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   <title>It&apos;s LIFE Jim, but not as we know it</title>
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   <published>2008-09-01T21:56:49Z</published>
   <updated>2008-09-01T22:33:22Z</updated>
   
   <summary> August 2008. Dublin. It&apos;s important that I try and record this so folk know what went down....</summary>
   <author>
      <name>Nat King Coleslaw</name>
      
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      <![CDATA[<img alt="Knids.jpg" src="http://www.currychips.com/Knids.jpg" width="474" height="556"/>

August 2008.

Dublin.

It's important that I try and record this so folk know what went down.
 ]]>
      <![CDATA[ 
Before they find me and silence me, like they silenced all them good folk down on Talbot street.

That photo up there is what started it all.

Sure, it don't look like much; just a few tangerine broads dressed up and headin' out on the town for the night.

Look closer, bud.  Them ain't broads.

Them's voracious orange Knids from Clementine 4, a small planet just outside Jupiter's Jaffa belt.

They done been livin' here for years, right under our noses.

That's what they do, see.  They land, they infiltrate society, they get bigged up by a weekly sycophantic publication and then they slowly take over.

And that's exactly what they was doin', until some paparazzo with a neck like a jockey's ass decided to take a chance.

Ireland was short of some good Britney-style commando pics, he decided.
Best to see what these chicks got before they was quite ready, he decided.

And that's what made him yank open the door of their stretch and start snappin'.

You gotta admit, Britney's cha-cha ain't nothin' compared to a trio of Knids whose complexion modulators ain't quite done.  You can even see the one on the right frantically trying to hide hers.  Turns out the one on the left is the spawn of Klaag the Monobrow - and he's been blartin' shit about spacemen for years!

Look at that photo again.  Ain't no-one <em>that</em> orange.  You know they ate the paparazzo the following Monday?

Walked right into the foyer in Independent offices and tore him apart.

They wasn't done; they headed upstairs and ate Brenny O'Connor, the in-house wookie.

Folk thought that might be it but that was just gaviscon time.

Everyone else in the building got eviscerated.  Well. Most everyone.

They spared Barry Egan, though most folk will tell you they had their doubts about that wack bastard for years.
 
<strong>======= TRANSMISSION ENDS =======</strong>
 
  
Aw, <strong>a full week</strong> it's taken me to try and get up the courage to review another fawbulous <em>[thanks for this new wonderful word, Lisa Murphy]</em> LIFE magazine whose glossy splendour just adds to the fashion-festooned flubfest that is...the Sunday Independent.

You burst out from mass before the shake-hands.  You abandon your boxed-in car and race headlong to the newsagents.  You plop the Sindo's reaffirming bulk onto the counter, throw a fiver at the sleepy tillmonkey and run all the way home.  Phone off the hook, curtains pulled.

You slowly part its moist flaps.  Ooh!  What's this?  It's red!  It's yellow!  Prime colours!  I-ah shite, it's only a LIDL brochure.  Get that outta the way and...whuff.

Cover stars Rosanna Davison, Claudine Palmer and Pippa O'Connor immediately give your Sunday morning a 5,000% glamour boost.  But the context...what's the context.

Ah.  It's an article which bemusedly looks at a society which celebrates z-listers.  Heh heh, silly society!  Your comeuppance is in LIFE magazine!

It's not like they have Pippa O'Connor on pages 1, 4, 6, 7, 8, 14 and 15.  Or a 4-page interview with Calum Best.

Or maybe they do, and it's all tongue-in-cheek.  I'm obviously too much of a cabbage to tell the difference.

I do like the photo of Michelle Heaton on page 24 "with new beau, LIFE magazine advertising sales executive Hugh Hanley"!

Hey kids!  Do you cold-call companies to try and flog pagespace in a weekly glossy?  Then that thar's a three-letter job title.  "Lavatorial Log De-flumer" is another one.

I wish it was Sunday every shaggin' day so I could get my horny dose of LIFE magazine.]]>
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<entry>
   <title>Original!  Exciting!</title>
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   <published>2008-07-05T22:05:39Z</published>
   <updated>2008-07-05T22:51:32Z</updated>
   
   <summary> Or maybe neither. Sure we haven&apos;t had one of these in a while. It&apos;s your patriotic duty to put an effort into photoshopping our beloved ex-leader and he standing there downloading data from the mothership....</summary>
   <author>
      <name>Nat King Coleslaw</name>
      
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      <![CDATA[<img alt="bertie-with-background.jpg" src="http://www.currychips.com/bertie-with-background.jpg" width="439" height="190" />
 
Or maybe neither.
 
