Things I learn't today (Part 2)

And I wish I wish knew the right words, to blow up the pokies and drag them away, cos they’re takin the food from the table, so they can say that the trains run on time

I’ve been

What was the bicycle situation?

9 million on the button

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Have you used an independently calibrated clock to verify the accuracy of the station clock ?

I’m on holidays mate

If you study Theology in Maynooth University, you’re guaranteed accomodation on campus.

Are you thinking of enrolling?

It always confused/amazed me why most trainee priests do courses in theology. I suppose they have to. Being a layman I always assumed the more you studied theology the more likely that you’d question your own faith, and you’d probably drop out of the priesthood.

But the opposite seems to be the case


Especially if your name is Eamonn

No no, one of me workmates was telling me. I omly learnt about the haunted room on campus in the last while as well. Probably mostly foreigners doing the priesthood these days. I cqn’t imagine there’d be that much Irish?

Under 10 every year now.
Sad but true.
They’ll be nobody to bury us.

I didn’t even think there were that many, I think a few years ago there was one year with only one ordination in the whole country.

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Yeah but i think that was out of the ordinatory


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Yea, nobody from Ossary in the last 10 years.

I got your joke, by the way.

Surely can’t be far away from AI priests who get ordained by a panel of French computer theologians called Les Ordinateurs.

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Our only hope is that the black priest follows the black doctor to Ireland.

Don’t you need a masters in theology to be a priest?

Plenty of black priests here already.

I wouldn’t know much about it.
Perhaps it was once but this link just says ‘studies’.
The ceiling has been lowered significantly


Former leader of the NUM Arthur Scargill is still alive - he’s 88.
Maggie the Witch bested him and routed the Union but Arthur lined his own pockets and displayed outrageous levels of entitlement thereafter.

The NUM were paying ÂŁ34k per annum up to 2012 for a flat Arthur occupied in the Barbican Centre in London until someone rumbled it.

Arthur appears to have been an absolute Mé Féiner and a Superkunt


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