Welcome to the new Blog. I am grateful to a previous Meister for passing me some close season tit bits which will feature over the coming weeks. As usual this will be a light hearted, often irreverent look at events in the Club. I hope nobody will be offended and everyone will take the musings in the spirit in which they were intended.
To start on a serious note, I have to record the sudden death of Gerry Carson, one of the good guys. No more will he spray his industrial strength “Horn” aftershave around the locker room before Midweek games. He will be sorely missed. Also on the injury list are John Tierney, Bobby Murray and Fred McCorry. A speedy recovery to all. From the close season it must be noted that the dog who bit Liam Trainor has been given a tetanus injection and will not after all have to be put down. And a few questions for you to ponder: Which Gerard Dolan brought his wife for a meal to the Washington because the cocktails were two for one? Which Senior bowler and Greenmeister confessed to being “a Capuccino man myself” when offered a cup of humble black coffee by the Barman? Which drinker and occasional bowler left the recent indoor competition for an “appointment” with a lady? Story of the Week: Eureka!! Some of the world’s greatest ideas have been developed in strange places eg while sitting in a bath as Archimedes did, under a tree as Einstein did, but surely none can be greater than Gerry “Silverlocks” Lee lying awake in the middle of the night listening to the rain chuck it down. Now you may think it was an idea for harnessing aforesaid precipitation to irrigate the sward in times of drought! Never! It was, however, an idea to turn the rough land, stage left of the aforesaid sward, into a Crematorium. It has it all. If you unfortunately pop your bowling shoes in the middle of a game, instead of the skip trying to bowl around your prostrate form, your mates can simply man handle you over the advertising hoardings to the new dispatch facility. All the better if Father Eugene, the Ardoyne Anointer is there. He could perform a quick last rites, Brendan Griffen could adopt his best undertaker face and set fire to the corpse and the ashes could be out on the green as fertiliser before the close of play. We think it has mileage. It has been suggested by some of the rougher sorts that we dispense with the defibrillator so that a steady flow of paying bodies will be maintained. Until next time…………. Keep the chalk wet!
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Lord Of The Rinks
19/4/2015 08:56:16 am
Great to see this back!
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Lord of The Rinks
19/4/2015 09:01:28 am
Great result for the B team yesterday. I hope the selectors are brave enough to make the necessary changes before next Saturday.
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Blogmeister
19/4/2015 09:19:05 am
Brave of you Lord of the Rinks........keep your identity hidden less you end up in the Midweek B team! :)
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Jon Boy Walton
19/4/2015 09:41:44 am
There's bound to be some sort of turbine that we could build in to generate the clubs electricity. The first eco-friendly, zero carbon emission club etc in the world ;-)
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TTK
19/4/2015 12:54:07 pm
With regard to turbines, there is enough air emitted through bending down at bowl delivery at Vets matches...but it is neither eco friendly nor has zero carbon emissions
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poochmeister
19/4/2015 01:08:02 pm
Glad to hear that dog is ok..I will sleep easy tonight
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Lord Of The Rinks
19/4/2015 02:12:09 pm
The teams are up for next week! 'Junior Team'??? One of the rinks has a combined age of nearly 300!!! Defibulator on standby me thinks.
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Jon Boy Walton
19/4/2015 08:20:00 pm
Is there any truth in the rumour that it was the General's little darling Daisy that sunk the fangs into Billy T?
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Not Your Fault
20/4/2015 01:02:03 pm
As a midweeker the mention of Gerrys Industrial Horn aftershave spraying made me smile. Wednesday nights will not be the same.
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The General
20/4/2015 02:30:46 pm
No, my darling little daisy knows better than to have Billy for T
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Billy T
23/4/2015 01:13:01 pm
The mut who nearly mauled me to death outside Joe Dolans was called Eric!
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Lord of the Rinks
3/5/2015 10:06:53 am
Was he a Viking? A mean sounding hound!
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