Half a million
Grandad March 7th, 2010
Half a million.
That is one huge fucking number.
500,000.
Half a million miles will get you to the Moon and back.
Half a million hours ago, I hadn’t even started in Junior Infants.
Half a million days ago, Ireland was still ruled by the Celts.
Half a million Euro would nearly pay a minister’s salary for a whole year.
Half a million words is two thirds the total output from Shakespeare, or two thirds of the entire bible.
That is a lot of fucking words.
It is the number of words I have written since I started this lark.
I must be mad.
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Your fingers must be worn down to tiny little stubs by now.
You should get a coat hanger and bend it round your head like that Hawking fella. He’s not stupid.
.-= not twitter´s last brainfart .. Has it been a long week, Google? =-.
My finger tips are well hardened from years of tamping down red hot tobacco in my pipe. They should be good for another couple of million words yet?
Sundays must be getting you down. Counting your words. Why not count your teeth? You’ll find them beside the bed. If you are mad, I must be madder to reply. Fuck Sundays.
.-= kerryview´s last brainfart .. Young Women Die, So What =-.
Half a million miles to get to the moon and back, sounds a lot – but half a million days since Ireland was ruled by the Celts, doesn’t sound all that long ago. I guess it’s the way you look at it
Half a million words on your blog though, sounds remarkable! (I’m going to count mine after this).
I look forward to reading your next half million!
.-= Geri Atric´s last brainfart .. NIGHTMARE BEASTIES! =-.
Half a million words of wisdom!!!!
My ghast is truly flabbered. And to think I’ve read most of them! What does that say about us all??
A Half Million!! Cripes, I’ve only written 99,604. Good job. Some of those words were funny too.
.-= Brianf´s last brainfart .. Motivational Posters =-.
Kerryview – Sure, counting my teeth only takes second…. five. There. Happy?
Geri – The next half million? Do you really think I’ll live that long?
King’s Bard – It says that we all have little to do in life. It would be easier to read the phonebook?
Brianf – Could you please send me a list of the funny words? I could use them again and give us all a laugh?
tt -”Congrats GD”
“Your comment was a bit too short. Please go back and try again.”
tt- Please go back and fuck yourself whoever you are. Asshole.
Will you please stop shouting abuse at my website? It’s doing its best.
But were you mad when you started, or did you become mad?
It’s more of a case of being mad to start it?
I wonder if someday some advanced civilisation will excavate this from the destruction that is surely going to come from 2012/Global warming/Fianna Fail/killer whales and think it’s some form of contemporary Bible? If so, surely there’ll be a future Grandad to call it a load of bollocks.
.-= Mike´s last brainfart .. MikeFlah: He ate the sandwich, and it was at this point he realised the potato salad had a use by date of seven days previous. =-.
every one a winner….well almost….heh
.-= manuel´s last brainfart .. Irish Times eh… =-.
Mike – In millennia to come, they shall raise statues to me and praise me for saving the world. This site is the Dead Sea Scrolls of the future and shall be compulsory reading in all schools.
Manuel – Which word offended you? I shall remove it immediately.
Congratulations and well done! Looking forward to the next half a million.
Hi GD,
I know – 2 days behind! but had to come back to this one…
The 500,000 got me thinking…
Average ‘professional’ typist – 50 words a minute.
500,000 words = 6.9 days without stoppin.
On the basis that you don’t sleep, and you’re an average typist, you could double-up by next Tuesday!
.-= Mick´s last brainfart .. Shane MacGowan and Friends for Haiti =-.
Hi Mick,
Thank you very much for that.
All I need now is the inspiration for another 500,000 words.
Aww congratulations Grandad. Half a mill is memorable. I just wish it was dollars and you cold send some to your favourite Aussie. Just think if you could type 90wpm you’d well over a million by now? You’ll find inspiration, there’s a new grandsprog on the way, blog awards and you never know, could be the odd tourist in a corked hat around September . . .that’s gotta be food for blogging?
Yes. Dollars [or even Euro] would be nice. Funny you should say that about the tourists – they’re back!!!