Time takes a cigarette, puts it in your mouth
Posted in Blog by Twenty Major on September 30th, 2008
This blog began exactly four years and one day ago.
Since then a whole lot of words have been written and read by countless scoundrels in many countries throughout the world. Thousands of comments have been left, many, many people have been called a cunt.
But, all good things come to an end, and even bad things come to an end too, which is why from today I will no longer be updating the blog. I may pop in the odd post from time to time, more than likely to give info about book two, but there will be no more regular posting.
No more stupid questions from Dirty Dave, no more Stinking Pete putting odd things up his urethra, no more Jimmy being a Bollix, Lucky knocking people off, Splodge splodging around or no more Guinness from Ron. Many of you will also be glad to know there will be no more excruciating puns based on 80s pop music.
I have to say I have thoroughly enjoyed writing this blog. It’s been a creative outlet, often cathartic and it has done many good things for me. I would never have written a book without this blog, I certainly wouldn’t have written two of them (well, one and seven-eighths ed!). I was proud to win an award at the very first Irish Blog Awards, I never thought I’d win Best Blog for three years in a row. Neither did Mulley, I bet, haha.
I loved the anonymity of it and the little bit of mystery it caused. Grainne Seoige asking Una and Sinead Gleeson ‘Just who is this Twenty Major?’ on the TV that day, as if I were the Scarlet Pimpernel, still tickles me to this day. I liked the fact that almost every single Irish blogger respected that anonymity when it would have been a piece of piss to blow it out of the water. I’m very grateful for that.
I loved getting new readers, I liked making people laugh, people groan (at shit puns, not anything else), making people a bit sick, making them a bit emotional, but most of all entertaining people. I know there are those out there that didn’t, and still don’t, like it, but blogs are just like Fair City. You can turn if off if you think it’s a load of old bollocks. Nobody is forcing you to read it. I hope that those who read the blog regularly enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it - and I hope the many people who claimed to hate it but still read it enjoyed it like a dose of the fiery scuts.
So why stop? Well, for one thing I think every non-subject specific blog has a limited lifespan. I mean, if you’re writing about politics or football or tech then you’ve got new content every day now and forever. When you’re making up stories it’s more difficult, it becomes harder to think of things you haven’t done, jokes you haven’t made, and so on. It gets to the point where if you were a sitcom and your brain was the team of writers somebody would eventually say ‘Hey, I know! Let’s get a guest star in, that’ll keep things fresh’. I didn’t want a guest star. This blog does not need a Charlie Sheen cropping up to open up new avenues. I don’t want it to be like that.
As well as that I think Irish blogging has changed a lot and I find it very difficult to identify with many of these blogs. They have their own style, and that’s all well and good, but I just don’t think I have anything in common with them. I know that might seem irrelevant but when you have other blogs to spark off, like there were back in the day, then it does make a difference. Of course my blog stands on its own two feet, it always has done and could continue to do so, but I just feel a bit detached from it all. And it’s not that I was ever in it to make friends or be part of a big community. It’s still not a motivation for me despite meeting some top people down the years. Maybe I’m not explaining this well enough but it’s more a vague feeling than anything concrete. For me the vibrancy and excitement of the scene is gone. I’m not suggesting it was better back then, just better for me. There are those that are new to blogging now that are probably experiencing all that vibrancy now and good luck to them. Anyway, whatever it is it’s a very small part of why I’m shutting up shop.
The main reason is that I’ve been doing this non-stop for four years. Creating something nearly every day, trying to maintain standards and I think I’m just tired now. Not of the blog, as such, but just tired of having to blog, if that makes sense. It’s a pressure sometimes, you set the bar high, you win awards, people have expectations. And while it is a motivating factor after a while it becomes hard going. I won’t say a chore because it hasn’t been, I just think it will be if I keep at it and I would hate that. I would hate that something I have loved doing for so long became a thing of high drudgery. It’s time.
I’m also aware that there has, over the years, grown from this site a little community of sorts. When you have people commenting every day then people get to know each other. It’s something that has been hugely important to the success of the site. I think the comments have, to my mind, sparked two of the best days of blogging ever when we did the name changing stuff (see here and here). People were going all day and it was just brilliantly funny. So as much as I try to make things amusing and so on, when your readers engage with you and the other people on the site in that way it’s a bit special.
