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Touched by greatness

23 March, 2005
Posted in: Mr. Waffle, Reading etc.

Mr. W: Your cousin lives in Luxembourg?
Younger Colleague: No, he was working there for a couple of weeks. Actually, he was making a film. They have great film making facilities in Luxembourg.
Mr. W: Really? What was the film? Would I have heard of it?
Y. C.: Maybe, it was “Girl with a Pearl Earring”.
Mr. W: Oh yeah, I actually saw that. Who was your cousin?
Y. C.: Um, the painter guy.
Mr. W: Sorry, your cousin is Colin Firth?

Apparenly yes and he hates it when people come up to him and talk about “Pride and Prejudice”.

Comments
Mikeachim

on 23 March 2005 at 17:42

By ‘eck.
I’ve never understood the Pride & Prejudice wet shirt thing.
(But then I’m male. Apparently you have to be female).
Can anyone explain it?

lauren35

on 23 March 2005 at 18:09

Mikeachim : the primal act & animal energy of diving into a natural pool, the haughty but piercing & troubled look at the woman he loves, the strength of the body revealed by the clinging white shirt … need I go on?

NorahSplog

on 23 March 2005 at 18:13

Mmmmm Colin Firth.
When they make the film of my life, Mr Splog will be played by our Col.
Why’d he have to be called Colin though?

belgianwaffle

on 24 March 2005 at 08:03

Um, judging by the comments, it doesn’t look like he’s put P&P behind him, does it? Very good point about his name, Norah.

jackdalton

on 24 March 2005 at 10:01

Is there a ‘natural pool’ anywhere within striking distance of any stately home in Britain since the time of Capability Brown? Just wondering.
Anyway, I think he fell in because he was on drugs…..

belgianwaffle

on 29 March 2005 at 20:34

Ah Jack, you’re just jealous.

LRB personals

23 March, 2005
Posted in: Reading etc.

I like my women the way I like my kebab. Found by surprise
after a drunken night out and covered in too much tahini. Before too long I’ll have discarded you on the pavement of life, but until then you’re the perfect compliment to a perfect evening.  Man, 32. Rarely produces winning metaphors. Box no. 04/08.

Comments
dmts

on 23 March 2005 at 15:58

it makes you wonder why he thought the LRB was a suitable medium. I may be intrigued enough to meet him because of that. Adding swiftly, that it would only be an idea given that I’m a respectable married woman and wouldn’t do that sort of thing. Well, I’m married.

Kate_Sith

on 23 March 2005 at 15:59

But I’m not, Heather, and he sounds like my kind of guy.

belgianwaffle

on 23 March 2005 at 16:02

Yes, HJB, I know, appalling. Kate, am duly appalled. A kebab lover?!

Kate_Sith

on 23 March 2005 at 17:38

I’m duly hanging my head in shame. But am still strangely drawn to him.

belgianwaffle

on 24 March 2005 at 08:02

Kate, snap out of it! Now, quick, before you turn into a kebab.

Kate_Sith

on 24 March 2005 at 09:48

Argh! When you put it like that…

jackdalton

on 24 March 2005 at 09:51

What’s wrong with kebab, Kbabes? 😐

Kate_Sith

on 24 March 2005 at 12:44

Nothing really, but I wouldn’t want to be one.

Friar Tuck

on 24 March 2005 at 15:47

A prize to the first person to use the word “skewer” in his/her comment.

belgianwaffle

on 29 March 2005 at 20:35

No Kate, you wouldn’t. Down Jack. FT, there’ll be trouble – have you fixed your email yet?

Friar Tuck

on 04 April 2005 at 04:18

If you fix your e-mail, would it then be called an e-unuch?

belgianwaffle

on 05 April 2005 at 08:37

Look, is it fixed or not?

Friar Tuck

on 06 April 2005 at 20:11

Oh, sorry. I’ve a new address. Didn’t you get my email?

belgianwaffle

on 09 April 2005 at 14:10

No. Resend please…

LRB personals

23 March, 2005
Posted in: Reading etc.

Nothing in this world makes sense. Apart from Sphenodon punctatus, last survivor of the reptilian order Rhynchocephalia.

If only there were a woman like it – cold, efficient and brutal in
love, but also able to feed off small animals, inhabit the breeding burrows of certain small petrels and be in possession of a vestigial third eye. Zoologist M (51), possibly a little too close to his work. And his mother. Box no. 01/05

Comments
NorahSplog

on 23 March 2005 at 12:08

I like him.

lauren35

on 23 March 2005 at 12:50

I feel so uncerebral in comparison

belgianwaffle

on 23 March 2005 at 15:41

And people, there are lots more where this came from.

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