Hi Bumper....what's cookin'? <img src="http://www.arlo.net/ubb/smilies/bounce.gif" width=31 height=31>

who got the keys to the pope mobile???

i feel like riding the range and looking strange.

Hi Milly! do I know you, by another name? "pythoness" scares me a little! u wanna be a priest? Python'll hafta wait in the car, though. lesse Pope-mobile outta be a Moke, Pope-in-a-Moke.. remember Mokes, Larry? we need to find a picture of one, for his Highness, & he needs to practice that wrist-rotating wave, too

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Bumper:

"naw, Larry, I'm not a Stute, I'm mostly Irish, but thanks, anyway,"

JaiysusMaryNJosef Boy-o, if'n yer thinkin' we Oyirish ain't much astute, well then faith n' Begorrah yer probably roight as rane, (ahm) ah'd reckon y'are!
Ah Chroist, me accent's fadin', better go n' get another pint at th'pub...
(i know this sounds like a corny, stereotypical accent, but if you go out to the moors of County Cork or Mayo, you'll find they actually talk [somewhat] like that. However,if you go to Dublin, they won't talk to you at all! <img src="http://www.arlo.net/ubb/smilies/rolleyes.gif" width=15 height=15>)

I must say, that if we Blunderites are starting a religion, I hope somebody is saying some SERIOUS PRAYERS!!! In the infamous words of Monty Python (another bunch of Stutes) "RUN AWAY!! RUN AWAY!!" Sarah Lee and Arlo lead the way...
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dahm, lass yere guud! maken me 'eart do the pitty patter. from County Cork, are ye? loikwoise, here, Blarney Village, if ye please.. oy dunt think yew've last a thing, lass.. Mye accent got ahl skrewed up with me Caribb trips, ye see. now, lass, oy come out in de patwa, ya kno gyaal, anh me cyan't tell whey de one stahrt and de odder begin, ya kno, gyaal, so now, me jus a likkle rasta Irish bwoy, ya kno, gyaal!

( for those sensitive to such things, this is a respectful celebration of two lyrical dialects)

heehee, very cool, Shannon...<img src="http://www.arlo.net/ubb/smilies/bounce.gif" width=31 height=31>

Actually Bumper, I'm only Irish in blood, not in homeland, I'm from Jehrsee actually =) lol. But I've been to Ireland twice, and almost all of my family is Irish, so I've gotten a taste for the accent, humor, and general worldview of an Irish person, lol. But most of my ancestors WERE from Cork, I believe, the clan O'Neill.

Nice touch w/your own accent there Bump, and did you know there's a reason why the Jamacain accent and the Irish accent are so similar? During the Slave trade, there were a lot of Irish immigrants that sailed the slave ships and many that landed in Jamaicia stayed there for some time. When the people living there were learning English, they picked up a lot of the Irish accent! Frank McCourt talked a bit about it in 'Tis a Memoir. He talked about a Jamacain friend he had while working construction, and thought the man was Irish, because of the accent!
whell oyill be flummoxed! Saints aloilve ah canna believe it y'know! seounds too much loike a buncha shite ta me y'know <img src="http://www.arlo.net/ubb/smilies/wink.gif" width=15 height=15>

When I was in Dublin this summer, because I LOOK very Irish people thought I actually was from the area. Even when I spoke! And I had NO Irish accent! So strange. Several people asked me if I was from Malone, or Cork. Or Mayo. lol. Well in Dublin that'd make a bit more sense, since accents in Dublin are far more faint...

ah Chroist, ah'm ramblin' moore then that bloody Arlo fellow new aren't oiy? toime fer another point me thinks...<img src="http://www.arlo.net/ubb/smilies/yum.gif" width=15 height=15>

naat only are we staartin a nyew religion, Oy dew think we've found the trueee
Hoigh Priestess, Oy dew, Tis the lovely begoyilin' Shannon herself it tiz, if ye were ta ahsk me, moiynd ya, now

Oh, the Irish got around the Americas, all right. In Jalapa, (home of Jalapeno peppers and my own Mexican "hometown") the cemetary is full of names like "Guadalupe Ortiz de Kennedy", "Pablo Garcia O'Grady", and "Kevin Patricio Keating Sanchez". The rosters of Latin American celebrities --military heroes, artists, scientists and so forth -- are positively peppered with Irish names.

Besides the circumstances mentioned by Shannon, there were many Irish mercenaries who stayed on, married the locals, and raised families after the wars they'd signed up for were over. I'm sure there are plenty of other reasons young Irishmen (and women) found for going off and exploring the world, too ...

Wonderful stories from Shannon and Bumper. Thanks for sharing. It's fun passing for a native in a foreign country, isn't it?

Now, as for burkas: are you sure you guys don't want to wear them?

men, in burkas, would stumble around & bump into things, get into fights a lot, and invent strange violent rituals, for fun, muffy, then, they'd start lots of "secret" clubs, excluding women..can't have that kinda behavior, now, can we....??!!??

Clan McCarty, here Shannon, like you, by blood, not by homeland.. Oy did visit me clan's stone, in Blarney, though, some damn tea-sippin Brit owns it now, ah but we'll be changin that soon, doncha know
Oyim considerin petitionin Mr Bush, ta deck the Special Farces boyz in green & lend me a 'and in re-takin Blarney Castle, damn Brits, anyway....
you are quite right, about the brouge/Caribb dialect connection.. I lived on Montserrat, the "Emerald Oyle" of the Caribb for a year, in late 80's
When the Irish would get rambunctuous, on Brit sugar plantations in the Caribb, in the
18th & 19th century, the Brits would "exile" the Irish, to Montserrat. So, even today, most place names and sur-names on Montserrat, are Irish.
I met a black Montserratian, there w/ the last name of McCarty, same as me own, ahn he said to me..." so maan, why ya got dat tan? why is it ya don't have de fair skin and freckles?" I said, "cuz I'm "Black Irish!!"
he shouted "Lawd a God, maan, if you Black Irish, wha den am I, so? I said "ummm...ummm 'Indigo', maybe?"
he laughed ahn poured good 'alf a his Red Stroipe down me back, 'e did, doncha know...

the micks' tongues waddle like ducks' butts!

i'm german and irish mix...which makes me as dumb as a box of hammers, but with tenacity!

and shannon,,arlo doesn't run..he just shakes his head and says, "Huh?"

can i have the keys tonight? i'll refuel this time..i promise.

da pope

heehee that's our Pope, alright, a box a m***** f***ing tenacious hammers!!
faxin one set a Moke keys to da Pope...

oh yea? Mr Yakkity-Pope? look who's got almost 1300 posts, in 10 months, hmmm?
ah, but we Oyrish are masters & mistresses, of social discourse and the fyoine arte of eloquent persuasion, ya know

bump, i want you to do some missionary work in southern afghanistan...my intel shows them to be very receptive to selective obliviosity.

if anyone tells you not to go because it's a death sentence..ignore them..they're just jealous that you got the appointment.

see ya when you get back.

oo,maybe I could bunk with Ashleigh Banfield....
i knew my last post'd get ya, Todd, but, I hadn't given you a bad time, for almost 12 hours....