great moments in sport

 

Perhaps the finest moment of bathos during the two year Corona virus kabookie came when the Irish Postal Service announced early in the shenanigans that they would distribute unlimited numbers of pre paid postcards to the entire populace.

The idea was that you could write to anyone you liked for free during the course of newly imposed government lockdowns.

It was quite a good community minded venture and I daresay if the postal service had more ideas like this, the company might actually have a future.

The bathos came with the design of the free postcards.

They were large cardboard jobs with plenty of room to write on.

No problem there.

The issue arose from the cover of the postcards which featured a plain green logo proclaiming a single word.

LOVE

Well bold readers, I don't know how many people you could send that postcard to, but I could send it to a grand total of nought persons.

Ho hum.

Love my arse, as we are increasingly inclined to say in the trade.

There was further bathos during those early fake pandemic days, as Post Office spokesperson Randy Testicleington appeared on national television to announce the scheme.

"Now you can express your feelings by post to everyone you love," he said brilliantly.

He wore a beige suit with lounge lizard moustage and shoulder length hair, looking exactly like a character I remember from the old 1970s television ad for Hi Karate aftershave.

I wonder could it ever have been the same guy.