tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58264902024-03-14T00:03:38.129+00:00The Edmondson BlogJames Ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16454041854800595504noreply@blogger.comBlogger2133125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826490.post-26446754144251538222011-12-14T18:00:00.002+00:002011-12-14T18:00:01.651+00:00Christmas LunchYou know you're going to have a bad Christmas when you get back from a visit to the boys room and Hitler has stolen your place.Rickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07856364995483256563noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826490.post-91754452673550977332011-05-11T18:00:00.000+01:002011-05-11T18:00:01.772+01:00Daniel And William CormackInscriptions from the mausoleum of Daniel and William Cormack, in the cemetery at Loughmore, County Tipperary, Ireland:By the IRISH RACE, in memory of the brothers DANIEL and WILLIAM CORMACK who for the murder of a land agent named ELLIS were hanged at NENAGH after solemn protestation by each on the scaffold of absolute and entire innocence of that crime, the 11th day of May 1858. The tragedy of Rickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07856364995483256563noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826490.post-27327657759275162162011-05-08T15:59:00.009+01:002011-05-09T01:47:48.148+01:00The FutureAccording to Google Search Results.Events for each year determined by the first page of Google search results for the phrases:by [year]in yearby the year [year]in the year [year]will * by the year [year]will * in the year [year]in [year], * willby [year], * willRickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07856364995483256563noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826490.post-59970279397693862632011-05-02T18:00:00.001+01:002011-05-02T18:00:02.672+01:00In Flanders FieldsIn Flanders fields the poppies blowBetween the crosses, row on row,That mark our place; and in the skyThe larks, still bravely singing, flyScarce heard amid the guns below.We are the Dead. Short days agoWe lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,Loved and were loved, and now we lieIn Flanders fields.Take up our quarrel with the foe:To you from failing hands we throwThe torch; be yours to hold it Rickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07856364995483256563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826490.post-54756245762542780802011-04-28T18:00:00.002+01:002011-04-28T18:00:07.116+01:00Idle ThoughtsMy neighbour knocked on my door at 2:30am this morning! Can you believe that, 2:30am?! Luckily for him I was still up playing my Bagpipes.The Grim Reaper came for me last night, and I beat him off with a vacuum cleaner. Bloody hell, talk about Dyson with death! Paddy says "Mick, I'm thinking of buying a labrador." "Strewth" says Mick "have you seen how many of their owners go blind" I've just Rickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07856364995483256563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826490.post-62666595840938566472011-04-27T18:00:00.000+01:002011-04-27T18:00:01.731+01:00Royal Wedding PreviewRickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07856364995483256563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826490.post-8766245422010250192011-04-26T18:00:00.000+01:002011-04-26T18:00:03.601+01:00Puns For Educated MindsThe fattest knight at King Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi.I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian.She was only a whiskey maker, but he loved her still. A rubber band pistol was confiscated from algebra class, because it was a weapon of maths disruption.No matter how much you push the envelope, Rickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07856364995483256563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826490.post-16646613180954187382011-04-25T19:07:00.001+01:002011-04-25T19:09:41.594+01:00Why The Date Of Easter VariesEaster is a movable feast, meaning it is not fixed in relation to the civil calendar, but is, in fact, linked to the Jewish Passover as the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus occurred at the time of those observances.Early Christians relied on the Jewish community to determine the date, but by the late 3rd century some Christians began to express dissatisfaction with what they took to be the Rickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07856364995483256563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826490.post-58882424971617901012011-04-24T18:00:00.000+01:002011-04-24T18:00:00.400+01:00Great Balls Of Fire! (Known Syphilitics)King Henry VIII of EnglandKing George I of Great BritainKing Francis I of FranceKing Frederick the Great of PrussiaKing Herod of JudeaCzar Ivan "the Terrible"Czar Paul IPope Alexander VIPope Leo XEmperor CommodusEmperor TiberiusAdolf HitlerJulius CaesarBenito MussoliniThomas AquinasJohann Sebastian BachCharles BandelaireAl CaponeRandolph ChurchillCaptain James CookHernan CortezFrederick Rickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07856364995483256563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826490.post-72951163597352922292011-04-23T18:00:00.000+01:002011-04-23T18:00:02.646+01:00ImpostersRickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07856364995483256563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826490.post-43670313347919139842011-04-22T18:01:00.000+01:002011-04-22T18:01:00.746+01:00Great Moments In Sporting History (1)Supervision of the early Olympic marathons was a trifle lax. The winner of the 1900 event in Paris, an enterprising local baker's delivery boy named Michel Theato, used his knowledge of the city geography to take advantage of a few shortcuts down back alleys and side streets.Four years later at the St. Louis Olympics, the marathon was held on a grueling course on a hot afternoon, and only Rickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07856364995483256563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826490.post-18178368629314378412011-04-22T18:00:00.000+01:002011-04-22T18:00:02.678+01:00Great Moments In Sporting History (2)In 1902, the Tour de France reached an all-time low amid widespread skullduggery and outright cheating. Spectators left nails in the road in front of their favorites' rivals, while riders took car trips and even train rides. The first four riders were