Sympathy for the devil
I’ve been feeling a bit run down the past few days and it finally caught up with me so I took a sick day today. Not that I got any sympathy! To cheer myself up, I went to the local shops to get lemsip and some comfort food. While waiting in line [...]
Bertie
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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 [...]
No balls dropped
I’ve just been for a mid-week pint(s) so what follows may or may not be strictly true.
In late 2005, Dublin City Council met to decide how to spend their budget for 2006. Item no. 56 concerned alarming reports that children were playing football in the park in my estate. Obviously, this was a bad [...]
Small town buzz
I’m contentedly happy as I wait for my pint of Guinness to settle in The Lady Belle pub. Today has been a breezy but sunny day and as the day is settling down to a lazy finish, I got a little chuckle watching two small-town Guards (police) deal with the aftermath of a minor [...]
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