Remember making those cute little lion and lamb art projects in elementary school to celebrate March? They probably involved cotton balls, maybe some pipe cleaners for the lion's whiskers. Well, the whole lion-lamb thing is just a cruel joke. 6 inches of snow on Opening Day. It sucks the big one. And we were just doing yard work this weekend and trying to figure out what was growing in our gardens. (By the way, we seriously found PEANUTS growing by the air conditioner. Peanuts! With roots!)
I'd better not complain about the weather anymore. I don't want to be one of those people who never has anything better to say about my northern clime. So I'll take you all down memory lane for a moment. Erin A's Ireland pics brought back some amazing and hilarious memories of 2000. I thought I'd post my top 8 in honor of Cottage 8 (in no particular order).
1. Let's have a bake sale to Save Mumia (or that monkey... what was his name?)
2. Dinner at Bunratty when we all got trashed on mead because the nuns kept refilling our glasses every five minutes. I seriously remember Large Marge saying, "Drink up!"
3. Garlic chips at the chipper. What could be better after a night of Smithwicks and Bulmers?
4. Irish TV: Den 2 with Socky and Dustin and that cute guy who talked the the puppets, Bouli, Top 30 Hits, and Father Ted (which I have on DVD-- including the "My Lovely Horse" episode)
5. Stuffing J-Nell's bed with clothes and shoes to make it look like random people were sleeping in her bed. Then waiting in Sarah's room for her to get back from the disco and find them.
6. Peat fires (A tip for those of you who were there: the coal that they use to light a hookah smells exactly like a peat fire. No kidding. Now go buy a hookah.)
7. Maniac 2000. Yeah, yeah, funky yeah!
8. This blog tastes like Baby Jesus.
4 comments:
The monkey was Malapi! I don't remember how we spelled it but it was Malapie or something like that.
uuuuuuuh m'god. (sob)
Can we PLEEEASE go back in time for a few months and do this again????
Cute guy that talked to the puppets: Damien.
So I was at my knitting group last week, and one of the chicks is from Dublin. I was just sitting there minding my own business, and I overhear her talking with somebody else about some bands in Eurovision. And I was like WTF are you guys talking about? What is Eurovision? And she was like, It's like American Idol in Europe, but it's for song writing and not singing. And I was like, Oh! LIKE THAT FATHER TED EPISODE?
Immediately I felt like a dumb ass for thinking she was knowing what the hell I was talking about just because she was Irish, because I'm sure they think that's a really lame show over there. She just looked at me for a sec with this blank stare.
But to my utter joy, she started laughing and then said,
Yeah! My Lovely Horse! LOL! That's exactly what it is!
She then went on to explain the episode to me because I had forgotten the plotline -- how they were trying to sabotage their song because Ireland couldn't afford to win the contest or something.
Ugh. SOOOO FUNNY.
The plot of the FT episode went as follows: Father Ted and Dougal spent days trying to write a Song for Ireland. Finally, they gave up and FT heard D playing a song incessantly from some obscure Swedish album. FT decided to rip off the melody, and they added the "Lovely Horse" lyrics. Then on their way to the stage, they heard their song playing on the elevator. They realized that they couldn't rip it off because they'd get caught. So they went back to the original (monotone) melody and got killed in the contest by their rival priest.
My favorite lines:
"I want to shower you with sugar lumps, and ride you over fences,
Polish your hooves every single day, and bring you to the horse dentist." Of course you have to give a big pause before singing the last word in each line while fumbling for the next chord.
I looked it up on Youtube just after writing that comment. Seriously funny shit.
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