Northern Ireland Outdoors Forum - Hiking, camping and more
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Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up".....Thomas Edison
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It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:
The heights by great men reached and kept / Were not attained by sudden flight, / But they, while their companions slept, / Were toiling upward in the night.
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Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.
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Wouldnt it be great if people got to live suddenly as often as they get to die suddenly :)
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There is no such thing as bad weather, only inappropiate clothing - Billy Connelly
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I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
"I believe that life is a mess," he answered promptly. "It is like yeast, a ferment, a thing that moves and may move for a minute, an hour, a year, or a hundred years, but that in the end will cease to move. The big eat the little that they may continue to move, the strong eat the weak that they may retain their strength. The lucky eat the most and move the longest, that is all. BOOK, (sea wolf) JACK LONDON
He was beaten (he knew that), but he was not broken. He saw, once for all, that he stood no chance against a man with a club. He had learned the lesson, and in all his afterlife he never forgot it. That club was a revelation. It was his introduction to the reign of primitive law... The facts of life took on a fiercer aspect, and while he faced that aspect uncowed, he faced it with all the latent cunning of his nature aroused."
- Jack London, The Call of the Wild, Chapter 1
"All my life I have had an awareness of other times and places. I have been aware of other persons in me. Oh, and trust me, so have you, my reader that is to be. Read back into your childhood, and this sense of awareness I speak of will be remembered as an experience of childhood. You were then not fixed, not crystallized. You were plastic, a soul in flux, a consciousness and an identity in the process of forming--ay, of forming and forgetting."
- Jack London, The Star Rover
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We learned that one cannot defy nature, but must adapt and accommodate oneself to her. Nature will not change; it is man who must change, if he is to live in conditions where nature is dominant.” Skis against the atom by Knut Haukelid
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6umbquW61E
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Hi Wolf,
Love the jack london quote ;D
a portion of it used to be my sig.
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Any body watch "the gods must be crazy?" I havent watched the whole thing but seems like a great wee film. Not exactly a quote, but the narration between 5.25 and around 8.30, just makes me think a lot about how we now live, makes you think how ridiculus some things are. When I finish Uni I will be avoiding a 9-5 if at all possible
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66pTPWg_wUw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66pTPWg_wUw)
Oh aye and yes the film does look like its cost about a 5er to make :D
edit: forgot to link to Youtube clip :P
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I love jack london books 666_pack ;D
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There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
He was quick and alert in things of life, but only in things, and not in the significances.
For a living dog is better than a dead lion.
I congratulate you. I think you can now fire your father's legs back into the grave to him. You've discovered your own and learned to stand on them. A little rope-work, sail-making, and experience with storms and such things, and by the end of the voyage you could ship on any coasting schooner.
To serve was to suffocate. He preferred suffering in freedom to all the happiness of a comfortable servility. He did not care to serve anyone or anything. He cared to serve nothing. He was no figurehead. He stood on his own legs. He was an individual."
JACK LONDON !!!
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Some great stuff there wolf
any chance you could compile a bit of a London reading list for me.
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The 1st jack london book i got was a book with 2 novels in it they where called, The call of the wild, (is one story) White Fang (is the other) They got me hooked. The next book i got was a truely great novel its called, The sea wolf, and im not sure i can say between the 3 novels which is better, i loved them all. Ive also bought, The star rover, (AND) The People of the Abyss, i also enjoyed, but i think you should go for white fang, call of the wild and, The sea wolf, as they are his trade mark books. You can read them on line just type jack londons name. Im going to get some more books soon ;D
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Girls are like pianos. When they're not upright, they're grand.
Rainey: That poor girl's just about ready to vault herself onto your fencepost.
I spent 90% of my money on women and drink. The rest I wasted - George Best
Moving from Wales to Italy is like moving to a different country - Ian Rush
He's usually a good puller - but he couldn't get it up that time. - Richie Benaud (cricket commentator)
I never criticise referees and i'm not going to change a habit for that prat. - Ron Atkinson
"Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life." - Terry Pratchett.
"Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage." - Ambrose Bierce
"You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest." - Rowan Atkinson.
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Reporter: Welcome to Southampton Football Club. Do you think you are the right man to turn things around?
Strachan: No. I was asked if I thought I was the right man for the job and I said, "No, I think they should have got George Graham because I'm useless."
Strachan: I've got more important things to think about. I've got a yogurt to finish by today, the expiry date is today. That can be my priority rather than Agustin Delgado.
Reporter: Bang, there goes your unbeaten run. Can you take it?
Strachan: No, I'm just going to crumble like a wreck. I'll go home, become an alcoholic and maybe jump of a bridge. Umm, I think I can take it, yeah.
Reporter: There's no negative vibes or negative feelings here?