I could do a bit about my favourite posts but after four years I can’t remember. Sometimes I read back over the archives and think ‘Hah, I don’t remember writing that at all’. Of course my favourites really were all the puns and being called a cunt after a torturous build-up to a shockingly cheesy was always ace.
Despite my curmudgeonly ways I enjoy the comments, the slagging, the crap puns, jokes, the trolls, the people who just didn’t get things, the mock outrage from others, and even recently when we discovered one of the regulars was diagnosed with scary disease 1 it felt kind of real. Like it was a real person that you knew and had met and stuff. So, with that in mind I’ve set up a forum where anybody who wants to can come and register and continue that little community if they would like to. The forum will not be closed down anytime soon, it’d be great if people wanted to get involved so the daily streams of consciousness could continue, but there’s no pressure. Maybe someone else’s blog will get busy and that’s where all the former cool people will congregate (you would be former cool people if you went somewhere else, I’m sure you all know that).
So really it just remains for me to say thank you to everybody for reading, emailing, commenting and taking part in the blog over the years. Thank you to those of you who bought the first book and I hope you’ll enjoy the second when it does come out in February/March of next year. I will update about it on the forum, definitely, and maybe on the blog.
Until then picture me with an handkerchief tied around a stick, Bastardface at my side and Throatripper chasing a condor through the woods, as I walk away into the distance with the end theme from the Incredible Hulk TV series playing.
Goodbye, you wonderful cunts.
This was Twenty Major, September 29th 2004 - September 30th 2008.
Goodbye Ducky, I will miss this place.
September 30th, 2008 at 12:03 am
But I wont miss Ron’s and I will stand you a pint on Gingerday.
September 30th, 2008 at 12:09 am
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Cheers for the laughs Twenty. I’ve been reading now for a number of years and it’ll be a miss.
I’ll just have to find some other cunt to read now.
September 30th, 2008 at 12:13 am
2
Well.
Damn.
I’m not sure you’ll know how to quit us.
I guess I’m stuck with ScaryDuck and the ‘Twat for my Euro-blog fixes. It’s not like JonnyB is gonna take your place either.
Damn.
I already said, “damn,” didn’t I?
Hell.
September 30th, 2008 at 12:14 am
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Damn. It takes a goodbye to get me to post, but damn. There goes my morning laughter. Well, briefly anyways. Thanks for the laughs.
September 30th, 2008 at 12:15 am
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Hmm - if true, goodbye and I’ll miss logging on from Sydney to see someones take on the daily happenings back home.
Fave blog - think the one about the election that one you an award would have to be up there.
September 30th, 2008 at 12:16 am
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well, damn.
g’luck.
September 30th, 2008 at 12:26 am
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What a sad day. I’ll miss you twenty, I usually sign in Monday nights to read last weeks blogging, keeps me smiling for the week, love ya x
September 30th, 2008 at 12:28 am
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God speed Twenty, nobody will ever do it like you.
September 30th, 2008 at 12:30 am
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Thanks. For all of it. Those were the times.
Good luck!
September 30th, 2008 at 12:34 am
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Twenty, you bastard!
Now how’s the country going to waste its workday?!
September 30th, 2008 at 12:34 am
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Oh. God. No. Seriously I hate when you do these serious posts, you nearly killed me one day in work with the post about the old man and the dog.
I loathe the fact you are calling it a day with the blogosphere, but whatever you do, best of luck, I loved it all. I hope and reckon I will still be reading you in years to come.
Damn this…
ps I still want your first book signed personally please (how will we do that if you are not at the blog awards!!!) and the next when it comes out. Damn.
September 30th, 2008 at 12:34 am
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Thanks from me too. ‘Tis the end of an era.
Keep the faith, and keep taking the tablets.
September 30th, 2008 at 12:36 am
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So. Farewell
Then
Twenty Major
You are the
Last of the
Great revolutionary
Bloggers
Though how you
Found time to
Write your posts
In addition to
Spending your time
Smoking
In a pub full of
Cunts
Is baffling
Frankly.
