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Jan 9

I met my pet on the internet

Posted on Friday, January 9, 2009 in Humourarse, Music, Strange and Unusual

Nah, not TAT… I met him in a bar-room brawl in Finglas.

English ‘Dangerous’ Dave is the most socially unpredictable person in Wicklow Town if not the world.  Instantly friendly without a malicious bone in his body, he’s a sort of hero of mine.  To speak to him, you’d be reminded of Captain Jack Sparrow, that slightly ‘touched’ sort of free-spirit who acts as a magnet for free-floating loopers such as myself.  When I meet him out and about, I pry him for lyrics he’s written (usually by the seashore under a full moon under the influence of God-knows-what) because they’re familiar, funny, and always original; made extra cool by ‘is fick Landon accen’.

This music video below tells you exactly what I’m on about, and it’s a testament to the fact that even though a chap has no money, it doesn’t mean he can’t write, produce and sing on his very own video on the internet.  He’s got great friends and he’s loved, and that’s all he cares about.  Watch all the way through, it’s pretty damn funny with some excellent effects given their financial restraints, and the song ain’t too shabby neither, guaranteed to stick in the head.

‘I met my pet on the internet’
Dangerous Dave and the Side Effects

 

(‘Avin trouble wif de lyrics?  Here ye go:)

This is a tail, about a young man, looking for, companionship, on, the, in, ter, net.

I was looking for some fun, a little one-to-one
When I saw her ad, she was BAD, she had to be had.

We never met before, ‘coz she’s from Dublin 4
Me I live in Wicklow, I thought I’d say a quick hello.

She’s my pet, I met her on the internet
Her profile, an’ it drove me wild (x2)

I was lookin’ for a Leopard, but I got a German Shephard.
She’s a little moaner, ‘coz I’m her seventh owner.

She’s my pet, I met her on the internet
Her profile, an’ it drove me wild (x2)

She’s never alone with her mouldy old bone
That thing it keeps on minging, me I keep on singing. (x2)

She’s my pet, I met her on the internet
Her profile, an’ it drove me wild (x2)

It seemed just fine and dandy, not to mention bleedin’ handy
Three clicks, one bitch, washed down with a bottle o’ Brandy.

But now I’ve sobered up,
I’ve realised I’m not ready for a pup…

So I left my pet on the internet, I left my pet on the internet
I left my pet on the internet

I left my pet on the internet… I’ll never forget… MY PET!

Keep an eye out for Dave’s dad who makes a brief appearance somewhere around 2:46 in the song – the chap with the tambourine.  Seriously, there’s something in the water in that town.

Jan 5

Take Pwiicautions

Posted on Monday, January 5, 2009 in Family, Humourarse, On the box, Quickie

The Wii small hours this morning found TAT, his dodgy Italian friend and me surrounding the TV set, psyching ourselves up for a Wii game of tennis or two.

Various screenshots flashed in front of our eyes as the characters were being set up and the controls configured, the final screenshot advertised that gaming might be made more comfortable with the use of Wii jackets.

wii

“Why’s that?” … I asked…  ”is that so you don’t crack someone’s skull open when it gets in the way of a back-hand shot?”

“Nah, it’s so that when you let go of the controller accidentally, it won’t break when it hits the wall” guessed the dodgy Italian friend.

“Maybe it stops your hand getting sweaty or from cramping up, y’know, ergonomics and all that.  Is that a word?”  I fought with the rubbery cover and dirty thoughts crossed my mind as I did so, but I didn’t voice them.  That’s New Year’s resolution no. 16.

“Nope” said TAT “you’re both wrong.  It’s to prevent S.T.Wiis!”

 

Groan.

Nov 29

An experiment which involves lace and farming equipment.

Posted on Saturday, November 29, 2008 in Humourarse, Little known facts, Philosophy, Something to think about

This post is an experiment, borne of curiosity and a deep-set worry regarding the condition of my hormonal balance.

Problem:

Upon visiting Red Lemonade’s site, I found a link to a ‘Blog Gender Analyzer’, entered my blog address and discovered that I am in fact a man.   This troubles me deeply, as I had not noticed my manhood before, the whole childbirth thing threw me off scent just a tad.  Irregardless, I scored a whopping 76% in favour of the testicular division, and found myself reaching for the Black Bush (not metaphorically, silly,  the whiskey!) to help me ponder this fact.  I have to take it seriously, you understand.

Solution:

I will attempt to girlie my blog up a bit in order to re-align myself.

Apparatus:

Girly words.  I cannot put pink pictures on my blog because I hate pink.  I think the default colour for girls should be orange.

Method: 

The writing of a potentially tedious post about wedding dresses:

-(o)(o)-

What’s all the fuss about?

