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mylescorcoran at 12:43pm on 21/02/2005
mylescorcoran at 12:43pm on 21/02/2005Ten things that I have done that you may not have done:
1. Fathered a daughter. (This isn't all that uncommon, but it is the most important.)
2. Carried a swan wrapped in my jacket from a bridge to the river's edge, and on another occasion carried a swallow, cupped in my hands, from where it was trapped in a storeroom to the outdoors where it soared free from my hands quicker than my eye could follow.
3. Made Valentine's Day cards by hand for the last ten years (at least) for the same special person.
4. Passed the Irish driving test first time. (This one's recent and I'm still not quite over it.)
5. Been woken at 2 o'clock in the morning by an overdosing girlfriend. She survived, our relationship didn't.
6. Had a large black man squeeze my penis while chatting knowledgably about the standard of education in Ireland.
7. Had the bus I was travelling in stopped to allow the police and emergency services clean up the site of an assassination.
8. Been paid for writing reviews of role-playing games.
9. Watched Eddie Izzard do a show in broken French in La Boule Noire, Paris, while explaining the bilingual puns to friends sitting adjacent.
10. Written for an APA for over 5 years solid without missing a month's contribution. (I suspect there's a few of you out there who have done this.)
and one I know that many of you will have done: Considered moving house just to get more space for books.
1. Fathered a daughter. (This isn't all that uncommon, but it is the most important.)
2. Carried a swan wrapped in my jacket from a bridge to the river's edge, and on another occasion carried a swallow, cupped in my hands, from where it was trapped in a storeroom to the outdoors where it soared free from my hands quicker than my eye could follow.
3. Made Valentine's Day cards by hand for the last ten years (at least) for the same special person.
4. Passed the Irish driving test first time. (This one's recent and I'm still not quite over it.)
5. Been woken at 2 o'clock in the morning by an overdosing girlfriend. She survived, our relationship didn't.
6. Had a large black man squeeze my penis while chatting knowledgably about the standard of education in Ireland.
7. Had the bus I was travelling in stopped to allow the police and emergency services clean up the site of an assassination.
8. Been paid for writing reviews of role-playing games.
9. Watched Eddie Izzard do a show in broken French in La Boule Noire, Paris, while explaining the bilingual puns to friends sitting adjacent.
10. Written for an APA for over 5 years solid without missing a month's contribution. (I suspect there's a few of you out there who have done this.)
and one I know that many of you will have done: Considered moving house just to get more space for books.
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I've also had an experience similar to 6 - he was Mexican, I was sitting next to him on a long haul plane flight. I was not amused.
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I suppose that given your Friends list the fact that you have used a telescope bigger than our house does not count.
I did 8 too but only in the singular and I never cashed the cheque, just kept it for a souvenir - wonder where it is?
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The swan was a young bird who landed on a bridge and found he couldn't take off. Confused by the passing traffic he was getting increasingly agitated and scared. We stopped the car after crossing the bridge and I went back to grab him. I was worried that he'd snap at me, but he seemed so bewildered that it was easy for me to grab him behind the head while throwing my jacket round him to pin his wings. I deposited him by the river's edge and he swam off cursing at me.
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