The Day The Word Fuck Disappeared
by Michael Scully
The day the word fuck disappeared
Every print of Scarface melted.The day the word fuck disappeared
The Oxford English Dictionary
Became obsolete.The day the word fuck disappeared
D.I.Y. enthusiasts
Wore black bandages.The day the word fuck disappeared
The word shit
Went into hiding.The day the word fuck disappeared
Hiberno-english
Mourned an amputation.The day the word fuck disappeared
A worrying proportion of the population
Were struck completely dumb.The day the word fuck disappeared
Docks, building sites, housing estates,
school playgrounds, sports stadiums
and pubs were eerily silent.The day the word fuck disappeared
The Amalgamated Union of Asterisks
Went on strike for higher wages.The day the word fuck disappeared
The prim and purse-lipped
Had a weak tea party and an early night.The day the word fuck disappeared
The Collected Poems of Philip Larkin became
The Selected Poems of Philip Larkin.The day the word fuck disappeared
A million prayers (what the fuck are you doing to me now)
Drifted a little off course.The day the word fuck disappeared
Sex was a little more decorous.
Less fun.
Mick
The Internet
Hi Graham, Hi Gill, Hi Inty
Change Your Mind ~ Change The World
Alan Emtage, (born November 27, 1964) conceived and implemented the first version of Archie, a pre-Web internet search engine for locating material in public FTP archives.
- The author originally wanted to call the program “archives,” but had to shorten it to comply with the Unix world standard of assigning programs and files short, cryptic names such as grep, cat, troff, sed, awk, perl, and so on.
A native of Barbados, and the son of Sir Stephen and Lady Emtage, he attended high school at Harrison College from 1975 to 1983 (and in 1981 becoming the owner of a Sinclair ZX81 with 1K of memory), where he graduated at the top of his class, winning the Barbados Scholarship.
I cycled across London to get 16k of RAM upgrade
In 1983 he entered McGill University in Montreal, Canada studying for an honors Bachelor’s degree in computer science which was followed by a Master’s degree in 1987 from which he graduated in 1991. Emtage was part of the team that brought the first Internet link to eastern Canada (and only the second link in the country) in 1986. In 1989 while a student and working as a systems administrator for the School of Computer Science, Emtage conceived and implemented the original version of the Archie search engine, the world’s first Internet search engine and the start of a line which leads directly to today’s Altavista, Yahoo!, and Google.
45 years old in a couple of weeks.
Some Stats:
- 105,170,327 active web surfers in the US
- In Europe 105,096,093
- Asia 704,213,930 Internet users
- Latin America and The Caribbean 175,834,439
I make that 2,180,629,578 oh, and I’ve got two computers so 2,180,629,579.
To Get The Ball Rolling……
To Get The Ball Rolling……
C O N I F I G U R A T I O N
TWTWTW
- 1. Opened The Shop at 16 Patrick Street
- 2.Windows 7 “How Do I love thee?”
- 3. Worked on my WeddingsOnTheInternet.com forecast and will only lose €146,556 in the first year.
Bless This House
- 4.Hired a cleaner and a Graphic Designer, Should be able to take over Russia
btw, Set Up What I Found In The Attic .com for a mate
Well eBay is a bit unfriendly
- 5. Planned Evening sessions. Nite Club on Saturdays for 16 year olds called WTF? REM: Invite BeardyMan ;
Monday Nite is Movie Nite Called “That’ll Do Pig” opening with “Babe” Theme song Leonard Cohen ” Chelsea Hotel…You got away, didn’t you, Babe… ” . Show “Cool Hand Luke” on Good Friday.Friday Nite is the Casino Called “Phil’s Café Americain” Casablanca playing in the background, roulette wheel for charity “Ravens Kiss”Over 30’s only.
- The Place looks Gorgeous. Installed LCD screen in the window mirroring the main inside! WOW! Applied to the local peoples bank for €2k.
Invited Michelle to the opening on Guy Fawkes Night (404 years fighting Terrorism)
The First Lady
- Ordered a server for 16PatrickStreet.com, 8 gigs of RAM! On Interbnet backbone with 1,800 gigs of bandwidth
- 6……. >
Oh dear. Got beaten up (alledgedly) by the owner’s son (alledgedly) and a Thuggee…Got thrown out into the street. Called The Cops but
Locks changed. Electricity turned off. All is Dark. Oh dear- Sorry, You must be getting bored…..