Sure we haven't had one of these in a while.
 
It's your patriotic duty to put an effort into photoshopping our beloved ex-leader and he standing there downloading data from the mothership.]]>
      <![CDATA[ 
Predictably jaded/puerile/naff examples to follow:
 
 
<img alt="bertie-having-a-looksee.jpg" src="http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/9067/bertieqz1.jpg" width="408" height="282" />
 
 
<img alt="bertie-skirt.jpg" src="http://www.currychips.com/bertie-skirt.jpg" width="253" height="597" />
 
 
<img alt="enda-licking-bertie.jpg" src="http://www.currychips.com/enda-licking-bertie.jpg" width="300" height="385" />
 
 
And the obligatory blanks:
 
 
Left!
<img alt="blank-left.jpg" src="http://www.currychips.com/blank-left.jpg" width="195" height="190" />
 
 
Right!
<img alt="blank-right.jpg" src="http://www.currychips.com/blank-right.jpg" width="195" height="190" />
 
 
Bigger lego-ish left!
<img alt="blank-left-bigger.jpg" src="http://www.currychips.com/blank-left-bigger.jpg" width="293" height="285" />
 
 
Now go do that voodoo that you do so well!

<a href="http://bertieahernoffice.org/index.php">og ichi plof tee rah nissi</a>]]>
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<entry>
   <title>Champagne Kisses EXCLUSIVE!</title>
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   <published>2008-07-03T22:47:04Z</published>
   <updated>2008-07-03T14:20:52Z</updated>
   
   <summary> OMG! La Brunker has totally written her first buke and it&apos;s called &quot;Champagne Kisses&quot; and it&apos;s got like fit blokes and sweet nectar and explosions going on in your head and love at first sight and whiskings off to...</summary>
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<strong>OMG!</strong>
 
La Brunker has totally written her first buke and it's called "Champagne Kisses" and it's got like fit blokes and sweet nectar and explosions going on in your head and love at first sight and whiskings off to New York and...hang on, let a girl catch her breath!
 
Naturally, currychips has an exclusive extract.]]>
      <![CDATA[<blockquote>He wasted no time in dismissing Henry, his loyal butler.  Now he had me, his fourteen-bedroom residence in upstate New York and his collection of Lamborghinis...all to himself.
</blockquote> <blockquote>
After guzzling oysters, he invited me to the drawing room for an armagnac.  A roaring fire roared in the hearth.  It was a hearthy fire.</blockquote><blockquote>
 
I became dizzy as I walked around, contemplating all the priceless artefacts in the room.  All the while he stood in front of the fire, looking me up and down.  He did shift position occasionally to avoid singing his powerful buttocks but not enough to distract my attention from the opulent vista.</blockquote><blockquote>
 
Suddenly I came a cropper, tumbling backwards over his elegant 15th century chaise longue.  It was impossibly soft!  My bottom became wedged between two musty cushions but the champagne made me powerless to resist.  Or to dislodge the coins which had become embedded in my cleft.</blockquote><blockquote>
 
He stood there, contemplating me. My Manolo Blahniks dangled in mid-air as he approached.</blockquote><blockquote>
 
Without warning, he whipped them off and threw them over his manly rippling shoulder. They hit his shelf-like muscular bottom on the way down before hitting his freshly-waxed parquet floor with a kah-wallop sound.</blockquote><blockquote>
 
My feet were clad only in my Hungarian fishnets.  Without warning he began to nibble on them. My head tilted back in sheer ecstacy.  Sweet nectar flooded my mouth. </blockquote><blockquote>
 
Fuck!  I had forgotten my headcold.  I did a quick reverse-snort and just got away with it.</blockquote><blockquote>
 
Suddenly he stopped.  My toes wiggled feebly in protest.  A low, guttural moan escaped my deep red lips.  He seemed to be chewing on something. </blockquote><blockquote>
 
Fuck!  I had forgotten my corns. </blockquote><blockquote>
 
I covered my face in my fur coat.  He exited the residence via the window, operating his jetpack which he kept under his Bolivian tuxedo.  My diamond-encrusted Dolce & Gabbana phone rang. </blockquote><blockquote>
 
Fuck!  I had forgotten to pick up my cat.</blockquote>

I wish it could be Christmas now I could buy a copy and pretend it's for someone else.

