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A Letter To The Irish People

Wednesday, 28 September 2011 by Ben Keenan

Hello there dearies, it’s me again,

I’m just writing a wee letter to let ye know how much I love you. Thank you for nominating me to be your president again. Third time lucky, isn’t that what we say? I don’t hold it against you for forgetting to vote for me the first two cockadoody times. Not even a little eeny weeny bit. Even when that Mary McAleese, who’s basically a protestant, stood up there, a proud dirty birdy, proud as punch so she was, even when she stood up there all basically protestant and proud, I knew you loved me more, because God told me so.

Let me tell you a little something about God. I know a lot of you out there these days are atheists and homosexuals, and that’s fine, God loves you, even if you don’t want him to. Even if you don’t believe in him, he’s inside you. He’s inside all of us, especially me, and he told me how much you all love me. Why else would have taken me to number one all those long years ago? Don’t worry my pets, my little Irish sweethearts, soon I’ll be president again and then I can be Queen of Ireland again and then I can be on the charts again and you’ll all remember how much you love me. Forever and ever.

Now, I hear things people say in the internet about me and at twitter on me. They think that being born in the UK, raised in The North and then moving to Alabama for a lot of my life makes me unsuitable to be president, that living in America making a fortune from running a Christian record label (until we got sued, God bless us) puts me out of touch with the plight of the average Irish person. My answer to those facebooking, twitterering emailers is this: do you want an average Irish person ruling you with a dull intellect and colonial complex, or do you want someone better, someone from a proper country to rule you with the kindly iron fist of God?

That’s what I thought.

People complain about property bubbles and international markets, but you put your faith in me, I’ll keep my faith in God (where it belongs) and together we’ll rid this island of divorce and contraception, and keep abortion at bay, lock the teenage mothers up, sacrifice Enda Kenny to The Pope and make prayer part of the Leaving Cert. And don’t get me started on gay rights – we’ll laugh them out of our churches and rid the island of those dirty perverts faster than you can say “Forgive me Father, for I have sinned”.

I’m also pleased to see that science has gotten yet another thing completely wrong with this neutrino nonsense. When I wrap my big, loving arms around this country I’ll be sure to shut down the satanic science faculties in our universities and get them pumping out priests as fast as possible to get God back into our primary schools, to head that Big Bang / Evolution nonsense off at the pass.

God bless you, all of you, especially those of you too contemptible to believe,

Dana

XoXoXoXo

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The 5 Steps to Happiness

Monday, 12 September 2011 by Gemma Creagh

“A guide to minding mindfulness that’s so healing it would make the Dali Llama shit himself.”

– (Esteemed Client) Barack Obama

The modern world is one full of stresses  – external as well as internal. As a both medical doctor and a spiritual guru, my new book “Take it up the Karma”, will to help you navigate through the minefield of unhappiness to the nudist camp of calm. You too can be the envy of your friends, rubbing your newly found nirvana right in their face in no time.

This critically mentioned book takes you through five easy-to-follow steps:

Step 1: Buy Enya CDs and wicker furniture.

People always ask me, “Gemma, how do you get so goddamn centered? TELL ME!”  To which I simply reply, “Is not he who smiles, evoking the act in the action?”

This has a very simple meaning; undertaking an action changes the overall outcome. Much like Shroedinkers Cats – he is a scientist from the past who would suffocate his pets in boxes to see how alive and dead he could make them.

So what am I saying in this first section? If you act like an enlightened person, this you will become.

Enya

Look how calm Enya's music makes Enya.

Step 2:  Love thy neighbour

Literally. Quite simply this section of the book deals with release and sharing, both emotionally and physically. Most organized religions preach abstinence, however I believe that one must spread love around – or even pass it in a circle at an organized event. To meet like-minded people in your area, call our personal Physical Release Expert & Organiser Rory Cashin on 086 *** *199 for more details.

It certainly helps when you have hot neighbours.

