(The idea for this was shamelessly stolen from Arlene’s Blog – but I’d go for my ‘MacGyver’ over her ‘Mum’ any day) 

But one thing is for certain… there is no stopping them; the terminators will soon be here. And I for one welcome our new machine overlords. I’d like to remind them that as a trusted IT codemonkey, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground internet caves.

(Apologies in advance – but I’m sure the toiling will be quite pleasant really)

* ‘Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles’ TV series

Or something.

But I realised shortly afterwards that asking 1000 people individually ain’t the easiest of jobs – so this might be project for ALL of 2011… Anyways, here is the first batch of Twitter wisdom – thanks to all the contributors!

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#2 @vertoda: Buy dancing shoes.
#3 @JohnDennehy: Don’t put your back out in 2011. If you do, like I did, you’ll truly be part of the tilted generation.
#7 @BBCEntsTeam: “One morning I shot an elephant in my pyjamas. How he got in my pyjamas I don’t know” – Groucho Marx
#8 @_davehall: Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
#9 @DavidOMahony: No matter how high the throne, they all sit on their arse.
#10 @mrdiscopop: Age ain’t nothing but the last three letters of sausage.
#14 @MovieMoron: A wise man does not accept his third invite to Big Momma’s house
#15 @julie13: I’d give you words of wisdom, but I’m going back to sleep. Which seems pretty wise to me.
#16 @celaV: This too shall pass. Good for both bad times & good.
#19 @AnnetteRoche: Take a risk every day
#22 @lorrainelarkin: Never eat yellow snow
#23 @catrinasupple: Don’t eat bread at the ” all you can eat country buffet ” it’s just a waste of seafood space!
#25 @samanthai: “Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker!” (Ogden Nash)
#34 @fredchannel: FOCUS, avoid distractions, work on stuff that makes you happy, learn how to say NO, ensure to have free time.
#35 @Jimmy_Poodle: The bigger the house, the bigger the whore.
#37 @grainnemurphy: “Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” – St Francis of Assisi
#40 @andylim: Eat vegetables.
#41 @clairehearty: What’s meant for you won’t pass you by
#42 @PaulBrugger: “The future depends on what we do in the present.” – Mahatma Gandhi “What will your future hold?” – Paul Brugger!
#45 @gracesmith: “If it’s to be, it’s up to me”. Go after what you believe in, what you’re passionate about and make things happen for yourself.
#46 @ClaireHammond: Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow!
#49 @Dave98FM: If you’re 35 and more than a little unfit, don’t go paintballing with young, athletic professional footballers as an end-of-season blow-out. You’ll only end up dislocating your ankle, breaking your tibia in two places and your fibula in eight. Fail.
#51 @GHmltn: Even a journey of 1,000 miles begins with a single step!
#110 @thewonderanna: Never trust a woman with a moustache (specially if it’s bigger than yours)
#222 @justviolets: A life with too many limitations is no life at all…
#283 @kate0404: Live your life to the fullest, because lots of people are dying who have never died before.
#443 @MaurizioC: Follow your heart & trust your gut instinct!
#479 @sheehanpaul: Lose something? Look in the last place you’d think first, it’s always there.
#501 @Orbeeque: Going through 2011 horizontally rather than vertically will save on shoe leather
#554 @EmmaLouiseuk: Don’t let your happenings destroy your happiness.
#596 @IanQuigley: No body listens to unsolicited advice.
#621 @orlaithf: Laziness is often disguised as hyper-efficiency. Fact.
#628 @DeeJayPaulie: Don’t shoot yourself in the foot
#638 @robertbarron1: If you love what you work at…it never feels like work.
#639 @lightnessalways: Life is like a box of chocolates!.. You never know what you’re going to get!
#664 @deshocks: This too shall pass.
#671 @QueenAnnmarie: Marriage has many pains, but Celibacy has no pleasures.
#705 @jennifercma: The past is the past, we should learn from it not bring it with us. Anger/sadness/arguments should be left there so that we can grow in happiness.
#708 @Jonathanwpurvis: Treat people the way you would like to be treated.
#712 @sazzle84: You cannot create a diamond without pressure.
#756 @umnumnum_cork: If you are going to meet Steve bring your own stepladder. His poor back will thank you in years to come!!
#876 @masterfuji: Expect the worst, hope for the best and take what comes!
#912 @TheWrathOfShaun: Never take the Micky from a Chinese man with a knife.
#921 @purplesars11: “Steel of character is forged in the fires of adversity.” – Martin Luther King Jr
#930 @Lisami75: You can try to make others happy until the cows come home, but if you’re not happy then it’s all a fucking waste of time.
#971 @LauraMulligan: Never piss against the wind.
#986 @scarie: What’s for you won’t pass you.

