So I was sitting quietly at my computer on a Sunday morning, when I came upon this picture of the Prime Minister of Ireland. I find this an extremely disturbing picture because I think he is looking at me funny. He shouldn’t ought to look at Americans like that, in the privacy of their own home no less.
I won’t go to Ireland on vacation this summer. So there.
Of course, I didn’t go to Ireland last summer or the summer before that, but this is different because it is a Boycott aimed at making Mr. Ahern change his sinister ways. Just to make sure he gets the message, I have decided never to go to Ireland ever again for the rest of my life. He needn’t think he can make things better by looking in some other direction now, the bastard.
In case my boycott on tourism fails to cripple the economy, I have also decided to boycott Irish products, such as Killian’s Irish Red, and potatoes, and … uh … limericks and corks. I don’t think I can bring myself to give up Guinness, but I will compromise by renaming it. From now on I will call it Stop Looking At Me Funny Stout.
I own a copy of Ulysses which I meant to read one day, but from now on I am not going to read it at all. It can just sit there on the shelf while I read John Grisham instead.
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It’s five minutes later and I’m still not reading Ulysses. Why haven’t the Irish noticed yet?
Oh well. I’ll just have to write to some newspapers so they know I’m boycotting them. I’m sending letters to The Raleigh News and Observer, The Chapel Hill News, and The Daily Tar Heel. I’m not sure if those papers are read in Ireland or not, but I can’t send any letters to real Irish papers because I’m boycotting them too, so those ones will have to do.
I used to have an Irish setter called Seamus, but I’m changing his name to Shame-on-You-Mr-Ahern. So that nobody mistakes him for an Irish setter, I’m going to dye him in different colors. His tail end will be green, because it was spring when I started my boycott, and his middle parts will be white – to symbolize the purity of my intentions. I don’t want any dye to get in his eyes and ears, so I guess his head will have to remain orange.
:: checks web page :: Doggonit, he’s still looking at me funny! Why won’t anybody take my boycott seriously, dammit?!?