Sorry
btw- Set up my Dunne Stores LapTop, plugged into The Internet Thingy
not happy with the cops so complained sort of…
Beefed everything up a tad by adding a criminal lawyer and my doctor into the mix….
Popped out for lunch and had a very nice salad with fetta cheese, loads of olives, tikka chicken and Bruschetta on the side The chef makes his own salad dressing. I mean, forget Ceaser…..
btw my #irishthursday twitter is so funny…ha ha ha
Thought i better be creative to re-charge the old batteries so made this:Needed Xtra Gears
- I’m Getting a bit bored now! So long story short, escated to justice Victims of Crime
made a video
- 8?. The perp dumped my PC in the street
So put the top down and picked it up.Sprayed the PC to match the car, damned paparazzi are everywhere
drove home and plugged it in……I can get on with Tony Starks GUI now
rotfcmao
Wrote a short story called “Here There Be Dragons”
Scary
Dragon Queen in Civvies
Dragon Queen After Markings
A Weyr of Dragons
A Weyr of Dragons, WoW!
A Cute REAL Sea Dragon
Can't Leave a Good Image alone can you, a?
Tullamore Is On The Map
Dragons In The Attic
Windows7
Hey Chris,
I’m on board, Just turned sixty this year. Made A Start…….
Letter to Alexia Golez
First computer 1981, First Computer training company 1995, Internet Company 1996, first cybercafé in Tullamore, first wireless internet service provider outside of cities
We went bust in 2006 because of lack of investment
2009 I am sixty and I am back!
Can you list me? Am I worthy?
http://nowchangeyourlife.wordpress.com
http://blog.nowhostyoursite.com (personal and friends)
http://www.youtube.com/philipjamesbryan
http://blip.tv/TechnologyIsMe (new)
I have a pub “Just for the Craic” http://www.vip.ie/profile/PhilipFinlayBryan
Personal Site : http://pjfbncyl.com
Books : http://www.scribd.com/pjfbncyl
Web Hosting and Web Design : http://nowhostyoursite.com , http://host.nowhostyoursite.com
Under Development: http://irishsecure.com
Software under development: Adobe Flex
Twitter: http://twitter.com/pjfbncyl
and Just4You2
I am also on : Facebook, My Space (where I publish my poetry), Blogger, LinkedIn, deviantArt, Photobucket, bebo
I have accounts with iMDBPro, Visual Thesaurus, imeem, flickr, last.fm and TingMe
I submit usually daily to mashable, digg, and stumbleupon
You can leave a comment: here: http://pjfbncyl.disqus.com/
I use a 2.33ghz, 4gb ram, 1.2 terabyte hdd, 21” flat screen computa (sic) which matches my black iPhone 3G [s]
(I am currently hassling Apple because they don’t include Adobe (no flash, no widgets) in their apps. I have been issued a case number)
I receive Disability allowance but I am getting better everyday
Thank you for reading this
Philip Finlay-Bryan B.Sc. (Hons), MA
Tullamore, County Offaly, Ireland
+353860257434
Firefox 3.5 Released
Seems like a very good improvement. It certainly is fast.
I added febe, a back up manager, firebug for web development (html 5 development plus editing tools plus web site speed plus CSS verification…..) and colorzilla which allows for colour picking on site.
That will keep me going.
Firefox has always been my default browser but I also used Chrome because it was much faster ~ I will give them a speed test.
Released only a few hours ago it is approacing 1 Million downloads (Watch in Real Time Here)
Internet Explorer seems a bit ancient?
Well done Mozilla
Philip 19.40 GMT
Dude Starship
All I know is this: the ravens kiss my mouth,
the veins are tangled here,
the sea is made of blood.All I know is this: the hands reaching out,
my eyes are closed,
my ears are closed,
the sky rejects my scream.All I know is this: my nostrils drip with dreams
the hounds lap us up,
the fools laugh out,
the clock ticks out the dead.All I know is this: my feet are sorrow here,
my words are less than lilies,
my words are clotted now:
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