sweetie now wait until you meet Pug a purrrect gentleman who has a mensahab to keep him in order - have you anymore friends that would like to come in too - the more the merrier - we have a few treats coming up
a day out to watch spittie cutting his concrete [ goggles and dust drops will be provided ] and he may at the same time do his fart of the march of the grenadaires
a ramble aroun old dublin town with Jem pointing out interesting cemetries; convents and where he went to school I believe last year the group were delirious
pushing robert in his wheelchair of course around the great lakes of hampshire - unfortunately last year he took a tumble into one! but nurse vivian will be by his side this year
pug - ah- very exciting ride around old anglia on an earth mover - very moving - spittie fell off last year
and finally a tour around the kimberley where I live well one of those artificial tours by video but you will see me waving from 10 000 feet
and as we speak the planning committee have heads down and bums up thinkin of more charming experiences for the new year!
Jem has hit upon a revolting new development ** in modern times.
From the net……….
“The law of unintended consequences, often cited but rarely defined, is that actions of people—and especially of government—always have effects that are unanticipated or unintended. Economists and other social scientists have heeded its power for centuries; for just as long, politicians and popular opinion have largely ignored it.”
**Apologies to William Bendix (Life of Riley 1945-1951)
Gummy, the ice skating was i thought, confidential, you know how modest I am about uncle Vivian & his discovery of
Pearl & Dean, so ably coached by him, their pinnacle routine being WILLIAM TELL OVERTURE. They were going to do BOLERO, but decided it was too repetitive.
Goodness, you lot, what vivid imaginations.
I would ask Jem to pop down O’Connell street for me, there is an American Burger Bar there called Eddie Rockets, I would like one of those chocolate milkshakes, please. I know they are pricey, that is why the locals call the place empty pockets.
Now I have figure out where the rest of you live.
Bring friends!!!
I will have to think about that.
PS. I hope you are wearing your poppies today.
Ah be gosh and begorra. sure aren’t ye the grand man for organising the outings Gummy, bless your sweet soul.
You reminded me of when I was driving the tour bus around the city many years ago, I didn’t last long in the job, not because I didn’t know the places of historical interest but I had the devil of a job remembering the names of the famous characters involved.
One day when we were nearing the tours end we had to pass St. Steven’s Green, well known as a place where the rebels held out in the 1916 rising “And now folks we are passing the famous Steven’s Green” says I. As we passed a huge statue on the Baggot Street side of the Green one American lady yells out to me “Say driver, who’s that big guy in that statue?’ “Ah sure that’ll be Steven Green himself ma’am”
ah to be sure to be sure and to be sure - do you think he was related to robert shaw a damned fine actor to be shaw!
sweetie pie if ya keep shakin like that ya two piece will become a non-piece - keep shakin SP
RJ your comments about the law of unintended consequences - an extremely apt one here - I agree that politicians see to ignore things but the truth is they really don’t give a bugger
my apologizes RJ about the ice skating but I do love to see you doing a piroet - you look like a chinese stork on take off!
I couldn’t make it to a cenataph memorial this year - buggered me knee up and confined to crutchers and light duties - I should have made the effort I probably would have got a standing ovation. but a mate of mine commented on what he thought was the hyprocricy of attending these events and then going off for a ‘piss up’ - I disagreed of course and said well they had acknowledged their mates and were now having a drink on them - a very british tradition
I too was wondering what the hell was a piroet, I think there was one called Blackbeard the Piroet, but he was deaf, he had no buccaneers.
Agree with you about Robert Shaw Gummy, he was an excellent actor.
I’m Sorry about that Sweetie my dear, but I have to think about me reputation where I live, me a Guinness man couldn’t possibly be seen carrying a MILKSHAKE!!!, I’d never live it down, I wouldn’t even sleep in the same house with a milkshake. ;-)
Just imagine if I dropped dead coming out of Eddie Rockets with a milkshake in me hand, imagine the horror if RM set in rapidly and they couldn’t get it out of me hand and I had to be buried with it, my mates up in the local would have enough laugh to keep them going for years, not to mention the shame it would cast on the family.:shock:
Now if you had asked me to do the hippy hippy shake no better man to oblige.
Methinks the Pug fella is getting all dolled up before he logs in, seeing we now have a lady here, no need Pug me lad it’s come as you are here.
Because of the heat Gumbud sits all day with his laptop under the shade of a Coolibah tree with nothing on but his jocks, taking the odd glance now and then to see that his Billabong is cool, lucky devil.;-)
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things…”
― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things…”
― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
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Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite! Karl Marx.
You know what they say RJ, it takes desperation to create desperate men who then go on to do desperate things, or so a young College man was telling me in the pub the other day.
I prefer what Lonnie Donegan says “It takes a worried man to sing a worried song” only a few words but it says a lot, and you can dance to it too if you like.
Quite a few pub philosophers in my local these days, they’re crawling out of the woodwork, philosophers of every colour and creed now with Dublin gone all multi cultured, very hard to find a genuine Dublin old lad now.
But it’s all good for the old country, the young lads are all highly educated now and coming out of College with all the edges, ready to take their place in the world, the best of luck to them I say.
Me eldest grandson is at Trinity College, I’m not sure what he’s reading, but the Beano,was always his favourite comic.
I very seldom praise the government, but I’ll give them full marks on their education policies.
