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This Month's Demotivator:

St Patrick’s Day: Your Bonus Demotivator

ST PATRICK’S DAY
The best Irish writers were usually drunk.
Doesn’t seem to be working out for you, though.

ST PATRICK'S DAY Demotivator (Medium)
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Photo by Tim Hansen, of MorgueFile.

 

7 Comments

  1. links from Technoratipants on today so I don’t get pinched) but I’ve never drunk Guinness (!) and I’ve never been to Ireland (!!) Still, I will try to get in the spirit with a few Ireland-themed items: The first St. Patrick’s Day item I saw this morning was 101 Reasons’demotivational poster about drunken writers. If you aren’t offended enough by that, there’s always the blog every blog is contractually obligated to link to this month, Stuff White People Like, whose St. Patrick’s Day entry begins, “Normally if someone were to wake up at 7:00 in the morning,

  2. Lou:

    And A happy St. Pat’s to you to!

    The Punchline:

    “Mrs. Flanney’s Breast, and a thing of beauty it was, but useless in a fight.”

  3. Silviar:

    I am so sharing this with my group of friends who are avid writers. Maybe it will show them the folly of their ways… ;-)

  4. Duh! It only works if your readers are drunk too!
    :-)

  5. Actuallt, it is working. Scotch produces very fine results, especially if it’s a brand that cost $200 bottle that I’m drinking at somebody else’s house.

    Malcolm

  6. Marc:

    Christine Eldin has bit the dirt.

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