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 Posted: Mar 17, 2010 - 11:02 AM |
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| A bit surprised ... |
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Posted: Mar 17, 2010 - 03:51 PM |
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If you're enough lucky to be Irish, you're lucky enough! |
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Posted: Mar 17, 2010 - 04:06 PM |
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If you're enough lucky to be Irish, you're lucky enough!
My dog concurs! (Setter, Red, Irish) |
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Posted: Mar 17, 2010 - 05:24 PM |
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Location: (using avr-gcc in) Finchingfield, Essex, England
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Posted: Mar 17, 2010 - 05:35 PM |
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There 'tis a website for freaks,
loaded with programming tweaks,
but talk of a PIC
can get them quite sick,
'r 'tleast a kick in your cheeks! |
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Posted: Mar 17, 2010 - 11:15 PM |
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Thanks for sharing Cliff. Your mother appears to have had a great life and supportive family.
Cheers,
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Posted: Mar 17, 2010 - 11:56 PM |
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Just before St Patrick's ends here I must recount something that once happened on RTE's "Late Late Show" with Gay Byrne. (It's a bit like the Irish equivalent of the Jay Leno show - shown each Friday night). My memory of this is a bit sketchy but it goes something like this.
Gay was interviewing the Mayor of a large American city (New York?) and presented him with a true taste of Ireland - a sheleighly. When he was asked what it was used for, Gay told him that the Irish used it for "beating the little people". The mayor was so outraged with the apparent political incorrectness he walked off set.
(In case anyone isn't familiar with Irish folklore "the little people" are the mythical Leprechauns - see animations above) |
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Posted: Mar 18, 2010 - 01:17 AM |
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"sheleighly" ... as I understand it, following the disarming of the Irish population by the invading English, there was a huge uptake of walking sticks which became more and more effective as their "design" took on the larger knobbly bits of the tree limb from which they were carved. Not sure about usage against the "little people". I thought the leprechauns were considered lucky.
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Posted: Mar 18, 2010 - 01:19 AM |
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| They had an irish guy on a radio station being interviewed, and shoved the weather predictions in his hand and made him read it. very funny, he kept saying how much they would like 28C and "chance of a shower" in ireland - the day's forecast for dublin being 7C and rainy. |
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Posted: Mar 18, 2010 - 05:19 AM |
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The spelling of the word is "shillelagh".
Used in a sentence: "Donny gave Seamus quite a pummeling with his shillelagh during the donnybrook."
Definition of "donnybrook": The brook Seamus threw Donny in during the melee. |
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Posted: Mar 18, 2010 - 06:30 PM |
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Someguy22 wrote:
The spelling of the word is "shillelagh".
Yes I should have written "sheleighly" (sic)
Mea culpa ... |
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Posted: Mar 19, 2010 - 04:24 PM |
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| Anybody remember the Irish commedian, "Dave Allen At Large" on pbs? |
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Posted: Mar 19, 2010 - 07:17 PM |
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Oh, yes! Sitting in a baar stool drinking something that was never really disclosed, telling half-decent jokes. I still remember the one where he explained how he lost half his index finger (although that particular one was not a dirty joke at all).
Those where the days! Python. Feldman. Cooper. Allen. |
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Posted: Mar 20, 2010 - 06:34 PM |
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Those were his  jokes, not his  jokes.  |
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Posted: Mar 21, 2010 - 09:28 AM |
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Anybody remember the Irish commedian, "Dave Allen At Large" on pbs?
We could watch it on German TV also. |
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Posted: Mar 21, 2010 - 11:53 PM |
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He died in 2005 at age 68. The glass contained ginger ale, though he always let on it was whiskey. He lost his finger getting it caught in a cog, but had lots of more colorful stories.
He was banned from Irish TV in 1977 for his sketches about the Catholic church. |
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