Weekend warrior motor bike riders at Killarney got shown some real horse power last Saturday outside the pub.
This photo was captured by a Willow Gallery volunteer on duty that day.
“It was right on lunch hour,” she said.
“I hope no-one was perusing the menu and saying ‘I am so hungry I could eat a horse’! Or sidling up to the bar for a beer and ordering “a pony”.
Caveman Cowboys
Scientists now say humans began using horses for mustering 5000 years ago in the late Stone Age.
Studies of ancient burial mounds of the Yamnaya people in Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Serbia show they tended their cattle and sheep on horseback.
Most research into the advent of horse riding focuses on the horses themselves but the study, by emeritus Professor of Hartwick College USA, looked at 217 human skeletons at 39 sites and found physical evidence in bones and hips sockets attributable to regular horse riding.
Subliminal Submarine
Useful hint for anyone planning to do a TV interview from home – check what’s in your bookcase if it is framing your face.
Here’s a recent example from last Thursday night’s viewing.
Rowan Dean on Sky News is framed by a book titled “Stupid”.
Surely that is not what he thinks of himself.
He was talking about Labor’s nuclear multi-billion submarine deal.
So, was “Stupid“ a SUBliminal message perhaps?
Paddy Power to be sure, to be sure
Ambush Marketing is a way to score free advertising by hi-jacking a main event with your own message.
For example, in the 2012 European championship soccer match, Danish Player Nicklas Bendtner celebrating scoring a goal against Portugal. He lifted his shirt to reveal green underwear with the name Paddy Power, an on-line gambling brand that had not paid for event sponsorship.
So, do you think our Warwick folk of Irish heritage used their very on Paddy Power in a similar cheeky plan for free advertising?
Here’s they are on prime time television for all the world to see, in Toowoomba at the recent St Patrick’s Day Parade, an event whose main message is to honour the patron saint of Ireland.
But it was a great craic, all that some free advertising for Warwick’s Celtic Festival in September.
