Actually, and not a lot of people know this, we have our own space program here in Dublin run by the eminent Professor Ian O’Stein, O’Stein aims to have a man on Mars by 2030 and in the interests of equality, a woman on Venus the following year, actually it was the volunteer astronaut (Brian Doyle from Ballyfarout) who suggested that his wife goes on to Venus. O’Stein found that for such long distance travel you need a new very powerful fuel, he has Malachy Muldoon working day and night in the Kerry mountains producing his finest poteen to be ready for launching day. I shouldn’t be disclosing this top secret information, if NASA get wind of it we’ll have truck loads of G-men combing the hills of Kerry for years to come battering every poteen maker in sight, now we don’t want that do we.;-)
Ah combating poteen heh - on my distant travels around southern Ireland we stopped for the night in a local b/b and made straight for a local tavern.
the sort were when you walk in everything goes silent and you get the group stare. we had a few drinks and managed to get out unscathed and then turned up at our b/b a little merrier - the owner greeted us and asked us if we’d like to join him in a little night cap of poteen - I declined which probably was a faux pas but my brother accepted - I was half expecting him not to survive the night but he did.
so to this day I retain my faux pas but not a memory of having tried poteen!
Does anyone remember being Poteen Trained?
Poteen? I thought it was pronounced ‘Potcheen’???
Ah,well…I’m not good at understanding what people are saying.
After all,for quite a while I thought the inimitable Mr Swartzennegger was saying,in his inimitable style;
“Y’havta love Easter,baby”! [yeah,I know…]
btw…about 9 pages ago,I mentioned I have a prosthetic head
…and YOUS all totally ignored me…BEEP!
You are correct in the pronunciation Pug, there are a few ways of spelling it, I used the most common way.
Don’t forget I wasn’t here for a good while, some of us have to work you know, that was one of my favourite excuses when I was working, but now I’m retired it cuts no ice in my house anymore, it’s lost it’s dingdurum as they say here, hang on to your dingdurum for as long as you can fellas.;-) (See the song “Maids when your young never wed an old man” by the Dubliners)
This is the only Proustetic head I know of Pug, did he invent the prosthetic limb? Are all used up prosthetic limbs sent to limbo for recycling? http://i736.photobucket.com/albums/xx4/jemflux/Marcel_Proust_1900-2.jpg
Marcel Proust.
It’s a miserable damp and rainy day here, I’m off to the local for me daily dose and mingle with all the other old gits, this is the season for all the minor health complaints to be aired, good job I’m a patient man otherwise I’d go nuts listening to them, why can’t they be like me and just suffer in silence.;-)
As America waits with bated breath
Let us all pray and not forget
The finger that rests on that big red button
Could blown us all to nothin’
I saw Bill and Hillary Clinton on the news today, they looked very confident. they had the daughter Chelsea with them and their German Shepard dog, Clin Tin Tin.
Jem,you know as well as do we,
that we just sit and wait,then we’ll see;
Oh,boy,what a game,
SHE can’t spell her own name;
and I’ve met doughnuts more intelligent than HE!
But,soft what doth the wind bring?
Do I hear the bells of change ring?
The USA as a nation,
is just a huge corporation
and Trump loves doing the corporate thing.
BUT…shuffle up,give me room,
That I may disclose foretellings of gloom.
For,it’s who knows whom where
and the secrets they share,
that decides who’ll do what and to whom.
Plus,you KNOW how electorates waver,
and how politicians pull in a favour.
No doubt both are corrupt,
[no,that’s NOT too abrupt]
for it’s ‘Office & Power’ they both savour.
So,as I watch them both stirring the murk,
I envy ol’ Alex Selkirk;
alone on his isle,
he was able to smile;
No politics,no laws and no work!
Nice one Pug. I wasn’t sure who Alex Selkirk was at first then it came to me, I knew it sounded familiar. My missus used to say I had a voice like Caruso…Robinson Crusoe.
I notice Jem that you have complimented Azz on good new rules - can you explain how they will apply here or have you already got special dispensation?
our coup de grasse or forte de resistance is “taking the piss” of each other - we very rarely stick to the topic from one minute to another
please explain or I’m leaving!!:shock::shock:
Christ not you taking a flounce too!:shock:
Well the title of the thread and the opening post says what the thread is Gumbud, it’s about anything and everything, mixed leisurely scribbles, poems, songs and anything else except politics, as long as it’s not offensive to anyone, as far as I can see all the posts were within the thread “Rules” if you like.
The clues are in there.
Don’t diss the dissention.
Well,while you chaps have been flouncing and/or prevaricating
…I have taken delivery of my new ABBA toilet!
Yes,you read that correctly…my new ABBA toilet…and,oh boy…
…WHAT a loo!
PLUS [yes,there’s more] my mate has fallen HOPELESSLY in love with an aquatic creature!
Yes…he’s totally smitten by his latest love. I met his heart-capturing lady today and told him…
…that’s a moray…
…and [yeah,yeah,never start with a preposition,etc-shuddup] one more thing…
…if your mate ever tells you he’s lost his voice…
…he’s lying!
yes but you know what they say the devil is in the detail - well Jem are you the devil or the detail. It’s alright for you who is hunky dori with admin but what about the rest of us - SO how do you define ‘leisurely’ [i do mine in the nude for example] and scribbles [i only scribble when I am drinkin my beer too fast!]
and as for ABBA toilets - that’s disgusting - I think even loos is sinking a bit low here pugnacious - a moray wasn’t that about a pizza pie - we had to share one pie among six kids in our house and me ma would hit me over the head if i took the big bit and give me a little bit and say that’s your pizza pie and that was before pizzzas were even invented - OMG these new rules are getting so hard to learn!!:shock:
I’d like to start a brand new topic and would also like it to last longer than 4 seconds without be denuded, abuse - sed, rude -ed or whatever else - now where was I oh yes my new topic - god Ive forgotten what it was now!
Gumbud my dear fellow, bother yourself not with the little nitty gritty details, it’s not for the likes of me nor you to say what’s right and wrong, with hair splitting you only end up with more hairs, just be your usual jolly self and everything will be honky dory (I love that expression)
All we can do is sit and see how things pan out, in the meantime just lie back in the sunshine, you jammy devil, it’s bloody freezing over here.
Everyone is running around like headless chickens now that the big fella has won the election, a surprise indeed “Whata we gonna do now, whata we gonna now, I’m just laughing, if he can become president of the USA I could become the pope, we’ll just have to wait and see what happens next I suppose.
You could always start a topic off about the loneliness of the long distance Kangaroo.:-D:
A new abba waterloo, good for you Pug, my old granny used to saw when I got a new jacket or anything wearable “Long may you wear it” so would I be in order if I said “Long may you sit on it” 