Strachan: Apart from yourself, we're all quite positive round here. I'm going to whack you over the head with a big stick, down negative man, down.
Reporter: You don't take losing lightly, do you Gordon?
Strachan: I don't take stupid comments lightly either.
Reporter: So, Gordon, in what areas do you think Middlesbrough were better than you today?
Strachan: What areas? Mainly that big green one out there...
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“We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life is not fair, but life is not fair for everyone. That makes life fair.
The rock that is an obstacle in the path of one person becomes a stepping-stone in the path of another.
Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a lion or a gazelle-when the sun comes up, you’d better be running.
“If everything’s under control, you’re going to slow.” – Mario Andretti
“If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.” – Brian Tracy
"Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill. " – Muhammad Ali, boxer
“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is not path and leave a trail.” – Muriel Strode
“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they never use.” – Kierkegaard
"If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability." – Henry Ford
"Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenge or any occupation, no matter how frightening or difficult, a new meaning. Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish miracles." - Og Mandino
"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared." - Buddha
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You need to lay off the caffeine by the looks of it :D You could stick all those in a single post ::)
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"The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become." - Charles Du Bos
Never let a win get to your head, or a loss to your heart. -Chuck D, from song by Public Enemy "He Got Game"
“Don't worry about avoiding temptation... as you grow older, it will avoid you.” - Winston Churchill
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands in time of challenge and controversy” – Martin Luther King Jr
"The people who get on in this world are the ones who get up and look for the circumstances they want and, if they can’t find them, make them." – George Bernard Shaw, Playwright
“Faith is a passionate intuition.” - William Wordsworth
“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.” - Socrates
“Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you.” - Kahlil Gibran
”There aren't any great men. There are just great challenges that ordinary men like you and me are forced by circumstances to meet." - William F. Halsey
“If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting.” – Dick Vermeil, American Football Coach
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” - William Butler Yeats, Irish Poet and Dramatist
"Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind." - Leonardo da Vinci
“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” – Will Rogers
"You’ve got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing." – Arthur Ashe, Tennis Player
"An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he’s in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots." – Charles Kettering, Inventor
“Don’t fight a battle if you don’t gain anything by winning.” – George S. Patton
"Not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment." - George Sala
“When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: "You haven't!"” -Thomas Edison
“Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.” - Shirley MacLaine
“Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.” - Louis L'Amour
“Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.” - Samuel Butler
“Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.” - Clare Boothe Luce
“Lying is the most simple form of self-defense.” - Susan Sontag
“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek then with our eyes open.” - Jawaharial Nehru
“The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war.” - Vera Brittain
“It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.” - Andre Gide
"Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows, we guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark." - Agnes de Mile, American dancer-choreographer (1905-1993)
"When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure." - Peter Marshal
"Everyone has his burden. What counts is how you carry it." - Merle Miller
“You must get good at one of two things: sowing in the spring or begging in the fall.” - Jim Rohn
"The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat." – Napoleon Hill, Author
“Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.” - Ambrose Bierce
"What is powerful is when what you say is just the tip of the iceberg of what you know." - Jim Rohn
"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man’s training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly." – Thomas H. Huxley, scientist, educator
"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." – Winston Churchill
"When one of your dreams come true, you begin to look at the others more carefully."-Anon
You can’t experience success beyond your wildest dreams until you dare to dream something wild! -Scott Sorrell
Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. -John Updike
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away. -Denis Waitley
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My all time favourite
Same shit different day ;D
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Dont remember coming in
Dont know how ill go out
Inbetween it all i had a ball
Be yourself, nothing else
Dont hang around, walk around
Walk tall, not small
Live life, cant do it twice
No matter the price !!
We all want to do it alone,
Did you ever think,
what you could of known
Dave McCrum
copyright 2009
;D
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"Bristow reasons . . . Bristow quickens ... Aaah, Bristow."
"Jockey Wilson . . . What an athlete." "That was like throwing three
pickled onions into a thimble!"
"He's about as predictable as a wasp on speed"
"Look at the man go, its like trying to stop a water buffalo with a
pea-shooter"
"The atmosphere is so tense, if Elvis walked in, with a portion of
chips.......you could hear the vinegar sizzle on them"
"Big Cliff Lazarenko's idea of exercise is sitting in a room with the
windows open taking the lid off something cool and fizzy."
"It's like trying to pin down a kangaroo on a trampoline"
"Well as giraffes say, you don't get no leaves unless you stick your neck
out"
"His eyes are bulging like the belly of a hungry chaffinch"
"That's the greatest comeback since Lazarus."
"It's the nearest thing to public execution this side of Saudi Arabia."
"He's as cool as a prized marrow!"
"Under that heart of stone beat muscles of pure flint."
