A boggling bet
Grandad November 4th, 2010
I like the odd bet.
Last night I was chatting to a friend, and she bet me that I couldn’t use the word ‘boggles’ on this site.
Of course I accepted the bet as the odd tenner comes in handy.
It was only a while later that I realised what a corner I had painted my self into.
I mean to say – who in their right mind would use the word ‘boggles’? It’s a fucking stupid word. It’s the kind of word that would be used by tweedy old dears as they sip their afternoon tea. It is not the kind of word I would use in the course of normal conversation.
I suppose I could have written about how the mind boggles at the sheer neck of our Gubmint, but I would be more inclined to just talk about how our Gubmint has a neck like a jockey’s bollox, as the use of the word ‘boggles’ just doesn’t quite cut the mustard somehow.
I spent the morning trying to think up a subject where I could slip ‘boggles’ in under the radar as it were, but I just couldn’t think of anything. So the Gubmint have been forced by the Constitution to hold an election? That is boring rather than boggling. So a DJ had a quick bash of the bishop on a flight from London to Cork? So what? I have enough wankers to talk about in the Gubmint without humiliating a poor DJ, and again I can’t think where I could slip a ‘boggles’ in there.
Fuckit, but it looks like I have lost the bet.
That’s a rarity.
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I always thought Boggles was the Irish cousin of Biggles.
Just want to point out you have used the word Boggles a few times in this post surely that counts or did it have to be in context?
This whole post so overwhelmed and bewildered that it gave me a sudden start.
I may have to go have a lie down.
This post just boggles my mind.
Too obvious?
TT – A distant relation. A sort of Biggles without the goggles.
Belfast – I suppose I did once or twice. I’ll check with my solicitor…..
Doc – It is pretty mind boggling all right. Not fit for those of us of an elder disposition?
Oxford Dictionary….”Boggle” To be mentally fucked up…”Boggling” To be in the process of being mentally fucked up. pt..”Boggled” To be mentally fucked up for sometime.
Hits too close to home.
Brian Lenihan looks pretty boggled everytime he opens his mouth. And the DJ story, fair play he didn’t deny it – could have said it was a load of bollox! I know, i know!
Boggles my mind how you were all conned by an alcoholic into voting for Lisbon!
Willie – Are you hinting I should change the name of this site to Head Boggles? It does have a sort of ring to it, I suppose?
Mick – The difference between Lenihan and the DJ? No difference. Both are …….. oh never mind!
Bill – Hold on there!!! I never voted for that fucking treaty as you will find if you read back. Some of us here have some sense.
Grandad never suggested you personally did but it still amazes me how easily the pisshead managed to change so many peoples minds. Is or rather was the Irish economy so reliant on the EU tit?
Over here we get no say at all on anything. The spivs the morons elected are raping my country and doing exactly the same as the pisshead handing it all over to barroso and rumpy.
Your lady-friend presented you with a conumdrum all right.
You’ve got so many topics and yet so few opportunities to use that useless word.
Honestly, the mind boggles !!!
GD….no hinting intended… If you change the blog’s name, then I would have to change my favorite list in my computer. That could prove to be boggling.
Your three readers who cleverly put ’mind’ and ‘boggles’ together should have read your post more thoroughly.
My flabber is gasted by this whole idea.
And I had a poached egg for breakfast and I don’t like this grey, damp fucking Irish weather.
I’ve only been home 36 hours and I’m depressed already.