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To quote a Lionel Rich-Tea song, "Hello! Is it me you're looking for?" Apologies for this morning. If proof was ever there that the premise for movies like I-Robot and technology taking over the world are bollocks, all you need is a cold spell and a storm to stop it dead!!! if you were blindly pawing around on your radio dial like a randy adolescent at a teenage disco then you would have seen that our signal disappeared!!! People are working on it as we speak ....SO DON'T WORRY WE'LL BE BACK TOMORROW AFTER DEFEATING KANG AND HIS ROBOTIC EMPERORS....or whenever the cables and stuff are fixed.......................IN THE MEANTIME
Hope ye had a brilliant Christmas and New Year..........i'm writing this squinting my eyes or eye should i say as i have still not removed the Champagne cork from my socket after a rather unfortunate NYE celebration fiasco...but enough about that and i don't even want to tell you about my hurty knee...some of us just battle on *bites knuckles and looks to the Lord* As you may have heard I managed to get my boney arse over to the incredible surroundings of the 'Eternal City', Rome for my New Year's celebrations. It has to be one of the most inspiring and beautiful places i have ever been in my life and i used to reserve that kind of accolade for Blarney ;-) "But Father Lenny the other places will be offended" ..."Oh sorry i meant to say all the places are beautiful places" PHEW............ Anywho, below is a selection of pics for your perusal and amusement of some of the more bizarre things that affected me over the course of five days....
First up is the Colosseum...
At it's height back in B.C. that's Before Christ i prefer to use B.L. that's Before Lenny *coughs into fist* anyway shitloads of years before TV was poisoned by Big Brother this was the kind of entertainment to be found on the streets of Rome. Like an ancient Old Trafford (it could hold 70,000!!) crowds gathered to watch feens with armour, big forks and a death wish battle Hippos, leopards, Bulls, Giraffes (what the fuck is a giraffe gonna do to ya..."Ooooohhhh i have a deadly neck move...oh fuck i slipped bollocks cant get up...ah well") Alligators and amongst a whole array of other crazy shit Caledonian Bears!! Basically theses hairy dudes were Grizzlies from ancient Scotland all pumped up on Tennents Super and boxed wine probably sporting a wee kilt and a ginger wig..."Eh ill just have a swally a this Bucky then i'll tear yer heed reet off...C'mere ye Barshtard" Over 9,000 animals were killed in the first year alone and this went on for over 500 years...Animal conservation Roman style.
One of the myths about the Colosseum and as seen in movies like Gladiator is the thumbs-up signal to suggest approval. This is a myth as a 'THUMBS DOWN' signal from the crowd meant the Gladiator would survive...Thumbs down meant he could "stay on earth" Thumbs-Up meant he would "go to heaven or the Gods" so next time you find yourself in the midst of Gladiatorial combat on Patrick street you'll know!!!
A statue of Nero once stood alongside the Colosseum. Made entirely of solid gold it towered over 50 METRES!!!! above the plebs below...However it was plundered years later and made into thousands of those huge bangly earrings, tragic.
More ruins to check out. This used to be a palace of Nero's and Hadrian and a night it has a really eerie feel to it...or maybe that was the guy in the mac following me...erm..spooky.
There's something really Thong with this picture..."Strictly No Ballroom"
They say a photo speaks a thousand words..this just says "Balls" "Neck" "Whiplash" "Doctor"
The Gnomefather
The funkiest Pimping Gnome i have ever seen...
The "Creation of Adam" ...
...one of the masterpieces painted by Michelangelo in the jaw-dropping Sistine Chapel....
...and "Fist of Fury"
...a poster as seen on the streets of Rome advertising a club night!!!!!!
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