No, two.  In case I got so het up that I dropped the first one.
<a href="http://www.sundayworld.com/showbiz/champagne-kisses-extract.php">
More</a>]]>
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<entry>
   <title>Recession Republic!</title>
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   <published>2008-07-02T22:37:43Z</published>
   <updated>2008-07-02T22:52:22Z</updated>
   
   <summary> The country&apos;s going to hell in a handbasket. Who will save us? Michael Flatley of course, in his new show &quot;Recession Republic&quot;!...</summary>
   <author>
      <name>Nat King Coleslaw</name>
      
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The country's going to hell in a handbasket.
 
Who will save us?

Michael Flatley of course, in his new show "Recession Republic"!]]>
      <![CDATA[ 
 
<strong>GOGGLE</strong> as Michael single-handedly saves the construction industry by giving it a shoe up the hole.
 
<img alt="michael-onsite.jpg" src="http://www.currychips.com/michael-onsite.jpg" width="470" height="340" />
<font size="1">"I foresee a passage.  This wide.  Make it so lads!"</font>
 
 
<strong>BOGGLE</strong> as Michael imparts valuable advice to Taoiseach Brian Cowen. 
 
<img alt="michael-and-cowen.jpg" src="http://www.currychips.com/michael-and-cowen.jpg" width="300" height="243" />
<font size="1">"Ramp up the fuckin' tax relief for artists.  And lay off the tayto sandwiches."</font>
 
 
<strong>DROP</strong> your popcorn as Michael ascends back up to heaven, job done.
 
<img alt="michael-ascends.jpg" src="http://www.currychips.com/michael-ascends.jpg" width="470" height="340" />
<font size="1">"My spiritual home...SAVED from a future of reliance on German discounters and dodgy coke.  Game ball!"</font>
 
 
"Recession Republic" is the show that you can't afford to miss.  Or see, probably.]]>
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<entry>
   <title>White magic</title>
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   <published>2008-07-01T14:39:54Z</published>
   <updated>2008-07-01T14:47:11Z</updated>
   
   <summary> From the horrifically talented Nick Bertke aka Pogo More: Alice Nick at last.fm Table scraps...</summary>
   <author>
      <name>Nat King Coleslaw</name>
      
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From the horrifically talented Nick Bertke aka Pogo

More:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAwR6w2TgxY">Alice</a>
<a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Nick+Bertke">Nick at last.fm</a>
<a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Pogo/Table+Scraps">Table scraps</a>]]>
      
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<entry>
   <title>Hmmmmmm</title>
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   <id>tag:www.currychips.com,2008://2.302</id>
   
   <published>2008-05-30T12:19:38Z</published>
   <updated>2008-06-04T14:10:11Z</updated>
   
   <summary>What if you were on trial for a crime you didn&apos;t commit and the jury consisted of these morons? --&gt; Alternative content --&gt; Right-click and select &quot;Play&quot; Mucho thanks to autoplay-disabling Draco...</summary>
   <author>
      <name>Nat King Coleslaw</name>
      
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      <![CDATA[What if you were on trial for a crime you didn't commit and the jury consisted of these morons?
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Right-click and select "Play"

Mucho thanks to autoplay-disabling Draco]]>
      
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<entry>
   <title>Train driver</title>
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   <id>tag:www.currychips.com,2008://2.301</id>
   
   <published>2008-05-25T22:46:33Z</published>
   <updated>2008-05-26T21:49:40Z</updated>
   
   <summary> It is with immense pride that Curry Chips presents an exclusive preview of the new Ken Loach masterpiece &quot;Train Driver&quot;. Set in Cork, Ireland during the early part of the 21st century, &quot;Train Driver&quot; is a harrowing and at...</summary>
   <author>
      <name>Nat King Coleslaw</name>
      
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      <![CDATA[<img alt="TrainDriver.jpg" src="http://www.currychips.com/TrainDriver.jpg" width="428" height="552" />
 
It is with immense pride that Curry Chips presents an exclusive preview of the new Ken Loach masterpiece "Train Driver".

Set in Cork, Ireland during the early part of the 21st century, "Train Driver" is a harrowing and at times touching account of one man's struggle to maintain his dignity and identity in the face of ruthless corporate oppression.]]>
      <![CDATA[In this emotionally-charged scene, we see Finbarr attempting to explain to his young son (Jimmy Barry) why he's home early again.

