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Cor gummy that was certainly a memorable 5000 post. Congrats

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Gummy, 5000, nostalgia in action, 5000 seems so long ago now.

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I enjoyed that video Gummy, great the way the chap in the wheelchair makes the best of his situation, good sport as they say.
“The Auld Triangle” was featured in Behan’s play “The Quare Fella”, set in Mountjoy Prison just down the road from me, the Royal canal flows by it and many’s the swim I had there as a boy. The play was based on the true story of a young man about to be hanged for murder, there was a Rank film made of it back in the 1950’s.
Behan was loved in his native Dublin, but the drink got the better of him in the end and he’d end up being thrown out of pubs in the city, he was a very generous fella and fame didn’t sit well with him, he loved nothing more than the company of the ordinary drinking classes, his people as he called them, pity he was only 41 when he died, but he’s not missing much, there are not many ‘Characters’ in todays smoke free and almost people free plastic pubs.

A couple of his Quotes.

The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.

I am a drinker with writing problems.

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

I’m inclined to believe the last quote, when a woman actually listens to a man he’s taken aback, she must be an angel from heaven so it’s very possible he will fall head over heels for her.

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surely there are only two true and tested reasons

1. how big is his bank balance
2. how big is his pecka dillo??

any man who thinks its his charisma is doomed! right spittie??

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Depends, if Charisma has a "Used by Date" life.

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well mine's still goinn 50 yrs on - why only this morn I said to my wife "darling can you please pass me the "charisma" you know how I love to sprinkle it on me cornflakes" - 'certainly dear she said I do love the way it makes you all 'corny' oops sorry 'horny'!!

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Try some "Frosties" they're Grrrrrrrrrreat.

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Thinking of characters, for a multitude of reasons society does not seem to allow or want them anymore.

Dublin also had Thomas Dudley better known as Bang Bang. For years Bang Bang had been one of the best known characters on the streets of Dublin. He was born in 1906, a birth year he shared with his great hero, John Wayne. He would descend on bus and tram passengers in Dublin, point a large brass church door key, his “Colt .45” at them and shout “bang bang” in the style of the cowboy films.

You would have a job explaining the innocence of this to following generation that we as kids did exactly the same after watching a western at the flea pit

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Apropos of absolutely nowt....I've just been watching a Tim Vine DVD.

Whether one is an admirer or not,one has to admit-that man REALLY can bang out the one-liners...and most of them are amusing,original-and daft.

All-in-all,an hour most pleasantly spent. 'Espresso & chuckles'.
[makes a most welcome change from the abominable "Netflix & Chill"]

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Tim Vine always reminds me of Tommy Cooper who was a comic genius at delivering the daft obvious. Like TC Tim Vine makes telling those one liners look easy. He is also a rare clean comic. Simple, effective and so nice to have a bit of silliness .