"He looks about as happy as a penguin in a microwave."
"That's like giving Dracula the keys to the blood bank"
"As they say at the DHSS, we're getting the full benefit here."
"He is as slick as minestrone soup"
"There hasn't been this much excitement since the Romans fed the Christians
to the Lions."
"The players are under so much duress, it's like duressic park out there!"
"This lad has more checkouts than Tescos."
"John Lowe is striding out like Alexander the Great conquering the Persians"
"When I see Steve Davis I see two letters... C S... Cue Sorceror"
"There's only one word for that - magic darts!"
"Keith Deller's not just an underdog, he's an underpuppy!"
"I don't know what he's had for breakfast but Taylor knocked the
Snap,Crackle and Pop outta Bristow"
"Even Hypotenuse would have trouble working out these angles"
"Steve Beaton - The adonis of darts, what poise, what elegance - a true
roman gladiator with plenty of hair wax."
"If you're round your auntie's tonight, tell her to stop making the
cookie's and come thru to the living room and watch these two amazing
athletes beat the proverbial house out of each other"
"When Alexander of Macedonia was 33, he cried salt tears because there were
no more worlds to conquer..... Bristow's only 27."
"Eat your heart out Harold Pinter, we've got drama with a capital D in
Essex."
"If we'd had Phil Taylor at Hastings against the Normans, they'd have gone
home."
"He's playing out of his pie crust."
"They won't just have to play outta their skin to beat Phil Taylor. They'll
have to play outta their essence!"
"Darts players are probably a lot fitter than most footballers in overall
body strength."
"Look at him as he takes his stance, like he has been sculptured, whereas
Bobby George, with his bad back, looks like the Hunchback of Notre Dame."
"He's playing like Robin Hood in the Nottingham super league"
"Phil Taylor's got the consistency of a planet ... and he's in a darts
orbit!"
"The atmosphere is a cross between the Munich Beer Festival and the
Coliseum when the Christians were on the menu."
"Jockey Wilson, he comes from the valleys and he's chuffing like a
choo-choo train!"
"He's like D'Artagnan at the scissor factory."
"Steve Beaton, he's not Adonis, he's THE donis"
Sid wadell - darts commentator legend!
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Here's 1 for you, YOU DIE IF YOU WORRY AND YOU DIE IF YOU DONT SO WHY WORRY.Have a nice day!
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Christopher McCandless: I read somewhere... how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong... but to feel strong.
Christopher McCandless: I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth.
Christopher McCandless: Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.
Christopher McCandless: If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.
Christopher McCandless: Mr. Franz I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one.
Christopher McCandless: When you want something in life, you just gotta reach out and grab it.
Christopher McCandless: [written into book] Happiness only real when shared.
Christopher McCandless: You don't need human relationships to be happy, its placed all around us.
Christopher McCandless: The freedom and simple beauty is too good to pass up.
Christopher McCandless: It should not be denied that being footloose has always exhilarated us. It is associated in our minds with escape from history and oppression and law and irksome obligations. Absolute freedom. And the road has always led west.
Christopher McCandless: Two years he walks the earth. No phone, no pool, no pets, no cigarettes. Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road. Escaped from Atlanta. Thou shalt not return, 'cause "the West is the best." And now after two rambling years comes the final and greatest adventure. The climactic battle to kill the false being within and victoriously conclude the spiritual pilgrimage. Ten days and nights of freight trains and hitchhiking bring him to the Great White North. No longer to be poisoned by civilization he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become lost in the wild. - Alexander Supertramp May 1992
Christopher McCandless: The sea's only gifts are harsh blows, and occasionally the chance to feel strong. Now I don't know much about the sea, but I do know that that's the way it is here. And I also know how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong but to feel strong. To measure yourself at least once. To find yourself at least once in the most ancient of human conditions. Facing the blind death stone alone, with nothing to help you but your hands and your own head.
"So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun."
— Chris McCandless
"Surely all Americans have the right to give their money only to those causes which they support. But what kind of society has this created? A society where the ignorant reign. A society where enlightened must hold their tongues. A nation whose politicians must profess half-hearted devotion to an ancient fable or face the disastrous consequences of speaking their true mind."
Chris McCandless writing on religious fanaticism in The Emory Wheel student newspaper, October 1987
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods; / There is a rapture on the lonely shore; / There is society, where none intrudes, / By the deep sea, and music in its roar; / I love not man the less, but Nature more... /
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You need to lay off the caffeine by the looks of it :D You could stick all those in a single post ::)
Getting the hang of it now. ;)
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It really is an amazing result; 0-0 at half time.
The atmosphere here is thick and fast.
Not only has he shown Junior Lewis the red card, but he's sent him off.