Submit your own below!

Update: Feel free to tweet me your words of wisdom – but if you’re leaving a comment below, make sure you leave me a clue as to who you are on twitter, if it’s not obvious!

On the 25th of January, it’ll be my second Twitter birthday. And at the time of writing, I’m getting tantalisingly close to the big 1000 followers mark. With these two events in mind, I’ve been thinking of a way to mark the occasion(s).

And so, over the next few weeks, I’m going to send a message to every single follower of mine – asking a simple question: share a short piece of wisdom/profundity that we can all take with us throughout this new year. Easy peasy.

All replies will posted here on the blog – a lasting directory of wise/humourous/daft words.

Make me proud guys and gals.

Update: As with all great ideas, there’s always the little details that slow you down. Like the actual time involved in messaging nearly 1000 people individually. Yikes. So please feel free to send on your contributions whenever you like – by tweet or comment below. Can we do it? Yes we can!

Update: 1000 followers!

This was the first in the series…



…this was followed by a couple of ads in the same vein. But the masterpiece was yet to arrive. Made by the creators of the famous Ghost in the Shell, the next ad kept the same idea – but transformed it into a futuristic animé landscape. I remember watching this at the time with mouth gaping…and it still looks great today.



Mine’s a Murphy’s!

A bravely hard-fought victory?

A superb performance to qualify from the group stage?

Well that depends on what channel you were watching the match on – or more accurately, which punditry team you watched after the event. The BBC (England) and RTE (Ireland) seemed not only to be watching a different match, but a different sport….

Alan Hansen: “Once England got the goal the confidence levels surged, they were excellent.”

Eamon Dunphy: “They just didn’t grow in confidence at all after the goal.”

Gary Lineker: “The goal really settled them, didn’t it? They pushed on from there.”

Ronnie Whelan: “You’d think they’d have kicked on from when they scored, but they actually got worse.”

Roy Hodgson: “England’s crossing has been absolutely outstanding.”

John Giles: “Some of the crossing was just awful.”

Lee Dixon: “A great performance.”

Dunphy: “Shocking…absolutely incredibly bad…pretty awful stuff.”

Lineker: “He looked more like the Rooney we know.”

Whelan: “Rooney is a major worry, his form, his body language, his demeanour, everything.”

Dixon: “Gerrard was outstanding.”

Dunphy: “I can’t believe how bad Gerrard was today.”

Harry Redknapp: “Across midfield we were top drawer.”

Giles: “Barry got worse as the game went on, Milner, Gerrard and Lampard the same.”

Redknapp: “Bring it on! Whoever we play we’ll be difficult to beat.”

Whelan: “If they don’t improve they’ll go straight out, it was a very, very inept performance.”

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9: It’s cool to go on holiday by yourself
With no friends or girlfriend.  And sit in a bar.  And watch the other people having a good time.  Before striking up a conversation with the barman and texting all your mates back home.  Ah, independence.  Lonely, scared, not-sure-what-to-do-until-bedtime independence.

