The Captain's Log - Volume 35
Continued from Volume
34
Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 at 11:08:29 AM
Email: webmasteratrossespointdotcom
Name: Ciaran
Message: Hello again all, a new volume for you to fill up with your usual abandon!
Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 at 08:36:15 PM
Email: cupla.focail@fiacla.com
Name: Finbar MacFerret
Message: Abandon hope all ye who enter your drivel here!
A barba de necio apprendes todos a rapar! (all learn to shave on the fools chin) all you crazy posters!
Finbar
Date: Thursday, October 30, 2003 at 01:22:10 AM
Email: dubya@teachban.us
Name: GWB
Message: Deer peeble of Eyreland, me an' Laura intend paying a visit to you and your luvely greenland, sorree green land. I unerstand I have to cross the big blue country between us to get to you. My intelligence peeble tell me this Atlantic country has no airport at which we can refuel Air Force One, so we have to carry some jerry-cans with us. Me and' Laura were in that other big brown country last week, but for the moment I forget the name of it. I do recall that it's people seem to hop around the place. Least all we saw was big hoppers. That other fella was also there at the same time Mr Who the china salesman an' Laura was mad cause we did not get to buy a china tea pot from him. Slick Willy told me there is a good chance of a quiche from a nice young thing in
Dublin. But for now and I hope to make Belfast like Eyerack, safer than hell!
Date: Friday, October 31, 2003 at 03:36:08 AM
Email: yeats@thebank
Name: WBY
Message: My good man Finbarr, my colleague Joyce wrote in Ulysses, 'tis my ambition in life to squint at my own name in print'. And as this is the best outlet for those in a similar position to ours who are cast in stone or bronze or in the grave with Miss O'Leary, then we should not abandon hope but abandon ship, and I do hope it is a brass band as I love brass bands.
Date: Sunday, November 02, 2003 at 02:30:12 AM
Email: tc@strandhill
Name: The Cannon
Message: Why can't Strandhill Airport have a second terminal? One for in and one for out. And while I'm asking questions does any of you know where my balls are? I am useless without them as you all know a cannon gun needs balls and a brass monkey to hold them.
Date: Thursday, November 13, 2003 at 06:27:00 PM
Email: zantana@cet.com
Name: ZAN AGZIGIAN
Message: Hello---
I was searching the Internet to see what my friend, Dermot Healy has been up to. ALAS--come to find that he JUST was keynote reader for the Vancouver, BC Writer's Festival!! And I missed it!! Shite. If there is a way to get a word to Dermot that I am sorry I missed seeing him. If I had known, I would have been there--definitely. THAT is the closest I have seen anyone from RossePoint come to Spokane, WA., which is where I now live.
Back in 1996--Dermot had just gotten his first computer. It was not yet hooked up--and he didn't have email or anything of the sort.
I am not certain if he does have email now--or if he even cares. However, if you know of anything of the sort...I'd certainly enjoy dropping him a line via email---Best--Zan
Date: Friday, November 14, 2003 at 08:30:31 PM
Email: mdmagical@aol.com
Name: Mary Day
Message: Hi,
I just love the website. My anscestors came from Rosse's Pt.
My great, great grandmother, Mary Leyden was living there in 1901 in Ballywheelin. She was living with her daughter, and son-in-law and 4 grandchildren. Her daughter's married name was Bartley. Would like any information on the family. Mary's son John married Maria Loughlin and moved to Co. Leitrim. I still have some cousins there today.
Thanks,
Mary
Date: Saturday, November 22, 2003 at 11:31:32 PM
Email: kcoj@tpg.com.au
Name: john houze
Message: Hi Ciaran
looking at the photos of the holloween party at harrys, you didnt have to dress up much! ;-)
all well here and looking foward to a hot hot summer!!
thank god the rugby is over, hopefully the poms will take there crap weather with them as well as the WWE Cup
happy dazes
John
Date: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 at 10:35:05 AM
Email: Metal.Man@aol.com
Name: Metal Man
Message: Merry Christmas from me and the Seagull
Date: Thursday, December 04, 2003 at 09:40:25 PM
Email: pingram@bellsouth.net
Name: Pamela Ingram
Message: We are planning a trip to Ireland in the next year and have thoroughly enjoyed reading your website. We plan on seeing it first hand!
