The new Noddy and Big Ears Wheels
Budget Car Rentals gave us Noddy’s own vehicle from the live action movie.
The Chevy HHR, the answer to a question no-one was asking.
All we need is a few tommy guns and fedoras and we’ll be sorted the next time we want to smuggle hooch.
[tags]Chevy HHR[/tags]
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Friday, June 2, 2006
Return to the Holy Land
The Grotto of Geeky Goodness remains the same after 7 long years.
[tags]Frys, San Jose[/tags]
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Friday, June 2, 2006
The Good Things Cafe - The 2 Day Kitchen Miracle Programme
I spent last weekend on a fabulous 2-day cookery course down in deep West Cork in The Good Things Cafe in Durrus. I honestly won’t be able to come up with enough superlatives to describe the fantastic programme that Carmel Somers put together. It is now Tuesday and I’m still buzzed and still full.
It’s not too bad a drive from Bandon - about an hour on the crappy but scenic Dunmanway Road.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Thursday, May 25, 2006
Meet your individual seeking
Oscar the little sod broke the hinge on his DS again. Definitely a design flaw. The guy who provided the last replacement case no longer ships out of the US.
Luckily some knock-off merchants on e-bay are selling clone cases in a variety of colours. Got a replacement funky dark grey one for him for £8.88 incl postage from Hong Kong. Not only is their Englsih a joy to read, check out their spelling on Nintendo.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Thursday, May 25, 2006
Barbecue is a noun
I could be a cynical smartass and say that the people in this movie look a little too close to Christopher Guest’s character in “Best in Show” but it really looks like a wonderful movie about people who are passionate about Barbeque/Barbecue.
The horror that we perform in Ireland is what they call grilling (or more accurately “incineration”). What these guys do takes hours and hours and hours. I’ve eaten the result in Texas - they should have Michelin stars.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Wednesday, May 24, 2006
Sing along now Oj,da da da da da da
Technology in the wrong hands is dangerous. I just turned on the “Sing Along” feature on the Sky+ Box for the Croatian Eurovision entry. The first translation was “the grass has not yet sprouted”. I’m guessing their entry came from the Croatian version of Teagasc.
But my favourite was when they translated “Oj, da da da da da da” to……wait for it……. “Oy, da da da da da da”.
Brian has just been on and sadly had the same attack of sciatica that laid him so low in the semi-finals.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Saturday, May 20, 2006
Gosh those Germans do take their Eurovision seriously
I just did a Technorati search on Eurovision and most of the recent posts are in German.
One poor lad was so excited he was counting down the minutes: “Noch 20 Minuten bis zum Start des Halbfinales”.
Go Scorpions!
Pot, kettle.
[tags]Eurovision, Scorpions, Hasselhoff[/tags]
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Thursday, May 18, 2006
Albania to Win!
Any country brave enough to have a hobbit and a garden gnome as their backing singers deserves to win.
To be fair to Daniel O’Donnell Brian Kennedy, he did allow his grandad to be one of his backing singers. His song “Bacardi and Coke please Mafanwy” really pulled at the heartstrings like a bad case of angina.
The best aspect of his performance was that he decided to keep his thighs covered, a decision I wish many of the other performers had also made.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Thursday, May 18, 2006
Spoofer of the year award
Just spotted this over at Alex Barnett’s blog. His Dad sent him a link to some video footage. I have tears rolling down my face.
See link below for a glorious, hilarious mess-up by the BBC. A producer rushed to the reception area and mistakenly took a mini-cab driver to be a interviewed live on BBC 24 news as an “expert” on the internet about the Apple case. There is a video link - see the hilarious expression at the beginning on the cabbies face when he realizes it was a case of mistaken ID - he then bluffs his way brilliantly through the interview.
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Sunday, May 14, 2006
Knight Industries Two Thousand is back
It had to happen - they are making a new Knight Rider movie. I’m gutted to read that neither Hasselhoff nor the TransAm will feature. There are some fantastic suggestions over at Jalopnik for their replacements. My two faves are:
[1 ] Jeremy Clarkson and a Ford GT40
[2] Brokeback Knightrider with Jake Gyllenhaal as Michael Knight and Heath Ledger as the voice of the car.
[tags]Knight Rider, Jalopnik[/tags]
Posted by Conor O'Neill on Saturday, May 13, 2006