Things I learned this weekend

Lyrics to pop songs.
Whilst belting out a few to the karaoke machine at the weekend, I realised that most songs(pop & crooning tunes) have brutallic lyrics and weren't what you thought the song was about all. Mac the Knife being an offender.

Rugby has restored our faith in Irish Sport.
Something soccer has failed to do in the last 10+ years.

Ten bottles of Bulmers light, six vodkas, two westcoast coolers and one shot does not have as strong an effect as two bottles of white wine does.

High five

I was listening to Tony Fenton’s Stevie Wonder special on Today FM last night and it made me think about my top 5 songs in the closing credits of movies. Here goes.

High Fidelity; Stevie Wonders - I believe when I fall in love
Working Girl; Carly Simon – Let the river run
Down and out in Beverly Hills ; Talking Head – Once in a lifetime
Money Pit ; Stephen Bishop – The heart is so willing
Tootsie ; Stephen Bishop - It might be you

And I think Paint it black by the Rolling Stones is in the closing of the Devil’s Advocate but I’m not sure. I wanted to compile a list of opening credits, but only came up with the overture of West Side Story and "Summer in the city" in one of the Die Hard movies. The category of top 5 soundtracks is too wide open therefore too controversial to name....unless you think you are up for the challenge.

Do you suys know Stacey's Mom?

It rained the first night we got to Honolulu, I say rained, the sky spat a few times, so knacker drinking was hit on the head. So we made it our mission to find the obligatory Irish bar. Eventually after being told by a cop when asking for directions that us mockers wouldn’t get in anywhere we found Kelley O’Neil’s, yes its Kelley with an e. Now I’d say it was no more Irish then the man on the moon, it was more like a playpen for the military. So there was lots of ‘yeh man’, high fives and ‘do you guys party?’ thrown out there for a laugh. We met few good men, few good men, geddit? The rest had unfortunately left their brains in Iraq. Think the first two nights we were in bed by 6pm. Rockstars. Now I don’t know how she did it but Lynners caught the flu. Full on Flu; 104 degrees temperature, achy bones, $150 on meds the works. But it wasn’t all bad it gave me an excuse to catch up on the oul day time TV. Highlights were two movies watched by 11am each morning and the Ellen Degeneres show was good too, Tyra (I’m one of you guys) Banks is not so good. Oh and I also saw the first episode of the next series of Nip/Tuck. It wasn’t worth rushing thru dinner and walking a Maui highway in the pitch black lets put it that way. I get the impression people don’t walk anywhere in Hawaii. Some of them eat a lot and some of them don’t. I saw for the first time, a pair of size 00 Jeans, we’re talking Nicole Richie proportions.

Anyway, Hawaii, sites etc, Oahu the island where Honolulu and Waikiki is just beautiful, we visited the sites and beached where Lost was shot. Lost is shot in a carpark, literally. Then we went to Maui- much more chilled out then Waikiki and a lot lot less Japanese. Again daytime TV was called for so we didn’t see too much of the island, we did see Wailea when we went to a Luau. It’s where all the rich folk like Cher and Prince have gafs, I mean palaces. They are not really big drinkers in Maui, so back to Waikiki we went. Sinead and Lynne learned how to surf- fair dues to them- I managed to make some excuse about my contact lenses getting infected, but basically I was just scared. On the way back via Newark we stopped off and went to the Jersey Gardens which is just the most ginormous mall I have ever seen, knackers galore, we hooked up with Lynnes sister who was parading her new coconuts and grass skirt with pride.

What have I been up to since then? Stuff and Stuff. The Ryder Cup at the K Club was done, Little Britain twice was done ; Ha-Larious, a hen, a weekend in the Westin- oh yes we lived it up large till we brought break for the border into the mix, the Special Ones sis got married to the Mad Mal, twas a great wedding in Waterford Castle. Now it’s nearly Christmas, kicked it off already by having a Mulled Wine night last night- v cosy.