Date: Saturday, December 06, 2003 at 05:25:12 AM
Email: sweeney565@hotmail.com
Name: shirley sweeney
Message: To everyone in the Point a big hello from downunder. In sydney until the new year . Happy xmas ,no doubt ye all will enjoy the celebrations . shirley
Date: Sunday, December 07, 2003 at 07:34:09 AM
Email: ririsheyes@aol.com
Name: Aileen Foley
Message: A year ago today...Rosses Point lost one of it's own. He wasn't a native, but he came home to Rosses. He himself was a poet and although I don't hold a candle to
Tony Foley nor the likes of WB, I offer this from my heart...
"I knew when Mary Higgins went, you had the need to go
I saw your pain when you said farewell, to the lady you loved so
I know how much you loved us, but you loved your Mary more
There's no greater legacy than the one that went before.
It was hard coming home Dad, with no home to go to
It was hard to walk the Point, so lonely here without you
It was when I entered Columbans, only there did I find
You were resting peacefully, with Mom there by your side.
Then, I realized you had fulfilled your dream.
You were together in Rosses Point, where you had chose to be.
...and so you've brought us to this place, the land of Tir Na Nog
Where lives live on desite them gone and hearts still love them so."
Date: Sunday, December 07, 2003 at 12:13:03 PM
Email: kcoj@tpg.com.au
Name: john h
Message: Hi is the chatroom working or is it just user error ? ;-)
John
Date: Monday, December 08, 2003 at 10:40:10 AM
Email: fair@city.com
Name: Bad boy Billy Meehan
Message:
Chiao to all de culchies down der in Sligo.
never mid yer chat room, as I only said to de wife Carol,,,,ring me if ya want a chat.
Date: Monday, December 08, 2003 at 07:54:41 PM
Email: medbhgillard@hotmail.com
Name: Medbh Gillard
Message: Hi Zan,
Saw your message re: Dermot reading in Vancouver. If you want to drop him an e-mail use my address. Helen is my sister. And, yes, they're still sans e-mail in the Healy household. It may be en route by the back door shortly though!
Date: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 at 11:03:54 PM
Email: annehegarty50@hotmail.com
Name: Anne Hegarty-Murphy
Message: Very interesting reading the visitors book. I saw my dad's first cousin's name there - Eddie McLaughlin, RIP.
Date: Friday, December 12, 2003 at 04:31:27 PM
Email: webmasteratrossespointdotcom
Name: Ciaran
Message: Hi all,
The site Christmas decorations are now up, as is our special Christmas guestbook. There is a link at the top of the Homepage.
Happy Christmas everybody!
Date: Sunday, December 14, 2003 at 02:02:07 AM
Email: thelongtwilightstruggle@yahoo.com
Name: Keith and Melissa
Message: Hello,
We are an American couple interested in Rosses Point and would love to correspond with anyone who would like to share their lives, interests, hobbies, culture with us...
Keith and Melissa
Minneapolis, MN
USA
Date: Friday, December 19, 2003 at 11:31:00 PM
Email: www.thehun.net
Name: Bryan Forrest
Message: Well done on a great site, keep up all the good work. the pictures are great.
Well done again and great work on keeping the village so clean, but its a shame the travelers caravans litter the beach - does this still happen to this day?
Date: Friday, December 19, 2003 at 11:32:27 PM
Email: www.donegal.ie
Name: Castlebar boy
Message: Come visit Donegal - where the air is cleaner and less english roam.
Date: Sunday, December 21, 2003 at 12:26:44 PM
Email: lars.brueggen@freenet.de
Name: Lars Brueggen
Message: Hello,
i once stayed a couple of months in county leitrim and i liked it there but i always loved it to spend the evenings after work at rosses point. now that i am back in germany i don't have the chance to come back but i'll never forget my time there.