<img alt="DadStartingOff.jpg" src="http://www.currychips.com/DadStartingOff.jpg" width="470" height="340" />
 
<strong>Finbarr</strong>: "Jimmy boy, you know the way...I had the XBox promised you.

I...was going to be picking it up from Harvey Norman on Friday.

All I needed was to get through this week's rostering arrangements and twould have been in the bag.

Well Jimmy boy, I take no pleasure in telling you that...it won't be happening this week."
 
 
<img alt="KidConversation1.jpg" src="http://www.currychips.com/KidConversation1.jpg" width="470" height="340" />
 
<strong>Jimmy Barry</strong>: "Ah Christ daddy, what happened?  Were they actin' the mickey at work again?"
 
 
<img alt="DadDetermined.jpg" src="http://www.currychips.com/DadDetermined.jpg" width="470" height="340" />
 
<strong>Finbarr</strong>: "Oh, actin' the mickey is one way of puttin' it alright boy.

They..."
 
<em>[Finbarr struggles to control his emotion]</em>
 
"...they tried to get me to drive a blue train."
 
 
<img alt="KidAnnoyed.jpg" src="http://www.currychips.com/KidAnnoyed.jpg" width="470" height="340" />
 
<strong>Jimmy Barry</strong>: "The bastards!  Sure don't you drive the green train!

Why won't they ever leave you alone Daddy?"
 
 
<img alt="Granny.jpg" src="http://www.currychips.com/Granny.jpg" width="470" height="340" />
 
<strong>Granny</strong>: "Because you're a precious self-centred jobsworth shitehawk?"
 
 
<img alt="DadBulgy.jpg" src="http://www.currychips.com/DadBulgy.jpg" width="470" height="340" />
 
<strong>Finbarr</strong>: "I know boy, I know.  They just think they can fuck around with me whenever they want, like.

Sure if I don't stand up to them now, what will they have me doing tomorrow - driving the commuter train to Cobh?!

Sure I had to walk off the job boy!"

 
<img alt="KidUnderstanding.jpg" src="http://www.currychips.com/KidUnderstanding.jpg" width="470" height="340" />
 
<strong>Jimmy Barry</strong>: "Fair balls to you Daddy.  You did the right thing.
 
And sure won't the rest of the lads pitch in behind you?"
 
 
<img alt="DadEmotional.jpg" src="http://www.currychips.com/DadEmotional.jpg" width="470" height="340" />
 
<strong>Finbarr</strong> <em>[welling up]</em>: "They will boy, they will."

<em>[SNIFF]</em>

"The public will understand.  They...<em>have</em> to understand."
 
 
<img alt="Exiting.jpg" src="http://www.currychips.com/Exiting.jpg" width="470" height="340" />

<strong>Finbarr</strong>: "Now come on, we'll head out for a pint.

I need to have a wash first Jimmy boy, d'you know, it's a strange thing.

I look good, I feel good, but I smell awful."
 
 
<img alt="Granny2.jpg" src="http://www.currychips.com/Granny2.jpg" width="470" height="340" />
 
<strong>Granny</strong>: "That's cause you're a cunt."


<a href="http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0526/rail.html">http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0526/rail.html</a>]]>
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<entry>
   <title>Oh GROW UP</title>
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   <id>tag:www.currychips.com,2008://2.300</id>
   
   <published>2008-05-08T21:57:56Z</published>
   <updated>2008-05-09T09:00:52Z</updated>
   
   <summary> Fáilte romhat, a Mháire. More (with less chomping action)...</summary>
   <author>
      <name>Nat King Coleslaw</name>
      
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Fáilte romhat, a Mháire.

<a href="http://www.independent.ie/national-news/ms-coughlan-doesnt-do-threats-but-if-she-did-1370261.html">More (with less chomping action)</a>]]>
      
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<entry>
   <title>Yeehaw!</title>
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   <id>tag:www.currychips.com,2008://2.299</id>
   
   <published>2008-05-01T22:38:29Z</published>
   <updated>2008-05-02T08:20:09Z</updated>
   
   <summary> Irish Prime Minister Birdie Ay-Heron has downplayed the significance of his failure to catch a ball lobbed by 84-year-old Hattie Nanstropp from Crotchety Falls during an exhibition game at a Boston baseball ground....</summary>
   <author>
      <name>Nat King Coleslaw</name>
      
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Irish Prime Minister Birdie Ay-Heron has downplayed the significance of his failure to catch a ball lobbed by 84-year-old Hattie Nanstropp from Crotchety Falls during an exhibition game at a Boston baseball ground.]]>
      Mister Ay-Heron had hoped to use this opportunity to show that the Irish economy was still &quot;a good catch&quot; in terms of investment; the exercise had to be abandoned when Hattie needed a nap after four tosses.

