Ah yes, it seems like only yesterday that I posted about the competition to name the Baby Elephant in Dublin Zoo.

At that time a whole other storm was raging among bloggers which I discovered when Jazz Biscuit linked to the post and with his typical good humour plus powerful Jedi mind tricks, he restored order to the galaxy in his own special way (oooh, that sounds very Graham Norton in my head - he used that line in I’d do Anything when one of the Nancy’s got the boot off the show).

A few months later and another storm blows into town. This time round I’m playing Sideshow Bob in the ever expanding Dramatis Personae and by a totally mad co-ink-e-dink, Dublin Zoo have another competition!

Yay for anything that stops these images in my head of wagons circling around camp le craic; images that only entered my mind when I read comments on various other blogs this evening. Last time I checked, comments were working on this blog but I guess that when there is a war on, comment etiquette (if there ever was one) goes out the window. Anyway, back to the competition…

This time round, the wonderful marketing people in the Zoo have come up with prize that must be every child’s dream. The winner will bag the super prize of a day as an assistant to the chief lionkeeper - how cool is that? But there’s more - they get an annual pass to the zoo and a private screening of the latest Chronicles of Narnia flick for 30 people as well.

I’m entering for my nephews and nieces. I’m sure they would love something like this. I’ve never asked them what their dream is, but I’ll be sure to do that next time I see them.

My dream as a child was to one day go to Disneyland. I remember playing in the park up the road from the house and looking for rainbows in puddles. I believed that if I saw a rainbow in a puddle and went to bed, I would be transported to Disneyland when the clock struck midnight.

I wish I was in Disneyland tonight.

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Not content with stealing our water and dumping their rubbish on us, news reached this part of the world during the week that South Dublin County Council plans to dispose of some toxic waste in County Wicklow. Seven cylinders of chemicals are to be destroyed at an army firing range in Manor Kilbride. 2 of the cylinders contain Hydrogen cyanide which local TD Liz McManus points out is the very same al-Qa’ida planned to use in the New York subway system.

The cylinders of waste are to be destroyed in a “controlled burn” that requires a 1 km exclusion zone and the vacation of the army camp for four days. Locals haven’t been properly informed apparantly.

McManus says :

“For far too long Wicklow was used as a dumping ground for other people’s unwanted or hazardous waste. I had hoped that this day was over, but apparently not. Minister Gormley cannot allow this crazy and risky plan to go ahead”

And so say I.

I’m not talking about the sugary kind, but the kind that can be done in a car. Here’s a definition.

A “doughnut” is the act of rotating the rear of the car around the front wheels continuously, thereby creating circular skid marks if done right, and causing lots of tire smoke. All in all, it is a pretty pointless technique, with no real use except to show off.

Here’s one demonstrated for you by “johnny from castlebar” which is “tight”… What better way to perform a pointless technique than on a pier. Muppet. 

I nominated it using the direct nomination form rather than taking the “blog about it and link to awards.ie” route. I’d love to have blogged about it, but I think he/she would prefer the route I took. I don’t know this person of course, but you can sometimes get an inkling of what a person would prefer from their posts.

Anyway, I hope this person wins the award as it is one of the most consistently funny and entertaining blogs I read. I have my fingers crossed.