It’s that time of year when every man and their dog make predictions for the new year. I have a few of my own predictions for your entertainment.
#1 and most exciting for me is that I believe Savatage will return in 2009. (More on this later)
#2 I believe Australia will turn out a plethora [...]
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Everyone's going crazy for Paddy's Revenge by DJ Steve Mac right now. There's not a word in it, but it's still magical. Haha. Check out the video below.can't see the vid? click here
An oldie but a goodie:Paddy had been drinking at his local Dublin pub all day and most of the night celebrating St Patrick's Day. Mick, the bartender says, 'You'll not be drinking anymore tonight, Paddy. Paddy replies, 'OK Mick, I'll be on my way then. Paddy spins around on his stool and steps off. He falls flat on his face. 'Shoite' he says and pulls himself up by the stool and dusts himself off.
After I finished high school, I did a brief stint as a postman in Howth in north Dublin. I had to get up at 4:30am and cycle 30 minutes to the sorting office in Baldoyle (not always easy if you went to bed at 1:30am)When I arrived, I'd have a continental Irish breakfast which was a cup of tea and a cigarette. Each postie was allocated certain roads and streets, so first you sorted the post into
To celebrate the launch of Europe’s longest running poker festival,
Paddy Power Poker have announced the launch of their biggest ever Irish
Open promotion, called the €100,000 Sole Survivor.
To celebrate the launch of Europe’s longest running poker festival, Paddy Power Poker have announced the launch of their biggest ever Irish Open promotion, called the €100,000 Sole Survivor.
The rules are simple, the player who outlasts all the other online qualifiers will become the ‘Sole Survivor’ and win the €100K package. All Paddy Power Poker [...]
Guys, lagu Jay Chou di atas enak lol buat di denger dan juga bisa sebagai motivasi bagi Anda yang terkena PHK baru-baru ini. Walaupun lagu ini sudah beredar satu bulan yang lalu di pasaran dari album terbaru Jay Chou, Capricorn (魔杰座). Semoga tidak begitu basi ya lagu ini buat Anda.Intinya jika Anda terkena PHK oleh perusahaan tempat Anda bekerja, jangan sedih trus marah-marah sama Istri dan
The Paddy Power Poker Irish Winter Festival came to a close, with
Fiachra Meere of Limerick being crowned the Irish Masters Champion, who
survived a field of 423 poker hopefuls to scoop the €150, 000 main
prize.
A military spokesman for 'Paddy in Buenos Aires' confirmed today that the long running border dispute between 'Paddy in Buenos Aires' versus 'The Gut Province' will likely escalate into WAR. The satellite image above proves 'The Gut Province' has been advancing rapidly and has captured significant strategic territory. It has long been suspected 'The Gut Province' is using W.M.A. (Weapons of
Sunny in Philadelphia - Paddy’s Pub: The Worst Bar in Philadelphia
A newspaper critic is kidnapped by the gang after he calls Paddy’s pub the worst bar in Philadephia.
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PaddyPowerPoker.com have just announced that Andy Black and Irish Open winners Marty Smyth and Neil Channing are among the poker professionals pre-registering for the Irish Masters which headlines the Irish Winter Festival.
Paddy Power Poker, the poker room behind the famous Irish Open and this October's Irish Winter Festival, has recently
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"Grab a partner, swing them round!" UK house producer, Steve Mac brings us his latest outing with his rendition of that old Irish jig we've all heard at some point. This upbeat number can turn any night into a frenzy, proving a massive hit in the UK and Ibiza over the summer. You can bet your bottom dollar you'll be hearing it every St Patrick's Day for the rest of your life. You can find the orig
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia returns Thursday, Sept. 25 at 10:00 pm e/p with back to back episodes.
In Season 4 Episode 2, entitled “America’s Next Top Paddy’s Billboard Model Contest,” Frank and Mac judge a competition to find Paddy’s next top model. In Episode 3, entitled “Mac Bangs the Waitress,” Charlie asks Mac to [...]
