First off - let's be clear who 'Dan' is: he's the owner and sponsor of
Arsefield's Virtual Bar using his real world name, Declan Kelly.
A small and roundy man from Ballinspittle now resident in some wooden shack off the interstate at the edge of Dedham, Boston: true home of Irish hip-hop.
Rather elderly, wizened, white-haired and married with four children, he left Galway on the coffin-ships and got a job serving pints in a gay dive bar in Quincy.
He claimed at one stage to have a degree in engineering but has never said from where or shown his certificates (
most proud people frame and hang their major awards earned on the wall of either the office or else the home) but Kelly has no such certificates in any location. He's a well-known spoofer who likes to wind people up about all of his 'great successes' and indeed his heavier and more sinister side which he refers to as '
visiting' any persons who offend him. To 'visit' someone is, in Boston Irish parlance, showing up unexpected at someone's front door and attacking them as soon as they open it. The 'visit' ends when the person being 'visited' is bleeding, bruised, and begging to be left be. In return for ending the 'visit' the person visited must promise to never offend the roundy little spoofer again.
He claims to have 'visited' people in Boston, as well as flying back to Ireland to 'visit' some people there too.
His other passion in life is cheeseburgers - in large numbers.
Declan drives a van. He picks people up and charges them a small fee ($120 per/day) for driving them around all these car parks and delivery bays, pointing out the streets signs and the indicators of the off-ramps. He blathers on in this drony voice that'd put a statue to sleep, '
and here we can see the main entrance to IKEA's newest branch in Lexington - over there you can see the former home of the guy who created the Miss Piggy puppet for the Muppet Show'. All spoofs too.
Old age pensioners use his services most because it's cheaper than getting an ambulance to take them to hospital if they fall and break a hip.
Declan likes to spoof the membership of his forum with tales of great wealth, more money than anyone could spend in a lifetime. Yet his dress sense includes decades-old zipper-necked cardigans, short-sleeved shirts and clip-on bow-ties, well worn slacks that he irons every morning and puts on again, patent leather shoes polished up like mirrors and usually has a refillable flask for sweetened milky coffee which he gets refilled for free every time he stops for donuts and cakes. He's extremely rotund and looks like a heart attack on legs, yet he claims to be on a starvation diet for the last two weeks because the Mowl pointed out how short and fat he actually is by posting a picture of him on a happy day out in the van trying out new burger options around Southie and Concorde.
He says he takes two ten-mile walks a day, in a country where nobody in their right mind ever walks any-fucking-where. Recent investigations of the Mowl's reveal that there are a number of cheeseburger joints within an exact ten mile radius of his current address. Sorry -
his wife's address - as it was she inherited the house Declan lives in back in 1998 when her mother died after a long illness. The wife works out of the home morning until night Monday to Friday so it was Declan who tended to the old dear most of the time: changing her soiled nappies, bed-bathing her, bringing her her tea and medications, and generally just sitting around listening to her going on and on about her past life and all her great adventures. The poor old dear was totally demented though and hadn't a clue who Declan or why he was always pulling off her manky knickerbockers and giving her fresh ones. Plus:
nobody knows what happened to any of those pairs of knickers. No trace was ever found of them again.
Declan has a rather large ego: this has caused him to think that his lifetime achievements warrant his face to be printed on a new one cent coin.
He's been talking about his one cent 'coin' for a number of years now - but as yet nobody has ever seen one.
This is typical of Kelly's general demeanour: he has a severe short-man complex (not exactly Napoleonic) and was treated very badly in school as a child. He never recovered from the bullying and he dragged his shame with him on his departure from Ireland to the Great Big Beyonder that is modern America. Being small and roundy, he's the coin that fits every slot machine in the entire country. The small change from the cheeseburger van. The decimal point in his tax returns. He's tried platform shoes and extra-long flared slacks to try and do a 'Prince' on it, but being so roundy makes him topple over at times. He's a perfectly symmetrical circle when viewed from the front. But catch him from the side? His massive protruding gut hangs over his pants-belt and makes him lean and slump permanently forward - which also helps his overall speed when on a twice-daily ten-mile trek to the cheeseburger joint that serves them with extra pineapple.
He has a rather Jewish attitude to money. Except for one small problem: he doesn't have any and it's this which causes him to keep yapping and spoofing about how much of it he has. Being so small and roundy, he can only accept paper money - coins would cause him to topple over, and like Humpty-Dumpty, they'll never put him back together again. I suggested he carry his vast wealth in a common rucksack on his back to counter the weight of his fat gut. He made some excuses as to why that would never work but we all know it's because all he'd put into the rucksack is the wrappers from his cheeseburgers ('
collect ten wrappers and receive one free cheeseburger' gets him every time).
Declan would like to be younger. Slimmer. More vital. Of some purpose, any purpose.
But life has passed him by and nowadays he lives mostly online, spoofing the gobshites on his site which costs him $1,390 per year (
for four years equals around five and a half grandgrand) for a basic Xenforo package with minimal data storage. He spends that much so he can stay in touch with the latest insights from Wolfie and Jambo, his only pals. His wife Marianne doesn't know he spends the household cash on his plaything, she's a very busy woman who works very hard to make sure the kids have shoes and a fried chicken box every other day. That one and a half grand could have been used for a session of fat removal down at the 'beauty clinic' behind the WalMart car park. If they were to suck out half of the fat in Declan's gut they could solve the world hunger problems by lunchtime.
One should never actually say the word
'lunchtime' to Declan because if he happens to be driving when he hears it, then everyone in the van is fucked.
The rules of the road mean nothing to Kelly on a cheeseburger(s) quest.
Living in the
Land Of The Free to Declan means his constitutional right to extra fries and super-sized cheeseburgers is written in stone: many died for that right and he has no intention of letting anyone forget it either.
Every man has a right to bear cheeseburgers.
Every man is entitled to lie about how many he's had.
Every man is free to pursue the dream of the American cheeseburger. This is all in the 'De Constitution'.
So, now we're up to speed.
As you were saying before I so rudely interrupted you?