shika
Acrobat
this thread! I've always just loved the sound Bono makes in An Cat Dubh - shika!!!! And it bears a slight resemblence to my real name, so it just stuck.
sconehead said:when i was 3 i refused to eat anything but scones so my uncle called me sconehead and hes called me it ever since! but now i get it shortened to scone. lol. now a few more mebers of family have picked up on it and then later on my mates did.
(does get a lil embarrassing when somebody yells it down the street)
PookaMacP said:
The Third Policeman is a superb book too, if a little (ok, a lot) off the wall. Very funny, but At-Swim-Two-Birds is just genius. His columns from the Irish Times when he wrote under the name Myles na gCopaleen are collected in 'The Best of Myles' too which is a great read. He also wrote some works in Irish, one of which, 'An Beal Bocht', is translated as 'The Poor Mouth', a brilliant satire on the Irish Gaelic revival in the early twentieth century.
Hope you enjoy the book!