European Mobility Week. Opening the doors to better travel all around. European Mobility Week takes place from 16th - 22nd September 2009 and is about encouraging all of us to use more sustainable forms of transport. With every bus taking up to 60 cars off the road, the bus is not only cost effective but its friendlier to the environment too. And Dublin Bus is now pleased to announce that with 15 additional low floor routes added in 2009, the fleet is now 88% low floor. Come visit us in the Jervis Centre on Tuesday 22nd September from 9.00am until 4.30pm for more information on routes, timetables and ticket choices. D Monday, September 21, 2009 METRO 11 An Afghan boy holds a toy gun as he enjoys a ride on a merry-go-round to celebrate the Eid al-Fitr festival, in Kabul, yesterday. Eid al-Fitr festival marks the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan Picture: AP gun swinging THE Absolut Fringe festival drew to a close last night with The Company walking away with the 4,000 Spirit of the Fringe Commissioning Award for Who is Fergus Kilpatrick deemed to best embody the spirit of the Fringe fresh, brave and exciting. Grace Dyas from Rough was awarded the Fishamble New Writing Award and Cirque De Legume took the 2,000 Bewleys Cafe Theatre Award for the best show under an hour. Patrick Moffatt and Paul Lum from Holiday were awarded the 500 for Best Male Performer, while Maeve Fitzgerald took Best Female for Basin. Camille OSullivan won the Best Spiegeltent Show for the best performer in the tent over the entire festival and Paula OReilly took the Wildcard Award for Ponydance. The festival featured more than 100 shows over 16 days. Fringe closes with Spirit award Bowerbirds, why not buy this for the shot-clogs?By MilEs ERwinWEVE all been there a heavy weekend of drinking with shot-clogs before driving the turkeys to the market. But you only have yourself to blame if you end up looking crambazzled. These are just a few of the ostrobogulous bizarre and interesting gems taken from a new book. The Wonder of Whiffling designed to save readers from onomatomania, or vexa- tion at not being able to find the right word includes crambazzled, a Yorkshire term for someone prematurely aged by drink, and 19th-century phrase drive turkeys to the market, meaning to walk unsteadily af- ter a few drinks. A shot-clog was a drinking friend in Tudor times who was tolerated only be- cause he would buy a round. Among other treasures are grinagogs (people who always grin), screevers (writ- ers of begging letters) and bowerbirds (people who collect useless objects). Author Adam Jacot de Boinod spent two years scouring old dictionaries, dialect books and slang glossaries from across the world to amass the collection. English is a really, really wonderful di- verse language and the growth of interesting words is exponential, he said.There are new words being coined every day. His favourite term? In bingo, the number 80 is referred to as Gandhi because he ate nothing, he said. Turkey: wild Lego house to be razedTOP GEAR presenter James Mays house made out of Lego bricks faces being hacked to pieces with chainsaws. May built the two-storey house in the Denbies Wine Estate, in Surrey, England, as part of his upcoming BBC series James Mays Toy Stories. It had been destined for Legoland theme park in Windsor but the visitor attraction changed its mind. The life-sized house, made up of more than three million Lego bricks, has a staircase, bathroom with working taps, a toilet and shower and a toaster, bread bin and iron in the kitchen. index.html2.html3.html4.html5.html6.html7.html8.html9.html10.html11.html12.html13.html14.html15.html16.html17.html18.html19.html20.html21.html22.html23.html