September 30th, 2008 at 12:40 am
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I have not always agreed with what you say, nor how you say it. but I always admired you for saying it. And whenever you do again, I will admire it then too.
Good luck with Book 2 and dont be a stranger, although you are always a stranger I suppose.
Good night and good luck
September 30th, 2008 at 12:41 am
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Cuntfuckistan!
September 30th, 2008 at 12:41 am
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Shit.
September 30th, 2008 at 12:41 am
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You utter cunt. Thanks for the blogging.
September 30th, 2008 at 12:44 am
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Good luck. Have fun, and take care.
Then come back ’cause we’ll miss the fuss.
Or at least enjoy yourself while you are gone.
September 30th, 2008 at 12:44 am
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Goodbye, you too, ya cunt ya. It’s been a pleasure talking and hopefully we’ll do it again somewhere.
First Cool Hand Luke, now Twenty…
somethin’s stirring…
September 30th, 2008 at 12:45 am
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Lights a silk cut and sighs…. :(
September 30th, 2008 at 12:46 am
20
Sorry to see you go. Good luck.
September 30th, 2008 at 12:47 am
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I was once called the “Twenty Major of food blogging”….one of the highlights of my life that……Cheers for the laughs and best of luck n all that….I’m not crying, there’s just something in my eye…..
September 30th, 2008 at 12:49 am
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Thanks for everything. You’re an original and it never looked easy.
Send in the clowns…there aught to be clowns…
September 30th, 2008 at 1:01 am
23
Is this why Mulley smashed his iPhone? All the best you terrible cunt.
September 30th, 2008 at 1:05 am
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All the best.
Ah well, at least there’s a forum now.
September 30th, 2008 at 1:17 am
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You were never my favourite, you cunt, that mantle rests with Kav. Enjoyed your spats with Bock… And you always were a decent cunt if something got serious…take care…
September 30th, 2008 at 1:18 am
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Well that’s a couple of years of my life down the drain. Fuck it.
September 30th, 2008 at 1:20 am
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You cunt Twenty!
Now I’ll have to be doing some work.
September 30th, 2008 at 1:47 am
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How can there be blogging without Twenty Major?!
Good luck Twenty, thanks for the laughs.
September 30th, 2008 at 1:50 am
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Thanks, Twenty. I’ve enjoyed reading your blog for the past –I dunno– half a year. It’s always made me laugh. I’ll miss it. And look forward to the occasional (pleeeease!) blog posts.
Thanks again.
September 30th, 2008 at 2:16 am
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Ah Twenty. Jaysis. Dunno what I can say except thanks. You were a big help to me and inspiring in the way you kept at it. Fair play to you. Enjoy the break. I look forward to book 2.
Fuck anyways.
September 30th, 2008 at 2:27 am
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On my birthday too, you big upstaging cunt you.
I only came around here in last year or so, but I truly enjoy the tongue-in-cheek-ness of it all.
You took it seriously, but not too seriously.
All the best.
September 30th, 2008 at 2:28 am
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While I never read your blog that often, I can really appreciate what you’ve brought to the Irish blogosphere. And anyway, someone who uses the word cunt frequently is alright in my book.
September 30th, 2008 at 2:41 am
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Never had the chance to meet you in person, but did enjoy reading your blog many times.
Thanks for all the good work you put into it, and for the great inspiration you have given - and still give - to the Irish blogging community.
Being a writer myself, I can imagine how you feel now. It is indeed not easy to come up with new ideas all the time. But I hope that you will succeed in your new field - writing books - as much as you have succeeded here.
The best of luck to you, for now and the future. I am sure we will hear from you somehow in good time. And since this is a small country on a rather small planet, I hope that our paths will cross some day.
Take care, and may the storm always be your friend!
September 30th, 2008 at 3:47 am
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So long Twenty Major.
I’d rather play here with all the madmen for I’m quite content they’re all as sane as me.
