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Caretaker

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  1. Yes, for exemplary 'sex ed' initiative.
  2. Everything happens before 9.00 am, except when it happens at 9.00 am.
  3. In my early drinking days here in Dublin I often drank bottled Guinness and a glass of Jameson together. "a bottle of Guinness and a small Jemmy, please"
  4. She is only being charged over sex with one of them who wasn't quite 18. Expect she'll say she thought he was 18 or he told her he was. I blame that guy in France, what's his name?
  5. Real money only works in Brazil.
  6. I played a kazoo a couple of times as a kid.
  7. Mr. Tayto recommends...........
  8. The artist I was talking to today got me thinking about the money I'll be getting when I'm 100. One of his ink sketches was a kind of life progression cartoon where the character starts with getting his nappy (diaper) changed and ends on his 100th birthday getting a cheque for €1500. I commented that it might be €2,000 by the time I get to collect mine. Just checked online and apparently he got it wrong, it's in fact €2,540. http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/social_welfare/social_welfare_payments/older_and_retired_people/centenarians_bounty.html Anyone else due for a payment?
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  10. Caretaker

    Tis

    On my cycle today met this guy selling his art on the pier. Asked him about 'Tis' and he said he was telling his wife that people would ask "is it dis or dat?" and she told him to just say 'Tis', pronounced Tiz. They are in ink on thick watercolour paper and he's selling small unframed ones for €15 (2 for €25). I didn't ask how much the large framed ones were. https://mytisart.tumblr.com/
  11. Anything about how yellower it got?
  12. I will probably finish it in about two weeks and doubt I will re-read it. The Vietnam War only featured remotely in my consciousness growing up. I remember a friend who was surprised in the 70s visiting UCLA or some other college at the number of guys in wheelchairs etc. till he realised it was the legacy of the war. Later another friend, a Marxist, took a sabbatical in the '80s to live for a year in 'post-colonial' Vietnam ended up marrying a local from the North, the daughter of a police chief, something he later regretted. She tried to take him to the cleaners but thanks to the common sense of a judge here she didn't quite succeed.
  13. Been reading film critic David Thomson's review in the London Review of Books. https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n18/david-thomson/merely-an-empire I'm still working my way through 'Hanoi's War'.
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