! (second from right)
February 26th, 2010 at 8:34 am
Ole! i’d sing happy birthday but the royalties are too much
February 26th, 2010 at 8:44 am
@ Albinicus – thanks man. That ole means more than a happy birthday ever could.
@ Massey – I’ve been telling him to go handy on the punch. Darlington are bottom of league two. But he keeps shouting “PARTY! PARTTTY!” in a Louth accent..
February 26th, 2010 at 9:21 am
Go home Stan! Well at least u’ve still got 80s Maxi (second left) and 80s Tom Cruise (middle) to chat to
February 26th, 2010 at 10:50 am
Okay that’s a celebrity lookalike for everyone bar third from right and far right. Any suggestions?
February 26th, 2010 at 10:51 am
Also lest we forget, today is the pretend one year anniversary of this blog. To celebrate, Shane McGowan has finally released his long promised all-star Haiti single…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cf69vIQL_u8
February 26th, 2010 at 11:02 am
Nice one, Eoin. I had it in my head that you’d been in this game for years and that I was just really late in discovering this blog. Now I know that my blog is nearly a year older than yours I suddenly feel the patronise you disgustingly. Well done, lil’ fella, keep trying!!!
February 26th, 2010 at 11:11 am
Ah gee, shucks, Mr Andrew… I’m just happy to be here!
February 26th, 2010 at 11:37 am
The lad between Tom Cruise and Slow Stan is clearly Derek Mooney. He tagged along with Maxi.
February 26th, 2010 at 11:43 am
I was gonna say former Republic of Ireland sub goalie Alan Kelly, but Derek Mooney it is then!
February 26th, 2010 at 12:00 pm
Yes, I think that was the other face I had in my head. I suppose it would make sense that he might have come with his old boss, but I choose to believe that the mystery lady on the far right whose name is on the tip of my tongue is Stan’s date. The playa.
February 26th, 2010 at 12:07 pm
Reckon the woman on the far right is Maxi’s identical twin sister Taxi. Or maybe I just have Maxi on the brain…
On of my earliest memories is of my parents going out and getting a babysitting in who let us watch Maxi’s chart show on RTE1.
The Madonna song Borderline was number one, but I remember thinking that Maxi was waay hotter than Madonna.
February 26th, 2010 at 12:17 pm
Derek is wondering whose touching his ass. (‘Please let it be Tom, please let it be Tom’)
February 26th, 2010 at 12:56 pm
Think it could well be a picture of Irish footballers. Massey had it right with Staunton. And you had it with Alan Kelly. And that has to be Niall Quinn, far left, with a sneaky nod of the head.
February 26th, 2010 at 12:58 pm
Tom is thinking Is there a couch somewhere I can jump on….I’ve never FELT AN ASS LIKE THIS BEFORE!!!!!!
February 26th, 2010 at 1:17 pm
@ Colin
Thats only Niall Quinn if hes kneeling down!
February 26th, 2010 at 1:27 pm
@Fintan Mezz: Good call, he’s standing beside the five man platform.
He’s thinking of playing head the ball with the rest in the background.
February 26th, 2010 at 1:45 pm
Hmmm… I sorta envisaged the comments might focus more my fake anniversary… Congratulations Eoin… Good job Eoin… Have sex with my sister Eoin… No?
February 26th, 2010 at 2:11 pm
Oh dear someone feeling unappreciated I think. Maybe this will cheer you up..
http://www.eurovisionary.com/files/images/Maxi.jpg
February 26th, 2010 at 2:25 pm
Is that not Niall Quinn giving Maxi the once over?
February 26th, 2010 at 2:41 pm
Happy blogday!
February 26th, 2010 at 2:49 pm
@ Denise – hubba hubba!
@ Sarah – well there are two schools of thought: Those who think it is Niall Quinn, and those who query why a 6’4″ man would get down on his knees at a party.
Particularly when he seems so keen to look down Maxi’s dress. I though EK might be onto something with Michael Cera there myself.
February 26th, 2010 at 2:53 pm
@ Conal – Thanks! Now if all your aliases could come on and wish me the same, it’d start to look like I was getting some respect around here!
February 26th, 2010 at 4:01 pm
Well done Eoin – here’s to the next 363 days!
Steven (Not one of Conal’s aliases.)
February 26th, 2010 at 4:07 pm
Cheers Steven. I know, Conal’s aliases are always called Fluffington Crumblebum or something like that…
February 26th, 2010 at 4:12 pm
congratulations! it’s been a fun year! looking forward to the next. Though, at the moment, my pea brain is struggling to reflect.
I have the hiccups. coincidence? i blame you, Butler!
February 26th, 2010 at 6:54 pm
Fluffington Crumblebum, that’s definitely one for the list.
February 26th, 2010 at 8:59 pm
@ Kate – you’re probably wondering who this Steve Staunton. I suppose he’s kind of our equivalent to Hugh Jackman. He acts, he sings, he dances. He’s a triple threat.
February 27th, 2010 at 5:22 pm
Happy Butsday!
February 27th, 2010 at 5:46 pm
Fair point.
February 28th, 2010 at 12:22 am
And here I thought this blog had always been here, what with the gravitas and world-weariness and all..
Happy birthday!
February 28th, 2010 at 12:13 pm
Re: Steve Staunton you forgot to mention he is also our philosopher king. Well done on the blogday Eoin. One suggestion – Coudl we have a where are they now on the legend that is Steve Appleton??
March 1st, 2010 at 1:07 am
@ Shane – Gravitas? World weariness? Not around here, mate… On an unrelated note, how weary, stale, flat and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world. La la la…
@ Q – Not the first person to suggest that. I’ll look into it this week. The drummer from his band sent me a Facebook message last year, I’ll see if I can dig it out!
March 1st, 2010 at 2:31 am
Kudos Eoin on the completion of one year in the blog-osphere. Thats equal to seven dog years. Or something like that.
March 1st, 2010 at 10:57 am
That’s what its felt like, DD.
March 7th, 2010 at 10:30 am
Eoin: Hard 2 Blieve U’ve only bn doing this 4 a yr, since U Cm like such a natural at this. & I’m not sucking up either — I’ve bn blogging 3 months longer than U, so there!
But seriously, thanx 4 all the great laffs. More please? — TAD.