(March 30, 2019 at 9:20 pm)fredd bear Wrote:(March 30, 2019 at 4:38 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: If I told you that, you'd be the deadest man who ever lived.
Boru
Yeah.The Irish Bull is always pregnant.
---Well, now sir. No, you can't actually get there from here.
Brendan Behan's reported last words have the flavour. To the nursing nun: " Bless you sister and may all your sons be bishops"
If you're interested, you can see just about every positive Irish stereotype invented by the Americans in one place. Take a look at the 1953 John Ford film "The Quiet Man". Male leads John Wayne, Ward Bond , Victor McLaglen, and Barry Fitzgerald. The film is worth watching (repeatedly) to see an actual gorgeous colleen*, Maureen O'Hara. She plays your stereotypical fiery redhead who is a match for John Wayne's legendary masculinity.
*born in Ranelagh, county Dublin.
On the short list of my all-time favourite films, John Wayne notwithstanding (horrible actor).
I once lobbied to have the expression, 'The best thing since sliced bread' replaced by 'The best thing since Maureen O'Hara's tits'. Went nowhere.
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
