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I blame DM for the Blake Lively injury. But then I blame DM for many things.
My Dublin and Ireland jealousy is currently offset by my current loathing of travel, which should only I get worse before I return from the Bay Area later in December. Talk to me then about Ireland trips.
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If I had found Blake during my final Temple Bar crawl of the year, it wouldn't have been her hand that was wrecked. Okay, that came out wrong. I'm not really a fan of hers. I think the only film I've seen her in was Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants. I only know about this film because it's one of many 'female strong' projects that I've been tracking...for work, mind you.
Yesterday I intentionally got the DUB early via the convenient and cheap airport bus shuttle from St. Stephen's Green, to peruse shops there because I had to dash through last time and they looked interesting, but my ticket said the gate was closing 10 min after I got my boarding pass and the woman at the counter said 'You'd better get on then.' I did the OJ dash through the airport, suspecting that it was set early for Americans, but I was flagged for extra search - and ssss code appeared on my pass (suspicious, sketchy, scary & some other s word...sexy?). Got pulled aside for a full pat down and swabbing of everything. Took like 20 mins. Not as bad as Greg's TSA hell (you win that round, old friend - BON TOUCHE!) That was the worst search I've ever had beyond the time they found magazines when I was flying into Beijing and tore my luggage apart, spreading all my stuff across the floor, while some security officer looked at every single page of every issue. At least I got to keep my clothes on. Got through the pre-immigration okay tho, and like I had guessed, the actual gate hadn't even opened. I showed the whiskey sampler person from Teelings my cap and she treated me to a full flight of everything she was pouring, although I passed on the poteen cocktail and just drank that neat. Then I enjoyed my last Guinness, seated with a lovely SF-bound Irishman, who was delighted to extol the values of the black stuff with me. My flight went well - not packed full. Aer Lingus messed up on my food requests again. I sat next to a Scotsman that reminded me vaguely of PPFY doing his Scottish accent because his was very geniune and I kept hearing little lilts that PPFY and Scotty totally miss. He serves as a prison guard, 20+ years, so we had much to chat about, a charming friendly man, but bald, thick and tatted, definitely not the sort you'd want to cross.
Stacy drove me home via HWY1 and the sunset was magical. Such colors! And today, the Cruz is bright, sunny and clear today, I'm wearing sunglasses because it's so bright after the grey overcastness of Dublin. We went the Harbor cafe for breakfast and I mourned not having any salmon or brown bread, disparaged over the crappy coffee and butter, but thoroughly enjoyed the fruit cup, which was fresh and perfectly ripe - blackberries, strawberries, grapes, pomegranate seeds, a tiny slice of apple and some grapefruit wedges. There's some redemption in that.
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It's weirding me out that this was on snl while I was in Ireland.
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I think I'm offended. Even if it is was more of a documentary than a skit.
And they had a woman named Maeve.....
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Yeah, that was really dumb. I do luv Saoirse tho. I met her for Hannah, but it was a round table interview and she wasn't doing selfies. She bewitched me with those Irish ways - those eyes, that lilt. I'm sure she's tyred from every U.S. interviewer asking her about how to say her name.
Nevertheless having her host SNL & U2 perform that night while I was in Ireland was odd synchronicity.
The UK cough drops that miraculously healed me last week were Strepsils. I've looked them up now. They don't have any controlled substances for the U.S. but they aren't readily available here (I could order them online). I still have a little chest congestion, a sticky bit in my left lung, a common hangover that I get from being sick (like I always say 'death will come to me from my left side'). Tomorrow, my Shaolin master is coming through San Jose, so I'll be chauffeuring him about (as if there's any touristy things to see in San Jose) and will join his seminar, where I'll surely get a Shaolin arse-kicking. Gonna be a long haul.
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Ass kickings aren't real unless there is video of it.
And I mean good video. Not that portrait orientation cel-phone crap.
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Re the SNL Skit -- could I have those flight attendants and all the dogs on all of my flights? Please? I don't care how long they're delayed if I've got dogs. And potatoes with my potatoes would be fine, thanks.
Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.
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I can barely walk. So sore.
I'd be happy in Aer Lingus had half of that leg room.
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Name(s):
Columba, Saint, 521-597
Jones, Henry, 1605-1682
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Manuscripts & Archives Research Library, Trinity College Dublin
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A little light reading for a Saturday?
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I just look at the pictures.
Isn’t today Sunday?
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My new word or Irish slang for the day is melt. It means Vagina or Pussy.
Usage: "Those weak lads are a bunch of fuckin' melts"
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(03-25-2019, 09:07 AM)Greg Wrote: My new word or Irish slang for the day is melt. It means Vagina or Pussy.
Usage: "Those weak lads are a bunch of fuckin' melts"
I can make use of that slang. Would that be cultural appropriation?
(03-25-2019, 09:11 AM)Greg Wrote: In some instances it is called hot-dipped. But that's not the word I seek. It begins with a C. The word that usually comes up in it's place is corrugated. But that is definitely not the right word. um, yeah.
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What the hell? Are you having forum displacement again?
Nope. Using Irish slang is cool. Especially when I want to call people melts.
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Do you know how that slang evolved? Just curious.
Kinda messes with one of my fav fast food franchises tho: the melt
(03-25-2019, 09:34 AM)Greg Wrote: What the hell? Are you having forum displacement again?
Lately, I've been in a continual state of displacement. 
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