Please don't spam the Irish Blog Awards
It looks like fans of certain blogs (and I hope I’m not one of them) are nominating those blogs in every category. Please don’t as it just makes Damien’s life a lot harder.
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Posted by Conor O'Neill on Wednesday, January 24, 2007
More in the long list of OisÃn gems
Yes I know it’s just another “kids say the funniest things” post but this wee 5-year old thinks deeper than most.
Never promise a bed-time story and then renege: “Dad when I grow up, I’m going to get married like you, and have babies like you, and forget things like you”
Recent obsession with death: “Dad, when we all die, does that mean someone else might live in our house?”. “Yes they will Ois”.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Friday, January 19, 2007
It's a pity my granny isn't around for the Irish Blog Awards
My Dad kindly voted for this blog in several categories in the Blog Awards earlier. He mailed me to say that it reminded him of my Granny (Mary O’Neill) who voted for Dev eight times in the 1932 elections on both sides of the bridge in New Ross. Could you imagine if those old Cumann na mBan women were around now and decided to help the blog result?
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Posted by Conor O'Neill on Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Irish Blog Awards open for Nominations
I’m gutted, no “Best Vasectomy Blog”!
Head on over and vote for all your faves. And as you ponder your choice for Best Personal Blog or Best Specialist Blog, you might think of Bandon……..
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Posted by Conor O'Neill on Friday, January 12, 2007
Your Sinclair Rock n Roll Years 1987 is out!
As with all the previous episodes, this one is a zinger even if you were a C64 or (god forbid) Dragon user. I had stopped my involvement with home computers by 1987, what with being in college and discovering drink instead. So I found it particularly interesting that they mention a game called “Head Over Heels” which was considered by many to be the greatest example of its genre ever created.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Saturday, January 6, 2007
Thank You Dave
We discovered over Christmas that you can in fact put 5 children, 2 adults and all their stuff in a Zafira+Roofbox and go from Cork to Kilkenny to Cavan to Cork. Hurrah.
On our trip back from Cavan on the joke’s of national routes known as the N55 and N62, we got to Roscrea and Oscar decided to puke. We caught most of it in a nappy bag and then I dropped the bag as I exited it from the car.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Saturday, January 6, 2007
You may feel a small prick
I’ve recently been getting lots of contraceptive advice from men my age. It seems the only logical route is vasectomy. One of my best advisors had his done quite a while back with no adverse effects. There is only one guy in Cork who does it, Dr Pillay on Patrick St and he highly recommended him. He also (quietly) mentioned that performance would not be affected and I wouldn’t be shooting blanks for the first thirty.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Friday, January 5, 2007
Curses - Tagged
So Haydn tagged me. Five things you don’t know about me eh? Apart from my Spaghetti Hoop fetish?
1. I was Junior Irish Archery Champion in 1980. Not as impressive as it sounds. Three of us in the competition and other two were beginners. Never improved after that and gave up in mid-teens. Turns out not everyone else saw a blob of colours down the end of the field and I later found out I was short-sighted.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Wednesday, January 3, 2007
Interested in helping us test LouderVoice?
Those of you who know me well also know that I’ve spent the past few months working hard on building a new web-site called LouderVoice. We’re coming close to launching the site properly (probably in late January or early February) but before we do we would really like to have some people help us try out the site and tell us what they think.
The plan at the moment is that we’ll be inviting a very small number of people we know into the Beta1 phase in the next few days.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Tuesday, December 19, 2006
There goes another icon of my yoof
Joe Barbera has died aged 95. I wonder how many re-runs he saw over the years? That man is responsible for a huge number of my favourite TV memories from childhood (and now with Boomerang, as an immature adult):
Tom and Jerry The Flintstones Scooby Doo The Huckleberry Hound Show The Yogi Bear Show Quick Draw McGraw Top Cat Wacky Races Banana Splits And not forgetting the greatest cartoon ever, Hong Kong Phooey!
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Tuesday, December 19, 2006