I mean that when extremely funny lines and brilliant original ideas and extraordinary use of language all come together at once it has the effect of being tickled in the brain to a degree that one feels.. well.. giddy.

As I don’t believe anyone’s mentioned them I will chip in with any and all of Flann O Brien, but especially The Third Policeman – there are passages in that that make me giddy every single time – and all of The […]

Nominated for the Mercury – think she has a strong chance of winning.,

They were showing old episodes of Call My Bluff on Beeb 4 (I think?) recently and I felt that now I’m just the right age to enjoy the pace as well as the chumminess of the the three regulars. Didn’t hurt that amo […]

Surprised you could put down your Gameboy long enough to post, ya whippersnapper..

The album’s been nominated for the Mercury Prize. Although The Guardian’s opted for a different take on the shortlist

Jesu Cristo! I never knew Come Dancing was about his sister dying and the last verse was wishful…

We don’t mention him since he gave away that penalty against Romania..

Little cubes of cheese on cocktail sticks, I hope..

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To my mind, PC is where he goes over the top to “I’m so big I can get this to number one” status. SAD incorporates elements of every previous Ant hit in it’s so eagerness to please, whereas PC – big push Diana D […]

I was watching some American youths react to Stand And Deliver just this week (such things come up randomly on YouTube) who watched it without the benefit of any context and it made me realise how bizarre and […]

Back in ‘78 all us young Catholic boys had to pick a new middle name when we were making our Confirmation. The screws were pleased to hear so many opt for Kevin – one of the most popular Irish saints – but d […]

He even invented the mic drop, ffs!

I presume everyone’s watched the Will Ferrell/John C O Reilly version at least once. They deadpan word-for-word through the whole matey intro before doing an arguably better version of the song..

Most teams at the business end of these tournaments want to own the ball. Tuchel’s plan was a ball-winning midfield, pacy wingers and relying on two match winners to produce something. Maybe he thought this was p […]

The thing about exhuming that reference (and nice one, by the way) is it’s actually a compliment: when that legendary commentary was uttered it was precisely because it was outrageous that little Norway could e […]

That’s right back sorted..

Stephen Kelly on RTE japed that if Paraguay had scored at any point in their game with France the goal would have to be disallowed as there would have been a foul at some point during the build up..

Nah. Belgium showed how good the U.S. actually are.