September 30th, 2008 at 4:13 am
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i think this might be my second comment here, sugar, but thanks for the good reads along the way. take care and be well! xoxox
(if you’re ever in the south, drop on in and i’ll buy you a drink - you can still smoke in our bars!)
September 30th, 2008 at 4:15 am
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Well, fuck me. No, not literally, but still.
I’d cry if I was more emotionally capable. Fuck, I really hate it when you get all serious…..
September 30th, 2008 at 4:16 am
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Smell you later Twenty,
I have been reading for the last few years. It beats work and gives me a nice one-sided realistic view of Ireland that I cant read on rte.ie.
What else are you going to do? You don’t come off as the most employable type. May I recommend becoming a professional torturer?
Thanks for the memories.
September 30th, 2008 at 4:20 am
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Wow, was it really 4 years?! I remember our email war like it was only yesterday, as you came looking for links ya bastard! :)
Well done on a truly excellent job, can’t wait to see what you do next, though chances are we won’t know it’s you who’s actually doing it! :)
September 30th, 2008 at 5:26 am
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Respect.
September 30th, 2008 at 5:44 am
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Too many good byes of late. Thanks for the read
September 30th, 2008 at 5:54 am
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cheers 20, for being an inspiration and a very funny fucker.
September 30th, 2008 at 6:01 am
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Well if you are all sentimental you wouldnt delete this would you?
Bye, Bye Mr Major
Balddevil loves you all.
September 30th, 2008 at 6:22 am
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I must admit I was never expecting that to happen, and it’s come as a complete shock. I have to sit down for a bit.
-Bald Devil back on Twenty’s blog!
Who’d have thunk it!
September 30th, 2008 at 6:47 am
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I come back from me hols to find the world in financial turmoil, Tottenham at the bottom of the Premiership and this blog winding up.
Bollocks! Things will not be the same and as someone else commented, we are now stuck with ScaryDuck.
I’ll probably buy your second book too although I hope it’s better than the first (I’m still trying to get my money back from Amazon).
Here’s hoping for the Return of Twenty Major at some time in the future…
September 30th, 2008 at 7:31 am
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Thanks Twenty.
September 30th, 2008 at 7:47 am
46
*Looks for the hidden camera*
This is a wind-up? Right?
September 30th, 2008 at 8:23 am
47
Comings and Goings | Maman Poulet says:
[...] of the most dangerous (and best) bloggers in Ireland stops blogging and leaves with some comments on his impressions of blogging in Ireland but true to form his [...]
September 30th, 2008 at 8:32 am
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Well Mr. Major I will be sorry to see the end of this fantastic blog. It has helped me through the past year or so in work, brightened up many a dreary day, made me smile and made me angry.
I was actually looking forward to a long rant about Berties golden parachute payment today. Couldn’t you quit tomorrow?
My favourite posts were always the rants about Bertie, at least some good came of the tribunals.
All the breast in your future endeavours. Keep it real.
September 30th, 2008 at 8:33 am
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You’ve been responsible for an awful lot of my snot hitting my computer screen over the past few years. I’ll miss cleaning it off with a crusty hanky, you old clunt.
September 30th, 2008 at 8:38 am
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Fare thee well. I can recognise that slight feeling of being forced to feed the monster that is the blog. Thanks for all the laughs and fake outrage.
September 30th, 2008 at 8:50 am
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Good bye old Twenty. And thanks for the laughs. Sincerely, you are a cunt.
September 30th, 2008 at 8:50 am
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Your irreverent, honest humour has been a fantastic daily companion, more than you’ll know. It’s like losing a friend. God bless you, Twenty, whoever you are and whatever you do.
September 30th, 2008 at 9:02 am
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Bugger.
I’ll have to buy the books now.
cunt.
September 30th, 2008 at 9:02 am
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Typical. Just when I make an effort to abide by some house-rules the bastard above goes and closes the whole thing down.
Fucking typical. I hope his book does well but that he also gets one of those annoying little plastic hoops dry cleaners attach things to your clothes with but keeps forgetting about it only for the scratching to start again on the bus just by the traffic lights.
September 30th, 2008 at 9:04 am
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Farewell, you king among cunts
September 30th, 2008 at 9:04 am
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You whore.
