11-02-2016, 07:10 PM
421
Re: Gumbud Leisurely Scribbles (part 4)
I have to tell you this, it’s the first joke I ever heard outside the home, it was in the schoolyard and I was 7 years old, as you’d expect it’s a corny schoolboys joke told to me by another shy boy I had never met before that day in the yard, we became lifelong friends, he died in 2010 God rest him. It made me laugh back then and I’ll never forget it for it showed me that by using humour you can make friends with almost anyone, and that’s not a bad idea when your starting off in life. And the lesson lyeth therein, amen.
A Boy piddling at a wall is tipped on the shoulder by a policeman.
“Hey there laddie, don’t you know that’s against the law?”
“No it’s not Sir, it’s against the wall”
Oh the pure simple logic of the very young.
11-02-2016, 07:17 PM
422
Re: Gumbud Leisurely Scribbles (part 4)
A hair raising and unusual problem for your good lady Jem and there could be an answer. Goosebumps from cold or fear are the result of hair follicles contracting, causing the hair and surrounding skin to tighten up.Now I am not suggesting in any way that you would do anything to cause either her being cold or frightened..I will leave you to merely ponder on it.
11-02-2016, 10:57 PM
423
Re: Gumbud Leisurely Scribbles (part 4)
Sometimes I ponder so far out Solo that I can’t find me way back, one of these days I’ll ponder meself into the next life without even realising it, but oh what a lovely way to go.
You might have something there though, she feels the cold a lot more than I would and even now with the fire lighting she has a heavy jumper on while I'm sitting here in a teeshirt and jeans. She has always been on the scary side with certain things, like dentists and doctors, heavy thunder storms and especially lightning, but with other things she has no fear whatsoever, for instance she can’t swim but has no fear of water and would often go out to sea with me up to her neck, loved going out in a boat on the lakes when we used to go to Killarney, she enjoys horror films too. Sometimes she has very vidid dreams (never nightmares) and always insists I hear them out which I always patiently do and they can take a while because she recalls every detail.
She’s 70 now and I swear to God she hasn’t got one grey hair in her auburn hair, freaky eh? (I was going to say on her auburn head but her head is not auburn it’s a sort of pinkish cream) I tell her that’s because her husband never gave her anything to worry about, she says it’s because she never dyed it, all her sisters did and they went grey over the years, so that’s the hair gospel according to her.
11-02-2016, 11:32 PM
424
Re: Gumbud Leisurely Scribbles (part 4)
This new discovery has given me a new idea to utilise the gravitational waves.Drop a stone in a pool of water and the ripples begin to travel outwards in every direction, we all know that. Einstein said that space is like a huge pool so here’s my idea for future space travel.
First you have to fill up the fuel tanks with rocks instead of rocket fuel, when to get out of the Earths pull and into open space you drop one of the rocks in the pool (space), the ripple starts and carries you millions of miles into space, when you start to slow down you fling another rock in and your on a new faster ripple and so on until you reach where you want to go, when you want to return you just turn around and repeat the procedure. The chap in charge of the rock pile has a very important job, indeed a vital job so he carries the prestige title “Ugan mucka dile” which means “Caster of rocks” in the language of that ancient African Tribe the Gunktacca who lived in carved out rocks until the Belgium gold miners arrived and evicted the lot of them.
12-02-2016, 01:35 AM
426
Re: Gumbud Leisurely Scribbles (part 4)
Originally Posted by Jem
->
Sometimes I ponder so far out Solo that I can’t find me way back, one of these days I’ll ponder meself into the next life without even realising it, but oh what a lovely way to go.You might have something there though, she feels the cold a lot more than I would and even now with the fire lighting she has a heavy jumper on while I'm sitting here in a teeshirt and jeans. She has always been on the scary side with certain things, like dentists and doctors, heavy thunder storms and especially lightning, but with other things she has no fear whatsoever, for instance she can’t swim but has no fear of water and would often go out to sea with me up to her neck, loved going out in a boat on the lakes when we used to go to Killarney, she enjoys horror films too. Sometimes she has very vidid dreams (never nightmares) and always insists I hear them out which I always patiently do and they can take a while because she recalls every detail.
She’s 70 now and I swear to God she hasn’t got one grey hair in her auburn hair, freaky eh? (I was going to say on her auburn head but her head is not auburn it’s a sort of pinkish cream) I tell her that’s because her husband never gave her anything to worry about, she says it’s because she never dyed it, all her sisters did and they went grey over the years, so that’s the hair gospel according to her.
I strolled through Old Dublin yesterday:
first the grand Casino Marino - not for gambling
then to the Hidden Jewish Cemetery - the oldest in the known universe!
and then: ballybough and the suicide burials!!!
then went to observe the still bullet holes in the GPO pillars then down Middle Abbey street - oh what history and capel street and into the Supafast - what a blast!!!!!!!
and then across grattan bridge to temple bar
the poterhouse - god this walk is getting tiring - Olympia - my vision is fading St patricks park and then the oldest library in Ireland - finally a visit to Vintage Vinnies on to Merrion Square and a quick nod to Oscar Wilde oh and Dr Sketchys whoever he was!!!
must dash and catch a plane with the Urban Cities team!!!!!!!!!!
12-02-2016, 11:08 AM
429
Re: Gumbud Leisurely Scribbles (part 4)
Well God loves a trier Emjay, back to the drawing board.Dublin is a very historical City alright Gumbud, but like everywhere else you don’t appreciate it when you’ve lived there all your life, still I love dear old dirty Dublin and the people here. I used to eat a packed lunch in St. Patricks Park when I worked across the road in the Assay Office in Dublin Castle, I’d be sitting on the iron bench eating me lunch and thinking about Dean Swift writing Gulliver’s Travels and his fancy woman Stella. Swift once said that in order to relieve the starving poor of Dublin they should eat their own babies “God knows they produce enough of them” What a nice old bastard he was.
I read a bit about the man, it's said that he was attending a dinner in his honour at the Castle, he was deep in thought after his fine dinner when a lady asked him from across the table “A penny for your thoughts Dean?” “They are not worth a farthing dear lady, I was thinking of you” yes a lovely man indeed.
12-02-2016, 12:14 PM
430
Re: Gumbud Leisurely Scribbles (part 4)
Originally Posted by Jem
->
This new discovery has given me a new idea to utilise the gravitational waves.Drop a stone in a pool of water and the ripples begin to travel outwards in every direction, we all know that. Einstein said that space is like a huge pool so here’s my idea for future space travel.
First you have to fill up the fuel tanks with rocks instead of rocket fuel, when to get out of the Earths pull and into open space you drop one of the rocks in the pool (space), the ripple starts and carries you millions of miles into space, when you start to slow down you fling another rock in and your on a new faster ripple and so on until you reach where you want to go, when you want to return you just turn around and repeat the procedure. The chap in charge of the rock pile has a very important job, indeed a vital job so he carries the prestige title “Ugan mucka dile” which means “Caster of rocks” in the language of that ancient African Tribe the Gunktacca who lived in carved out rocks until the Belgium gold miners arrived and evicted the lot of them.
|
|