I announced rather bravely recently that I’m getting hitched in April.  The fact that I’ve done sweet Fanny Adams about this since kind of worried me a little bit, so I decided to take the plunge and start looking for wedding dresses… that endless mire of advertising was daunting, it seemed like an epic task was about to follow. 

100% bogroll wedding dresses: source

The first place I looked up was Oxfam Bridal on South Georges Street in Dublin.  The website had all the contact information I needed, but no pictures of dresses in stock, and a rather alarming plea for desingers to donate samples.  I pictured a room with three or four dresses, dog-eared and stained from a night of untold pleasures - I expected to find reams of net curtain in one corner with a measuring tape and some pinking-shears.  I fixed an appointment by email which was answered promptly… I felt welcome and I grew curiouser.

As soon as I’d dropped Puppychild into playschool on the dreaded day, I threw the taxi’s roof-sign on the car and zipped into town in the bus-lanes (naughty K8).  The shop was easy to find, but was in disguise as a regular Oxfam store which held all the familiar knick-knacks and unwanted treasures and that ever curious home-ish smell.  There was no sign of ‘Oxfam Bridal’ bar a poster.

I was greeted and ushered up some stairs hidden in a back room which opened up into a large open plan filled with whiteness.  It was the Davy Jone’s locker of wedding dresses and it was far prettier than I expected.  A peculiar thing happened in my brain and something clicked - a sudden urge to wear a princess dress decked with diamonds and lacey bits and pretty white ribbons woke within me, an urge which I’d completely forgotten about. 

I was suddenly three years old again.

I tried on two dresses.  The first was simple, but had a see-through coat which owned a flowing trail instead of the dress, and apparently I couldn’t mix and match this pretty coat – it belonged to a dress more suited to Bette Midler who I most definitely ain’t.  *sigh*  Oh well, move on.

The second was everything I didn’t think I wanted.  I can’t describe it here or post pictures of it for fear of jinxing the TATster, but when I climbed into it and wrestled with its many layers and got all laced up and tweaked and fiddled, it just… became something else.  My jeans and jumper suddenly looked like a discarded skin on the floor, the shell from some old life. 

A princess with unbrushed wind-swept hair stood before me and the sight caught my breath;  I felt like Sarah, that character in the Labyrinth when she finds herself thrown into an unexpectedly beautiful but slightly disturbing scene, except that I certainly didn’t want to go smashing any mirrors anytime soon.

“This is the one.  I’ll take it.” 

I couldn’t stop staring at the pretty image, it felt like it was made for me.  It suddenly occured to me that I should look at the pricetag!  Here we go!  It’s that typical story… the catch. I wondered suddenly how far I was willing to rise above my €500 limit and searched nervously for the tag.

€375 it read.  This money would apparently buy goats for a family in Africa and a rake of books for schools and some farming equipment too, I think.  This is a brand new dress we’re talking about here, with many many layers of prettiness.  A perfect dress, for €375.

Random Fact…  apparently they get a large volume of men buying wedding dresses in this shop.  Do with that information what you will.

Oxfam Bridal is a blessing.  I know there may be an element of luck in this story, but seriously… what’s all the Wedding Dress fuss about?  I laugh in the general direction of those ladies who fork out €2,000+ for a Wedding frock.

I laugh all the way to Thailand and back.

-(o)(o)-

Conclusion:

*re-entering of updated webpage into Gender Analyzer*

We think http://www.cackaloo.com is written by a man (92%)

Experiment failed.

Nov 18

Noelie McDonnell – Nearly Four

Posted on Tuesday, November 18, 2008 in Humourarse, Music, Quickie

I heard this song recently on the radio and fell madly in love with it instantly.  It’s the best caption of toddler-hood I think I’ve ever seen, so I’m putting it here so I know where to find it!


Have a listen of it if you need cheering up today.

Nov 11

The kidnapping of K8

Posted on Tuesday, November 11, 2008 in Humourarse, The Great November Blog War

Nov 11

The defenstration of Maxi Cane

Posted on Tuesday, November 11, 2008 in Humourarse, Quickie, Strange and Unusual, The Great November Blog War

There is much rejoicing in K8opia!

In the guise of an innocent peace-offering, we managed to smuggle several brave soldiers into Maxiland, hidden in a giant ‘M’. Based on the knowledge that none of the residents of Maxiland ever went to school, he would be unprepared for this tactic, and guess what? We were right!!!

MAXI CAN’T!!!

Maxi has been captured, and his various parts will soon be on display in our gift-shop.

Medals of valour will soon be presented to our brave officers…

Grandad; Army Chief of Staff, for a perfect infiltration plan.
JackMcMad; For his epic rage against the SUCK.
Jefferson; For his undying loyalty against the endless siege of abuse
Kirk M; Because every war needs a puppy.
Roy, English Mum and Brian; For excellence in bombing.