I knew you were going to pull a stunt like this.
September 30th, 2008 at 9:05 am
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Ah Jaysus
September 30th, 2008 at 9:06 am
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Speaking as a fucking yank, fuck you and the goat your mom rode in under. Bastard.
I’ve enjoyed your perspective for several years now, and weep openly, like a syphilitic sore.
Good luck and Godspeed in your future endeavors.
And you’re still a fucking cunt for this, just so you know.
-PLD
September 30th, 2008 at 9:12 am
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Twenty, best of luck yeh quitting bollix. You shall be missed.
Red
September 30th, 2008 at 9:15 am
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Thanks.
September 30th, 2008 at 9:17 am
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Twenty is Gone | Keith @ Granite Shavings says:
[...] Major has retired. I miss Dirty Dave [...]
September 30th, 2008 at 9:17 am
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Good luck Twenty, I’m sure you’ll be sneaking in somswhere else.
I got blasted for a few of the comments I made on here…but I’m the only one that got kisses for a comment, and, I’m lead to believe they came from the delightfull ankle brigade, and I know they were of the Silk Cut variety not Rough Shag.
September 30th, 2008 at 9:27 am
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‘….made up stories….’
You…were…lying to us?
I feel so violated.
I hope Stinking Pete teabags you before Lucky popsa cap ina your assa you dirty low down quitting Bertie lover. Oh wait, they’re not real are they? They’re made up like Cher, mere creations. Rons Bar? The George more like.
I suppose you don’t have a beard either? I suppose you use the same rusty mach3 that you use on your wrinkly old coin purse? B@astardface and Throatripper? Probably called Fifi-Trixie-Bell and Fluffy-Cute-Fluff in reality. You sir, are the promise of an arse fingering that turns out to be a peck on the cheek. As big a let down as Harneys knickers.
New book? May it gather dust like Berties code of ethics.
Probably a wind up anyways.
Not like you have anything better to do.
Somehow I feel better now.
Wheres my coffee?
(Good luck Twenty)
September 30th, 2008 at 9:31 am
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Tsk. Cheers for the laughs.
September 30th, 2008 at 9:33 am
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Nooooooooooooooooooooo!!!
Feck ya but I know exactly what you mean.
Good luck Twenty and enjoy your retirement.
September 30th, 2008 at 9:36 am
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A beautifully composed shocker of a post, Twenty. Thank you for keeping productivity down and the cheer up…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipMNbf4hb28
September 30th, 2008 at 9:38 am
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error when posting in forum twenty (and welcome to the shitty crap world of forum admin!)
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September 30th, 2008 at 9:39 am
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Goodbye Twenty. Best of luck with the next book.
September 30th, 2008 at 9:40 am
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Fair play to yer, Twenty. Thanks for the laughs and stuff over the years.
“We’ll never see his like again.”
September 30th, 2008 at 9:41 am
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Jaysis Twenty, Good luck with having the non-blogging from now on, you’re missed already!
September 30th, 2008 at 9:42 am
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“Good Night And Good Fuck…” « The Whole Curiosity Blog (prop. Rick O’Shea) says:
[...] 4 and a bit years the bright shining star of the Irish blogging community, Twenty Major, has decided enough is enough and he’s turning out the [...]
September 30th, 2008 at 9:45 am
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Thanks for the memories, ya bollix.
September 30th, 2008 at 9:50 am
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g’luck chief.
September 30th, 2008 at 9:52 am
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Good luck in your endevours Twenty
September 30th, 2008 at 9:52 am
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Do you know I think that’s the first full post of yours I ever read?
Mind you I did read your book.
September 30th, 2008 at 10:02 am
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Wow… well as someone who stumbled on to your blog less than a year ago,THanks for making me laugh on a regular basis,cringe on an even more regular basis,but also for enabling a few commentors on here get together and actually meet up(MonkeyBalls,Jo,Morgor,PP and myself)
You are a complete cunt but sure what else were we to expect??
Good Luck with (Book) Number 2 and congratulations on your Blog of the Year award for the 4th year in a row :D
September 30th, 2008 at 10:02 am
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I was only going to ask you the other night if you ever got tired of blogging? I guess I have my answer. Big up!
