Comments on: I am a Patient Boy…

By: copernicus

copernicus — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 11:09:03 +0000

Why is there such a disconnect between the concept and reality of “K’raaaizee” golf?

I know what I’m expecting when I arrive at the course and it ain’t the Leisureland version, not that it doesn’t have its own charme discrét.

By: Simon McGarr

Simon McGarr — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 23:23:00 +0000

Also gracing the shelves is “Golf Punk” magazine.

By: fústar

fústar — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 21:31:14 +0000

A better strapline might have been “Young Guys, Same Shit”.

I too have been known to watch the very odd bit of golf, but surely 3 times a year is enough, Fergal. I mean, who can be bothered with the PGA? You’d be mortified if that was your only major…

The last time I played, however, was when I briefly (foolishly) became a student member of a local course when I was a young fella of 15/16. Some of the senior members treated us, and the ‘ladies’, like absolute shit…so I quickly traded in my clubs for a guitar. Much more sensible.

I’m with Simon on Pitch and Putt though. All the advantages (such as they are) of golf, and none of the insufferable cack that goes with it.

By: Fergal

Fergal — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 21:17:40 +0000

Worryingly, there’s a golf mag which seems to think it’s hip and edgy: http://www.bogeymag.com/. “Old Game. New Breed” is the strap line. I’ve been an occasional tv golf viewer for many years (golf is for watching on TV four times a year. Not for playing, not with all the golfers you’d have to meet) and can affirm that the new breed always look and act just like the old breed.

By: foolhardy

foolhardy — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 09:25:34 +0000

Um, perhaps because he wants to learn something. A radical notion I know but some people study because they’re interested.

By: zoidberg

zoidberg — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 08:20:56 +0000

why would he become an undergraduate when they have already given him a doctorate. What an idiot.

By: foolhardy

foolhardy — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 13:57:13 +0000

This may well be old news but it’s the first I’ve heard of it: Martin Sheen is to become an undergrad at NUIG.

[Link]

“Shantalla… shit; I’m still only in Shantalla… Every time I think I’m gonna wake up back in the jungle”

By: foolhardy

foolhardy — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 11:26:23 +0000

Simon,
A Crazy Golf periodical could be the next big media phenomenon.

Also consider:

Monopoly Monthly.
The Dog Walkers Digest.

The possibilities are endless.

By: Simon McGarr

Simon McGarr — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 00:26:09 +0000

I can’t be of any assistance in explaining golf magazines.

Never mind chuckles of the ‘good walk spoiled’ variety. Golf is a way for tedious people to fill in the time before the grave swallows them up, to everyone’s satisfaction.

I quite like pitch and putt though. Or that one in Salthill where you have to knock the little ball through the windmill.

You never see magazines for that game on the newsagent shelves though.

By: foolhardy

foolhardy — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 11:46:39 +0000

Golf magazines. Can ANYONE tell me the point?
I once spotted a journal in the library of the UFKAUCG (University Formerly Known As UCG) called, catchily, Concrete. I suspect I wouldn’t have been able to put it down had I the strength to pick it up. Ho ho.

By: fústar

fústar — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 19:00:24 +0000

Fergal,

You’d want to be careful about expressing too much admiration for old-timey anarchist bombs. I can hear ECHELON turning its ear in our direction as we speak.

Such devices are making a comeback I believe, and Dubya wants to crack down on ‘em:

My fellow Americans. There’s nothing funny about those old-timey bombs. Well…except in those Looney Tune Cartoons…Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig…man I love those guys! (*chuckles*)

By: fústar

fústar — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 18:36:19 +0000

The episode in which Jerry finds the Penthouse in the waiting room and the one where he finds himself 'fiddled with' are one and the same episode - "The Jimmy". Before Jerry is put under with the gas, the dentist - Tim Whatley - takes a hit of the gas himself! When Jerry comes round he blurrily sees Whatley and the nurse adjusting their clothing, tucking themselves back in etc. Jerry later asks "Is this guy a dentist or Caligula?" To which Elaine replies "Okay...So you were violated by two people while you were under the gas. So what? You're single." I wasn't put under I'm glad to say, although he did 'touch me up' and caused me pain. Oh, and foolhardy, IF one of my family was a dentist he/she'd probably stock a 90% Golf Magazine and 10% V.I.P. mix.

By: Fergal

Fergal — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 16:09:05 +0000

Old-timey Anarchist Bombs! Yes!The fizz of the burning fuse, the shiny blackness of the bomb. The fact that bombs really did used to look like that, and not just in cartoons. Ah, old-timey Anarchist Bombs. How I do love them.

By: Jess

Jess — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 15:45:02 +0000

Foolhardy – there was also a Seinfeld episode where Jerry was, erm, ‘fiddled with’ when he was under an anasthetic at his dentist, so let’s hope Fústar’s doctor didn’t put him under.
By the way, I believe VIP would be the magazine of choice for a Fústar-related dentist.

By: foolhardy

foolhardy — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 15:26:19 +0000

fústar, IF one of your family was in the dental profession what class of mag would they stock then?