Are you tired of the gloom and doom of the economy? Financial markets got you in a tizzy? Is the credit crunch cramping your style? Do you need help to escape from the debt collectors, stockbrokers, bank managers and loan sharks beating down your door. Then maybe this is for you. Paddy in Buenos Aires is pleased to present at a hugely discounted price (just for you), a medicinal compound aka - Pa
Nuovo singolo per il dj / producer di Brighton Steve Mac!!! Paddy’s Revenge gode già di un “big support” ed è destinata a diventare la prossima club hit in UK!!!
Lo diventerà anche in italia? Ascoltatela e datemi un parere…Steve Mac - Paddy’s Revenge Video continua a leggere l'articolo
Titoli in rilievo : Autovelox Tutor [...]
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You wore grey fisherman sweaters, kept your white curly hair short with just a hint of bohemian length at the sides, crinkled the corners of your eyes when I wrote my presentation about the sexier poetry of Irving Layton, and gave me my first taste of my older man fetish.I am a participant in x365 and Blog 365.
Paddy and Mick are on holiday in Ibiza for a fortnight, but are bored after 4 days. They have boozed quite heavily for the 4 days, and are sitting by the pool chatting.
Paddy: “Mick, I’m bored, let’s go do something.”
Mick: “What like Paddy?”
Both put their thinking caps on, drink for another hour in silence, [...]
Has Japan Airlines’ crop-based advertising gone too far? For some residents of Inakadate — a small town with a big reputation for cultivating fantastic works of multi-colored rice paddy art — the answer is “yes.”This year’s crop art, which is Inakadate’s 16th work since 1993, features giant images of Daikoku (god of wealth) and Ebisu (god of fishers and merchants) alongside the corpo
Get free trades from Paddy Power: a lot of independent traders are staying out of the stockmarkets just now, spooked by the ‘will it won’t it’ behaviour of the FTSE 100 in particular. Over the last few days, the FTSE has repeatedly flirted with the psychological barrier of 5400 points, dipping below for coming back [...]
Join the forum to add comment on this post - (1) Posts‘Jatiluwih Rice Paddy Cycling’ takes you to the World Heritage Site of Jatiluwih where you cycling through the most beauti…
FIVE thousand people are expected to attend a rally in central Melbourne today calling on governments to act on climate change.
I predict less than 1000.
****UPDATE****
Nostrapaddy is correct....
GOVERNMENTS are not acting fast enough to reduce carbon emissions, hundreds of protesters have heard at a climate change rally in Melbourne.
Beautiful Rice Paddy Art: Part - 2.Here are a few more amazing images of when rice fields turn into work of art, which is nothing but work of perfect planning & well laid out plan as we said earlier. Its from Japan where red rice are used with the regular rice to form these special patterns. The results are nothing less than marvelous.Do check the part -1 of 'Beautiful Rice Paddy Art'.More info: L
After the comparison between himself and not only Celtics player of the year last season, Aiden McGeady but the genius that was George Best by his ex-manager at Derry City, Roddy Collins, Paddy McCourt could only laugh.Paddy said this about it,"He's gone overboard with the talk about McGeady and Best but I
can't be held responsible for what he says any more than I could when
Sammy McIlroy said I'd
New bhoy Paddy McCourt tells of his love for Celtic and the relief at completing his dream move to his boyhood heroes.“It feels fantastic to be here,” said McCourt, who will wear
No.20 for Celtic. “It’s something that I’ve always dreamt about since I
was a young boy and to get the chance to come and play for Celtic is
unbelievable.Predominately a wide player, McCourt is happy playing on
The fixing of the new MSP for paddy has snowballed into a major political row with the opposition BJP and CPM, the UPA government’s main prop, charging the Centre with sacrificing farmers’ interests for protecting the fisc.
On a day when finance minister P Chidambaram attempted to shift the blame for fixing the MSP for paddy [...]
Paddy President and the Secret of the Stones (Paperback)By J. T. Rizzo
Buy new: $12.95$10.366 utilised and new from $8.42 Customer Rating: First tagged “childrens books” by Glenna Follmer Customer tags: j [...]