disqualified, including one who had been pulled along by the car in front by means of a wire attached to a cork in his mouth.Although he finished Rickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07856364995483256563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826490.post-10770015507871946022011-04-22T17:59:00.000+01:002011-04-22T17:59:00.509+01:00Great Moments In Sporting History (3)Stella Walsh dominated the 1932 Olympic 100-metre sprint, confirming her status as the top female sprinter of the 1930s.Forty-three years later, after becoming an American citizen and being inducted into the U.S. Track and Field Hall of Fame, she was killed by a stray bullet in a robbery.The post mortem revealed that "she" was a he. Ironically, when Walsh lost the title in Berlin in 1936 to her Rickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07856364995483256563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826490.post-3474829179634720332011-04-22T17:58:00.000+01:002011-04-22T17:58:00.398+01:00Great Moments In Sporting History (4)Sports' most inventive cheat may have been Boris Onischenko, a Red Army major from Ukraine. A veteran at the modern pentathlon — a five-discipline event including fencing — Onischenko arrived at the Montreal Olympics in 1972 as a hot favorite for the gold, having won two silvers and a bronze in three previous Olympiads.Britain's epee No. 1, Sergeant Jim Fox, was outclassed and easily outpointed Rickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07856364995483256563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826490.post-73430507749069704082011-04-22T16:36:00.003+01:002011-04-22T16:37:56.454+01:00Rickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07856364995483256563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826490.post-69439407878789786252011-04-18T11:01:00.000+01:002011-04-18T11:02:34.012+01:00Stupid (But Clever) JokeAn Englishman, a Frenchman, a Spaniard and a German are all standing watching a street performer do some excellent juggling. The juggler notices that the four gentlemen have a very poor view, so he stands up on a large wooden box and calls out, "Can you all see me now?""Yes.""Oui.""Sí.""Ja."Rickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07856364995483256563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826490.post-45755562083373453972011-04-16T19:16:00.006+01:002011-04-16T19:32:18.006+01:00Dear Mr.AddisonThis is one of those emails that has gone viral - people receive it, have a good laugh and send it on to all their friends, who then do the same and send it on to more and more friends. You may already have received it. The email goes something like:- - - - - - - - - - - - -A real reply from the Inland Revenue. The Guardian newspaper had to ask for special permission to print it. The funniest Rickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07856364995483256563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826490.post-77069732936776810972011-04-15T18:00:00.000+01:002011-04-15T18:00:08.048+01:00Bad Hair DayRickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07856364995483256563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826490.post-58119143369113641962011-04-14T18:00:00.001+01:002011-04-14T20:00:18.687+01:00True NutsNuts are defined as a simple, dry fruit with one seed (very occasionally two) in which the seed case wall becomes very hard at maturity. True nuts include pecan, sweet chestnut, beech, acorns, hale, hornbeam and alder.PeanutsPeanuts aren't nuts. They are a type of pea which grows underground. They are native to South America but now widely cultivated, notably in Georgia, in the United States. Rickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07856364995483256563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826490.post-82442514900303523592011-04-12T18:00:00.003+01:002011-04-12T18:00:03.875+01:00Whiskey In The Jar(Sean makes a mistake in the first verse.)As I was a goin' over the far famed Kerry mountainsI met with Captain Farrell and his money he was countingI first produced my pistol and I then produced my rapierSaying "Stand and deliver" for he were a bold deceiverChorus:musha ring dumma do damma dawhack for the daddy 'olwhack for the daddy 'olthere's whiskey in the jarI counted out his money and it Rickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07856364995483256563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826490.post-4036984550783311612011-04-11T18:00:00.000+01:002011-04-11T18:00:03.399+01:00Why Dogs Bite PeopleRickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07856364995483256563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826490.post-39385930068895270402011-04-10T18:00:00.010+01:002011-04-13T14:08:09.640+01:00Letters To Your EditorSir,I was disappointed to fall behind with checking your blog.Bet R. LatethannerverSir,You look neat, talk about a treat! You look dapper from your napper to your feet.N.E. OldhyonN.E. OldhyonN.E.N.E. OldhyonSir,I utterly deplore the axing of the Light Brigade in the latest defence spending review.Arthur Leigh GonwardSir,Given last month’s inclement weather, are the global warmers sure they are Rickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07856364995483256563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826490.post-71176195648294806592011-04-10T17:59:00.002+01:002011-04-10T18:11:32.766+01:00Seeing Red(Now that's really scarey!)Rickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07856364995483256563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826490.post-64569699649522539582011-04-09T18:00:00.002+01:002011-04-09T18:00:06.837+01:00Meanwhile, Down On The Farm ..."There is a long history of David Truscott visiting this particular farm, and seeking sexual gratification while immersed in cow dung and mud," prosecuting counsel Jill Wilson told magistrates in Truro. "This farm appears to be the only place where he seeks to gratify himself in this particular manner. For years, the farmer has had to check his livestock and equipment regularly, because Truscott Rickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07856364995483256563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826490.post-15671098643934268712011-04-08T18:00:00.000+01:002011-04-08T18:00:09.069+01:00How Did They Get In There???Rickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07856364995483256563noreply@blogger.com0