September 30th, 2008 at 10:05 am
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Girls blouse. I genuinely mean that.
September 30th, 2008 at 10:07 am
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Good luck with the move to Cuntfuckistan.
September 30th, 2008 at 10:07 am
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Bye, Twenty, we’ll miss you.
(And just in case you get too big-headed over all the praise, can I just point out that the clock is wrong on your forum.)
September 30th, 2008 at 10:07 am
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Christ Twenty! Just when you got all the kinks ironed out.
You be lucky, you hear?
September 30th, 2008 at 10:12 am
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It’s been been shite for about 2 years anyway. Thanks though, you did make me laugh that one time.
September 30th, 2008 at 10:14 am
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Good luck Twenty! Its the end of an era.. or something like that!
September 30th, 2008 at 10:17 am
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There will come a day when we ask each other, where were you when Twenty Major ended? And I will say, dammit, I was late bringing the kids to school and had to go to Tesco, so I couldn’t go online when I got the text with the news…
Best of luck, Twenty, thanks for being such a good host. Good luck with book 2.
And I’ll be looking forward to the new blog-incarnation, Busty Major, hopefully soon to be born!
September 30th, 2008 at 10:19 am
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CQDX, CQDX. LMVS ASGARD IV O’Sullivan, Capt. Cornelius.
Up periscope.
Run silent run deep, eh? Can’t say as I blame. Freedom to roam and all that. Understandable. Good hunting and there will always be a tot or two behind the bar of the ‘Mariners Mammary’ in Haulbowline for you.
Down periscope. QRT. Standing by.
Cornelius
O/C Western Approaches Command
Contactable by W/T 0900-0930 Mon-Fri
Sat-Sun & Holy Days of Surface-Obligation 0900-1200.
September 30th, 2008 at 10:20 am
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I was going to say something fluffy about this being the first blog I started reading etc screw that… Welcome to Cuntsville, population: you.
September 30th, 2008 at 10:21 am
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To paraphrase Douglas Adams (another very funny guy)
“So long, and thanks for all the pish!”
Many a dreary day has been brightened by your excruciatingly painful puns.
But myself, I always stood in awe of your creative swearing when in the middle of a full blown rant.
G’wan then, fuck away off and see if we care!!
September 30th, 2008 at 10:23 am
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Come back, you fucking splitter!
You’ll be back within three weeks, mark my words.
September 30th, 2008 at 10:28 am
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Congratulations on four brilliant years and best of luck for the future.
And here’s a monumental moment in itself. I’m going to say I word I despise, but you’re so fond of. Twenty, you’re a cunt.
September 30th, 2008 at 10:29 am
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Will he do a Sinatra ?
Is this a ploy for book 3 ( the best of Twenty Major )
Has he quit smoking ?
Dammit Twenty - I was reading a poem by Betjeman in the wee small hours featuriing owls ad wondering.
happy retirement from your wriggly chum.
September 30th, 2008 at 10:30 am
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Well, goddamn, that’s unexpected. So long and thanks for all the posts that led to a lot of time wasted in work!
September 30th, 2008 at 10:36 am
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This was on the cards from the moment Bryan McFadden left.
September 30th, 2008 at 10:37 am
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better to stop when you are at the top… but still hard to do it when everybody is asking you not to do so!
September 30th, 2008 at 10:37 am
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Are you going to be like Gary Glitter, depart and then reappear with ‘It’s Good to Be Back’ or whatever his song was?
Please?
September 30th, 2008 at 10:38 am
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Well that’s it…. I’m turning off my PC for ever now.
G’luck Twenty, don’t strat writin’ fuckin’ poetry alright?
September 30th, 2008 at 10:41 am
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Your one of three Irish blogs I subscribe to; you, David McWilliams and Richard Delevan.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DON’T GO AWAY. DON’T LEAVE ME WITH THOSE TWO CUNTS!!!!!!!!!!!! :-(
September 30th, 2008 at 10:41 am
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Sad to see you go, but thanks for all the laughs and fun. Will of course be picking up the next book and wish you all the best!