Winner Odds Euro 2008 Uefa Football Championship (odds to win outright): 4/1 Germany, 11/2 Spain, 13/2 Italy, 15/2 Portugal, 8/1 France, 12/1 Croatia, 14/1 Czech Rep, 14/1 Holland, 22/1 Switzerland,...
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I think everyone needs a bit of old fashioned R&R this week, especially with 1979Gooner on the warpath. So who better to drag out the archives than the mightiest warhorse that I have ever seen in Red & White - the one and only Paddy Vieira.
One of Wenger's first signings (with Remi Garde), Paddy joined in September 1996 for £3.5m from AC Milan. I think the Milanese are still bitter about it.Its
Paddy...
I don't know what kind of expression this is..
....and no, Paddy didn't manage to carry it all the way back home :-D
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Eh oui on a remis ça au Long Hop pour une soirée de la St Patrick en retard :) Malgré le long weekend de Pâques les fidèles étaient au rendez vous et quelques nouveaux aussi (ça fait toujours plaisir :D). Toujours autant de papotages, de rencontres inattendues et découvertes communes et d'internationalité...tout ce que l'on aime :)
Vous demandez pour les photos...elles sont làààà! ;)
Bon cette soirée aussi pour marquer la fin du séjour de la plus parisienne des canadiennes: ma petite Caro s'en allait dans son Ottawa natal le lendemain matin très tôt alors elle est passée pour sa dernière soirée avec nous... Super nostalgique mais comme je te l'ai dit je viendrai bientôt "te visiter" pour un trip transatlantique :)
I know… I know. How could I A. not post a Happy St. Paddy’s Day post and B.not make a template?
*Hangs Head In Shame*
OK… about the template. I just couldn’t find a graphic I really liked. Then there was all the issues with my computer. Not to mention the clients… and so on. So… will [...]
When you aren't getting up and going out of the house you tend to lose track of the days of the week, and of course the date. This explains why I've only just noticed that it is St Patrick's Day today.
I always get a bit annoyed by St Patrick's Day. It is great if you are Irish to have the national day and the party and all. It is quite a good excuse if you are a student for copious amounts of
Last year, some of the facts on my Peever ancestry in Ireland were incorrect. My grandfather, Lindsay Peever was born in Pembroke, Canada around 1900. My greatgrandfather, James Peever was born in Poulawaddra in 1866 near Tralelee, Ireland. I would like to thank Kevin (Peever?) for that information.The above picture is the old Peever homestead which is still standing in Poulawaddra.My mother and I were both born in Pembroke, Ontario. It is a scenic small city on the Ottawa River about 90 miles from Ottawa. I spent many a summer at my grandfather's cottage fishing, swimming and having fun. I was lucky to have such a wonderful childhood connected with the great outdoors. Many children never get that chance.I grew up in Barrie, Ontario and both my
This isn't the exact design on the shirt Renee bought me last year for St. Paddy's Day, but the idea is the same. Renee and the girls are on a 'Spring Break' road trip right now. They are visiting a very close friend of Renee who used to live here, but has since moved. Them not being here today is really harder than I thought it was going to be, because we always enjoy this day together. To be completely honest, we enjoy being together pretty much all the days of the year, but some more than average.
St. Patrick's Day celebrations. My first year in Chicago, dad and I stumbled upon the river dyeing by accident, and now it's another yearly tradition for me, much like the Michigan Avenue tree lighting. Nothing says St. Patrick's Day like Starbucks, being up very early on Saturday morning and seeing a lot of green downtown.It's also funny to see the "commercialization" of the event as well. When I first went to the river dyeing, Jameson was not a sponsor of it and the Jameson "brand ambassadors" were not walking around giving still flags for attendees with the company's logo. Who knows what will happen next year? Maybe Guinness will get in on the action and do sampling!This is a 40-year plus tradition in the city and every year, I go and love it, just like a tourist. There's something abou
St. Patrick’s Day is Monday March 17th 2008. St. Patrick is the Patron saint of Green beer and Chicago River Coloring. With an editor who goes by the name Paddy Wallbouncer, you’d expect that theFutonPoncho would probably be one of the best places in the world for a recipe of Corned Beef and Cabbage. Use [...]
