Archive for June 25th, 2007
Don Baker Pranked on Naked Camera
One of the best pranks from RTE’s hidden camera series Naked Camera. Musician Don Baker hires a taxi, which is driven by the very funny PJ Gallagher.
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Bee Flynn for Taoiseach in 2012!
Let me be the first to campaign for Beverly Flynn as Taoiseach in 2012. Three years ago Bertie Ahern said that Fianna Fáil was at a cross-roads, and that the integrity of the party depended on Flynn’s expulsion. Now that Bee is back, she surely ticks all of the boxes to be the next Fianna Fáil leader: >>> (more…)
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Prank Letter to Minister for Health
Here’s a prank letter I posted to then Health Minister Michaeál Martin a few years ago. Another Minister, Joe Jacob, did an interview on RTE about possible terrorist attacks on Sellafield, and he flustered his way into making up a commitment to send iodine tablets to every house in the State. The tablets were of course useless, but they gave me the opportunity for this prank letter: >>> (more…)
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Monday Quiz 1 - Sexy Legs and Summer Madness
On this week last year (June 25 to July 1, 2006):
- What bad news was the Admiral Brown Society of Foxford in Mayo upset about? (Admiral Brown was the Mayoman who founded the Argentine Navy.)
- Why did a judge in Manhattan give a warning to former Culture Club singer Boy George?
- Who told a Dáil debate about crime that he had once been mugged by two people ‘high on drugs’, and that he still recalled the scrape of the knife being pulled from a leather scabbard?
- Lisa Duffy came top of Social and Personal’s Sexiest Female Legs List. But what was unusual about some of the others on the list?
- Summer Madness, a three-day rock festival attended by over 5,000 young people from all around the island, began. But why was there a rule that tents had to be at least two metres apart?
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