The Goldy Fish - newspaper of James Keiller

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Another manifesto...

4 • Día 1,036, 13:38 • Publicado en Ireland Ireland

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I’m James Keiller and I’ve decided to run for Congress in the Shannon constituency. My platform is a simple one and similar to that articulated by a number of other very worthy candidates. That is, if I get elected there’ll be one less rogue in the

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A Moment of Zen

2 • Día 1,010, 16:01 • Publicado en Ireland Ireland

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Today, in Terre Haute, Indiana, a bronze statue was unveiled in honour of Max Erhmann (1872-1945). He is most famous as the author of the Desiderata, a sort of poetic forerunner of “Everybody’s Free to Wear Sunscreen”. For the day that’s in it and

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Good Sports?

7 • Día 870, 15:55 • Publicado en Ireland Ireland

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Entretenimiento e interacción social

It all began on Monday morning with a shout from Independent Labour Party (ILP) apparatchik, Winston Hope Smith, calling on people not to vote ILP as the Party had been a victim of a PTO. This raised a number of possible scenarios:
WHS has gone

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The Ballad of Brian Boru

9 • Día 843, 23:53 • Publicado en Ireland Ireland

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I know this is way past the news cycle, but the muse was late.

I took the Danes in 1014
At the Battle of Clontarf
And I took the Irish Treasury
To give you all a laugh.

But my joke it flew above the heads
Of my intellectual inferiors

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Verses Inspired By Recent Scandals

6 • Día 819, 15:26 • Publicado en Ireland Ireland

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Now that we all know the truth, this is clearly a work of fiction.

The small furry creature looked deep in his soul
Saying “How did I get in such peril?
My good name is gone ‘cos I played with some trolls
And went just a little bit feral.