September 30th, 2008 at 10:41 am
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Are you going to be like Gary Glitter
It’s the beard, isn’t it ?
Sinatra is more flattering.
September 30th, 2008 at 10:42 am
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Adios :)
September 30th, 2008 at 10:46 am
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This means I’ll be getting down to actual work 5 minutes earlier every morning. Crap.
Thanks for all the laughs. Cheers, Twenty.
September 30th, 2008 at 10:47 am
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Awwwwwww that’s bad news, but at least the internet checking software here will get a break form all the cunting & fucking and other such stuff..
September 30th, 2008 at 10:50 am
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Thanks Twenty : Alexia Golez says:
[...] has retired and personally I’m a little heartbroken. Fucks, cunts and cocks, he was the sharpest blogger [...]
September 30th, 2008 at 10:54 am
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Quitter!
First you give up the smoking then now this!
You’re dead to me, Major. Dead to me…
(Good luck to whatever you do next, which presumably will involve a lot of yoga, chanting, green tea drinking and writing for profit.)
September 30th, 2008 at 10:56 am
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You cunt you! who is gonna write my scripts now you are leaving the blogging world, selfish cunt!
But seriously fair play for the four years hope to see you back blogging again soon in some shape or form, you shall be missed from the blogosphere.
September 30th, 2008 at 11:03 am
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Arghh!!!
Am so NOT happy about this Twenty. Why o Why :(
Well, all the best and I too will stand you a pint in Ron’s Bar someday.
Right its back to work now for me so.
September 30th, 2008 at 11:04 am
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Aw. So when are you starting your weekly Irish Times column?
September 30th, 2008 at 11:04 am
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Dis is Baz frum de Blanch, yis is all cunts, ders no Twenty Major hees just sum cunt dat rits for de Gards seein wat yis ar goin ta say so dey can chek up on yis.
Ijust cum out frum de jAIL in de jOY, and dem in dair all herd about HIM, dem in dair tink hees grate dey reed about him on dem laptop tings, but Inoe dem is rong.
I was in de JoY for hittin a culchie wit shinny buttins on his coat out side de Lillac cus he trid to stop my burd for takin cream frum de kimist, she wantid it to put on her fanny cus de boots I stole from Dunes were too long for her short legs and hacked up de sides of de place she has a bad itch, aldo I said I was sorry, and I did fell a durty cunt, de still giv me 14munts, me burd is helpin me wit de spellin fur de last bit.
donut beeleeve any ting.
September 30th, 2008 at 11:05 am
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missed already :(
fare you well!
September 30th, 2008 at 11:05 am
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I can’t get into the forum, just as well for now - but I have a question about the terms:
You agree not to post any abusive, obscene, vulgar, slanderous, hateful, threatening, sexually-orientated or any other material that may violate any laws be it of your country…
Really? Are we meant to press ‘I agree’ or ‘I don’t agree’?
September 30th, 2008 at 11:08 am
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Sorry to hear the news. Still you’ve got a body of work that you can stand over and you can feel good that you never took from shit from no one. You didn’t right? Darn, it seems this blogging lark really is a young man’s game or like a young man on the game I can never remember which. See you next time and keep-watching-the-stars!
September 30th, 2008 at 11:12 am
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All the best Twenty! Thanks for all the laughs.
September 30th, 2008 at 11:17 am
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Mind how you go Mister …
September 30th, 2008 at 11:22 am
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oh it’s a shame, i enjoyed this space for the many years i quietly read it, too scared of the cool people to comment :)
good luck with book 2 and many more to come
September 30th, 2008 at 11:23 am
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Are you going to come back as someone else?
September 30th, 2008 at 11:28 am
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Here lies Twenty.
Blogged to Death.
September 30th, 2008 at 11:35 am
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Thanks and good luck, Good stuff.
September 30th, 2008 at 11:37 am
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Damnit, Damnit, Damnit, Damnit!!
Was a lurker - but loved it..
best of luck, Twenty
September 30th, 2008 at 11:40 am
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I told the news to my missus as she was on her way to work and