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YOU MADE ME LOVE YOU (1941)

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Q: What goes clip clop clip clop clip clop
clip clop clip clop clip clop clip clop
bang bang clip clop clip clop clip clop clip clop ? Read the rest of this entry »

“THE CHARLES HAUGHEY I KNEW”

My favourite memory of Charles J. Haughey? Probably of him hanging from the monkey bars in the playground in Donneycarney singing the theme from the Lone Ranger… Read the rest of this article.

MISCELLANEOUS AMUSING ITEMS I’VE COME ACROSS #10

Roll over Oxegen – and tell Electric Picnic the news…

“SINCE THEN EOIN’S LIFE HAS SPIRALLED INTO A HAZE OF HILARITY AND ADVENTURE…”

Okay, I already posted this a few months ago. But it’s really funny, so who gives a shit. This is a wildly inaccurate profile of me done by a student paper in DCU in 2005. The interview really did take place. However, I dunno whether the guy’s Dictaphone malfunctioned, or if he suffered some sort of acid flashback during the transcription process, but none of the quotations attributed to me are remotely accurate. Read the rest of this entry »

A SONG FOR YOU (1973)

ALL MCWORK AND LOW PAY?

WHEN PEOPLE HEAR that I’ve volunteered to work for a day in McDonald’s, they react with a mixture of bafflement and horror. And who can blame them? In the popular imagination at least, the fast-food multinational has been blamed for everything from rising obesity rates, to Third World exploitation, to Morgan Spurlock’s diminished sex drive.Read the rest of this article here.

TOFFISH TOSSER OR FUTURE WORLD FIGURE…?

Last time we did this competition, I really had just stumbled upon an image that morning by chance. This time, however, the picture has already been doing the rounds on the internet in the last few days. So if you’ve seen it already, you’re barred from entering.

First person to correctly guess who the groom in the above wedding snap is – or to offer a funnier incorrect answer – wins a very special, possibly non-existent prize. I’ll redact all correct answers until lunchtime, with the correct answer being announced at around 2pm-ish. Also, I’m on Newstalk with Tom Dunne from about half nine till ten o’clock tomorrow (Wednesday) morning, so if you know the answer please don’t post it while I’m on the air.

UPDATED: Congratulations to Adrian for correctly identifying our mystery celebrity as Independent Cllr. Luke “Ming” Flanagan. Your prize seems to have gotten lost in the mail, Adrian, but sure it’s the taking part that counts.

Incidentally, readers may remember our mystery celebrity from such films as… Part1… Part2… Part3… etc.

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MOONWALK TO PARADISE

This is the most depressing article I’ve read in a while.