It's real end-to-end stuff, but unfortunately it's all up at Forest's end.
For Burnley to win they are going to have to score.
They only count when they go in the goal.
He went down like a pack of cards.
Can you believe it. James Beattie's hit it on the 18-yard line - 22 yards out.
He had it on a plate, he had the sausage, bacon and eggs on it as well, but he couldn't take it.
Mark Halsey didn't have a decision to make, apart from giving the penalty.
He's had three offside decisions, two right, two wrong.
Chris Kamara
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"If I had to live again I would do exactly the same thing. Of course I have regrets, but if you are 60 years old and you have no regrets then you haven't lived." - Christy Moore
"He was Lawless by name and lawless by nature, trouble right from the start" - Davy McCrum
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lol i think other people are ment to post on this too!
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lol i think other people are ment to post on this too!
LOL true chris, i love quotes and get carryed away.
I think ive covered most quotes, but im sure theres more ;D
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"First Learn to heal before you learn to hurt!"
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Father Dougal: I know! Well lure them into a giant bingo game!
Father Ted: And how are we going to do that?
Father Dougal: We'll print up some bingo cards on our printing press and... oh.
Father Ted: Yes, it's the lack of a printing press that lets us down there. Or bingo balls. Or a PA system. Or in fact, any bingo paraphernalia at all.
Father Dougal: Damn. So near, yet so far.
Mrs Doyle: What would you say to a cup father?
[offers him a cup of tea]
Father Jack Hackett: FECK OFF, CUP!
Father Ted: I know what's going on, Pat Mustard. There are some very hairy babies on Craggy Island, and I think you are the hairy baby-maker.
Pat Mustard: Oh, yeah? Well, I think that you would need proof if you were going to make that sort of an accusation. And I'm a very careful man, Father. A very careful man!
Father Ted: Except when it comes to taking precautions in the bedroom.
Pat Mustard: Ah, w-... you certainly wouldn't be advising the use of artificial contraception now, Father, would you?
Father Ted: Yes, I... well... if you're going to be... of course you will... JUST FECK OFF!
Father Ted: Come on, Dougal, switch the television off. Chewing gum for the eyes!
Father Dougal: No thanks, Ted!
Father Ted: What was that sermon about?
Father Dougal: Sorry Ted, I was concentrating too hard on looking holy.
Father Ted: You won't be able to come with me... when I go into space. I'm going to be the first priest in space.
Father Dougal: God Ted, first America then space, what next?
Father Ted: Now concentrate this time, Dougal. These
[he points to some plastic cows on the table]
Father Ted: are very small; those
[pointing at some cows out of the window]
Father Ted: are far away...
Father Ted: Oh, yes... what was it called...?
Father Dougal: "Out Of Africa", I think. Anyway, your man has the head of the fly and he's chasing his wife all over the place and she's hiding the jam and everything so he won't get stuck in it...
Father Ted: I'll have to stop you there, Dougal.
Father Dougal: Yes, Ted?
Father Ted: No reason. I just have to stop you.
Bishop Facks: So, Father. Do you ever have any doubts about the religious life? Is your faith ever tested? Anything you would be worried about? Any doubts you've been having about any aspects of belief? Anything like that?
Father Dougal: Well, you know the way God made us all, right? And he's looking down at us from heaven and everything?
Bishop Facks: Uh-huh.
[nods]
Father Dougal: And then his son came down and saved everyone and all that?
Bishop Facks: Yes.
Father Dougal: And when we die we're all going to go to heaven?
Bishop Facks: Yes. What about it?
Father Dougal: Well, that's the bit I have trouble with.
[Dougal is holding the front panel of a TV up to his face]
Father Jack Hackett: What's that gobshite doing on the television?
Dougal: (trying to pray) Hail Mary who art in heaven.......
Ted: Hallowed.
Dougal: Oh yeah. Hallowed Be....
Ted: Thy Name...
Dougal: Papa Don't Preach........
Ted: Dougal, you know you can praise the lord with sleep.
Dougal: Really Ted? You can praise him in lots of ways, like that time you said that I could praise him just by leaving the room.
Ted: Yes, that was a good one !
Father Jack Hackett: Drink!
Father Ted Crilly: You won't find any there father. I put it somewhere very safe.
Father Jack Hackett: Where?
[We see all of Father Jack's alchahol hidden in a cave on Craggy Island's coast]
[Pointing at the various items he is naming]
Father Jack Hackett: Chair... curtains... floor...
[Points at Ted]
Father Jack Hackett: Gobshite!
Father Jack Hackett: What? Priests? Don't tell me I'm still on that feckin' island!
[Father Jack sobers up and looks at Dougal and Ted]
Father Jack Hackett: Where are the other two?