Darach Ó Séaghdha

Mark, I find that deeply offensive.

It's been 18 years?

It's still one of the most unbelievable moments in Irish legal history.

Read our full story from when it happened: jrnl.ie/1983239

It's never too late to start!

Met an auld lad earlier who told me his family dog ran out on to the set of The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (1965) during filming in Smithfield, Dublin, and his family all went to see it to see their dog on the big screen.

YOKES TUESDAY

Don't give away the gold for free, Richie.

How have we not made a movie about this yet?

Cormac is a low-level pill dealer in the West of Ireland. When the Government accidentally makes his wares legal for one day, Cormac borrows his eccentric uncle's Ice Cream van to make enough money to save the family home from NAMA

Whenever someone defends inaction by saying "it's a complex issue" or "would require a change in the law", remember that we accidentally legalised ecstasy, crystal meth and ketamine and then banned them all again in the space of 24 hours.

A prime example in literature is COLD COMFORT FARM. Far outlasted its principal target: Precious Bane.

"accidentally legalised" might be a frivolous way of putting it, but a judge found a piece of anti-drug legislation to be unconstitutional and that led to a brief period where certain drugs had no effective legal restrictions on them.

One of the best days of old Irish Twitter.

I miss the collective hysteria for jokes and takes on the bizarre and surreal or it all.

Aw, 2015! My mum was in the Corrigan ward in Beaumont at the time. I can still see us crying with laughter over this story. Good memory!

Hash Wednesday.

Happy anniversary of accidentally legalised drugs in Ireland day to all who celebrate.

Screenshot of text from the Wikipedia entry on Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems. Simplicio, a dedicated follower of Ptolemy and Aristotle, presents the traditional views and the arguments against the Copernican position. He is supposedly named after Simplicius of Cilicia, a sixth-century commentator on Aristotle, but it was suspected the name was a double entendre, as the Italian for "simple" (as in "simple minded") is "semplice".[8] Simplicio is modeled on two contemporary conservative philosophers, Lodovico delle Colombe (1565–1616?), Galileo's opponent, and Cesare Cremonini (1550–1631), a Paduan colleague who had refused to look through the telescope. Colombe was the leader of a group of Florentine opponents of Galileo's, which some of the latter's friends referred to as "the pigeon league".

Just wait until you hear about Galileo! Putting the Pope's favoured arguments in the mouth of a man called "simple minded" was a great way to invite yourself to an inquiry by the Roman Inquisition

Renaissance painters were always doing this too. Caravaggio's Judases were usually his landlords or exes.

Dante: the eternal personification of this sin is... this duke who was mean to me once

Network is another one ❤️

My wife is an enthusiastic East of Eden fan.

But they're so attractive!

I'd add that The Stepford Wives, Deliverance, Gaslight and Easy Rider are films that relatively few people my age or younger have actually seen, although they are very widely referenced.

James Dean stationary was popular but Rebel Without A Cause is a film that baffles modern audiences. Among other things, anyone I've seen it with has always said "I had no idea he spoke like that".

... Bill Haley, the Everleys, quite possibly Elvis; all within a 4 minute mashup. That whole first album, borrowed from a mate at primary school, was my Rosetta Stone of classic pop music. The clip of Help Me Rhonda, my first exposure to the Beach Boys: just goes on and on. A kid & his dad made it!

The received wisdom of my age group is always that Jive Bunny was execrable trash, but I'll go into battle for it anytime: whenever Swing The Mood comes on Now 80s (our dinner background channel) my partner groans but I just remember my first exposure to Glen Miller, Chubby Checker, Little Richard..

I watched a ton of 80s slasher movies last year, and one surprising thing that kept coming up was characters doing Bogart impressions.

Fair point, there are lots of references to Elvis in TV and film, there are plots built around Elvis impersonators and visiting Graceland and so forth.

He was very memberable in Labyrinth. Memorable! I meant memorabe!

Rudolph Valentino, thanks to, er, The Bangles

Well thanks to Prince, who thought a young 1980s woman would dream of 1920s matinee idols

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