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Social Club party: Turk's head, Temple Bar. A tenner for whoever can
tell me who all the bits belong to! Entries: waltzer@waltzer.net.
See videos of this event at eSelect.tv: Video
one | Video
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Christmas arrives!
Hello everybody and welcome to the Christmas special of the Waltzer
Experience. Join me as I look back over 2001 - the highs, the lows and
the sillyness. Read what others are saying about the last year of Waltzer
Experience, and look at the pictures that made the year what it was.
And please note that Waltzer.net is closing for Christmas and will be back to normal on Tuesday, 8th January.
A year in headlines
The People
The Spoofs
104 Dave Manzor admits to singing with Enigma
on "Return to Innocence" The Parties
108 Break for the Border Top 10 quotes
123
Eanna: Approaching Jackie's desk and suddenly spotting new monitor
"Jackie, I was going to ring you about it but—JESUS! That's a big monitor!"
140 John Owens: "I thought it was a
burp and then splash!" John on his loss of composure at the bar in
O'Shea's.
131 Kaner Asked Daire if he'd like
to go for a beer, Daire replied "No, I'm cool," Kaner: "I know you're
cool, but you might want to go for a beer"
135 Triona B: "Sometimes I wish life
had an undo button." Suddenly embarrassed as lads laugh at the geeky
statement "...like now."
128 Irene: On Helena's novelty "Tune
a fish" radio "The reception's not the John West."
137 Martin: "I'm in the order of the
rag." Martin after a particularly heavy night.
117 Russ: Advising the lads about
chasing girls who live with their boyfriend "Thats the lark that throws
a swift 'no' into the equation."
107 Damian Gallagher: On a night
of drinking "I'm going to get ruined tonight in a most immature fashion."
110 Jody: On a "Rebel beer" tap
with a picture of an aul' lad in a quiet pub "If you're going to flog
a cheap beer, at least come up with a good tap."
126 Jody: "Jesus, Waltzer, you can't
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What you think
Jody Fitzpatrick, writer
This edition from March 12 (week 111) seems
to capture all the elements I've just mentioned, from the girl with the
mad beer hat to Russ Manning's very own Lizard King. It's also nice to
see that the quote of the week belongs to the late Ian Kane. I still maintain
he'd the worst take on a country accent I've ever heard, (I never knew
when he was slagging me whether to be amused or annoyed) but that's not
to take anything away from his otherwise superb wit. It's still tough
to believe that he's gone. He always afforded ye a really cheerful salute
and it's a credit to his parents and himself that he was a wonderfully
decent man.
Mark Jordan, ex-KW designer
There's only so many motion-blurred, dodgy, supersaturated pictures
of Phil with a fag poised ominously before a wry grin, in THAT 70'S JACKET
that a man can process in a year. Only so many extreme close-ups of John
Owens in vomitus on the ____________(insert form of public transport here)
that a man can stomach. And there are NEVER ENOUGH pictures of rather
pretty waifs and gurdles for a man to wonder at. Hmmm. But it is indubitably
nice to have a wee comfort-site, like a dirty auld shite-ridden blanket
that you can't let go of, to scoot along to every Tuesday morning. Actually
the Tuesday morning publication doesn't sit right with me, offends all
my autistic sensibilities, just really gets my Louis Gosset Jr up. What
does trigger all my autistic fetishes is the prospect of counting how
many alcoholic beverages appear in the photos on waltzer.net... answers
on a tattooed badgers sphincter to the usual address.
Ger McCarthy, programmer
Week 142 always makes me laugh when I see
that ugly fucker's (Alan Currie) mug as the label for his record company
"Purgatory". Currie, it's "Purgatory" listening to your "music"... only
joking, it's not that bad... after 10 pints.
Week 141 (can anyone see a pattern here) is
my favourite edition of all. The Killarney trip was blast from start to
finish. The image of Cian and I showing off the impressive results of
our drinking is a lovely image indeed. Although Cian was drinking Baby
Sham… The beautiful day image of the U2 cover band is also funny as I
never got to see/hear them. The few days in Kerry were excellent.
Finally, week 131 has a memorable image of
my "departmental move drinks/session" - Jaysus we'll do anything for a
piss up - The image of me "mothering" Johnny 'Bravo' Owens says a lot
about the two of us... I'll let you make up your own minds on that one...
