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In years past I have seen them come down the tram tracks as far as Minorca hill, very shy and timorous, a tap on the window sent them back toward home.

The High Bailiff once gave a well known Laxey resident 3 monts in Gaol for bonking a goat, later he gave his friend 2 months for acting the goat. 🤔

Dont forget when polishing, grasp the Richard, firmly, by the clean end 😎

Even odd ones, I met a couple of workers from Southern UK climes today , they had little knowledge of Mona prior to being "seconded is the fashionable term", to work on sensor upgrades for Iris sewers, pleased and confused, they seemed by the Island, but, "You have the cleanest sewers we have ever seen" they told me, Well, a compliment is a compliment, I was tempted to reply "well it is your bread and butter" 🙄

Provisional Foo Haloo planting IEB's [ improvised exolosive bonnags] all about Purt Ny Hinshey ? 🤔

Why is the Catholic Church like Scooby Doo? There's a load of creepy old men in weird costumes scaring people with made up stories until they get arrested because of some pesky kids........

Tried again tonight, just as you say, but better than our first try. Lets hope they continue to improve 👍

Has anyone tried the Prospect Terrace Chinese "The One" lately? I tried it when it first opened--not the best, I'm wondering has it upped it's game.🤔

Any skeet on the Steve England wallah? has he resurfaced anywhere, chasing ambulances perchance?

The original Masonic Hall was on Castle st/Loch prom, above Tom Reece's snooker hall. It had a water powered passenger lift running up the centre of the stairwell to carry the old duffers up for the ju-ju. I had a skeet in whe Cliff Cowin was dropping it, lift long gone but its position and fixings were still visible.

How twisted names become, an Asylum really should be a place of safety and refuge for those in need😒 Enough already,

Ditto, an my hunt was an eye opener, Old James Tobin [g,grandad] left Mona to manage a parlour in Liverpool and never returned home, ended his days in the Brownlow Institute [poor house[ having lost a leg due to being run over by a steam engine trailer. His family did return to Douglas though, moving into Bond st Lane, just off of the Fairy ground, it seems the Male relatives were an absolute shower 😬

Indeed it was, at the back of a souvenir shop, later he moved to the new Walpole Avenue.

Bound over to keep the piece 🤣 My G grandfather had a tonsorial parlour next to the Coffee Palace on N Quay, backing onto the Fairy Ground.

I think that was Johnny Puttynose, Newspaper seller, had a shop alongside the Saddle [now a small car park] No boats at all, It was his call to bring in the customers, very early clickbaiting. Anothe "character of the time was Peg Leg Caley, amiable enough until in his cups then became very truculent, he could move fast even with his Peg and could spit a great distance and accurately, I found an image in the I museum which I reckon is him. The man with the cane, check out his trouser cuff 😁

One of my put downs was my old man shouting, "Oy, Whistling Rufus, pack it in " it was that or "Oy, American Gloves" [remove your hands from your pockets] 😒

Nobles ~Baths, saltwater and bluebottle swimming medium. The other pool was the Ladies pool from the times when we had but two genders. I blame the Saltwater pool for shrinking many a boys genitalia beyond repair. 😐

He was once told to shut up by Valerie Singleton from her bedroom window in the Villiers, a foul mouthed shoutfest ensued, even Bah got a few "f's" an Jef's" in when Val paused for breath, 0630 hrs as i recall.----No BP badge for you mate 😬 My old fella told the tale that Bah suffered severe head injuries as a child by being run over by a horse and carriage, the owner paid his father substancial damages and poppa was never seen again on Mona, an oul tale could be bollox of course 🙄

Luckies was the name for "Ginger" empties 😘

Pole dancing? why not, let's include our Eastern European residents 🤔

That's me in a nutshell, I am not amused or entertained by the same, not offended, I just don't get it, each to their own. By the by, this Sean Bean drama explained a lot to me, well worth a looky loo. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2188993/

Dare I mention Arthur Lucan and Kitty? not drag but very much a female impersonator in a pantomime style, very popular in their time.

I cannot see the Sainted Geoff {Guild God]} Corkish approving, his nickname at school was "The Vicar" quite staid and stuffy at a young age, other than that, a good classmate 😇 Oh well, never mind 😬

Elvis impersonators, now what a boon that would be for the Guild, well we already have Politician impersonators in the Keys. 🤔

The old hall,, Ruston twin cylinder diesels drove the generators