Father Ted, the lost tales...


Craggy Island, location of the much-loved television series, 'Father Ted' has been many things in

the history of this fair green isle of ours, including a seat of ancient monastic learning where

tonsured young men would come to improve their education.

Some exceptional young men indeed, including a number of the Papal Castrati Choir who had grown

tired of singing or were favoured by high-ranking clergy.

It is also the sight of Irelands' most frequent UFO sightings.

Now, as is common in many countries polluted with religion, there is often a recidivist element.

The Catholic scourge of Craggy Island is no exception and Teds' own church choir is made up of

local paritioners and a number of volunteer castrati.

Some of these volunteers, as a result of either their condition or conviction experience a type

of manic delirium.

They have been known to have been seen wandering like sleepwalkers entranced in whichever

delusion they have succumbed to.

One such delusion is that of becoming birds.

Father Ted is a keen esotericist when not practicing his particular brand of half-arsed

Catholicism and could often be seen slumped in his deck chair at night with his binoculars

trawling the sky for alien arrivals.

Ted would have you believe he has been visited by naked little green men and proudly tells the

story of the night the sleepwalking volunteer castratis' paths in full avian delirium crossed

with his unearthly visitors leading to his journalistic submission the next day to 'The Craggy

Island Examiner' newspaper under the heading,

"Eunuchs peck Ted, nude ET."

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