These cows are small , those cows are far away...

Friday's contest,Why do Super Villains always fail ? showed what a wide and diverse bunch you wonderful people are ...mostly. There were a lot of imaginative answers, I particularly liked Patrick Tuite's description of the scene of Hank Scorpio from the Simpson's :

HANK : By the way ,Homer, what's your least favourite country, Italy or France ?

HOMER : "France"

HANK , ( adjusting giant laser canon pointing towards the sky) : " Heh, heh, heh. Nobody ever says Italy...."

Oddly only one super villain got 2 votes, Dick Dastardly, but no mention of his trusty side kick , Muttley. Muttley was always my favourite with his infectious laugh and his craving for recognition and medals.

But the winner of Friday's €100 voucher was Brendan O'Brien with his vote for Fr.Fintan Stack from the great Father Ted series. I'd like to have played a clip of father Stack but in a luddite like move the wonderful people at Channel 4 have deemed that the clips from father Ted, shot on location in Ireland, starring the cream of Irish comedy talent and written by two of Ireland's three best ever situation comedy writers, cannot be shown in Ireland...on You Tube..the biggest free resource of clips in the world....AND they've dropped Big Brother this year !

Anyway , congratulations Brendan and thanks for reminding us of a great comedy. My favourite sketch was in the caravan when they were on their holidays :

Father Ted - " Now concentrate this time ,Dougal. These [ he points to toy plastic cows on the table] are very small. Those [ pointing at some cows out of the window in a distant field] are far away..."

The message from Father Ted could be applied to a lot of different criteria and products, but as I'm writing for the 4th largest workwear company in Monaghan and this blog malarkey is supposed to generate some business and not, as john pointed out, solely for my own amusement, wathc how I skillfully and seamlessly adopt one of the funniest sketchs of all time to sell some work trousers.....

Father Ted's lesson in perception can readily be applied to the work trouser market. [ Told you it was seamless] Here at chateau Brix we sell many different types, brands and levels of quality in work trousers. They all follow the same design, mostly copied from Snickers innovation , and they are all generally made from the same material. You , dear reader, could be forgiven for assuming that they only differ in price, but no. When it comes to work trousers you do indeed get what you pay for , so to [ terribly and inappropriately] paraphrase Father Ted " Lee Cooper work trousers are very cheap. Snickers work trousers are reassuringly expensive."

[ See , you hardly noticed me putting that in , did you ? ]

Before you ask the third greatest situation comedy writer in Ireland is the delightfully fragrant Damien Owens, of this parish. And he was 40 yesterday !!!

Cheers,

Paul

P.S. Today I am listening to an old classic XTC Senses Working Overtime