The skies cleared for the soccer game, but unfortunately they lost.
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I've got the best beta reader on the planet going through Sex Robot one last time to find any issues with the text. I was sure it was perfectly polished, but there are a few missing commas and a missing quotation mark (gasp!). The worst error was that I had four instances of the name Abagail and seven of Abigail. Can't believe I never noticed that one, good gravy !
Tipperary are the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Champions after beating a much fancied (in Cork, anyway) Cork team, coming from 6 points deficit at half-time to win by about 13 points. Remarkable!
If anyone is wondering what any of that means, apparently one of our British neighbours described hurling as "hockey mixed with murder" when watching it a few years ago..
If anyone is wondering what any of that means, apparently one of our British neighbours described hurling as "hockey mixed with murder" when watching it a few years ago..
Turned into a lovely day and I'm off to jump into the pool at my sister's!
It’s because it’s a long way to Tipperary so people have to hurl things rather than just making a gentle shove.
Joking aside isn’t hurling basically the same as Shinty ( as played in Scotland)
Competitive hurling could be a follow-up sport for competitive eating.
I sincerely hope that joking hasn't been set aside with that remark, impugning our 3000 year old sport like that. Hurling contributed in no small way to Cú Chulainn getting his name, which was over 2000 years ago if it was a day.
The cheek.
Shinty is to hurling what the bagpipes are to the uileann pipes. Both donated by mischevous Irish folk, it's not our fault our Scottish cousins haven't got either joke.
I repeat. The cheek!
You beat me to it. Makes me want to watch Das Boot.
Complete irreverance.
Wasn't that On the Beach ?
when i was in ulster long ago 'a hurly' was slang for a fight or an incipient riot, much like weegies might say a rammy.
talking of cadences we had one that started 'remember the tour in Crossmaglen*, had near as many hurlys as there were Irishmen" - i couldn't possibly post the rest as it would break the rules on both foul language and no religion or politics.
(*Crossmaglen is a town that's down by the border with the republic, back before the Good Friday peace deal it was a very dangerous posting, the only time any of us were happy to be in Belfast was if we'd just left XMG)
talking of cadences we had one that started 'remember the tour in Crossmaglen*, had near as many hurlys as there were Irishmen" - i couldn't possibly post the rest as it would break the rules on both foul language and no religion or politics.
(*Crossmaglen is a town that's down by the border with the republic, back before the Good Friday peace deal it was a very dangerous posting, the only time any of us were happy to be in Belfast was if we'd just left XMG)
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and Ice cold in Alex, its used in a lot of things. Written in 1912 for music hall it was used as a marching song during big mistake number one
see also the parody ' thats the wrong way to tickle mary' by J. Will Callahan and Charles Brown
That's the wrong way to tickle Mary,
That's the wrong way to kiss.
Don't you know that over here, lad
They like it best like this.
Hoo-ray pour les francaise
Farewell angleterre
We didn't know how to tickle Mary,
But we learnt how over there
Wasn't the Tipperary in the song a reference to a prostitute in a brothel in London who came from that county? Or is that just a myth?
Edit: No mention of brothels in wiki page, so probably a myth. That's a bit disappointing, as someone who comes from Tipperary.
Edit: No mention of brothels in wiki page, so probably a myth. That's a bit disappointing, as someone who comes from Tipperary.
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i think thats probably an urban myth
according to the irish times
"Judge had co-written a song previously called "It's a Long Way to Connemara" about a young Irish lad missing his Connemara sweetheart with a man called Harry Williams, who was confined to a wheelchair after a boyhood accident and who was described by his great-niece Meg Pybus as a "sensitive and sickly man."
Judge swapped Connemara for Tipperary, where his own grandmother actually came from and sold the publishing rights to Bert Feldman, who created an upbeat marching tune for it. Feldman listed Judge and Williams as co-writers.
The song sold three million copies in the UK and six million worldwide. Its fame peaked when Count John McCormack, the Pavarotti of his day, recorded it. In 1915 alone the two co-writers earned more than $750,000 in royalties, a fortune for the period."
according to the irish times
"Judge had co-written a song previously called "It's a Long Way to Connemara" about a young Irish lad missing his Connemara sweetheart with a man called Harry Williams, who was confined to a wheelchair after a boyhood accident and who was described by his great-niece Meg Pybus as a "sensitive and sickly man."
Judge swapped Connemara for Tipperary, where his own grandmother actually came from and sold the publishing rights to Bert Feldman, who created an upbeat marching tune for it. Feldman listed Judge and Williams as co-writers.
The song sold three million copies in the UK and six million worldwide. Its fame peaked when Count John McCormack, the Pavarotti of his day, recorded it. In 1915 alone the two co-writers earned more than $750,000 in royalties, a fortune for the period."
Not like today when it's peanuts!
Yeah, I checked it out on wiki and edited my post above. Note to self: research before posting!! Everyone else, go read the stories in Short Story and 4th Contest, which is slightly overlooked, and vote. Member participation makes it all more interesting.
Never seen it, but now I'm wondering about Das Boot. Why would a bunch of German submariners be singing an English song in perfect unison, like they'd done it a thousand times before? Given the popularity of the song, I guess it could be possible, but the original movie was filmed in German and then dubbed in English later. So were they singing in English originally or German? If it was the latter, did they need to dub an English version of the song? Or were they singing a German song in the original that was then swapped for an English song when they dubbed the whole thing?
I know I've seen both versions but don't remember. There are actually two different English dubbed versions, one with profanity and one without. I think I still have the directors cut DVD with an extra 90 minutes of depth charging.
Today by coincidence (with no mention by me of what I had read in this thread) my brother mentioned that Hurling is the national sport of Ireland. He had learned this fact by watching Hidden Ireland on Amazon Prime last week.
I installed surround sound just for that movie. I think I've used it two times since.
It's a great, great movie. Probably watched it 20 times with my dad when I was kid.