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St Patrick’s Day Fun Facts
· The St. Patrick's Day custom came to America in 1737 and was first publicly celebrated in Boston, MA.
· On St. Patrick's Day, you can bring yourself good luck by finding a four-leaf clover, wearing green, and kissing the Blarney Stone.
· There are 34.7 million U.S. residents who claim Irish ancestry. That’s almost nine times the population of Ireland itself !· Irish is among the top five ancestries in every state but two (Hawaii and New Mexico).· There are 4 pl
An Irishman went to a pet shop and asked how many budgies were in stock.
“We have 99″ replied the shop owner
“Give us the lot” said the Irish man, paid for them and left.
He went to a tailors shop and had 99 pockets sewn into a jacket, put a budgie in each pocket, went up to the [...]
I was sent this at work today.
Paddy was driving down the street in a sweat because he had an important meeting and couldn’t find a parking place. Looking up to heaven he said, ‘Lord take pity on me. If you find me a parking place I will go to Mass every Sunday for the rest [...]
Paddy had been drinking at his local Dublin pub all day and most of the night. Mica, the bartender, tells him, "You'll not be drinking any more tonight, Paddy." Paddy replies, "OK, Mick. I'll be on my way then." Paddy spins around on his stool and steps off. He falls flat on his face. "What the...." he pulls himself up by the stool and dusts himself off. He takes a step towards the door and falls flat on his face again. "Damn!" he says. He looks to the doorway and thinks that if he can just get to the door and get some fresh air, he'll be fine. He belly crawls to the door and shimmies up the door frame. He sticks his head outside and takes a deep breath of fresh air, feels much better and takes a step out onto the pavement and falls flat on his face. "BiJ
Paddy Clarke is not a funny story. The overwhelming feeling is one of palpable sadness, despite several humourous episodes, especially towards the earlier parts of the book. Ten year old Paddy, the eldest son of a large Irish family in fictitious(?) Barrytown of the sixties, thoroughly enjoys the company of his friends – Kevin, Liam, [...]
Businessweek.comVote for your favorite among the top two dozen young entrepreneurs in the Asia-Pacific region, where the local creativity is impressing venture capitalists and multinationals alike By Sonal Rupani There's never been a better time to be a young entrepreneur in Asia. There are more venture capitalists than ever in the region, many of them recent arrivals from Silicon Valley attracted by the supercharged growth rates in countries such as China, India, and Vietnam. At the same time, multinationals like Intel (INTC), Microsoft (MSFT), and IBM (IBM) are busy funding entrepreneurs too, investing in new companies regionwide. And they're impressed with the creativity they're seeing from local entrepreneurs. Gone are the days when startups were based largely on lower costs than the West. "I've been in this [region] for 10 years, and when you look across these markets, it's fantastic," says John Hummelstad, Singapore-based regional director for emerging technology and ve
Paddy Power find the most interesting ways to advertise. First printing their logo on hurlies and now they have actually convinced Fijis best player to change his name to Paddy Power for the World Cup in exchange for sponsoring the Fiji Team.
Read more on the BBC website here.
Sometime back, a Singaporean based company by the name of BAK2u have made it as a service help consumers keep track of their gadgets in CNN news. So after a couple of gatherings (from Ping.SG party to a couple of twitters and chat), BL sat down with Paddy Tan, the co-founder from BAK2u for an email interview to tell us more about what the company does in the realm of security, his personal trials and tribulations and how he sees the future of his company. Continue Reading » Website
My partner and I have officially been living in South Australia for six months today--a half a year living in another country. It’s sort of crazy when you think about it. It seems like just the other day, I was sitting at my receptionist job in downtown Chicago, fantasizing about moving here, going to school, eating my weight at sausage sizzles. And now I’m mowing meat pies and hugging koalas with the best of them.
