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Category Archives: Humour
Irish & Proud 💚💚💚💚
90% of your sick days happen to be Monday. Tool = Idiot. Go on, go on, go on, go on = Drink the tea, or fear her wrath. Tea solves all of your problems Everything is just grand (or it will be … Continue reading
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Tagged Humour, Ireland, Irish, Irish People
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Eat Pray Love
I watched the movie of this, staring Julia Roberts. It is wonderful, now to read the book! If you are renting a dvd or looking for a weekend movie on Netflix I highly recommend this. After a divorce Elizabeth goes … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs And Blogging, Books, Drama, Humour, Mind, Body & Spirit, Psychology, Relaxation
Tagged Comedy, drama, Eat, Elizabeth Gilbert, Julia Roberts, love, Pray, romantic film
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Literary Memes
Ironic Can’t Find The Words He Is Looking For So He Invents Them Hey Girl I Hear You Like Iambic Pentameter! 😉 I Think I Will Write A Love Story & In It Every One Dies Shakespeare’s Bear! …ha
Posted in Art & Arts, Humour, Literature, Writing & Writers
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ART – HA
Bad Hair day! Ignore The Haters Check Out My Legs! Too Many Updates Our Mona Lisa Through The Years But You Didn’t! Poker Face! Portrait Mr Bean At The Art Gallery Mr.C. Norris The Hard Old Days Please Tell Me … Continue reading
Ha – Writers’ Pics
Selfies V Tagged Photos
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You’re Irish When You Have No Idea How To Make A Long Story Short
Wait until I tell you the news, boil the kettle and sit down! – so me 🙂 If talking was an Olympic sport I would bring a gold medal home for Ireland! 😉
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Last Run Before Bedtime – Follow the sheep #baa
Sheep Art 🙂 ‘Why do you have to be the same as the others? …Most of them are stupid’. Ken Follett ‘If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to … Continue reading
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Hamlet’s Duplex
2B Or Not 2B! 😉
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I was quiet but I was not blind.- Jane Austen
I was quiet but I was not blind.- Jane Austen (so me 🙂 ha)
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Love This Site – Read Any Book Free Online
Title: Read Any Book Author: ReadAnyBook Full Text & Source:http://www.readanybook.com/ The Internet, Online, 13/4/2016 Sample Text Books by genre Literature 2396 Classic Authors 1871 Poetry 2295 Drama 1542 Children 3001 New Books & Old Authors In Every Section Comedy 84 … Continue reading
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Tagged classics, drama, free books read, free read, full text book online, literature full text books, new authors, old authors, poetry, Read Any Book
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Are These the World’s 7 Funniest Paintings?
Title: Are These the World’s 7 Funniest Paintings? Author: Brandon Specktor, Reader’s Digest Full Text & Source: http://www.rd.com/funny-stuff/funny-paintings/ The Internet, Online, 9/4/2016 Sample Text: Slideshow:http://www.rd.com/funny-stuff/funny-paintings/1/ “La Clairvoyance” — René Magritte, 1936 The funny, far-out visions of surrealists like René Magritte … Continue reading
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Tagged Are These the World’s 7 Funniest Paintings?, Brandon Specktor, funny Art pictures, Humour, Reader's Digest
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Librarian Rhapsody – Libraries Matter
This is a parody of Bohemian Rhapsody by librarians. Title: Librarian Rhapsody Author: Shoalhaven Library Staff Full Text & Source: http://forreadingaddicts.co.uk/video/parody-librarian-rhapsody/7479 The Internet, Online, 5/4/2016
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Mona Lisa ???
The Mona Lisa is a portrait of a woman by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci.It is “the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world”. … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, art humour, Funny Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa, parody
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Allergic To Winter!!
sounds like a plan – who is coming with me?
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Tagged I put my symptoms into WebMD, need a beach holiday, need to be on a beach reading, winter escape
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32 Books Guaranteed To Make You Laugh Out Loud
Title:32 Books Guaranteed To Make You Laugh Out Loud Author:Erin Chack, BuzzFeed Full text & Source: http://www.buzzfeed.com/erinchack/books-guaranteed-to-make-you-laugh-out-loud#.nlb0yZeP5 The Internet, Online, 22/1/2016 Sample Text: Warning: You’ll probably want to read these books in private, since spontaneous maniacal laughter may ensue. 1. Is … Continue reading
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Tagged 32 Books Guaranteed To Make You Laugh Out Loud, Books, Erin Chack, BuzzFeed, Funny, Humour
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1000 novels everyone must read: Comedy (part one)
Title: 1000 novels everyone must read: Comedy (part one) Author: The Guardian Newspaper Full Text & Source: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/jan/19/1000-novels-comedy-part-one The Internet, Online, 3/11/2015 Sample Text: Kingsley Amis: Lucky Jim (1954) Amis’s first and — many would say — best book mixes … Continue reading
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Ha… This Made Me Smile – Bedtime Stories!
Title: 15 Reasons to Date a Librarian Author: eHarmony Staff Full Text & Source: http://www.eharmony.com/dating-advice/date-ideas/15-reasons-to-date-a-librarian/#.ViGJNXKFPv8 The Internet, Online, 17/10/2015 Sample Text: Shh! Just because you shouldn’t ask loudly doesn’t mean you shouldn’t invite that cute librarian out for a drink. … Continue reading
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Tagged 15 Reasons to Date a Librarian, eHarmony Staff
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Feminist Wedding Cake #manchosen
The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, “It’s a girl.” ~Shirley Chisholm 🙂 Nobody will ever win the Battle of the Sexes. There’s just too much fraternizing with the enemy. ~Henry Kissinger I’m tough, … Continue reading
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