It’s President Barack Obama!
And a green toilet plunger!
On Saint Patrick’s Day!

[hat tip to Jazz Biscuit]

[Background sample courtesy of Real Rhodes Sounds, from The Freesound Project]

No experience required, though good sporting knowledge an advantage particularly an understanding of the Offside Rule.

Good communication skills and infacta command of the English language useful.
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A good memory is essential.

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Today is the fourth day of ownership of my pen, and I have to say I’m starting to treat it like an old friend. I walk around the office with it clipped in to my shirt pocket and someone in the accounts department actually asked to borrow it while we were both standing at the photocopier. Would you believe it, they actually tried to walk away with my pen! They were very embarrassed when I called after them as they walked down the corridor and asked for it back. You will be happy to know that it is now back, safe and sound in my top pocket, ready and waiting to start writing again.

Happy customers rave about their purchase.

I don’t really understand any of this, but I don’t think Mr. T does either, so at least I’m in good company.

Sammy Duddy, who died on October 17 aged 62, had a rather unusual curriculum vitae for a member of the Loyalist paramilitary Ulster Defence Association in having been a drag artiste who went by the stage name of Samantha.

During the 1970s the self-styled “Dolly Parton of Belfast” became well known on Belfast’s cabaret circuit, presenting a risqué act in Loyalist pubs and clubs, dressed in fishnet tights, wig and heavy make-up. Once he even performed for British troops on tour.

“I wore a miniskirt many a time,” Duddy remembered, “but it was usually a long dress, a straight black wig, a pair of falsies I bought in Blackpool and loads of make-up to cover my freckles. The darker the mascara the better, and scarlet lipstick, because I was a scarlet woman.”

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Nothing to panic about then.