#puckoon

[littlepunxsie]

second-hand book fair finds

[sagindie]

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! ☘️🇮🇪

Now have a pint (at home) and watch an Irish movie (at home).

[brummie-man-interests]

"Puckoon" is an English comedy film, based on the novel by the British-Irish actor, comedian, writer, musician, poet, and playwright Spike Milligan KBE.

[brummie-man-interests]

Many people die of thirst, but the Irish were born with one. PUCKOON [2002]

[brummie-man-interests]

"Puckoon" is an English comedy film, based on the novel by the British-Irish actor, comedian, writer, musician, poet, and playwright Spike Milligan.

[reasfromfreecloud]

Life is a long agonized illness only curable by death.

Spike Milligan (Puckoon)

[mea-cuppa]

There was the occasion he'd promised to make fire to fall from heaven. The Church had been packed. At the psychological moment the priest had mounted the pulpit and called loudly "I command fire to fall from heaven!' A painful silence followed. The priest seemed uneasy. He repeated his invocation much louder 'I COMMAND FIRE TO FALL FROM HEAVEN!' The sibilant voice of the verger came wafting hysterically from the loft. 'Just a minute, Father, the cat's pissed on the matches!'

Puckoon, Spike Milligan

[mea-cuppa]

"In 1924 the Boundary Commission is tasked with creating the new official division between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic. Through incompetence, dereliction of duty and sheer perversity, the border ends up running through the middle of the small town of Puckoon. Houses are divided from outhouses, husbands separated from wives, bars are cut off from their patrons, churches sundered from graveyards. And in the middle of it all is poor Dan Milligan, our feckless protagonist, who is taunted and manipulated by everyone (including the sadistic author) to try and make some sense of this mess . . ."