I came across the following quote on a website tonight:
Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box.
I have my own thoughts on what it means, but I’m finding it hard to put in words. Anybody care to help out? Translation please!
(via World of Inspiration)
The rumours are true then. The Ho-Ho is gone. Flattened in the name of modernising the Dublin Road.
Back when I were a lad, me and the girlfriend lived in India Street off Botanic Avenue. We had our pick of dodgy chippies to eat out of, but the Ho-Ho was one of our favourites. In those days, it had those cheap Van Gogh prints that were all the rage (about a fiver each in Au Naturale on Rosemary Street) and crappy white plastic garden furniture for the sit-in crowd to eat at.
We were students at the time and we’d actually head down to the Ho-Ho once in a while with a couple of rounds of buttered bread, order up a curry split and have a curry fried rice sandwich.
Now, Paul Rankin may claim that he invented the Curry Fried Rice Sandwich, but the honour is actually shared between me and the Ho-Ho. Their thick, pasty curry sauce mixed with fried rice was crying out to be smeared between two slices of Mother’s Pride. Yes. I was that man.
Anyway, I’m galled that they knocked the place down. Fair enough, it’s been a few years since I visited (I heard it had gone downhill!), but it’s almost as much of a blow as discovering they demolished Livingstone(d) Hall up at Queen’s Elms in 2001. Took me weeks to get over that….
On that note, anybody got any stories of their old University stomping grounds? Better still, anybody else live up in Livingstone Hall around 1995-96?
Update: Jett Loe’s original pictures of the Ho-Ho before it was knocked down.
I was browsing through the book section in a second-hand shop in Ballymena on Saturday, when I came across this bargain:
You’re probably wondering, “How did he resist?” Believe me, it wasn’t that difficult! I wish I’d read the back cover to get a feel for the story, though…
I was watching Corpse Bride with the kids recently, and was completely struck by the similarities between slimy Lord Barkis and our permatanned Secretary of State, Peter Hain. It’s quite sinister really.
If you don’t think there’s a resemblance between the two, watch the movie and you’ll see what I mean.
If you thought crash test dummies had it hard, spare a thought for the stick men (and women) of the world…
Flickr has an amazing set of images showing stick figures in danger. You honestly couldn’t begin to conceive of the number of ways a stick person could be mutilated or injured. Of course, it’s only a matter of time before someone decides to take the protection of stick men under their wing.
I wonder if you can get grant funding for that?
Paint the front of your house with lamb’s blood, lock up your first born son and lead my people out of Egypt, Moses. Word reaches me that the classic 10 Commandments movie is about to be re-released.
Check out the updated trailer.
I discovered a great multimedia site this evening, Interact 10 Ways.
Try out the Information Interactive page, which starts off with a photo of a man. Click anywhere on the picture and it will zoom in on the area, revealing a photomosaic of other pictures. After a while, you end up immersed in a never-ending stream of pictures.
From its content to its visual components, a photograph is filled with information. Choose a point on an image and delve deeper into it, linking one idea to another in a never-ending chain.
The Light Interactive lets you move around a 3D photomosaic box, setting the target on any object zooms in and reveals a picture. It’s a freaky little parallel universe….
Best of all is the interactive caption set. You view a gallery of pictures and can either rate the existing caption or add your own! Go on, do your worst.
EatLiver.com is a bizarre name for a website, especially one which has a gallery of almost 1,000 hilarious pictures found across the Internet.
They’ve got truck-lifting Russian girlfriends, a psychiatrist who leaves his business card on high-rise office ledges and warnings about stepping out on the ice.
Still, my favourite two so far are the ones I’ve included here - the Chuck Norris Action Jeans (straight out of the catalogue) and the Baby sign. No Sleep, No Free Time, No Fun. Next 18 Years.
Well, I don’t know about “no fun”, but the rest is about right!
Mr Levee recently posted about the new phenomena that is Google Idol.
We spotted the Pomme and Kelly videos early in the contest and knew they would go far. It seems that we were right and this week Pomme and Kelly became our new Gidols and were presented with the grand prize of $250 (which they are going to donate to charity!)
The girls entered the contest as just a bit of fun, but have found themselves drawing the attention of the worlds media and have aquired thousands of fans in just two and a half months.
Getting more attention than they bargained for, the girls controversially removed all their videos except their Google Idol entry from their website and asked that anyone with downloaded copies keep them off the internet.
If anyone is checking out the Google Idol site, make sure to check out the Anthony and Katy videos. these are a bit more rehearsed and less raw than Pomme and Kelly’s offerings but equally hilarious!
I came across The Levee Breaks on Blogshares tonight, and saw that it was worth $7351.19.
Great! Pity it’s not real money!
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