Noelie McDonnell – Nearly Four
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.
The kidnapping of K8

The defenstration of Maxi Cane
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 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!!!
Operation Shenanegan
I recently deployed some expertly trained men to infiltrate Camp Maxi and catch them at their strange antics.
Mission successful.
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?
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Overheard at a bus-stop;
“And I left the shop, went and calmed myself down with a nice shot of crack.”
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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.
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.

War on Maxi
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?
The wife's weakness
It always happens on those rare nights out with Best Bud. We agree to spend a few civilized pints in each other’s company and catch up and swear that we wouldn’t even entertain the thought of entering a club afterwards, but we always do.
We seem to forget after months of abstainment that it won’t be as great a buzz at it seems to be, that it used to be. The club entity itself hadn’t changed… they still played No Diggity and Fearless just like the good old days, and the clientele was exactly the same mix of badly dressed nervous looking men hanging around in groups (with the obligatory nutter mate dancing his little socks off), and scantily clad ladies sipping demurely on their straws, eyeing up the talent. You watch them, they watch you. It’s a gallery of desperados.
We keep forgetting that it’s us who has changed, we’re older, wiser, but still feel that need to be watched like that now and then. We feel superior somehow in the knowledge that we’re in disguise. Sold merchandise, sorry boys! As if this was the reality… but we can dream.

We found ourselves feeling awqward. We couldn’t talk so were limited to shouted statements and room-gazing… we found a clear corner and did this for a while, until…
“Oh wait” I shouted. “Let’s move, this is definately the farting corner.” Best Bud laughed, but didn’t take my word for it as people rarely do. Her face contorted as she inhaled just as a random bloke approached and distracted her with a chat-up line. Nice… score 1 to Best Bud.
I pulled her away from the methane cloud and hopeless conversation and we advanced to the heavily populated hang-around zone. A pair of spectacles were proffered to me by a tall chap, not entirely talentless by any means. I removed my own glasses and handed them to him. Boy was he in for a surprise.

“Woah… Jesus… Fu….” he reeled and bumped against a table full of pints. “You’re pretty shortsighted, aren’t ya?” I thanked him for reminding me. He asked me where I was from.
“Latvia” I said, flowing with the moment. “I’m Ruby Dubidoux” I shook his hand. He didn’t seem to notice the lack of accent.
“I’m from South Africa – I guess we’re both tourists, heh heh!” Bless him. “Can I get you a drink?”
“No thanks, I’m fine.” I find that accepting drinks means that you’re stuck with dead-end pfaff talk for the rest of the night and then get branded a prick tease afterwards which rarely feels nice.
“I noticed!”
“Wha? Oh…” (blush) “Thanks! I mean I’m ok, I already have a drink.” Yipee! Score 1 for me! Best Bud and I bumped knuckles as the South African dude admitted defeat and slinked away.
I caught a glimpse of the pair of us in the flowered mirror a few feet away, and saw a strange reflection. I panicked, and noticed the same lost look in Best Bud’s eyes.
“Mooo” I said.
“Mooooooo” she replied.
We left with a decent one-all draw and spent the rest of the night planning madcap adventures by the sea-shore, wondering why we didn’t just bring a six-pack and a naggin of vodka to the beach in the first place. Oh yeah! The whole dressing up and hiding the baggage thing! That weird need to be reminded every now and then that we’re still female – it’s quite sad, isn’t it? Oh well. Cattle-fever is out of our systems again for a few months at least.

Spot the deliberate mistake
I was stuck staring at the back-end of a bus today and noticed something funny.
Can you see anything wrong with this picture?

Here they are… all these lovely places to visit so that you can call your mates at home and brag about how cool you are… there’s Paris, Egypt, London, New York – but wait! What’s that?

