Tuesday, October 17, 2006
One thing about Paisley
Him about the place sure seems to get journalists waxing poetic. The man is described as “an ancient Galapagos turtle, older than time itself, five times the age of those who come to gawp at him” in today’s Guardian; The Times relates an exchange between him and Peter Hain: “At this, the Ancient Mariner�s face cracked into a brief smile. Mr Hain beamed back in full Star Trek transporter mode.” Does this mean if the Assembly is up and running we’ll be treated to much more colourful prose in the papers? It is certainly more fun to read.
Rusty Nail @ 09:20 AM
“… older than time itself...”?
How old would this actually make him? As old as God?
The Guardian can’t get the staff any more.
The Times never could, and it shows.
Posted by on Oct 17, 2006 @ 10:32 AMDidn’t you receive the memo, Paisley is God.
Posted by on Oct 17, 2006 @ 10:41 AMLOL. The lesser among the journo brethren seem to think so.
Posted by on Oct 17, 2006 @ 10:47 AMBK - I wouldn’t go that far, but before he was moved downstairs, I heard he used to be quite close to him.
Posted by on Oct 17, 2006 @ 11:08 AMI love the comparison to a galapagos turtle
Posted by on Oct 17, 2006 @ 12:11 PMI thought that was another NI “politician”....
Posted by on Oct 17, 2006 @ 12:32 PMHere’s some verses from the late Ulster poet W.R. Rodgers
Home Thoughts from Abroad
Hearing this June day the thin thunder
of far off invective and old denunciation
Lambasting and Lambegging the homeland,
I think of that brave man Paisley, eyeless
In Gaza with a daisy chain of millstones
Round his neck; groping like blind Samson
For the soapy pillars and greased poles of lightning
To pull them down in rains and borborymic roars
Of rhetoric. There but for the grace of God goes God.....
Some day of course he’ll be one
With the old Giants of Ireland..
filed safely away on the shelves
Of memory; preserved in ink, oak gall
Alcohol, aspic, piety, wit....
In fond memory of his last stand
I dedicate this contraceptive pill
Of poetry to his unborn followers
And I place
This bunch of beget-me-nots on his grave.Posted by on Oct 17, 2006 @ 12:37 PMGuardian Editors had better read this (in the hope of a job)
“Dr Paisley looked on like a constipated Jabba the Hut, staring thoughtfully at his offspring whilst seemingly pondering how he could be his and how much nutritional value could be obtained from devouring his preposterously long face”
Ok not my best effort but its an opening for others to give it a go, a chance to add real humour this time, not you GONZO!
Posted by on Oct 17, 2006 @ 12:59 PM“I place
This bunch of beget-me-nots on his grave.”LOL. Great line.
Steaky, not bad so far but Rodgers has the edge. Still can’t help feeling though that a haiku is too long for the soi-disant doctor.
Posted by on Oct 17, 2006 @ 01:15 PMWell that didnt provoke the tidal wave of responses I was expecting, next time, lame “joke” about the hunger strikers it is!
Posted by on Oct 17, 2006 @ 02:44 PMGalapagos man
Doctor No rages timeless
Sack cloth and ashesPosted by on Oct 17, 2006 @ 02:52 PM“It feels like
I’m seventeen again
Seventeen, seventeen
Again.”- Annie Lennox
Posted by on Oct 17, 2006 @ 03:08 PMSteaky,
The Great Jabba Jaffa versus Green Hulk Adams is just an old joke that won’t fade away .
Anyway having said NO all his life it seems almost a travesty of natural history that this paleolithic left over should end his political career with an anaemic ‘maybe’
Posted by on Oct 17, 2006 @ 05:24 PM