Lars (30)
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Date: Monday, December 22, 2003 at 11:07:43 PM
Email: declanfoley@ireland.com
Name: Declan Foley
Message: Best wishes to all for Christmas 2003 and the New Year of 2004
Date: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 at 05:27:36 PM
Email: leonardstocker@beeb.net
Name: Leonard Vincent Stocker
Message: I sent a message a few days ago, to ask if anybody knew our family of lighthouse keepers. I would like to hear from anybody.
Lots
of Love Len
Happy Christmas to you all.
Date: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 at 03:45:15 PM
Email: Sligonians True
Name: The Statues' of Sligo
Message: Dear distinguished visitors to the Rosses Point Guest Book, A very happy and prosperous New Year in 2004 to each and every one of you. Alas our input has been lacking for the past number of months. We all are upset at the state of affairs in the world. With the help of God things will improve in the New Year and we will once again be our merry selves. Slan from Metal Man, Lady Erin, P.A.McHugh x 2, St Martin at the Friary, Teeling of Carricknagat, The Monument on Pearse Road, Con at Drumcliffe, The Cannon at Strandhill, Waiting by the Shore, Seagull, Seagull's brother-in-law and Queen Maeve.
Date: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 at 04:55:11 AM
Email: galenahan@hotmail.com
Name: Georgia Lenahan
Message: My husband and I will be visiting your area in June and would like to stay somewhere near the water. My husband's ancestors are from the Ballyfarnon area. His last name is Lenahan and has relatives who were Cooney,Rynn, and Noone. So we'd like to stay with people who may have family stories, if possible. Where would you suggest we stay? We're thinking of having a Seaweed Bath as well. On Monday June 21 We'll be spending in the Geneology Place in Sligo Town then heading out to your area for the bath and dinner or not do the bath. Look forward to hearing from you. WE are grandparents and are from Atlanta, GA. Regards, Georgia
Date: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 at 04:55:37 AM
Email: galenahan@hotmail.com
Name: Georgia Lenahan
Message: My husband and I will be visiting your area in June and would like to stay somewhere near the water. My husband's ancestors are from the Ballyfarnon area. His last name is Lenahan and has relatives who were Cooney,Rynn, and Noone. So we'd like to stay with people who may have family stories, if possible. Where would you suggest we stay? We're thinking of having a Seaweed Bath as well. On Monday June 21 We'll be spending in the Geneology Place in Sligo Town then heading out to your area for the bath and dinner or not do the bath. Look forward to hearing from you. WE are grandparents and are from Atlanta, GA. Regards, Georgia
Date: Thursday, January 01, 2004 at 08:22:20 PM
Email: mm@rossespoint.com
Name: Metal Man
Message: At long last we have discovered the reason for Dubya's madness: he has been eating too many hamburgers contaminated with mad cow disease!
Seagull told me that a hen in the village laid the same egg sixteen times on New Year's Eve because of the strong wind!
Slan
MM
Date: Saturday, January 10, 2004 at 02:14:42 AM
Email: fancy.focail@gobsmacked.com
Name: Finbar McFerret
Message: Happy new blain (yr) to youze passionate posters, "de N.B thing in communication is to hear what is'nt being said (P Drucker) and with all due respect de present quality of posting "an opinion poll/focus group is no substitute for critical thought" (Warren Buffet). "Gossip, unlike river water flows both ways!" (Micheal Korda) and frankly we need more gossip to spice up our January Northern hemisphere turgid lives! In de Sligo of my youth if they had'nt any, they sure made it up!
"Start with what is right rather than what's acceptable" (P.D, "the activist is not de man who says de river is dirty, but de man who cleans up de river" (H.Ross Perot). In de new yr of 2004 "de only thing we know about de future is dat it will be different" and "presence is more than just being there!" (Malcolm Forbes). Carpe Dieum,
Finbar
Date: Monday, January 19, 2004 at 10:51:42 AM
Email: seagull@aol.com
Name: seagull
Message: Who's firing blanks?
