A seasonal poem
With apologies to the English language…
‘Tis the season to be jolly,
Lots of reason for acts of folly,
Turkey and ham, Brandy and wine,
Presents so wham, Gifts so fine,
T-shirts and socks, Handcreams and clocks.
Family and friends gather round,
United in blood by ties that bound,
Celebrate whats Yours…Ours…Mine,
Those past times, those past Father Times,
We remember where our loyalties lie.
To [...]
School Daze
The Irish Times (sub required) published it’s Feeder Schools report today. My old Secondary (High) School performed very badly and I can’t say I’m too surprised. The report said that 30-odd people did the Leaving Cert (final school exam) in my alma mater last year and only an incredibly low 15% went to [...]
Devious putdown
A friend of mine said the most evil, devious, vicious, dismissive comment about a semi-public figure I’ve ever heard. It was a classic example of parish-pump politics. He said, ‘yer man will be attending 4 or 5 communions this year.’
For those who are non-religious/non-Catholics, it meant that he’d been shagging anything that moved [...]
A Penny Drops
It was my birthday last week. It turns out I was born in or around midnight (30-something years ago). On a Friday night or Saturday morning, if you know what I mean. They eventually settled on Saturday as the day of my birth.
I don’t know if they flipped a coin but the decision [...]
Thousands of Wong numbers
China runs out of surnames from The Register.
China has been forced to mull the possibility of allowing double-barrelled surnames - a break with the ancient tradition that citizens adopt one of a hundred single character surnames…
…In fact, other less common surnames bring the official total of permitted surnames to 161, but this doesn’t do much [...]