November 4, 2004
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As I sit down to a plate of fried spam (the meat!) and three giant leeks, I reflect on how many lovely replies I got for my last entry here. Thank you all.
I like strange food and drinks like peppermint pop and Whittards flavoured fruit-powdered tea, and beetroot with sardines and so on. I also like good English fare like steak and kidney/oyster pudding, lava bread, parkin-cake, and my obsession when “pubbing”, fish & chips.
I am off work this week and next as I regain the movement in my left side, or at least move my neck without severe pain. But my paid work today as a store clerk is crap to what I was, a reporter.
Some of the better (non-Sarahs’) comments I leave around including comments about my past life and comments and blogs from here, can be found on http://theclownfromclowne.blogspot.com/
That blog is full of who I am, what I think, where I’ve been, and is nearer than this one to how I tick.
Terry.
elsewhere: Three_Headed_Sarahs begin to pee people off with their British sense of irony. Americans rarely GET irony! They think it’s being insulting rather than poking general fun as an outsider. They don’t do satire like us Brits. Sad, because it’s all meant as harmless fun wrapped up in deadly truth. (Reading that Ohio?)
And LordPineapple continues with the poetry, the entry there now is of poems all wrote in two mornings at Florence Park Oxford. Next? Not decided yet, maybe The Rev Tobias Trontby needs a look in.
Thanks again Terry.
Comments (28)
Off now to eat and read The Guardian newspaper. bbl to visit everyone who commented last time and this.
Chinny Chin, Don’t let your bum rule your tum!
Sorry you are…I mean have a pain in the neck
Truthfully I am sorry as I also have a hellacious pain in my left shoulder and think it is muscle or tendion strain. Oldies doing the work of youngsters do suffer 
How ironic that Americans don’t understand irony … the President is full of IT
I love the Sarahs … down to their downy heads! 
British fare is … interesting … you should see some of the stuff Mexican people eat … Beef tripe … cow eyeballs … cooked blood (yucky).
And … so your blogspot is a bit better … what a coincidence (looks in mirror) … I feel like you are a long lost brother I never knew. Take care … and I truly hope you feel better my dear.
Anyone likes fish and chips can’t be all bad.
Personally anyone who loves fish and chips that much must be full of something besides fish and chips. Irony, what is that? Maybe you do it too well. (Reading that Derbyshire)
i hope the pain gets better, =)
now off to the sarahs !
I hope you get rid of that pain in the neck.
Swimming would help…
I might like fish and chips. I’ll pass on the steak and kidney/oyster pudding, no thank you.
I love just about any bread and cake.
Be well
i know what you mean, i tried going around it and above it, but right now that poem is dead to me, though i never minded any one’s hash words or witty remarks, i rather enjoy being poked and called names hehe.
i am blushing at the thought of being one of your top ten on xanga, also makes me wonder who else is on the list.
you seem to have read my mind about my poem, i thought maybe i should take the your’s out and replace them but i was just being lazy i guess, but honest truth is always welcome at my door.
=)
… *smiles* … yes, but the funny thing is … everyone says i have a British sense of humor … very dry, satirical and sarcastic … no one gets my humor, either … .. … *smiles* … something in common perhaps …
~ the angel
I love the Sarahs! Just because a few ignorant Americans who have figured out how to surf the net don’t get it or don’t like it, please don’t judge all of us by the noisy ones. After all, nearly 50% of us are “blue”!
so sorry to hear that you are in pain…(((Hugs)))
I like the honest tone of this entry.
I laughed out loud when you said “read me Ohio?” because I knew damned well who you were talking about and when it happened.
Perhaps that I do get irony is why I get along with Brits. They make fun of everything. Bunch of snobs they are.
The foods you mentioned made my stomach roll. I am a vegetarian and so a lot of things make my stomach flip flop anyway. For example, people in Puerto Rico, the Caribbean island where my family is from, eat something called blood pudding.
It is really the most revolting thing around. OK, no, I imagine there are worse things but the shit is rather foul. Even when I did eat meat I refused to get near it after the 1st time I tried it.
I do hope you’ll be feeling better soon.
Oh and that thing we were talking about, ie. a yellow fluid? That was gross. Crossed the line there, my friend. It’s okay but let’s take it easy on fluid-chat.
Caio for now
You like the same food I do we had fish and chips last night only homemade ones Tony did them
fried spam mmm delicious. I am going to research Tasmania for you and will put some links up when I get it done Take care and sorry about the pain 
Angela
I talk to directly to God. He tells me that the only people he talks directly to are people who won’t talk about.
I am American, I use irony and satire all the time, and I think the Sarah’s are brilliant. Of course, I live in a blue state–very blue. But I am happy, after all.
“Bob” knows about and watches the Sarahs. It is not clear if they are competing with “Bob” and offering their own salvation, which would be hearsay. They may want to praise “Bob”
In other words, you are preparing for another four years of ass-raping?
Fish and chips…yummy! Can’t be all bad if you like fish and chips!
Hi Terry, thanks for the comment. I got quite a variety on this post. I think people just needed to talk.. (after the election). Well, in regard to your ‘are you bothered by the presidents godheadedness (whatever). I do think he is a little sanctimonious. I wouldn’t feel so bad about his claims if he acted like he gave a whit or did the proper things for people in need, and gave up on his notions that wreck the environment.
hmm you said “never”… riiiiight.
anyway, thanks.
if we didn’t have irony and satire in this world, we wouldn’t have much at all.
british humor is wonderful.
thanks for stopping by my site… i’m delighted to ‘meet’ Lord Pineapple… i’ve yet to come across a more interesting site… then again, i don’t travel around these xanga thingies much….
Right now, I am so famished, even spam sounds like a gourmet meal.
I as well love Dylan Thomas.
But mostly I love Dylan, Bob.
lisa
The real fried cod fried with the good fat is one of my mosr loved food.
Must be a pain in the a….doing the exercise but they can help you to do something more or at least to recover.
Have a nice time.
RYC: Bush of course speaks to God. Blair surprises me. Does he stand for anything but staying in power? Reminds me of Kerry. I want to wipe them all out and start over. Wrote a post on that a week or so ago. UK doesn’t have a strong fundamentalist movement does it? My experience there is that most voters are worried about what the government will do to them and for them!
Your taste in food is as weird as your poems well some of them. I prefer your sensible ones .I can’t see irony in 3 headed Sarah and I am a Brit in a foreign land and Aussies seldom understand anything apologies to those on here. I would stick to just one site like Lord Pineapple , you can still write as the others but do give 3 headed a burial. Are you really in such pain. I thought a stroke deadened things I am in constant pain from arthritis, The only thing at the moment that seems to be working is my mind. Why aren’t you on a sockness pension if you are that bad you would qualify over here. Keep writing your life seems so unhappy, write about happy things you might feel better. Cheers marj
Hello, where has my pic gone?
Make sure you don’t miss today’s blog. I swear I didn’t write it AFTER coming here. I’ve been thinking about it since the first comment on my last blog. How funny our two blogs meet in agreement. *G* Terry, I just plain like you. You definitely put a smile on my face. Infinite Blessings
i’m the most ironic run-a-way American you’ll ever meet.
I get “irony.” I study the hell out of things that contradict one another! It’s fun!!! I’m subscribing here, too!
i miss you the angel