Date: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 at 02:50:57 PM
Email: Shading@Shore
Name: Smuggler
Message: Probably that scuttered Loose Cannon again!
Date: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 at 03:52:46 PM
Email: gwb@teachban
Name: Dubya
Message: My deer peeble, it is nice to be able to discuss with the Metal Man who never tells lies and like me never gets to lie down. Laura is complaining about doing too much stanning up. Now I no you dont beleeve all dis here foolhardy things about me and my
freends ripping off oil wells and holy wells. We ony do as the good book says and the good book says to conquer evil, an dats all we is doin apart from the taxpayer. An let me tell you the good book says nuttin bout that. It tells all bout fornikating and dats why we went after slick willy. So there you have it, trust in God cuase dats what it says on the Dollar bill. We intend changing that to the Dollar Dubya, as soon as we buy the trillions of greenbacks back from the Asian's at 20% more dan dey bought dem fer. Do you have any spare greenbacks to len us, just to tide us over to run the mission to Mars. Me and Laura is going to be the first peeble dere and the first to perform on Mars. Ye get my drift and we won't be lying!
Date: Thursday, January 22, 2004 at 12:31:20 AM
Email: will-ye-no-come-bac@again.com
Name: Hoar at de shore
Message: Dear Dubya,
we is doing our bit for agri tourism here in Ros Ceite, so along with Bull McSerraigh baiting we are specialising in Gay weddings here in memory harbour. So if any of yur fine boys is passing thru Shannon and fancies getting hitched, then tell dem to high tail it up to the open air gay wedding capital of Ireland! We is planning a gay pride wedding fayre fiesta fantasia culminating in a running through the tight streets of all the mad bull farmers chasing de gay grooms on Easter Sunday. You an Laura is specially invited!
Date: Thursday, January 22, 2004 at 12:34:33 AM
Email: Bull.s@bloom.com
Name: De Bull macserraigh
Message: Whoever was shooting de blanks twas'nt me! Did ya see de lightening, no dat was de flash of de camera.
Date: Friday, January 23, 2004 at 04:20:10 PM
Email: qm@misguan
Name: Queen Maeve
Message: Meself and himself will be there! Och I can't wait to get a Gay man, as himself lost his gaiety in the savoy. Says it was the fleas that bit him on the lower left b****ck. As for pride, why yon cannon has lost it's pride and it couldn't have been the shooter, do ye get me drift?
Slan
Maeve and himself
Date: Friday, January 23, 2004 at 04:26:58 PM
Email: gwb@teachban
Name: Dubya
Message: Deer sur, could you holde the Gay Pride parade over until Bertie sans anorak and Celia and Herself invites meself and herself to vsiit Eyerlan in the EU Preesiden. . aw shucks ferget the speeling . . Me an ' Laura love Gay Byren an' we are delited you are holding a Gay Byrne march in June. Why not have the March in March like we have here on March 17. Some saint's day, dunno rightly who? Some fella from Eyereland gave us a bowl of weeds, and the twins tried it and wnated to become roman cathlicks. Ma and Pa said none of their kin was goan roamin anywhere with there hair done like that!
PS Saddam tol' me on the quiet where the gold and oil is, says it's in a tin marked Olive!
Date: Friday, January 23, 2004 at 04:28:49 PM
Email: fj@princes street
Name: Farmer Jones
Message: I have a few heifers on the front lawn to keep the grass down. Could Bull come and bull them for us?
Date: Saturday, January 24, 2004 at 02:37:57 AM
Email: le@creanscross
Name: Lady Erin
Message: My dear Mr MacSearraigh
As you know your name means son of a horse, hence the Foley anglice name,as all the Foley families of Sligo and Leitrim were once Mac Searraigh. The ould famine and the clerics bade them cahnge their name. One of your kin has his name inscribed on the plinth of my statue, he once upon a time owned The Lough Gill Brewery and changed its name to Foley's Brewery. So now we have the mythic 'Bull son of a horse'. May I suggest Bull that if you want to keep roamers off your land you roam naked around it, like the ancient picts who frightened Hadrian so much he built a Chinese wall to keep their swinging ding doorum's out of his sight! Or was it his wife's site?
