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Surprise Guest Post: Better Than Life
August 7, 2009 – 12:01 am | 10 Comments
Surprise Guest Post:  Better Than Life

A highly irregular feature, on this occasion featuring the incomparable work of Khmer Rouge Strippergram’s Prenderghast

It was a dark and khaki time
August 4, 2009 – 12:00 am | 20 Comments
It was a dark and khaki time

“You looked like a wanker!”, exclaimed my unemployed/unemployable rock star friend as he tried not to choke on his piri-piri prawns during lunch. He couldn’t stop himself from either laughing or eating which inevitably lead …

Questions and Answers (with Ronaldo and Paris Hilton)
July 30, 2009 – 2:43 am | 10 Comments
Questions and Answers (with Ronaldo and Paris Hilton)

Me: This week on Questions and Answers, former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern…
Bertie Ahern: Good evening.

Christ All-Bitey!
July 24, 2009 – 12:01 am | 12 Comments
Christ All-Bitey!

Vengeance is a dish.
No, that’s it. Just a dish. A big, scrumptious, dreamy dish, best served seven ways from sundown if that’s your fancy, with a cherry on top and one of those crisp caramel …

Don’t Argue. There are Jobs at Stake!
July 10, 2009 – 12:01 am | 17 Comments
Don’t Argue.  There are Jobs at Stake!

The wise people of Limerick have spotted Our Lady hiding in a tree! It was not until they was sawing the tree in half that they find her (I espect she was playing hide and …

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Deep Sea Sport Fisherman
July 8, 2009 – 12:01 am | 8 Comments
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Deep Sea Sport Fisherman

Most of my beautiful and young readers was not yet even being born when was happening the Malvinas War in 1982.  This was a minor skrimrish that take place in the South Atlantic between the …

Like a Virgin?
June 23, 2009 – 11:59 pm | 11 Comments
Like a Virgin?

Is the well-known Italian entertainer-cum-emperor-cum-bucket Silvio Berlusconi, who is never in the news for the wrong reasons because he own the news. Escept, that is, in other countries, where they very unwisely still have …

Manuel & The Never Ending Search for News
June 23, 2009 – 12:00 am | 43 Comments
Manuel & The Never Ending Search for News

It was 31st of August 1997 and I was drunk, oh crikey mummy was I drunk. I had been imbibing cheap red wine from early the previous evening and the blotto hour, 1am, was upon …