Re: Leisurely Scribbles (part 5)

Very clever SP
thanks

Re: Leisurely Scribbles (part 5)

Fisherman


It was raining hard and a big puddle had formed in front of a pub.


An old man stood beside the puddle holding a stick with a string on the end and jiggled it up and down in the water. A curious gentleman asked what he was doing.


"Fishing," replied the old man.


"Poor old fool," thought the gentleman. So he invited the old man to have a drink in the pub.


Feeling he should start some conversation while they were sipping their whisky, the gentleman asked, "And how many have you caught?"


"You're the eighth."

Re: Leisurely Scribbles (part 5)

now that one I'll pay ya gettin better!!

Re: Leisurely Scribbles (part 5)

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-44235867

I'll try to get rid of the Poles and Romanians but can you handle the Irish Jem??

but I am I must admit curious - why do so many Irish want to leave Ireland [such a beautiful country] and live in UK a cauldron of multicultural miss mash??

nb: no this is not 'political' but 'social studies'!!

Re: Leisurely Scribbles (part 5)

No Jem?????

The Irish left cos they ran out of tatties.

The Romanians to escape the vampires.

Re: Leisurely Scribbles (part 5)

Always remember;he who hesitates....


...has to drive 15 fkn miles to the next slip-road!

Re: Leisurely Scribbles (part 5)

Re: Leisurely Scribbles (part 5)

See? Kermit's left-handed!!!!!

Re: Leisurely Scribbles (part 5)

He is, I never detected that. Clever clogs

Re: Leisurely Scribbles (part 5)

I really don’t know Gummy. I think the great potato famine of the 1840’s may have triggered it off, for centuries before that we were all too busy fighting off invaders to go anywhere, eventually the Vikings took over Dublin and as that famous saying here goes “They became more Irish than the Irish themselves” the rest of the country was so badly effected by famine that the population was halved from 8 million to 4 million. Maybe after that they all got the travelling bug, who really knows.
However there are great opportunities on the horizon here and a highly educated crop of young people to take advantage of them, hopefully then with well paid jobs we will be able to keep our younger folk at home, it’s a good little country to raise a family in too.

I remember the old lads singing this old song in the pubs years ago. Foster an Allan recorded it much later, but the words are the same I think.

FOSTER & ALLEN
If We Only Had Old Ireland Over Here.


I was dreaming of old Ireland and Killarneys lakes and
fells,
I was dreaming of the shamrock and the dear old Shandon
Bells,
When my memories suggested in a vision bright and
clear,
All the strange things that would happen if we had old
Ireland here.

If the Blarney stone stood out in Sidney Harbour,
And Dublin Town to Melbourne came to stay,
If the Shannon River joined the Brisbane Waters,
And Killarneys lakes flowed into Botany Bay,
If the Shandon Bells rang out in old Fremantle,
And County Cork in Adelaide did appear,
Erin's sons would never roam, all the boys would stay
at home,
If we only had old Ireland over here.

There are lots of lovely lassies dancin' on the village
green,
There are lots of lovely coleens, the finest ever seen,
Where the boys are all called Paddy, and the girls
called Molly Dear,
Sure we'd wrap the green flag round them, if we had old
Ireland here

If the Blarney stone stood out in Sidney Harbour,
And Dublin Town to Melbourne came to stay,
If the Shannon River joined the Brisbane Waters,
And Killarneys lakes flowed into Botany Bay,
If the Shandon Bells rang out in old Fremantle,
And County Cork in Adelaide did appear,
Erin's sons would never roam, all the boys would stay
at home,
If we only had old Ireland over here.