Tune in for the playful torturing of Maxiland’s remaining lapdogs!!!

Nov 10

Operation Shenanegan

Posted on Monday, November 10, 2008 in Humourarse, Quickie, The Great November Blog War

I recently deployed some expertly trained men to infiltrate Camp Maxi and catch them at their strange antics. 

Mission successful.

Nov 10

Retaliation

I worried for my name for a moment this weekend in the knowledge that I would be forced to abandon my loyal men and women followers, but only for a moment.  The unavoidable trip to the donkey santuary left their mission wide open without my guidance, but as my loyal submarine commander told me upon my return;

“Often in war, lines of communication become cut off. That’s where you have to trust your cells of fighters to carry on without you. The first sign of a fine leader is that your people can carry on when you’re not there.  All Hail K8 the Gr8!” 

Okay, so I added that last bit but the surprise party went down a treat and conveyed the same message.  Such nice people.  In fact, it would seem that their dedication has inflamed them into epic tasks.  The uniform is fresh from production seven months ahead of schedule!  To see their faces… their triumph as they handed me the last uniform with plastered fingers and exclaimed: We just love the smell of Napalm in Blogger.” I shed a tear. 

The blog bombings were inspirational. 

These brave soldiers defended me to the hilt in my absence against an unholy torrent of abuse and I am so proud to be their leader. They are true K8opian heroes.

What a mess my good name has become!!!

Brutal allegations of a grievious nature have been pinned upon me on the internet and I would hereby most defiantly like to tell you that these are all false.  To think that I would sell cigarettes to small children?!?  I merely teach them how to roll their own, thus cutting down on pocket money expenses and eliminating arsenic poisoning.  If they’re going to smoke, they might as well do it properly.

It is a sad fact that ‘He who must not be mentioned’… *sigh* link…  has based his entire defense on lies.  Such cheap tricks, such shameful tactics.

This is what I look like.  All the time, even when I’ve just squshed an increadibly large spider barefoot in the dark by mistake on a stumbling visit to the loo. 

All I can offer to you, my loyal people, is the truth.  We all know that the truth is far uglier thing than fiction, as you will soon find out.  Spies have been deployed all over the capital city of Maxiland in an effort to sample the taste of their regime, and they return feeling very ill indeed and carrying video tape footage that suprisingly didn’t burn to a crisp the very moment it was recorded.

The great leader of Maxiland is a wanker

I do not use the word in its derogatory sense, it is simply pure fact.  I offer to you some damning evidence as recorded by my faithful troops;

“I’ve wanked pretty much everywhere. If I’ve been to a place more than twice, chances are I’ve blown my beans in the surroundings … Every room of every house I’ve ever lived in, or visited. Every room of every place I’ve ever been employed in, or visited. A car. A bus. A phone box.”

“I remember a time I was walking past Ann Summers on O’Connell Street and there was an old dude outside the front door, and God love him he was trying to catch a glimpse of some girl changing into underwear or the salesgirl running through a demo of a new dildo and he had his hands hidden under his over coat. I would have judged, maybe even stopped him but I was on my way to Brown Thomas to whack off all over the Manolo Blahnik displays.”

Won’t somebody please think of the children?

Overheard at a bus-stop;

“And I left the shop, went and calmed myself down with a nice shot of crack.”

One brave soldier even had the nerve to engage this so-called ‘leader’ at the bookies and recorded the following perplexing information;

“Yeah, “I guess I turned to drugs and murder after I saw my drunken father mowed down by a devilishly handsome Ford Fiesta driver when I turned 5. He turned to look at me, and said “Happy birthday, sweetheart” and then turned to face his death.”"

A man with such weighty responsiblities who has learned his leadership skills in prison is not a pretty sight.  I fear for his people, I imagine an evolved landscape of Orks, poor pure elvenfolk who got caught up in the madness and are now forever damned.  I urge those people to step back, to have a proper look at this leader of theirs… a man who hates bank holidays, who enjoys having his privates gnawed on by zombified hamsters, who doesn’t actually have such an innate fear of tampax!

“In all the commotion I forgot my tissues, but as it turns out “feminine products” are much more absorbent for a runny nose than even the strongest tissue, and the smooth applicator does make a difference.”

My undercover interviewer almost passed out when this information was recorded, this golden piece of damning evidence.  She is now away in the Bahamas for some well earned R&R, but not before she found out that the Queen of Maxiland - the position I so politely requested in the days before this cruel war began – is an avid fan of Boyzone.   Boyzone.   While Keith Duffy is already in my army for his sensual comedic skills, I cannot condone the music.  He knows that.  We’re cool.

