Summer '04
Ah yes, of course I remember the summer of 2004. Who doesn't? That was one of the greatest summers in the history of that time of year.
I vividly remember the glorious weather we had from the start of July. It was one of the warmest summers on record I'll have you know, but there was always a nice breeze keeping us just the right side of warm. And of course it regularly rained from about 2-4am just to keep the place fresh.
I remember lying out in the sun and hearing on the radio that they had finally discovered a way to power cars with water and that a strange alignment of the planets seemed to making everyone very happy all of a sudden. With this inexplicable happiness and the sudden redundancy of oil, the US army promptly withdrew from Iraq. Images of happy soldiers packingt up and shaking hands with a formerly militant cleric, and "apoligising for the mix-up" flooded our TV sets. The new Iraqi government came to power and with the help of the UN soon had the country up on it's feet. No one wanted to fight anymore.
The same thing seemed to happen in trouble spots all around the world. India and Pakistan had a huge picnic in Kashmir, laughing about why they'd had such a silly argument. China just calmly strolled out of Tibet, whistling innocently to itself. Civil wars throughout Africa spontaneously ended which just happened to coincide with the discovery of potatoes and strawberry's that flourished in desert conditions.
Bangladesh didn't flood.
In Israel, the Jews and Palestinians were united in what seemed to be the coming of the Messiah. "It's amazing," said one rabbi, "He turned up in such a way that let both our religions be correct, but still make Mel Gibson look like a complete plonker! God is great!"
The Big Brother house blew up for unknown reasons which no one bothered to investigate.
At home, the discovery of massive platinum reserves under Lietrim gave the country a new found wealth which allowed the health service be fixed to the point of being perfect. Excellent roads were built everywhere for us to drive our water powered cars on, which were driven by computers so no one EVER crashed. Buses were on time, all the time. Trains were comfortable. And we had a legitimate reason to dig up ALL of Lietrim. Gay Byrne came back to the Late Late Show. Images of a plane crash in the high Alps and the scattered body parts of Louis Walsh, Westlife and all his other creations flooded the domestic media. Mary Hearney was never seen again.
A new Mars rover - Bear - found evidence of water, gold, uranium, life, Elvis, Marilyn Monroe, 2Pac, Kurt Cobain, Princess Diana, Shergar and pictures of Michael Jackson when he was black. George W Bush was sent there as Earth's first ambassador to the Red Planet. Pity there was no embassy.
A new cause of cancer was not found for almost four WHOLE weeks!
For some inexplicable reason there were no wasps either.
Ah, what a glorious summer it was.
I vividly remember the glorious weather we had from the start of July. It was one of the warmest summers on record I'll have you know, but there was always a nice breeze keeping us just the right side of warm. And of course it regularly rained from about 2-4am just to keep the place fresh.
I remember lying out in the sun and hearing on the radio that they had finally discovered a way to power cars with water and that a strange alignment of the planets seemed to making everyone very happy all of a sudden. With this inexplicable happiness and the sudden redundancy of oil, the US army promptly withdrew from Iraq. Images of happy soldiers packingt up and shaking hands with a formerly militant cleric, and "apoligising for the mix-up" flooded our TV sets. The new Iraqi government came to power and with the help of the UN soon had the country up on it's feet. No one wanted to fight anymore.
The same thing seemed to happen in trouble spots all around the world. India and Pakistan had a huge picnic in Kashmir, laughing about why they'd had such a silly argument. China just calmly strolled out of Tibet, whistling innocently to itself. Civil wars throughout Africa spontaneously ended which just happened to coincide with the discovery of potatoes and strawberry's that flourished in desert conditions.
Bangladesh didn't flood.
In Israel, the Jews and Palestinians were united in what seemed to be the coming of the Messiah. "It's amazing," said one rabbi, "He turned up in such a way that let both our religions be correct, but still make Mel Gibson look like a complete plonker! God is great!"
The Big Brother house blew up for unknown reasons which no one bothered to investigate.
At home, the discovery of massive platinum reserves under Lietrim gave the country a new found wealth which allowed the health service be fixed to the point of being perfect. Excellent roads were built everywhere for us to drive our water powered cars on, which were driven by computers so no one EVER crashed. Buses were on time, all the time. Trains were comfortable. And we had a legitimate reason to dig up ALL of Lietrim. Gay Byrne came back to the Late Late Show. Images of a plane crash in the high Alps and the scattered body parts of Louis Walsh, Westlife and all his other creations flooded the domestic media. Mary Hearney was never seen again.
A new Mars rover - Bear - found evidence of water, gold, uranium, life, Elvis, Marilyn Monroe, 2Pac, Kurt Cobain, Princess Diana, Shergar and pictures of Michael Jackson when he was black. George W Bush was sent there as Earth's first ambassador to the Red Planet. Pity there was no embassy.
A new cause of cancer was not found for almost four WHOLE weeks!
For some inexplicable reason there were no wasps either.
Ah, what a glorious summer it was.