My sis got engaged to Paddy after 10 years which was actually a shock. She’s legging it off to get married, no guests, nothing, that was news to Dad!

TV of late…….. I can take it or leave it except for Corrie and Home and Away- Grey’s Anatomy would want to start picking up speed. Elsewhere in the land of make believe, Britney dumped K-Fed, good for you love, what wasn’t so good was parading needlessly onto Letterman for all of one minute flaunting your new look, that’s just tacky love.

A blog is for life not just for Christmas

I know I know. I'm compiling my thoughts.

Welcome back kids

So its back to school time, even had to share my seat on the bus for the first time in three months, the inconvenience of it all…..

Its been a fun summer, was in Prague at a wedding, stunning city, Tullamore for a hens party, Galway for my cousin’s 30th birthday, Ennis for the Special Ones family reunion, another wedding and a scoping trip out in Skerries last weekend, oh and Billy Joel- go on ye good thing!

I haven’t been one for the movies lately, I’m too preoccupied watching Will and Grace reruns coming up to the final ever episode next week. I am going to make my new hobby watching Grey’s Anatomy. Last night was the first episode of the second series, the one with the pole shot through the man and woman? Heartbreaking stuff. Although I feel Dr Grey might be a cross between Renee Zelllwegger with a hint of Ally McBeal, so we’ll see how that one pans out, must watch the first series of Grey’s Anatomy before I dive into my new hobby. Other TV highlights of the Summer, BB7 until the last week, I thought that if it had gone on for a further week the result would have been different. Love Island was addictive. Sophie Anderton, nuff said. I liked Chris Brosnan the most, he never took it too seriously and was funny and fair….. but Sophie Anderton, seriously sort yourself out love. Most ironic quote of the series; Sophie about Lee “I used to be just like him that at that age, I used to be an attention seeker just like him when I was 22,23”. I miss her.

It could be a much longer blog, but to be honest I can’t remember the ins and outs. One highlight was the day before the wedding in Prague, the Special One had upgraded us to Club Level- ie bigger rooms withfree drink and food. So at 12 that day we and Phil and Bresser laid into it with full intention of going swimming at 1pm, 1 turned into 6pm. Swimming wasn’t really what we ended up doing, it was more bellyflops, diving into the plungepool- the beer jacket was on so we didn’t notice the ice cold water and then getting kicked out of the men’s sauna, twice.

The midweek drinking has been put on hold due to a semi official warning in work, so if anyone has any Flannery's stories please send them to thosewerethedays@me.com

So what am I at this weekend? I’m going knacker drinking on Waikiki with Shinners and Lynners , smell yis after.

Take the test

So this week I rekindled a forgotten love...... Chocolate Polo biscuits. So yum that I sometimes don't have the patience for the kettle to boil for a cupotae to accompany them. So then, sans tea, roughly, a half a minute- a minute later I do get that uncomfortable couch/choking sensation. Every time. You know that feeling of something stuck in your throat about after an hour of chewing your nails? The same feeling arises from eating the Chocolate Polo's. So if you get bored and hungry over the next week, take the test - can you polish off a Polo?

So Italy won the World Cup.

Who really had money on them to win and I'm not talking office sweepstakes here.

But the real story of the Word Cup final was not the result....What a sorry sight to see the captain of a World Cup finalists team being sent off, a man with so much to lose. As it turns out it did cost France the game. What possesses a man to ram the opposition in an attack similar to that of an angry bull? Now Materazzi is not known for his angelic reputation, he was holding Zidane back by his t-shirt and possibly his nipple, during the throw in which sparked off the headbutting incident. He then looked to pass some snide remarks to Zidane which must have been scraped from the bottom of the barrel judging by the reaction he got. It was a half a minute or a minute before this offence was flagged. The ref certainly didn’t see it, and it seems very unlikely that the linesmen, those that were awake, saw it. I do agree it is a red card offence but this was practically a retrospective red card.

In an alternative universe France won the World Cup on peno’s, Zidane ended his career on a high and had the respect of his teammates and soccer fans worldwide.