How’s that?
I sincerely doubt they have a mast on the moon, but even if they did, wouldn’t that nasty vacuum play havoc with the radio waves? I’ve a good mind to ring yer wan in Meteor, tell her I’m planning a New Year’s trip to the moon and ask her how much roaming costs from 384,400km away!?!
That’s not false advertising, it’s just being silly.
Maxi Cane – The Smellumentary

Now I’m all on for experiments in the name of science, you know that. All it takes is the brave Guinea pig, the one who stands up and says ‘YES! I will put the questions burning in your minds into practice and give you the answers because that’s the sort of guy I am!’
Hurray, I say, for the brave experimenter. Rather you than me mate.
In true Maxi style, it’s dark. It’s anti-social. If he pulls it off, he’s guaranteed to offend people in their hundreds but it’s all in the name of science so that’s okay.
What’s the Smellumentary?
Stop showering. That’s pretty much it. For 30 days, Maxi Cane will cease all showering, brushing and gargling, and will test his immunity along with the patience of his loved ones. Brave. Very brave.
I’m curious… I have a feeling that there is a certain level of smelliness that the human body can excrete, given that eventually naturally cleansing enzymes kick in… but add to this the pong of over-used and under-washed clothing? The mind boggles.
“This got me thinking, could a person go for 30 days without washing or changing clothes and carry on in a normal way the way they usually would?
Would a person suffer any short or long term health effects of being a filth monger?
Would I get comfortable and break a lifelong habit of personal hygiene.
Think about that for a minute. None of us were born knowing that we had to wash or keep clean. How many times were you told by your parents to brush your teeth, take a bath and wash behind your ears? It’s a life long habit that people just don’t break. So would I have trouble adjusting to it? Would I adjust too easily and not want to go back to my clean ways?
Physical health problems in the short term are a given I suppose, but what about long term? Would there be any lasting psychological effects?”
Maxi has also made a wee video as a taster…
…and has even created the concept of Smellenges for us loyal supporters of the Greater Good. A smellenge is basically our idea of the foulest way Maxi can excarberate and flaunt his filth within reason. It’s a competition amongst bloggers and foul-thinkers alike, passed on in a meme sort of fashion. The winners of the best and most applicable ideas, win this:

Bonus!
The rules:
- Choose three activities that would antagonize Maxi’s aroma and get up people’s noses
- Make sure they’re at least a little physical
- Keep them relatively simple, safe and legal
- Link your answers back to Maxi Cane, obviously
- Give credit to the person who tagged you
- Tag three others
I got tagged right off the bat, but I had to think really hard because this stuff warrants some serious brain-cell burnout and now, here, finally are my smellenges.
1. Climb the Sugarloaf.
Yeah you heard me! You’ve no excuse now, matey. When you’ve finished, I smellenge you to walk in through the front doors of the Ritz Carlton, and let me know exactly how long it takes to wipe the staff’s faces of those stupid faux-friendly smiles that are bet into them by ‘Posh ‘r us’ recruitment or whoever the fuck it is. It’s annoying, and I want to see you break them down.
2. Flush a blunt object.
Be it an empty pill bottle, a comb, a net bag full of corks… whatever. I want you to play havoc with your sewer system. Then, when problems arise and people are pissed off about their bogs over-flowing, you save the day. Open up that sewer cover in plain view of the neighbours and unclog that baby, savouring the gush of fresh excrement as it’s freed from its tubular jail-cell. Then you need to go from door to door to canvas for your neighbour’s gratitude with a funky hand-shake. Now you’ll really know who your friends are.
3. Infiltrate your nearest Tesco’s ventilation system.
This shouldn’t be too hard… they manage to stinkify the front entrances with the smell of freshly baked bread somehow, so there must be a fan operating somewhere near the kitchen. Stand by that fan for as long as you possibly can (impersonate a health-inspector?) and fumigate that entrance. Tesco stinks. It’s about time somebody let them know.
Now, to nominate some Smellengers…
Grandad – HA! Sweet revenge.
Terence Mc Danger – While you’re in the meming mood…
Primal Sneeze – Ming it up.
PS. If you are interested and wish to support this concept, have a look at Maxi’s questionnaire. If you think this he is just looking for attention and this is all just the product of a bored man’s twisted imagination, visit it anyway and leave him nasty comments. He likes that too.

