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redand proud is just posting an article in the telegraph, dhamaurian an article in an aussie newspaper called the sunday mail.

I'm disinclined to believe any paper called the mail even if totally unconnected to our one.

Plus the telegraph one was supporting brendan's comment about the dna stuff. So looking like not.


And Brendan, me too!!!

Hi Everyone.


Don't forget its Founders Day at Dulwich College tomorrow (Saturday).. It?s usually quite a good day especially with the concert in the evening along with the fireworks towards the end. If you've got time to spare, I would recommend it!


(Sorry I know its not exactly East Dulwich, but still thought it was worth mentioning!)

one night an ira checkpoint stops a car containing ian paisley and daniel o donnell(unlikely i know,but you never know).

anyway the lackey goes up to the boss and tells him who he has stopped and has he got permission to shoot them.

go ahead replies the boss.

just as well there was only two of them in the car replies the lackey as i,ve only got 2 bullets left.

well in that case goes the boss shoot o donnell twice.

why says the lackey.

well says the boss to be sure,to be sure.

I love the Irish festival - it really reminds me of that episode of Fr Ted where they have the Funland carnival - remember the spiderbaby that is actually a baby but has the head and body of a spider?


Anyway, me personal highlights of previous years include:


- Each county having its own personal tent. (Very demonstrative of Irish tribalism).


- Tombolas with prizes like tins of peas.


- The wee dancers with orange tans and amazing corkscrew beehive hairdos.


- The refreshment stalls with bread and jam.


- The big farmer looking blokes who win the tug of war.


Lovely. You're right all that is missing is the lovely gerls competition. Dulwich Mum could probably enter her nanny. She sounds like the acme of lovely girlyness.

The weather is absolutely perfect as well. I always thought it wasnt quite right on previous years with the sunshine. So much more appropriate (like St Patricks Day) where you have the wind and rain lashing the face off you.


We will probably lose the east of East Dulwich in the howling gale.

SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

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> Reading this in a lovely smoke free pub and

> laughing like a drain. .

>

> if anyone tries one of the rides . . . Careful now


Oh bloody hell, I remember going on a very very stomach churning ride there a year or 2 back with a certain Mrs Mockney... Not good for a hangover at all!!! Mrs Mockney wasn't enjoying being spun around in the air, and she wanted me to know this! ;-)

I am a Ginga and am proud of it - there are a HUGE % of Gingas in my family, but no persons of Irishness that I am aware of. As for the Neanderthal thing:


"The Neanderthals are generally thought to have been a less intelligent species than modern man, Homo sapiens. They were taller and stockier, but with shorter limbs, bigger faces and noses, receding chins and low foreheads. They had a basic, guttural vocabulary of about 70 words, probably at the level of today's two-year-old, and they never developed a full language, art or culture"


Well, that could be me ....

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