If you want to hear more of my piano playing, all you have to do is buy the original 45s released by various Irish artists in the very early 70s. You might be lucky and hear me plinking away in the background.

I’d love to hear more about the Piano playing!

I don’t remember much about the Inter. I must have been drunk at the time.

I do remember the Primary though. I was in Ring at the time and had to do the whole thing in Irish [which just about guaranteed full marks!]

Sorry about the bad memories

I recall there being some confusion as a legacy from the days before us – as in if you got over 60% on a Lower Level paper people would fight over whether that was an “honour” or not and some would sneeringly call it an “Honour on a Pass paper”.

The confusion wasn’t helped by the fact that in the Inter there was only a Lower/Higher Level split on the 3 compulsory subjects with everything else having one paper and following the old rule.

God, I’m starting to hate you for making me remember all this!

@Eolai – So I’m not the only one! From now on, Sunglasses On Heads are legitimate targets. Expect a high body-count.

I did the Leaving in The Good Old Days. The days of the Primary Cert and the Intermediate. In those days marking was simple – you got percentages and if you got over 60% you got Honours. There was none of this A1/B6 crap. There were no points. And the Art exam consisted of one paper where we had to do some drawing and answer a few questions. Life was simple then, and you didn’t need a degree in astrophysics to work out if you had passed.

@Sneezy – Fair play to ya. And you know you will, if I threaten ask you nicely enough.

I am a little puzzled about the art thing though – not that I doubt you could swing it, but when I did my leaving I think there were four art papers and one of them was Art History. No more than non-art History I would have thought it was hard to spoof, so does that mean you got the bulk of your marks just out of the available 75% from the other 3 papers?

“C’mon you boofheads, we all like talking about ourselves or we wouldn’t be playing in the blogosphere.”

You see these Wans getting out of their SUVs, and carefully placing their sunglasses as if they had eyes in the tops of their heads. It’s a stupid fashion accessory, and I want to baseball-bat the lot of them.