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That's fighting talk
Posted Jul 4, 2015
The blood is up in me now. The hackles are roused. The pike will be coming out of the thatch. There'll be whigs on the green.
I just heard a free-stater telling a group of American tourists that the beer is better in County Louth than in County Down. 
That is a lot of rubbish up with which I will not put.
I hereby challenge any Louth man, who wishes to defend this notion, to a twelve-round bare-knuckle bout on neutral ground - the boundary line in Carlingford Lough. Then we'll see if you really can walk on water. 
[All of the above should be taken with a large dose of 
. I have been reading rather a lot of Myles na gCopaleen of late and I think the boundaries are blurring.]
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Learning
Posted Jul 1, 2015
I met a very interesting bloke last week. And a couple of times this week, too. A fascinating man in a number of ways. He's one of those people with a turn of phrase that brings a smile to your face, and he has an amazing knowledge of trees and woodlands as habitats. The only thing is, I think I will have to give him a wee bit of education. In one of our finest local hostelries, with one of the widest ranges of lagers and ales you will find in town, his first call was a pint of Budweiser. 
But he's already opened my eyes a bit. Learning is a two-way street, like so much else in life. I think I've opened his, too.
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What's the best way to clean coffee off a keyboard?
Posted Jul 1, 2015
Boss was sitting next to me on the phone, trying to book an appointment for a cut and blow-dry.
Well, I *think* it was blow-dry she meant to say, but something else came out. 
What a nuthouse I work in.
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Beer Quest
Posted Jun 28, 2015
I've decided that, to complement Coffee Quest, Beer Quest will start tomorrow. 
Well, you need *something* to perk you up on a Monday!
I might even push the boat out and have a nice wee pub lunch instead of my usual sammiches/pasta salad.
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Yumpitty tum-tum, yumpirty tum...
Posted Jun 27, 2015
Yumpitty tum-tum, yumpitty tum,
Yumpitty tum, pah-rumpitty pum.
Yumpitty tum-tum, yumpitty dum,
Yumpitty pum, pah-rum-ba-dum-dum.
'lero, 'lero lullibulero,
'lullibalero, lullabaloo,
Yum-PUM pitty pum-pum-pum
YUM-pitty pum-pum-pum
Tiddle-y PUM pah-rumpitty-TUM!
Thank God for Jonathan Swift. If it wasn't for people like him, I would feel like a stranger.
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