Flann O'Brien Memorial Thread (1 Viewer)

[jane]

Today is the anniversary of his death.

A moment of wordplay in his honour, if you please.

And a pint of plain.

 

[Thebeard]

When things go wrong
And will not come right
Though you do the best you can.
When you're down on the floor
And can do no more,
Then Flann O'Brien is your only man.

 

[dowel]

There was nothing unusual in the appearance of Mr John Furriskey but actually he has one distinction that is rarely encountered - he was born at the age of twenty-five and entered the world with a memory but without personal experience to account for it. His teeth were well formed but stained by tabacco, with two molars filled and a cavity threatened in the left canine. His knowledge of physics was moderate and extended to Boyle's Law and the Parallelogram of Forces.

 

[Mormon Nailer]

At the end of that hour, Martin O' Bannassa opened the door and we all went in except my mother who was still weak and feeble on the damp rushes. Ambrose was stretched, cold and dead, on the hearth-stone. He had died of his own stench and a black cloud of smoke almost smothered us. The Old-Fellow was very sad but gave heartfelt thanks to Martin and ceased puffing his pipe for the first time in three months. Ambrose was buried in an honourable and becoming manner and we were all once more very well in that house. My mother recovered fast from her ill-health and was once more energetic, boiling large pots of potatoes for the other pigs.

 

[Mitchum]

Grogan's should be more unbearable than usual today.

 

[Mitchum]

...if that's possible.

 

[Mormon Nailer]

Don't worry dude, you always have Bloomsday to look forward to.

 

[Moods For Mallards]

What would Flann O'Brien be doing in his grave if he read this rubbish now?

 

[Moods For Mallards]

What would Flann O'Brien be doing in his grave if he read this rubbish now?

He'd be turning in his grave.

 

[therealjohnny]

Apart from inventing a flat cake thing what else has this guy done?

 

[Goodbye]

Today I will only answer to the name Jams O Donnall

 

[timbot]

Moose Malone was a wide man, but no wider than a beer truck, oh wait, wrong author...

" The other day I had a word to say about the necessity for the professional book-handler, a person who will maul the books of illiterate, but wealthy, upstarts so that the books will look as if they have been read and re-read by their owners."

 

[Diddles]

Weird - I was tidying up in me Da's earlier and found the best of Myles na gCopaleen.