Where Have All The Bad Boys Gone?

[rockofcashel]

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Your a frog Lazurus, you're a frog

[MsAnneThrope]

Nicely written post Lazarus. I'm always happy to hear stories of people in precarious situations surviving to tell the tale. As to where all the 'bad boys' are gone - well, they're not all gone. Far from it. But, admittedly, quite a few of them are actively trying to find somewhere to go, or are just temporarily lost at sea, figuratively speaking. Given that they couldn't see the wood for the trees for many years, I also wouldn't be suprised if they're lost in a forest somewhere nowadays. You stay strong Lazarus...



"The Triumvirate"

[stripey cat]

Just in case younger readers are not clear who we are talking about, here is a quick video of Padraig Flynn on the Late Late Show in 1999

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8T0Q03oJSc"]YouTube- Padraig Flynn on the Late Late Show 1999[/ame]

[dunno]

If he had taken a few less drinks, he'd still have an Irish political career. He did do a bit for the roads in Mayo.

[Pauli]

He did do a bit for the roads in Mayo.

I hope that, in time, this will be on his headstone. A fitting tribute to a lifetime in Irish politics.

[sparkey321]

Queuing in the post office the other week, who was in front of me but Pee Flynn, ex T.D., Minister, E.U. Commissioner. I was fed up waiting for the line to move along, especially as I was in the bloody wheelchair and when one is in a wheelchair, one is subjected to either pitying looks, quick furtive glances in my leg area, being spoken to IN A VERY LOUD AND SLOW VOICE by people who seem to think that the loss of motion means also the loss of hearing and I.Q., so having worked in the Dáil for 25 years, I thought I'd say hello and see how he was doing.

"Howya Padraigh", says I, giving his very nice Parka jacket a little tug. He spun round and finally located me at his knees. "Well, hello there", he said with a lovely smile. "You are looking sooo well. Tell me, how are things going now?" I was quite startled as I thought for a brief moment that he recognised me, then I thought, "God sake woman, he' a politician. He has no idea who you are."

"You're looking great", says I, and he is. Much better looking now than he used to look. Heavier build, no slimy looking hair dragged over. Tall man. Very tall, mind you everyone looks tall when you are sitting down.

Now I know the history of Mr. Flynn, and his daughter, and his in-laws and none of it makes pretty reading, but I have to tell you, that man spoke to me at length, and was so good that never once did he let it slip that he did not know me from Adam. After all, I had changed a lot in the intervening years and the wheelchair is a new affect. He told me his age, 71, where he was living now. Where he was born, a mile and a half from where I was living, (gasp) etc., etc. He had me convinced (almost) by the end of the conversation that he knew me as well as he knew the back of his hand, although we all know that Pee Flynn never let his left hand know what his right hand was doing.

We exchanged telephone numbers and he went to collect his....pension?? But you know what? I kinda felt sorry for the man. Does that make sense. There was this once well known politician, always in the hub of everything that was going on, and down, and now he was alone, in a queue, in a post office, in a small town in Mayo.

It made me think of all the other "yesterday" men. The ones who were followed by hordes of media people, who were courted by the powerful and the rich. Who had so much influence over so many lives. How do they feel when it is all over? When the "darkness" beckons?

I am an avid hater of FF. I despise them. I do. And yet I left that man, waving to me as if I was a long lost friend, feeling sorry for him. Why?

Hang on a minute.....

Your a woman ???

[myksav]

If he had taken a few less drinks, he'd still have an Irish political career. He did do a bit for the roads in Mayo.

Should fire the county council then.

[Lazarus]

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Your a frog Lazurus, you're a frog

You are right, rockofcashel, you are so right!

Just in case younger readers are not clear who we are talking about, here is a quick video of Padraig Flynn on the Late Late Show in 1999
YouTube- Padraig Flynn on the Late Late Show 1999

Thanks for that clip Stripeycat. I'd almost forgotten how well he operated.

[QUOTE=sparkey321;2441992]Hang on a minute.....Your a woman ???

Yes sparkey, I am of the female persuasion! Why? What difference does that make? I'm an Earthling, as my youngest grandson insists on calling people, for some reason or other, lately.

Staunch FF, I am not an FG supporter. As mentioned, I worked with politicians for 25 years and I think that apart from very few exceptions they seem to be very, how can I put this, self-orientated. You will kill yourself if you continue to go ape-s... everytime someone says they despise FF. If FF wants to be respected, then, like everyone else, they have to earn that respect.

I'm glad I'm a frog. I like frogs. I kissed quite a few in my time but they never turned into the handsome prince, so I married a Scorpion instead. Nature will out, and it did!

[Lazarus]

I apologise if it was not clear to you that I was not talking about Flynn but was talking about the irrational hatred of FF which includes me and the other decent many thousands who are members and the hundreds of thousands who vote FF

Does anyone know if staunch FF is for real, or is he (a) nuts or (2) really really good at playing the part of a brainwashed cult member?

I'm serious here. I've looked at all his posts and well...they are all the same! He goes absolutely berserk when his idols are attacked. God help anyone who says something bad about the soldiers of dysentery when they are face to face with him!

[Edo]

Does anyone know if staunch FF is for real, or is he (a) nuts or (2) really really good at playing the part of a brainwashed cult member?

I'm serious here. I've looked at all his posts and well...they are all the same! He goes absolutely berserk when his idols are attacked. God help anyone who says something bad about the soldiers of dysentery when they are face to face with him!

Its an act - he can appear quite sane when he wants to - you just have to catch him on the hop

ie - its just Bateman ripping the piss for all he can get out of it.