Michael Cargill

Regular updates of sarcastic and irreverent nonsense.

The maverick’s maverick

I am a maverick, yeah?  I do what I want, yeah?  Spontaneity is what I am all about and I don’t care about you or anyone else.  If I am on the bus or the tram and I want to do the Lambada then I will.  If I am in church and I fancy performing a magic card trick right when everyone else is singing Jerusalem then I bloody well will.  And you know what?  If you have a problem with that, well quite frankly I couldn’t give a tinker’s cuss.  You can take your complaint and shove it in a box until you find someone who gives a damn.

The other day I saw a woman with a small dog.  The dog was going nuts and after a fashion it started driving me a bit nuts too.  ”Lady,” I said whilst clicking my fingers in her ear.  ”Shut your bloody mutt up will you?  It’s driving me bananas”  You know what?  She zapped me.  That wizened old crone with the wonky nose and barbed moustache done me up like a good ‘un.  I lay there on the floor, paralysed.  Bloody mutt was going nuts in my ear and I couldn’t do a thing.  The woman looked at me and smiled.  At least I think it was a smile, I don’t know.  I ‘aint a doctor.  Could’ve been Parkinsons or something.  I am a maverick so not my area of expertise.

If I was a Doc, then I would of course be using all kinds of zany and innovative treatments.  Those dudes in the 15th century had it right.  Got a bit of a headache?  ’ave some leeches on your face, mate.  Broken leg?  Get your dirty bones off my operating table – gently mind, it hurts if you bang it on the floor – and have a couple of stag beetles in your coffee.  Be right as rain by dinner time.  If them beetles are hibernating ‘cos of the winter then you are a bit stuck.  Try some twigs or tiger teeth instead.  Pain is all in the mind anyway so it’s your own fault if it still hurts.

If your leg goes bad and falls off, well, I couldn’t give a tinker’s cuss.

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15 Responses to The maverick’s maverick

  1. kickingsport 22/01/2012 at 11:51 AM

    Old women are an absolute menace these days!

  2. A Gripping Life 22/01/2012 at 2:05 PM

    This maverick scares me. He’s like the guy from A Clockwork Orange. You seem to have more than your fair share of these characters in the UK. Maybe it’s just the contrast of everyone else walking around all uptight and repressed? haha!
    I’m thrilled I don’t live in the 15th century, for these exact reasons. “‘ave some leeches on your face, mate.” haha!

    • Michael Cargill 22/01/2012 at 8:41 PM

      I haven’t ever actually seen A Clockwork Orange. I am not too keen on films older than about 1991 so probably won’t ever bother with it.

      Predator is an exception to this arbitrary date I have chosen.

  3. Lily 22/01/2012 at 5:15 PM

    Maverick scares me too. People who are overly tough frighten me. Why not let your guard down, little maverick? For some reason I like when people get shocked. Its so cartoonish.

    • Michael Cargill 22/01/2012 at 8:42 PM

      I bet your entire house is surrounded with an electric fence, just so you can watch and cackle at people getting electrocuted.

      You should record it happening, I bet it’s hilarious.

  4. mooselicker 22/01/2012 at 7:12 PM

    Wasn’t there a Mel Gibson movie called Maverick? I believe he was an anti-Semite mayor in the American West. As opposed to being an anti-Semite Scotsman in Braveheart and an anti-Semite loon in The Beaver. I guess what I’m trying to say, any relation to Mel Mr. Maverick?

    • Michael Cargill 22/01/2012 at 8:47 PM

      I have only seen the last 20 minutes or so of Maverick so I don’t how much anti-Semitism is present in the film. Probably quite a lot as he has long hair and your hair holds samples of your DNA going back months.

      And he has loads of that.

  5. No Blog Intended 23/01/2012 at 6:53 PM

    Again, no more respect, not even for mavericks. I don’t know if I dare to leave my house anymore in this rude world. I will just exist on the Internet. Waaaaay cooler anyway.

  6. Anna 23/01/2012 at 8:36 PM

    I fucking love you!

    Maaaayyyyte. Waaa-aaa-aaay!

  7. darkjade68 23/01/2012 at 11:39 PM

    Hey Michael, The Dark Globe is going to be what I’m calling a “February Shoot Off!” starting February 1st-Feb 14th… What this is, is a Photography Contest based on a Certain Theme, that is yet to be determined… Unlike the Outstanding Artist Awards, Readers will not be Voting, instead there will be a 9 Judge Panel… This Panel will be my 3 Senior Writers, my Senior Photographer, and I’m hoping you, Lorna, Harry and Kirsty (La Plume Noire), the Artist Award Winners basically, Pete also being one, but he is also a Senior Writer.

    I’d love for you to be one of the Judges, as we will ask people to Submit Pictures (via Links I’d imagine), and the Judges will widdle it down to Finalists

    Anyway, let me know if you’d be willing to be one of the 9 Judges

    Thanks Michael

    DarkJade-

    • Michael Cargill 24/01/2012 at 8:13 AM

      Yeah, can do if you want. Should be a good bit of wotsit but I warn you – I am no photographer myself!

      But I can certainly look at photos and give an opinion on them.

  8. The Hook 24/01/2012 at 1:31 PM

    Excellent post! Thank God the world is nuts and provides such wonderful inspiration, right?

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