Duty

I saw a film once. Not a particularly well known film, I think.
But there is one scene in it where one of the characters, a Vietnam veteran who has lost an arm, a leg and an eye, is confronted by the police, for deliberately ramming into his next-door neighbour's car. The police can't exactly prove that he did it on purpose, but they do point out that his driving license has expired. And the guy says, "Well. I suppose you have to cite me for that. That's your duty. And duty is something I know a little bit about."
Well, I never lost an arm, a leg and an eye in Vietnam, but duty is still something I know a little bit about.
So tomorrow I will be making a post that expounds (good word) the virtues of Larne, where I was born.
It's the least I can do for the town where I was born.
I can't do it right now, as I have to carry out extensive research and make copious notes.
But I will do it tomorrow. And by the time I have finished, you will be cancelling your honeymoon in Bora Bora, and booking a B&B in Larne, the romance capital of the world.
This momentous post may force Larne council into a whole re-branding exercise, including changing their slogan..."Come to Larne. It's not THAT bad" to something a bit "snappier" as we say in the advertising industry. Something a bit more outside the box. Something a bit more blue-sky thinking. Something a bit more rum and truffles. Something a bit more... oh, I don't know what, something a bit more "Je ne sais quois".
Which is French for, " I don't know what."
Now do you see how clever I am?
I am thinking... we get Carol Decker, the Miss Piggy-faced singer from the Eighties to open a responsible drinking off-licence or something. The off licence could, possibly, sell a low alcohol cider imported from China, and she could perform, while swilling a bottle of it singing, "China in your Hand".
That would work, wouldn't it?
She could use Therapy? as a back up band.
The reason for commissioning Decker would be that Larne is famous for its ferry port, and what do boats have, if not decks?
It's all coming together, and you can tell I've put a lot of thought into it, unlike the bald American who recently won a £200,000 pound commission to build a few badly welded circles of galvinized angle iron in CornMarket in Belfast.
Look at it here...http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.4ni.co.uk/newsimages/Spirit-of-Belfast-web.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.4ni.co.uk/northern_ireland_news.asp%3Fid%3D100131&usg=__YVKEna1Mi_LSWlXfg1mwQGhqY2Y=&h=210&w=181&sz=48&hl=en&start=15&um=1&tbnid=yvGHixme9lijvM:&tbnh=106&tbnw=91&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dspirit%2Bof%2Bbelfast%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1
That's a pretty long address!
And "Spirit of Belfast"?
Please, credit me with some sense of knowing that I am being patronised by some know-nothing American.