Date: Saturday, January 24, 2004 at 09:58:39 AM
Email: bull.sh@bloom.com
Name: De bull macserraigh
Message: Begob you is lady E by name and de "E's" got in de slammer are helping me nature! De Macserraigh's of glan Macniff is no poncy Pegasus (although de are known as stubborn but intelliogent creatures). No is mise le minotaur de taurine champion of de feckless farmers of mother Ireland. Any pond scum purile townie who ventures on a sod belonging to me better be ready for de "encierro" de running of de bulls up de shagging mountain. Dey better be able to climb dat hill in 3 minutes 20, cause de bull macserraidh can do it in 3m, 30. I'll give dem nightmares of clattering hooves to die for!
Date: Saturday, January 24, 2004 at 10:11:55 AM
Email: will-ye-no-come-bac@again.com
Name: Hoar at de shore
Message: Dear Dubya, we is so pleased a strong well built tall dreamy waspish Texan such as yurself is going to open our Gay wedding festival fantasia in June. I enclose signed photo of our new gay icon a young public spirited, principled, articulate and caring member of our commnuity, De cheery charming cheeky "De bull macserraigh". We is bursting wit excitement at all yur fine gay warriors coming to celebrate their commitment to each udder in our fine town. Just as de sea god punished minos by making de king's wife Pasiphae fall in love wit de bull and de fruit of their love was de monstrous minotaur confined to de labtrinth, your boys will luv our gay icon bull macserraigh and we will arrange special bus trips to de glansniff labyrinth for bull baiting.
Date: Monday, January 26, 2004 at 07:05:21 PM
Email: Gaypride@straws.com
Name: AI doonally man
Message: A chara,
t-usal farmer Jones, tis no use clutching for de straws,in de age of VFM(value for monnaie) you have to drop de greenbacks for services such as these. Sure back in de colonial days de paysantry were bulling de squires heifers for free but now Sir Jocelyn was de last of de ould decency, we is now obliged to pay for everything including de right to roam de hills de good god gave us. Dis is de dawning of de age of de bull, de brown bull of Connaught was a docile creature, we is dealing wit de picadors nightmare de celtic-tiger bull cross.
Date: Thursday, January 29, 2004 at 10:18:41 PM
Email: mm@rossepoint,.ie
Name: Metal Man
Message: Fritz, the 'Gay Dubya' is the happy idiot in charge of the largest arsenal of WMD in the world.
Date: Sunday, February 01, 2004 at 08:38:35 AM
Email: gwb@teachban
Name: Dubya
Message: Deer peeble, all I can say is dat Tony an me was had by someone who misinformed us of the intelligence dat they thought they had or else we is both hard of hearing and mistook what dey said about Saddam. But, the fact is on the bright side we will have cheaper oil to run those big new fangled cars people drive to the beach and into the forests and ruin the view for everyone else.
Date: Monday, February 02, 2004 at 10:55:12 PM
Email: gwb@teachban
Name: Dubya
Message: Deer peeble, I may have te cancel the Gay Byrne march opening ceremony. De peeble of Amerika are waking up to US and I need nine good and true peeble to hold an inqerree to the Eyeraki missiles of mass destruction that are in never never land an' dis is what that guy living in the hole in the ground told us Eyerack was. Why can't ye all see dat dis man had the biggest reserve of kemicals in the world under his feet and its all black!
Date: Monday, February 02, 2004 at 10:58:45 PM
Email: sob@eejit.net
Name: Seamus O Gollochor
Message: Can all of you men in political positions around the world please note that the E A FitzPatrick Asylum for Widowed and Orphaned men is full to the gills and the waiting list is equivalent to the number of candidates seeking entry. In the meantime, could you all make a donation to keep the home fires burning over the winter?
Slan lath agus plaster lath
Continued in Volume 36
