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Tired today, someone was cooking last night. The smell, woke me up I kept drinking cola, which I don't like doing. I like the taste just fine but I have been trying to avoid it, on behalf of my teeth, and gullet. I am looking forward to tomorrow, I start a long weekend, and I get paid

Well done Lexie

Well done, and good luck

Perks of the job

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Playboy 1953 edition. The microfilm starts with a picture of lovely Ms Monroe. The pictures are very tame. The early editions don’t even have a girl on every cover. The college edition is of a drawing of a typical bobby soxer, off to the soda fountain. Beyond that the magazine works hard to promote its brand. Yes the request was anoymous

To do list April 29th 2010

Fix my work glasses Re read the last chapter of `` If the Irish ruled the world’’ Than scour it for notes Book holiday to the USA, in September Book appointment at Opticians Buy new scrapbooks Finish chapter of ``Sleeping under’’
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Is this Anti Cylon propaganda, or is a campaign to get people to eat breakfast? Perhaps the start of a campaign to get people to watch a Talkie Toaster sitcom?

Éirí Amach na Cásca

Who fears to speak of Easter week?

Sa lá atá inniu i Stair

ath Chluain Tarbh

Alice Mills Barbados

``In 1693 the council of Barbados, paid one Alice Mills, ten Guineas for castrating 42 rebellious African slaves . The ghoulish rationality of this exercise in pre-decimal currency, was 2 shillings, sixpence per testicle'' Shilling about 5 pennies was a days wages. From ``if the Irish ran the world'' http://www.amazon.co.uk/Irish-Ran-World-Montserrat-1630-1730/dp/0853239622

A Stucklegruber famous Dook fan

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The desk didn’t come out well in the picture The Tank is driven by Valya’s Grandad There are no Swastika’s so Meike can see this    

Truly Disgusting

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I work in a library, and I am supposed to be impartial. We have a copy of Mien Kampf, and I don’t question the people, who order it. I have to hand out pornography. We have copies of Playboy. I have to keep a straight face, if a reader orders ``the history of shit’’ or ``C*nt’’ Its not my place to judge Than someone orders this. There were children in the building. I was disgusted. Hideous

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday Lucia Many Happy returns

I am hungover

I watched Glee

Whip it

(NB. this was written before Page transitioned) I went out with a girl, because of Ellen Page, I think I moped over her for a year.  Ellen is the Girl I wish I’d have met when I was 16 Oh God, she is pretty! Its a curious mesh of a story. Ellen, plays a girl pressured by her mother to enter beauty contests, chooses to play Roller Derby in Austin.( Austin, is a college town, btw, its probably the most liberal metropolis in all of the fair state of Texas The strictness of alcohol laws in Texas, is shown. The secondary lead is busted for an open container. The Fire marshal one of the figures of distant menace from my College days shuts down the roller derby One of the girls, looks like a much older version of my very pretty friend Kata http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristen_Wiig Hello Eve! I remember you from Glee. Her and Drew Barrymore, and Julliette Lewis, all have fun in their roles. Lewis playing Iron Maiven. Barrymore as Smashly Simpson. The film loves its puns There is a great
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A very misleading cover design! I saw this and I thought of Ab fab, and then I thought of my friend Granniog I learned a new word Prolix http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/prolix

A postcard from Kata

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A postcard from my very clever friend Kata. Who despite being in Levoca, took the time to write to me Thank you, to you and Larry!

Eyjafjallajökull

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The girls will break your heart too! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyjafjallajökull (Just teasing if your reading this in Akranes) In other news Irish Ferries had there best ever day, so every cloud!

A gift from my mother

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She still buys me action figures!!!! My Mother was in New York, with two of my Sisters. They had a lovely time, and returned safely and bought me this gift.

Happy Birthday Regina

A very happy birthday to you!

Song for the day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8BWBn26bX0 I haven’t heard this in ages. It was a favourite of my younger brother. He claimed if he made it in wrestling it would be his entry song Listening to it, again. I am amused that the boy in question is called Dexter… ``Da na na na  da na…’’ For Chris, check out the 1.40-155 seconds into the video

Discarded wisdom

I found this, written on a piece of scrap paper. It was on an empty shelf, next to a set of books published in the early 1990s. It was written in Green felt tip! ( A professional no no. They should not have been let into the reading areas with that ) ``Concerning the factors of silence, solitude and darkness, we can only say that they are actually elements in the production of the infantile anxiety from which the majority of human beings have never become quite free’’ Freud It made me stop and think

Hearts of Iron

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vW3NTvC3gk I am not really one for playing computer games. I guess I missed out. I was the last kid in my class to get a computer, or video game system.  I play them sporadically. I am a burst gamer perhaps. I have a DS. Which has been a lot of places, I mean to play it on the plane and never do Aside from Microsoft chess, which I am hooked on. I don’t play computer games. I had heard good reviews of this game, on my history list Its a strategy game. You pick a country, and you fight world war two. Your in charge of production, intelligence and diplomacy, and research. Its a strategy game. It takes a looooongggg time, for things to get moving. The game is historical but allows some freedom. For example you can research nuclear weapons. You research computers up till 2007 levels. The game also uses politico’s randomly. Kevin O’Higgins survives the civil war, and the Liberals are the biggest party in Leinster house!

No there Artistic !

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As the day closed at work. I was putting away the items we had for used for despatch. As its no secret that I am single, you can imagine why my eye was drawn to the magazine! Actually its a periodical. A Spanish periodical and its full of well written and learned articles about Modern Art, and such. I wonder though if it would find a wider niche. People who want to look ribald, whilst really enjoying a discourse about the influence of post colonialism on the Argentine Advant Garde. If you were stuck on a very dull stag party perhaps. A more obvious example springs to mind involving a metaphor for household furniture Typing this here, I remember that in my early teens, I once ventured to the library. It was closed on Monday, and I spent the day at a large newsagents, and wondering around the shop. I discovered that they were selling French and German magazines. These must have been the European versions of the Sun, or the Sport. I read them from cover to cover, well I looked at

Pictish

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/pictish-symbols-represent-ancient-written-scottish-language-1938321.html Pictish symbols represent ancient written Scottish language By Owen Jarus Wednesday, 7 April 2010 SHARE PRINT EMAIL TEXT SIZE NORMAL LARGE EXTRA LARGE REBECCA THOMPSON Engraved Pictish stone on display at the National Museum of Scotland ENLARGE New research has shown that the symbols used by the ancient Picts, who lived in Scotland from AD 300-843, were an actual written language, rather than just symbology. What historians know of the Picts has so far been gleaned from the artefacts they left behind and via the writings of the people whom they had contact with, such as the Romans. But if the meaning of inscribed patterns and symbols on Pictish stones and slabs can be deciphered, the potential to learn more about ancient Scotland could be immense. There are only a few hundred surviving Pictish stones and slabs. S

Alas Irina

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On Friday my computer Irina, blew her motherboard She served me, well from the Rhine to the Atlantic Now in Silicon heaven

Song for the day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ujzp9ffPwPM Someone told me, this made them think of me…