Mister Ay-Heron was said to be upset that his trademark gormless giggle failed to mellow the crowd, who pelted him and his henchmen with hotdog buns, sweaty socks and chair parts.
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<entry>
   <title>Wankers</title>
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   <published>2008-04-28T21:46:03Z</published>
   <updated>2008-04-28T22:28:25Z</updated>
   
   <summary>Heh heh. It sounds like bankers!...</summary>
   <author>
      <name>Nat King Coleslaw</name>
      
   </author>
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   <category term="181" label="Bank of Ireland" scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" />
   <category term="183" label="Henry Hippo" scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" />
   <category term="185" label="Ulster Bank" scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" />
   
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      <![CDATA[Heh heh.  It sounds like bankers!
 
<img alt="hippo.jpg" src="http://www.currychips.com/hippo.jpg" width="480" height="283" />
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      <![CDATA[Oh lookie.

<blockquote>Three mortgage lenders have announced that they are independently raising their mortgage interest rates.</blockquote>
<a href="http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0426/housing.html">http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0426/housing.html</a>

Some banking cockgoblin tried to sprinkle caster sugar on the fresh glistening turd by saying "they had tried to avoid passing this increase on to customers until now, but had to do so at this time".

Oh how they must have deliberated!

I reckon it took about this long:
<img alt="cow1.jpg" src="http://www.currychips.com/cow1.jpg" width="430" height="280" />
<img alt="cow2.jpg" src="http://www.currychips.com/cow2.jpg" width="430" height="280" />
<img alt="cow3.jpg" src="http://www.currychips.com/cow3.jpg" width="430" height="280" />
 
 
Cunts.
 
 
Meanwhile over at Bank of Ireland, a brief email trail shows us how they're reacting to the completely unprecedented loss of small portable computer things with the old "Customer Data Base" (c:\topsecret\Confidential-Customer-Details-Do-Not-Open-If-Ur-Not-A-Banker-LOL.mdb) on them.
 
<img alt="team-lead.jpg" src="http://www.currychips.com/team-lead.jpg" width="124" height="160" />
Operations Team Lead Johnny "Thunderbolt" Cronin is poised to take whatever action is deemed necessary to restore confidence in his watertight outfit.
 
 
<img alt="dept-head.jpg" src="http://www.currychips.com/dept-head.jpg" width="200" height="157" />
Chief Technology Officer Frederick Mangan wastes no time laying down the law.
 
 
<strong>From</strong>: Department Head, Information Technology
<strong>To</strong>: Team Lead, Operations
<strong>Subject</strong>: Stealing

Dear John
Big trouble here....teh computers what got stole - they was enkryptonited?
I think share-holders are all like NO WAY about the cost of buying new "lap top" computers (mebbe lesser prophets for them LOL)
We has spares?  Is they enkryptonited?


<strong>From</strong>: Team Lead, Operations
<strong>To</strong>: Department Head, Information Technology
<strong>Subject</strong>: RE: Stealing

Freddster dude.

I think you totally mean <em>encrypted</em>.  That's where the portable computers are hidden away, like in a cave under the ground.

It's all Tibor's fault, man.

I told him to put the fuckin' things into the cellar, like below the underground carpark last year - now he fuckin' tells me that he couldn't get the door open so he just like, left them behind a pillar and stuff.
 
I've revoked his tea and coffee privileges and severely curtailed his toilet break allowance.
 
 
<a href="http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0428/boi.html">Dumb bastards</a>]]>
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<entry>
   <title>Who watches the bad guys in 2008: part 1</title>
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   <id>tag:www.currychips.com,2008://2.297</id>
   
   <published>2008-04-24T22:57:01Z</published>
   <updated>2008-04-24T23:57:50Z</updated>
   
   <summary> Times have changed since our hero last challenged nefarious foes like &quot;The Crinkler&quot;. However, his updated diary shows that he still has the balls to take on organised crime, no matter what form it may take.......</summary>
   <author>
      <name>Nat King Coleslaw</name>
      
   </author>
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      <![CDATA[<img alt="dublin.jpg" src="http://www.currychips.com/snackbox/images/dublin.jpg" width="348" height="232" align="right" hspace="5" vspace="5"/>
 
Times have changed since our hero last challenged nefarious foes like "The Crinkler".