Step 3: Care for your Chakras

This segment deals with personal well-being. You have seven chakras; each are important energy points, which if kept unblocked and open, encourages health, happiness and vitally. These are: the Top of Your Head Chakra, the Inner Eye Chakra, the Neck Chakra, the Bosom Chakra, the Belly Chakra, the Underbelly Chakra and finally the important Genital Chakra.

In section 3 of “Take it up the Karma”, I will demonstrate the proper function of each and how to cure metaphysical ailments. For instance, did you know that if you poke your Underbelly Chakra, you would get a pain in your inner eye? Or that to place a blue crystal on your Neck Chakra cures the common cold?

Step 4: Dispel the demon of Money

I believe it was Gandhi who said “More Money, more problems…” and this wise man had a point. Even those creepy Catholics had it right when they said money is the root of all evil. Think about this for a minute; anything that has ever gone wrong in your life can be traced back to it.

Horrible boss? You put up with it for spondulas.

Sore foot? Doctors are too expensive.

Hangover? You couldn’t have bought all that beer without … you got it! MONEY.

So cast aside the shackles of this evil cash monster before you get bitten and too turn into a brain-eating zombie.

Number: **** **** **** 6756

Sort code: 78 – 09 – 65

If you send everything to this account it can be put through the cleansing process and put to good use. Helping sick children or puppies whatever.

Gandhi

Step 5: Complete transcendence

Easily attained; once finishing steps 1 – 4, total transcendence means becoming one with an enlightened community. Undertaking this means devoting your life totally to these ideals.

The most effective place to do this is at the Half A Giraffe Transcendence Camp. Located in the romantic setting of the nature-filled forests in Eastern Bolivia, here you will have a physical and mental routine to challenge and engage your soul. Devotees are placed into specific areas depending on their spiritual requirements such as:

–      Hand-sowing garments for Primark. To understand these teachings and the purest form of socialism – it is important to remain outside it. You know, for Clarity.

–      Farming. Being one with nature is being one with oneself in oneness. Join likeminded people in tending to our beautiful poppy and hemp fields.

–      Labs. Those who need to be reminded of our origin will be placed in the scientific labs. Here we create vast quantities of the compounds of enlightenment.

–      Servitude. One must lower oneself to rise above the false ideals of “Society”. Those lucky enough to be stationed here will experience the beauty of humility. By tending to the every whim of others, you are in fact tending to the every whim of your own soul.

Half a Giraffe Camp

Luxury accommodation

So please, join us. Happiness is 100% guaranteed* if you follow all the steps as outlined in “Take it up the Karma” – only available to purchase online at the nominal fee of €500 per ebook, exclusively at Half-a-Giraffe.com

Dr. Gemma “Deadly” Creagh

On a completely unrelated topic, do check out our friend’s the Diet of Worms Fringe Festival show, Cult. The previews start tomorrow and tickets are selling like sexy hotcakes, I’m sure!

*Terms and conditions may apply. Half a Giraffe are not responsible for depression, murder or instances of gigantism that sed book may propagate. You may not extract or re-utilise information derived from the text and/or any copies of such information (whether electronic or in hard copy format) for any commercial or business purpose including but not limited to, trading, building commercial databases, reselling or redistribution of such information.

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Spring Break

Saturday, 24 April 2010 by Gemma Creagh

Dude… it was Sunday when me and the boys rolled into town – and we hit the party train hard in a big way. We were getting mucho attention from the ladies and were pretty popular with the local crew. No exaggeration or nothing but they practically had a parade when we arrived. We even got sorted out with free drinks and grubbage… SCORE!

It was all going gravy until the shiz went down. I wasn’t there at the time but Matt told me that some shopkeeper dude was raggin’ on Jay’s aul pair or something. Jay’s normally pretty cool about stuff so I reckon this guy must have been a mega “See You Next Thursday” (if you know what I mean). Anyways, Big Jay went completely ape-shit and pushed over that ass-muncher’s stalls or whatever.

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