Kevin O'Connell, design manager
I'd safely say that my favourite image from Waltzer's archives dates
from week 117 (April 23rd), titled 'Summer Arrives'.
We have the usual suspects, Dave Manzor and Jay (plus what seems to be
a shy Tony Hand) standing in front of O'Sheas on a sunny Friday evening.
Well, I hope it was sometime after 5.30...
As would be usual for the next few months, Jay is providing much needed
shade to his boozy brethren. Dave has his 'I have only had two pints so
far' smile on, while Tony, as is usual, appears to be casing the car park.
As for the rest of us? Probably sitting uncomfortably on Kegs, swatting
wasps and cursing the Compaq employees for knocking off at 4.30 and snaffling
all the good seats...
Roll on next summer!!!
Moose, designer
We spent the year looking out in hopeful expectation of what the strange
green saucer could be. Then it opened with a first day extravaganza, including
such gems as leaky, gone-off smoothies and constant alarm ringing. But
we all put it all down to teething problems.
A year later it's the same, and if any child of mine teethed for 365
days I would give it to social services, which is where the festering
green bastards deserve to be. Serving food on plates the size of satellite
dishes doesn't make it nice food, claiming such wild theories such as
"cheese is a meat" all delivered in angelic tones by a shrek look-a-like
who takes personal delight in being as obnoxious as possible while emptying
your hard earned cash from your pockets.
Even when the AIB decided to hand us all twice the money we deserved,
it was gone in a flash after purchasing half a sun dried tomato on a bed
of stale bread. And the portions involved, if put through a mathematical
equation, come out at about £4.90 per square inch of food.
So we can look back on Waltzer's photo dairy of the building process
with naive glee and remember a more innocent age when we waiting with
baited breath for an O'Brien's, or a sun dial, or even a bar. My own money
was on a strip club run by the cat man from Sky telly but that was not
to be, instead we got some joint that sounds like a private eye agency
and charges five pounds a sandwich, and remember that'll be over six euros,
SIX EUROS. Unless for the New Year everyone ignores them till they go
away, and we can spend the next year wondering what will replace it all
over again.
Tony O'Brien, Limerick boss
The absolute highlight for me was Wednesday night's "Oirish" band -
fresh from supporting The Irish Rovers' Reunion Tour. Dedicated showmen,
who pride themselves on knowing their audience and capturing the prevailing
mood, they wowed us with the likes of "A Nation Once Again" and "Come
out ye Black and Tans" Not to be outdone, well-known SmartForce personality
Jody Fitzpatrick led the band in a stirring rendition of Slievenamon.
(Up Tipp) Classic Stuff. I think Waltzer captured the mood of the night
perfectly with his shot of Mary Kate's impression of a Boney M backing
dancer. Like MK we all found it impossible to resist - the rhythm had
taken control!
Sarah Hipwell, design team lead
Speaking of a different kind of flight, I recall week
33: 14 August 2000, That Wrecks Me Buzz. 'Airport Mayhem' by Breffini
O'Malley - a quick synopsis - a weekend away to NYC basically turns into
a fiasco between delays; inclement weather cancelling flights; lost baggage...I
think you get the picture! This ditty only conjures up my own ill-fated
flight with Air Farce to Florence of the same year avec Mama Hipwell,
which you can read about on waltzer.net in the new year...
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A year in pictures
Wage Slave
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Wage Slave © 2000-2001 Philip Barrett.
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It's
a rough, steely grey snowstorm of a day. Powdered sugar blasts through
the air, whipped into vast eddies and swirlscapes outside of my window.
It's Christmas. I've an office party hangover that I don't deserve (no,
honest, I only had three Guinness and an Edelstoff). Plus now I've this
thing to write. Shite! How to cram an impression of a years worth of waltzer.net
into 200 words or less? What can't I say?
Summer in Dublin (well, Clonskeagh, anyway)
Waltzer's
unpublished photo diary of the Berman and Wallace restaurant construction.
My favourite piece of Waltzer.net over the past year has to be the coverage
of this year's 
When I was asked to contribute to the Waltzer Christmas special, my immediate
reaction was 'flight' as opposed to 'write'. Then I thought, sure heck,
maybe someone might get a chuckle or even a laugh!
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