Little Things That Never Fail to Raise a Chuckle on the Way to, Or on the Way Back, from Work of a Morning/Evening, Or At Any Other Time... Basically

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There's this minibus parked just round the corner from my house that says, on the side, [b]Driving Children to School Since 1973[/i], and I always think to myself, "What? And you haven't got them there yet?", and it always makes me chuckle inwardly...

Tom D., Tuesday, 20 March 2007 11:16 (eighteen years ago)

Oops, mismatched tag scenario

Tom D., Tuesday, 20 March 2007 11:17 (eighteen years ago)

there is a scarecrow in the allotments holding hands with his two children.

Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 11:23 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

Radio 7, 1.30pm - 1.45pm

"A Short History of Ireland"... Episode 17 of 120.

Vitbe Is Good Bread (Tom D.), Thursday, 12 February 2009 12:03 (sixteen years ago)

Which episode is that? I've only heard the ones about pain, oppression, massacre, famine, bloodshed and how the English are bastards.

Maximo Park Ji-Sung (Matt DC), Thursday, 12 February 2009 12:05 (sixteen years ago)

The Scottish one is even shorter, they dispense with the pain, the oppression, the massacre, the famine, the bloodshed, and concentrate on how English are bastards

Vitbe Is Good Bread (Tom D.), Thursday, 12 February 2009 12:07 (sixteen years ago)

The English one goes on for 2000 episodes and just repeats how grateful the skiving socialist Scots should be that the English saved them from speaking Norwegian or summat

Bernard Braden Misreads Stephen Leacock (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 12 February 2009 12:10 (sixteen years ago)

UNFORTUNATELY OUR
COFFEE MACHINE IS
ONLY PRODUCING
AMERICAN COFFEE
----
WE APOLOGISE FOR
ANY INCONVENIENCE

Tracer Hand, Thursday, 12 February 2009 12:10 (sixteen years ago)

A Short History of Ireland - 17. Feudal Ireland/A Great Affliction Befell the Country

just to clear that up, it quite clearly covers most of what matt suspects.

Redknapp out (darraghmac), Thursday, 12 February 2009 12:19 (sixteen years ago)

I heard it, it was the Normans wot did it

Vitbe Is Good Bread (Tom D.), Thursday, 12 February 2009 12:21 (sixteen years ago)

"A Great Affliction Befell The Country"? It's a bit early in the series for them to be doing Westlife.

Bernard Braden Misreads Stephen Leacock (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 12 February 2009 12:21 (sixteen years ago)

The Scots invade in the next episode! WTF?!??!?!

Vitbe Is Good Bread (Tom D.), Thursday, 12 February 2009 12:22 (sixteen years ago)

"Spuds? Ah'll gie ye spuds!"

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/84/Francie&josie.jpg/245px-Francie&josie.jpg

Bernard Braden Misreads Stephen Leacock (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 12 February 2009 12:24 (sixteen years ago)

come for the conquest, stay for the craic

Redknapp out (darraghmac), Thursday, 12 February 2009 12:25 (sixteen years ago)

Ah, I see, Scots only invaded so they could fight the English in Ireland, as well as Scotland and anywhere else they could find them

Vitbe Is Good Bread (Tom D.), Thursday, 12 February 2009 12:25 (sixteen years ago)

... it's the equivalent of a fight in a pub spilling over in to the pub car park

Vitbe Is Good Bread (Tom D.), Thursday, 12 February 2009 12:28 (sixteen years ago)

You'd think that a good place to fight the English would be in, er, England?

snoball, Thursday, 12 February 2009 12:29 (sixteen years ago)

restaurants are shit

Redknapp out (darraghmac), Thursday, 12 February 2009 12:30 (sixteen years ago)

(xxpost) are you comparing Ireland to a featureless tarmac'ed area covered in broken glass, unidentified bits of kebab, blood, and vomit?

snoball, Thursday, 12 February 2009 12:30 (sixteen years ago)

xpost

pubs have no atmosphere, either.

fight them in meath every time. the craic is 90 and the results never seem to matter.

Redknapp out (darraghmac), Thursday, 12 February 2009 12:31 (sixteen years ago)

that's just dublin, snoball

Redknapp out (darraghmac), Thursday, 12 February 2009 12:31 (sixteen years ago)

are you comparing Ireland to a featureless tarmac'ed area covered in broken glass, unidentified bits of kebab, blood, and vomit?

That was Yeats

Vitbe Is Good Bread (Tom D.), Thursday, 12 February 2009 12:32 (sixteen years ago)

no carpark for old man

Redknapp out (darraghmac), Thursday, 12 February 2009 12:35 (sixteen years ago)

(xposts re: restaurants) Sure fire way to repel invaders. That's how we kept the French and the Spanish out. Picture it, Elizabethan era French dude gets off his warship at Dover, goes into a fish'n'chip shop, takes one bite of soggy pomme frite, says some French epithet, then runs back to his boat and clears off back to Normandy...

snoball, Thursday, 12 February 2009 12:35 (sixteen years ago)

The Arndale Centre cannot hold (xp)

Vitbe Is Good Bread (Tom D.), Thursday, 12 February 2009 12:36 (sixteen years ago)

gurning in a burning tyre

Redknapp out (darraghmac), Thursday, 12 February 2009 12:38 (sixteen years ago)


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