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Malachy Purcell

Malachy Purcell

Sad stuff about us

http://sillysocksonfriday.com/2024/03/22/making-ourselves-mad/

Mar 21

Mar 21

Malachy Purcell

Speak now or forever hold your peace!

The debate over the referendum to grant a “Voice” to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders sparks many thoughts in my mind, most of…

Aug 2, 2022

Aug 2, 2022

Malachy Purcell

Call me cantankerous

The statue of Edward Colston was toppled in a Black Lives Matter protest and tossed into a river in Bristol. He had been a merchant who…

Mar 20, 2022

Call me cantankerous

Mar 20, 2022

Malachy Purcell

The mysteries of sex

Hopefully the title has lured your interest and you read on. This is about an older man’s resistance to change and opposition to the…

Oct 15, 2021

The mysteries of sex

Oct 15, 2021

Malachy Purcell

Rugby players drink lager

When we are young we pass swift judgements and cling to our beliefs stubbornly — something like nailing one’s colours to the mast.

Mar 23, 2021

Rugby players drink lager

Mar 23, 2021

Malachy Purcell

The duck, the monkey and the elephant

A duck and an elephant walked into a bar. The elephant had a monkey on its back.

Mar 21, 2021

The duck, the monkey and the elephant

Mar 21, 2021

Malachy Purcell

Whistler’s mother and her sheepdog

James Abbott McNeill Whistler painted his mother in 1871 and titled it “Arrangement in Grey and Black, №1.” After her husband’s death, Anna…

Mar 16, 2021

Whistler’s mother and her sheepdog

Mar 16, 2021

Malachy Purcell

Conversation with a hyena

Hyenas are as clever as they are ugly. It is reported that they are cleverer than chimpanzees which probably means cleverer than a lot of…

Mar 4, 2021

Conversation with a hyena

Mar 4, 2021

Malachy Purcell

Harry the Chocolate King

King Harry is a big dog. He looks like a king, even if he is quite old. His coat is dark chocolate brown as he is a chocolate Labrador. (It…

Mar 1, 2021

Mar 1, 2021

Malachy Purcell

Get Down Woman

That is the title of a song written by John Fogerty and first performed by Creedence Clearwater Revival in 1968 (see below for lyrics). I…

Mar 15, 2018

Mar 15, 2018

Malachy Purcell

Malachy Purcell

quirks and whimsy, windrift; colonial detritus, suburban scribbler, occasional dribbler, founder of sillysocksonfriday.com

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