Baby Jesus, mild and meek Grant us all an outlook bleak Guarantee a life austere Misery throughout the year Baby Jesus, barely born Look upon a world forlorn Billions facing daily strife Promise them an…
Posts By Manuel Estimulo
Mariano’s Trench
A loose translation: Aggressive Begging for Change. This past month has been demonstrating the various ways in which the different nationalities of the world make clear their personal innate characteristics through their response to the…
Do Not Panic. Kill All Actors!!
“No point getting toilet paper. It will be miles away by now.” Here is Leonardo Da Capo and Kate Wimslet above from the new movie Contagion!, which is already spreading like an incurable rash across box…
#Occupy_Quality_Street!!
Don’t Mention the Chocolate War. I was Mention It Once, But I Think I am Get Away with It. Unless you have been living in a yurt (which is a tent containing pro-biotics), you will…
Irritation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery
Didn’t You Kill My Brother? As goes the old saying Big fleas are having little fleas upon their backs which are bite them, and little fleas have even littler fleas, and so on until you…
Round Ireland with the Falange: County Wexford
That Keith Richards has really let himself go, hasn’t he? Quizmistress Anne Robinson: Which Mick is the lead singer of the Rolling Stones? Idiot English Contestant: Is it Bono? Those for whom Irish music is…
Round Ireland with the Falange: County Carlow
Few people know that the Palace of Versailles is based on Bagenalstown railway station. Carole-Anne Delaney must have extraordinary influence within the Irish media, or else the jungle drums of County Wicklow work remarkably fast….
Round Ireland with the Falange: County Wicklow
“You’re not from around these parts, are you, Señor?” “On the run from the authorities and living in Cork.” “Died in the arms of a rent boy from a methamphetamine overdose.” “Lost his house in…
Every Cow Has a Silver Lining!
It’s What’s Underneath That Counts! (Not the Udders) “What is the most common expression in Ireland?” This was the question which was pose for a competition recently in one of Ireland’s most wide-read magazines, Ireland’s…
A Man’s Work is Never Done!
Why Book Burning was Invented! I have never been a great fan of Do-It-Yourself, also known as D.I.Why, both for practical and for ideological reasons. In the first place, it is an attitude which is…
Nazis R Us!
Enough Space for All the Books a Fascist Could Read!! Being very sensible, over the past fourtnight (which is only actually two weeks: I will never get the stupid English!) I have been very busy…
Turn Your Pasty Irish Faces to the Sun. And Go Blind!
A Land Fit for Falangists! “This is our country. This is our journey. Yes, we are in times without precedent but I believe that for Ireland this current crisis is the darkest hour before the…
¿What Colour is Your Parasite?
¿Why Does My Home Smell All Fishy? There is a very wily, clever, cunning word-play, probly invented by The Jews, according to which it is argued that Jesus Christ was NOT a Christian. ¡Sí! ¿How…
Who Needs International Rescue?!
Is End O’Kenny. Our Very Own Tracey Ireland!! Do you remember growing up the very amazing clever animated television program show The Thrunderbirds Are Go!? No. Me neither. I am too old. In Spain, when…
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