However, his updated diary shows that he still has the balls to take on organised crime, no matter what form it may take....]]>
      <![CDATA[ 
It's 10am.  Friday.  I'm alone in the main bedroom, refining my lines.  I stare gimlet-eyed at my reflection.

"You thug", I say.

I narrow my eyes even more.

"You murderous...cold-blooded gouger".  That's better.

My new TV3 series "Dirty Money" will sink or swim depending on how convincing these lines are.

I give my reflection some more abuse before throwing on my trenchcoat and heading into town.

I mingle among the citizens, savouring the all-too-brief opportunity it affords me to feel...normal.  Of course it doesn't last long.

I see him fifty feet away.  Potential threat.  Outside Kapp and Peterson.

To most folk, it's just some whiskery sot tamping mild shag into his calabash.

I'm not most folk.  My years of experience allow me to see a mercenary priming a pipe bomb.
 
<img alt="damestreet.jpg" src="http://www.currychips.com/damestreet.jpg" width="470" height="264" />

I sink into my collar, turn around and cross Dame street.

I make it half-way and catch my breath on a traffic island.

I stop for a minute, close my eyes and listen to the soothing hum of the immobile traffic.

No man is an island.  John Donne said that.  Yet...the Isle of Man is an island.  What a fucked-up world this is.

"OI WILLIAMS!"

I'm shaken from my reverie by the shrill tones of some dirtbag shrieking my name.

"OI WILLIAMS YA POX-BOTTLE!"

I open my eyes and quickly locate him.

Well, fancy that.  Some hardchaw's displaying a bit of bravado in front of his mates by shouting at me from the top deck of the 51B.

I watch bemusedly as he pushes his pimply puss against the open window, looking for all the world like...a gerbil peeking out the top of a toilet-roll insert with a fire behind and Richard Gere in front.

Suddenly he stops, and seems to fumble with his tracksuit bottoms.  Ah jaysus, I haven't even had breakfast and this dirtbird wants to show me his meat'n'two veg?

"HEY WILLIAMS, I GOT A MESSAGE FOR YEH"

<img alt="bus.jpg" src="http://www.currychips.com/bus.jpg" width="350" height="263" />

With that, he drops his keks, waddles to the far side of the bus and attempts a kind of reverse-charge mooner.

Unfortunately, his backwards lunge takes him crashing through the upstairs window.  I watch slack-jawed as he hits the ground near me, spotty arse first.

What the fuck?  I'm over to him in a shot.  He's in a bad way.

This was no accident.

"What was the message?", I hiss.
"Me...jaysus...hole", he sputters.

I grab his collars and spit the question in his face.

"What was the message?!"
"Me....hole", is all he says before passing out.

Is he trying to tell me that the message is on his arse?  I flip him over as I hear the ambulance crew turn the corner.

Nothing obvious.

Then the penny drops.  It's his jocks.

There's a picture of a bird on them.  A bird with a huge beak.

Surely he's not talking about that shitty Barbra Streisand gig in Celbridge?

Then I recognise the bird.

And it dawns on me that I've just been handed my most serious challenge.

The Pelican Briefs.]]>
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<entry>
   <title>Shock findings at Montrose</title>
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   <id>tag:www.currychips.com,2008://2.296</id>
   
   <published>2008-04-16T23:42:37Z</published>
   <updated>2008-04-17T13:48:30Z</updated>
   
   <summary> Researchers at Ireland&apos;s national broadcaster have set the international scientific community abuzz with claims that they have synthesised a product which is &quot;shitter than shit itself&quot;. Members of the highly-secretive Programme Development team at RTE, which is based in...</summary>
   <author>
      <name>Nat King Coleslaw</name>
      
   </author>
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      <![CDATA[<img alt="graph.jpg" src="http://www.currychips.com/graph.jpg" width="470" height="330" />
 
Researchers at Ireland's national broadcaster have set the international scientific community abuzz with claims that they have synthesised a product which is "shitter than shit itself".

Members of the highly-secretive Programme Development team at RTE, which is based in Montrose, claim to have made the discovery one night "quite by accident".]]>
      <![CDATA[A key member of the team, who did not wish to be named, went on to describe the circumstances surrounding the revolutionary find.

