"Do you know, sir?"

Is it a scripted set up? Who knows, but it is hilarious and wonderful class anger gets an edge way in-between all the expletives . . . and the after-thoughted politeness to the interviewer.

I have a new hero:

Meano Keano has a Beano

Like the rest of us, he can't remember the last time Ipswich won two games in a row, but some things Roy Keane never forgets.

In Roy's mansion, FAI stands for 'Feckin' Arrogant Ingrates'.

A day late, a hundred years on

One of the most interesting bloggers on the block, Charlie Pottins, has a post marking the hundredth anniversary of the Belfast 1907 strike led by Jim Larkin.

Little Town In Ireland*

"My first day on the job in America, I was getting trained by Todd, or Josh, or Chip, or Hank, whatever the fuck, and he says to me "So, you're Irish, haw? Do you know John? He was here last year."

Ah, good oul John, that fecker, course I know him, I says, sure isn't he King of our village."

From a post that is sooo last year, literally, but I have to post a link to it 'cos the quiz - and the resultant comments - are bastard funny.

*Microdisney - B side to 'Town to Town'. Their one *cough* hit record.