Would you really fancy ‘Love me for a reason’ playing in the cold interior of an army tank as you advance into battle?  Would it motivate you into killing yourself or the enemy?  I think you know the answer.

Do not be fooled by this leader’s big puppyblog eyes.  He is no innocent, I fear this past weekend’s infiltration is but the tip of the iceberg, that Maxiland is a scurrilous place and should be gravely avoided.

This is a rare photograph of the elusive character taken at a so-called ‘Peace’ rally yesterday (on the right, beside Baino’s oranges:

I think it fair to say that this man has issues.

Nov 6

Medical News: Blog author responsible for mental health decline

Maxi Cane, also know as Maxicane.blogspot.com, is a dangerous website, according to recent clinical findings. It is involuntarily read by nonbloggers, lingers in the brain hours after web browsers have been shut down and can cause or exacerbate a wide range of adverse health effects, including shock, sexually transmitted diseases, and a severe lowering of I.Q.

Secondhand reading has been classified by the Mental Unified Protection Prevention Ethics Treaty (MUPPET) as a known cause of ignorance in humans.

Secondhand blog exposure causes panic and premature brain atrophy in children and adults who do not read Maxi Cane’s blog.  The blog contains subliminal messages, including pornography, defamation, bad taste, photographs of Madonna and nasty suggestions as to what you can do with ‘yer ma’.

Secondhand reading causes approximately 3,400 cases of pink-eye and 22,700-69,600 losses of higher brain function in adult nonreaders in the world each year.

Nonreaders exposed to Maxi Cane’s blog at work are at increased risk for adverse health effects. Levels of secondhand cynicism in restaurants and bars were found to be 2 to 5 times higher than in residences with blog readers and 2 to 6 times higher than in office workplaces.

Since 2007, 70 percent of the world’s workforce worked under a Maxi-free policy, ranging from 83.9 percent in Ireland to 48.7 percent in the United States.   Workplace productivity was increased and absenteeism was decreased among former readers compared with current readers.

Secondhand reading of Maxi’s blog may also cause buildup of bullshit in the frontal cortex of the brain, resulting in 790,000 physician office visits per year.  Secondhand reading can also aggravate symptoms in 400,000 to 1,000,000 children with an existing pre-disposition to sarcasm.

In the United States, 21 million, or 35 percent of, children live in homes where residents or visitors read Maxi Cane’s blog in the home on a regular basis.   Approximately 50-75 percent of children in the United States have detectable levels of spite, the breakdown product of sarcasm.

Research indicates that private research conducted by K8′s science lab of explody goodness in the 1990s showed that secondhand reading of Maxi’s blog was highly toxic, yet the company suppressed the finding during the next two decades because they weren’t particularily arsed.

The current Surgeon General’s Report concluded that scientific evidence indicates that there is no risk-free level of exposure to Maxicane.blogspot.com. Short exposures to the blog can cause temporary blindness, damage to brain cells, an increase in erectile dysfunction, and a reduction of Intelligence Quota levels, potentially prepetuating Darwin’s theory of natural selection.

Nov 5

War on Maxi

Posted on Wednesday, November 5, 2008 in Humourarse, Rantings, Strange and Unusual

Today should be a joyous occasion… a new and reliable president has been elected to bring the U.S. back into the light, the world is full of hope and promise.  The world apart from this blog, that is.

Ladies and Gentleman, I am loath to inform you that war has broken out.

Maxi Cane, as you all know, is a filthy fucker.  His is the sort of site you pray that your children will never accidentally find, the blog that NetNanny was invented for.  Nastiness, corruption and feculence await you should you ever find yourself having wandered in there by mistake.

Fed-up with the carnage of indecency, I made the ultimate sacrifice.  I rounded up my entire stock of tampax and bombed his country with it in an effort to absorb the filth.  Maxi Cane did not take this kindly, and has seen fit to call this an act of terrorism, of war.  He likened me to the Mc Cain to his Obama, but the reality is that I am the Geldof to his Cowan… such underhanded behaviour should not go unpunished.

I implore to you, my readers, not to stand and defend my blog, but to stand and defend the concept of human decency.  I cannot promise you riches or wealth, merely the knowledge that you’re on the side of the good guys, the tireless and un-wielding people who know that to fight the good fight is all that matters in this world.

I am Samuel L Jackson, I am Ezekiel 25:17;

The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness. For he is truly his brother’s keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you.

Together, good people, let us round up our collective imaginations and bring down Empire Maxiland.  No punishment is too harsh, there is no line to cross as Maxi has long ago ascertained, there are no boundaries.

Let us keep the peace by bombing the shite out of Maxi Cane.

Who will join me in this fight and rage towards the dying of the shite?