Is this it? Is this really what it’s all about?

I’ve just been tagged for a meme. The ever gracious Grandad at Headrambles has tagged me so of course I will oblige.

Here are the rules of the Meme:
Post on your blog . . .
+ Link to the person that tagged you and post the rules on your blog.
+ Share 7 random and/or weird facts about yourself.
+ Tag 7 random people at the end of your post, and include links to their blogs.
+ Let each person know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.
That’s all there’s to it . . .
Oh and have fun.

Now for the facts:

1. I used to be a tree hugging hippie. I thought that property was theft, cars and mobile phones were devices of the Devil and I used to facilitate interactive ecological programmes for children at Sonairte, the National Ecology Centre. My, how all that has changed since venturing back in to the world of IT. I’m now a gun toting, petrol guzzling, gadget using capitalist swine.

2. A band I drummed with came 2nd in the Carling/Hot Press Irish Band of the Year Competition for two years running.

3. I will never do a bungie or a parachute jump. I’m not scared of heights, I just don’t want to jump from one attached to a giant knicker elastic or a silk table cloth. I am Mad JackMcMad not Psychosomatic Addict Insane JackMcMad.

4. I find that coming up with 7 weird facts about myself is a little more difficult than what I though it would be. I have done it before and can’t remember what I put down.

5. For a local Graffiti Art Festival I appeared on stage semi-naked and played the guitar while one of the exhibiting artists spray painted me.

6. I had completely forgotton about fact 5 until last Thursday when the bass player of the band reminded me.

7. I walk so fast that sometimes I trip over my own feet. The reason is that my feet are moving faster than the speed of light so that they travel back in time and are not where I expect them to be.

The Magnificent  Unfortunate Seven.

1. Why not right back at Grandad and pass this to his very funny daughter k8 the gr8 at Cackaloo.

2. Here’s to you Galwaywegian at The Galway Growl

3. You’re up CardioGirl at 19% Body Fat 100% Fun

4. One for the Road is next.

5. Lets have, all the way from Australia, Baino at Baino’s Banter.

6. Jesus, coming up with seven blogs is more difficult than coming up with seven facts about myself so I think I’ll leave it there.

Enjoy

Why isn’t giant LEGO used in building houses? Can you imagine it? There’s no sturdier stuff I tell you. I built LEGO houses as a kid and was able to stand on top of them with no structural damage done. That would be the equivalent of King Kong standing on a normal house.
There’d be no chance you’d get ripped off by cowboy builders either coz everybody can build lego houses by the time they’re 3 years old. You’d only have to get the ground levelled and the amenities put in before you lay that big flat bit with all the bumps as the base.
Every year you could change the look, build extensions as the family gets bigger and as the years go by remove bits as they move away. You’d never have to move house, if you really wanted to though, you could just dismantle it, throw all the bits onto the back of a Tupperware truck and off you go, leaving the big flat bit behind for somebody else to build on.
Speaking of LEGO, the first Toymaster shop I ever heard of was McKnights in Newry. We’d go to Newry regularly when I was a young kid, when the border was still there and there was customs and everything. The best shop in the world it was. One day we were there very soon after a bomb had exploded close to McKnights. The shop was fairly damaged and I thought my world was going to end, no more Toymaster ohh nooo!
Then I witnessed a sight, that to a small child, was like hundreds of Christmases rolled into one, the magic of the Bomb Damage Sale. Everything had to go! The best bomb damage toy was definitely the LEGO. Boxes and boxes of bomb damaged LEGO with shrapnel holes through them were loaded into the boot of the car (it was only after we got home that I found half an Action Man in one of the boxes too).

Many a bomb damaged lego house was built, the Bricksville Fire Brigade was never as busy and the Hospital had one of the finest burns wards in Lego Land. As for half action man, I made him a LEGO wheelchair and he was awarded a Gold Medal for bravery. And McKnights? Every Friday when I used to go to bed I’d always pray that there’d be a bomb in Newry that night, not a big one, but just big enough to damage the shop’s LEGO supply.

(Pic Shows Jack and Lady McMad in their new LEGO House)