"It was late, and most of the team had gone home.  We'd been there since early morning trying to think of a new show which would capture the public's imagination.  The best that all 14 of us had come up with was some kind of nostalgic angle where we get people to talk about their first kiss and, y'know, we go to great expense to recreate it."

<strong>Serious</strong> horseshit, in other words.

"I was about to throw in the towel when the concept of 'Marry Me' struck like a bolt from the blue.  I just grabbed the marker and attacked the whiteboard."

The results would prove to be earth-shattering.

<img alt="graph.jpg" src="http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/1676/pamelafloodlp8.jpg" width="213 height="193" align="right" hspace="10"/>

"We get Pamela Flood on presenting duties.  She inveigles people to pop the question in front of the camera.  Weirdos.  Dimwits.  The whole programme builds up to the proposal."

His colleagues were astounded.  Some of them started to pitch in.

"Lots of novel ways of proposing are involved.  James Bond, Wonder Woman, that kind of thing."

An eerie silence descended.

"The atmosphere in the room was electric.  Even as the ink dried, we knew we had a colossal shitburger on our hands."

The exact dimensions of this shitburger were not immediately apparent.

"We pitched it to the guys upstairs and I remember...one of them immediately produced the official shitscale.  We easily pipped 'The Afternoon show' and 'The Late Late'.  It was only when the shit factor bypassed "You're a star" that we knew we had a truly epic turd on our hands."

A committee from the International Slurry Broadcasting Standards is expected to visit Montrose later this week but are not expected to quibble with the initial findings.

<a href="http://www.rte.ie/tv/marryme/index.html">Phrrrrrrrp</a>]]>
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<entry>
   <title>GORMLEY IS INNOCENT</title>
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   <published>2008-04-16T22:00:41Z</published>
   <updated>2008-04-16T22:04:33Z</updated>
   
   <summary>What really happened... More...</summary>
   <author>
      <name>Nat King Coleslaw</name>
      
   </author>
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   <category term="175" label="Chinese Ambassador" scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" />
   <category term="173" label="Green Party" scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" />
   <category term="171" label="John Gormley" scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" />
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      <![CDATA[What <strong>really</strong> happened...

<img alt="gormley.gif" src="http://www.currychips.com/gormley.gif" width="470" height="270" />

<a href="http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0413/green.html">More<</a>]]>
      
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<entry>
   <title>Sigh</title>
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   <published>2008-04-14T20:21:12Z</published>
   <updated>2008-04-15T12:44:16Z</updated>
   
   <summary> [sound of door opening] &quot;Hello Coleslaw&quot;....</summary>
   <author>
      <name>Nat King Coleslaw</name>
      
   </author>
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      <![CDATA[ 
<em>[sound of door opening]</em>
 
 
<img alt="return-1.jpg" src="http://www.currychips.com/return-1.jpg" width="470" height="264" />
 
"Hello Coleslaw".
 
 
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      <![CDATA[<img alt="return-2.jpg" src="http://www.currychips.com/return-2.jpg" width="470" height="264" />
 
"How did you know..."
 
 
 
<img alt="return-3.jpg" src="http://www.currychips.com/return-3.jpg" width="470" height="264" />
 
"Oh please.  I knew you'd be back.  Sit down.  Tell me all about it."
 
 
 
<em>[later]</em>
 
 
 
<img alt="return-4.jpg" src="http://www.currychips.com/return-4.jpg" width="470" height="264" />
 
"...and it was going so well.  I was finally getting my stuff into print!  Then they told me I'd get my own column and...."
 
 
 
<img alt="return-5.jpg" src="http://www.currychips.com/return-5.jpg" width="470" height="264" />
 
"Of course they did.  But newspapery folk tend to say a lot of things.  Poor silly Coleslaw."
 
 
 
<img alt="return-6.jpg" src="http://www.currychips.com/return-6.jpg" width="470" height="264" />
 
"You don't belong with them!  You belong here!  On a blog!"
 