8: You’re more attractive than the girls your mates set you up with
Frankly, it’s getting embarrassing.  If one more girl gets so intimidated by your obvious genius that she doesn’t return your calls, then you might have to have words with the lads about the bunny boilers they keep recommending you to.

7: You don’t need to go to the doctor
If only because it’s obvious that you’re dying.  What’s the point in spending an hour in the waiting room flicking through women’s magazines…when you know that this vicious dose of manflu is destined to be the end of you?

6: You’re a charming drunk
Perhaps it was just your medication ‘disagreeing’ with the booze when you gave that woman a V-sign, shouted at a bouncer, forced a stranger to let you buy him a pint and then strangled him when the barman rang for last orders. Nurofen can do that sometimes.

5: If you were a millionaire footballer you wouldn’t behave like the rest of them
Mind drifts into fantasies of threesomes, sports cars, little people utterly ignored in favour of elaborate parties full of models/hookers and sycophantic agents in sheepskin coats who’ll hopefully milk a few more quid out of the club on your next contract.

4: The ’80s were brilliant
Skinheads… race riots… industrial unrest… mass unemployment… Hillsborough… er, fluorescent socks?… Roland Rat?

3: You can fix that noise in the car engine
Followed swiftly by a frantic phone call to your dad to ask him what he does when a spanner falls into the engine,  and how to stop the suspension bouncing up and down of its own accord, like in a Dr Dre video.

2: You’d be pretty handy in a fight
In the sense that you’d be the first one to completely panic, get beaten fair and square and then stab the other bloke in the arse as he was walking away.  Who cares if he was 12?  He shouldn’t have started it.

1: You totally understand what’s going on in the news
Who are you kidding?  You can barely follow a double-length episode of Eastenders these days…

10: Sibling abuse
Cornering your younger brother, pulling his shirt up over his face and slapping him round the side of the head.  And then doing it harder.  And keeping on slapping him until he’s crying and disorientated and saying, “I don’t like this… I can smell colours…”  Just because you’re bored.  Who cares if he’s 27.

9: Making machine gun noises while holding an umbrella
See also: screwing your pool cue together like it’s an M82A1 high-velocity sniper rifle, and you’ve been charged with the task of disposing of the corrupt president of Mauritania and the loose-lipped, high-class call girl posing as his wife.

8: Cancelling social plans to play Xbox
Come on!  I’ve just got across the bridge on GTA IV.  A new neighbourhood to wreak untold carnage – I can’t leave now!  And it’s not like they can’t do it without me anyway.  It takes what……five people to carry an elderly woman’s coffin?

7: Film posters
Because nothing says ‘sophisticated bachelor-about-town’ than blu-tacking the same tattered Scarface poster to your bedroom wall that every other undergrad got free with a movie magazine four years ago.

6: Puking
If you’re under four, or undergoing chemo for Stage Four lymphatic cancer, maybe you have an excuse.  Maybe.  But if you’re hugging the bowl for mere alcohol abuse at your age, then your body’s giving you a message.  And the message is: “Your liver is about to pop.”

5: Getting overexcited in cars
It’s around a decade since you and your mate first passed your driving tests.  But the second more than two of you are in the car, it’s on.  Ignorant hip-hop up full blast, McDonald’s wrappers flying out of the window and a frantic honking of the horn every time a girl passes.  Just wait until you get out of the car park, then it’ll really kick off.

4: Pointing excitedly at planes
Sole exception: when it’s heading towards your office.

3: Alphabetti Spaghetti
“T…I…T……C…O…C… sorry?  No, just the bill when you’re ready, garçon.”

2: Picking your nose
Mucus, skin particles and germs.  Congealing and multiplying.  In your nose.  Jesus.  If the government was responsible for that disgusting coagulant, they’d have to bury it in a lead-lined chamber in the desert.  Still, wiping it under your desk is just as good.

1: Lifting your feet off the ground when pushing a trolley
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