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I found these cool crop pictures on Neat-o-rama . They are from another blog.
Check out the Rice Paddy Art!
No rice paddy's on Whidbey Island, but lot's of art.
Paddy Power Gold Cup Handicap Chase at Cheltenham 13 Nov 2004Class A Grade 3 for 5yo+ Going GoodOver 2 miles 4 furlongs 110 yards and 15 fences1st £63,800.00, 2nd £24,200.00, 3rd £12,100.00, 4th £5,500.00, 5th £2,750.00, 6th £1,650.00 1st Celestial Gold (IRE) M C Pipe 6 10-2 T J Murphy 12/1 2nd Thisthatandtother (IRE) P F Nicholls 8 10-12 R Walsh 13/23rd Monkerhostin (FR) P J Hobbs 7 10-0 1 A Dobbin 3/1F4th Ollie Magern N A Twiston-Davies 6 10-12 C Llewellyn 8/15th It Takes Time (IRE) M C Pipe 10 10-9 J E Moore 25/16th Take The Stand (IRE) P Bowen 8 11-7 S Durack 25/17th Tikram G L Moore 7 10-11 L Aspell 10/18th Ground Ball (IRE) C F Swan 7 10-6 R Thornton 14/19th Le Duc (FR) P F Nicholls 5 10-2 J Tizzard 20/110th Kelrev (FR) Miss Venetia Williams 6 9-12 S Thomas(3) 14/111th Fondmort (FR) N J Henderson 8 11-12 M A Fitzgerald 9/1Pulled Up Better Days (IRE) Mrs S J Smith 8 10-0 4 D Elsworth 25/1Fell Farmer Jack P J Hobbs 8 11-8 P Flynn 11/1PU Colca Canyon (IRE) Mrs John Harrington
Paddy Power Gold Cup Handicap Chase at Cheltenham 13 Nov 2004Class A Grade 3 for 5yo+ Going GoodOver 2 miles 4 furlongs 110 yards and 15 fences1st £63,800.00, 2nd £24,200.00, 3rd £12,100.00, 4th £5,500.00, 5th £2,750.00, 6th £1,650.00 1st Celestial Gold (IRE) M C Pipe 6 10-2 T J Murphy 12/1 2nd Thisthatandtother (IRE) P F Nicholls 8 10-12 R Walsh 13/23rd Monkerhostin (FR) P J Hobbs 7 10-0 1 A Dobbin 3/1F4th Ollie Magern N A Twiston-Davies 6 10-12 C Llewellyn 8/15th It Takes Time (IRE) M C Pipe 10 10-9 J E Moore 25/16th Take The Stand (IRE) P Bowen 8 11-7 S Durack 25/17th Tikram G L Moore 7 10-11 L Aspell 10/18th Ground Ball (IRE) C F Swan 7 10-6 R Thornton 14/19th Le Duc (FR) P F Nicholls 5 10-2 J Tizzard 20/110th Kelrev (FR) Miss Venetia Williams 6 9-12 S Thomas(3) 14/111th Fondmort (FR) N J Henderson 8 11-12 M A Fitzgerald 9/1Pulled Up Better Days (IRE) Mrs S J Smith 8 10-0 4 D Elsworth 25/1Fell Farmer Jack P J Hobbs 8 11-8 P Flynn 11/1PU Colca Canyon (IRE) Mrs John Harrington
You wouldn’t believe the night I’ve just had. It’ll take too long to go through the whole night, so we’ll skip the fun part, the dancing, the drinking - because we all know how that happens anyway. We’ll move straight into the violence and controversy. Everyone loves a bit of controversy every now and then.