 
 
<img alt="return-7.jpg" src="http://www.currychips.com/return-7.jpg" width="470" height="264" />
 
"GAAAAAAAAH" <em>[blub]</em>
 
 
 
<img alt="return-8.jpg" src="http://www.currychips.com/return-8.jpg" width="470" height="264" />
 
"That's it.  Good to get it all off your chest.  Now fuck off and make the tea."
]]>
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<entry>
   <title>It&apos;s my ball</title>
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   <published>2008-02-14T17:05:04Z</published>
   <updated>2008-02-14T23:20:33Z</updated>
   
   <summary>...and I&apos;m going home. Thass it for currychips - night night and thankee. In a nutshell, the DIDL stuff, Twink and Jimbob is worthwhile - have a shufty at the photoshop entries too. Link summation of the whole unpleasant affair...</summary>
   <author>
      <name>Nat King Coleslaw</name>
      
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      <![CDATA[...and I'm going home.
 
 
<img alt="gonk.jpg" src="http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/1668/ookkh0.jpg" width="470" height="454" />
 
 
Thass it for currychips - night night and thankee.

In a nutshell, the DIDL stuff, Twink and Jimbob is worthwhile - have a shufty at the photoshop entries too.

Link summation of the whole unpleasant affair follows below...]]>
      <![CDATA[<strong>DIDL!</strong>
<a href="http://www.currychips.com/archives/2007/02/specials_from_didl.html">One</a>
<a href="http://www.currychips.com/archives/2007/08/more_didl.html">Two</a>
<a href="http://www.currychips.com/archives/2007/05/son_of_didl.html">Three</a>
 
<strong>Jimbob!</strong>
<a href="http://www.currychips.com/archives/2006/12/the_story_of_jimbob.html">Deadly</a>
 
<strong>Twink!</strong>
<a href="http://www.currychips.com/archives/2006/09/introducing_abuseos_from_twinksoft_corp.html">Fawbulous</a>
 
 
<strong>Photoshop!</strong>
<a href="http://www.currychips.com/archives/2007/09/im_converted.html">O'Gara</a>

<a href="http://www.currychips.com/archives/2007/09/fly_fly_my_pretties.html">O'Driscoll</a>

<a href="http://www.currychips.com/archives/2007/08/a_blogorrah_retrospective.html">Blogorrah</a>

<a href="http://www.currychips.com/archives/2007/04/forwards_not_backwards.html">Bertie:</a>

<a href="http://www.currychips.com/archives/2007/04/once_more_unto_the_breach_dear.html">Glenda:</a>

<a href="http://www.currychips.com/archives/2006/07/dont_have_a_hen_man.html">Henman:</a>

<a href="http://www.currychips.com/archives/2006/05/enda_kenny_promises_promises.html">Enda:</a>

<strong>GONG CLANGER!</strong>
<a href="http://www.currychips.com/archives/2007/06/beholdthe_gong_clanger.html">Gong!</a>

<strong>LOLPOLZ!</strong>
<a href="http://www.currychips.com/archives/2007/05/lolpolz.html">LOL, or not</a>

<strong>Star warsism!</strong>
<a href="http://www.currychips.com/archives/2007/05/sith_happens_again.html">Zwing!</a>

<strong>Cheap animations!</strong>
<a href="http://www.currychips.com/archives/2007/01/brennan_bashes_bob.html">Duh</a>
<a href="http://www.currychips.com/archives/2007/01/are_those_my_feet.html">Muh</a>
<a href="http://www.currychips.com/archives/2006/11/the_life_ofdavid.html">Well</a>
<a href="http://www.currychips.com/archives/2006/05/celtic_tuber.html">Aye</a>

<strong>Freedom fighter!</strong>
<a href="http://www.currychips.com/archives/2007/01/who_keeps_an_eye_on_the_bad_gu.html">Sir Williams</a>

<strong>Chrimbo pressies!</strong>
<a href="http://www.currychips.com/archives/2006/12/santa_coleslaw_says.html">Ho</a>
<a href="http://www.currychips.com/archives/2006/12/and_all_because_the_lady_loves.html">Ho</a>
<a href="http://www.currychips.com/archives/2006/11/the_lovely_bum.html">Ho</a>

<strong>Musicals!</strong>
<a href="http://www.currychips.com/archives/2006/08/magdalene_sisters_the_musical.html">So long, farewell</a>

<strong>Nazi dogs!</strong>
<a href="http://www.currychips.com/archives/2006/05/the_blondi_code.html">Blondi</a>

<strong>Racism!</strong>
<a href="http://www.currychips.com/archives/2006/01/their_hideous_golden_overlord.html">Nein!</a>

<strong>Public transport!</strong>
<a href="http://www.currychips.com/archives/2005/11/the_wheels_on_the_bus.html">Outrageous</a>]]>
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