January Competition

Last month's competition was won by Sarah Wright in Co Meath. After a mass of replies, to whose correct answers we had no option but to disappoint, we decided that the question was too easy! The best reply we got to our question, what day does Christmas fall on, (and the only one that was wrong) was that Christmas was a racehorse who fell at Fairyhouse on April 1.

So for this month's competition we are going to tell you a joke... A young man goes to college in Dublin, and stays in digs. His landlady is a kindly lady, but she can only cook one dish, a stew (this joke, by the way, eerily echoes John McKenna's experience as a first year law student in Dublin, back in the late 1970's!). He is served it on the first day, and for each day of the first week. It is served on the second Monday, and every day thereafter. It is served the third week, and the fourth. As the term unfolds with new experiences, the dinner stays the same. By the fifth week, the young man looks exhaustedly at the landlady and says simply: "Paul to the Hebrews". And, thereafter, he says the same thing, "Paul to the Hebrews" every day as the exact same meal is served. Eventually, his landlady, drived demented by this, and not knowing what on earth he means, takes herself off to the library to discover what he is on about. So, tell us, what did Paul say to the Hebrews that was so apposite to the young man's situation. One line in Chapter 13 of Paul's epistle will tell you.

Email Sally with your answer!

And the prize for this? A bottle of Cardinal Zin (ho, ho), made by the wonderfully wacky Randall Grahm in California, and shipped here by James Nicholson wine merchant, whose complete list can be seen on www.jnwine.com

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