Josh was catching a train home and Laura decided to see him off to the station and come back in; however the bouncers wouldn’t let her back in “because she’d had enough to drink”. She was a little bit pissed, but she could walk and get out most necessary words. It was a fair rejection in the end, but it wasn’t working in our favour, so at the time we weren’t very impressed. We decided to head down the road to the pub for one last drink and then go home; on the way Laura stacks it and has a leg now covered in blood. Five minutes later, pissed Katie is covered in blood crying about how much drycleaning will cost. How sh
If Al Gore can buy carbon offsets from himself, effectively doing nothing and paying very little to nothing for the privilege, so can I the Paddy. See here is my carbon off sets certificate!
Behold the green friendly Paddy.
You can participate too if you want to help save the planet and don't want [...]
Everyone says it is just a big stereotype. And as is often the case when everyone says it is just a stereotype, it is actually true.It turns out the Irish are the world's biggest binge drinkers. And this is why everyone wants to be Irish on St. Patrick's Day.The survey, conducted in October and November last year, found that almost one in five people between the ages of 15 and 24 drink five or more alcoholic beverages in one session.The poll found that 34% of Irish people questioned saying they "usually" binge drink, followed by Finland, where 27% of respondents said they did the same. Britain was third with 24% and Denmark fourth with 23%.Binge drinking was defined as five drinks in one sitting.But, it seems to me the whole concept of binge drinking is pretty slippery. I mean if some bloke comes home after a hard day's work and spends the whole evening in the pub, to get away from the family that despises him, and knocks down five stouts, is that binge drinking?And what if he ord
I really don't go in for St. Patrick's Day (or St. Guinness' Day as far as most of the World outside Ireland are concerned), even though I do like Guinness. Let's face it, the whole thing has been completely taken over by Irish alcoholic drinks manufacturers, and not being Irish, I think you'd have to drink quite a lot to give the time of day to stories of St. Patrick driving the snakes out of Ireland. At least the stories about St. David are slightly more believable and less mythical sounding, and yet you don't see half the world spending the day eating Leek based dishes or drinking Brains Bitter until they can't stand anymore. Still, I'm not going to stop anyone having a good time and the only people I'm hoping do stop anyone having a good time are the Welsh Rugby team by living up t
How predictable was this?
2007 could be 'hottest on record'
THE coming year was likely to be the warmest on record around the world, climate change experts at Britain's Met Office said today.
The global temperature was predicted to be 0.54C above the 1961-1990 average of 14C, it said.
It said there was a 60 per cent probability that [...]
I am but a simple person, I confess it without shame or embarrassment. I guess that's why I do not understand the current recycled sewerage debate going on here in Australia. It seems they want us to drink our refuse water. All cleaned up and decontaminated of course. They tell us [...]
After reading Bozwells "Is lamb" post, I thought stupidity could go no further. Then I read this
Green light for kosher crossings
AUSTRALIA'S first kosher pedestrian crossings will feature hi-tech detection sensors, allowing Orthodox Jews to cross busy Sydney streets safely during the Sabbath.
Waverley and Woollahra councils are expected to install the devices at two intersections [...]
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{mosgoogle right}NAKATSU, Oita -- An old man's pet emu, a 180-centimeter-tall flightless Australian bird, was caught in a rice paddy here Monday after escaping the previous day, police said.The bird was found strutting around in the paddy about 100 meters away from the 84-year-old owner's home.Nobody was injured during the bird's escape and no damage was reported.The bird went missing on Sunday.
{mosgoogle right}TOYOTA, Aichi -- A 15-year-old schoolgirl was found strangled in a rice paddy here Saturday, police said.Manami Shimizu, a first-year student at a high school affiliated with the Aichi University of Education, was found dead with a cord wrapped around her throat.She had last been seen heading off to school on Friday morning on her bicycle, and her body was found by her father in the paddy about 1 kilometer away from their home after family and friends co [...]
{mosgoogle right}OSHU, Iwate -- A group of 70-something local farmers has taken out the open division of the national paddy planting championships held here.The septuagenarian pastoralists completed planting their allotted paddy almost 30 minutes quicker than the winning high school team.Mizusawa Prefectural agricultural High School started the national rice paddy planting championships a decade a