Hey, like, that's just your opinion man
Hey, like, that's just your opinion man
I realised I was dyslexic when I went to a toga party dressed as a goat
This aggression will not stand, man!Originally Posted by The Word Is Born
Vorsprung durch Pfennig.
Dude wouldn't be able to mod on the sabbath though. It'd be a free for all that day.
Question-does this fatwah on nicknames extend to politicians?
Never mind perception because it isn’t real. It’s only what people think. Go out and make them think something else. Alan Quinlan Irish Times April 24th 2013
how come is someone called james connolly from glasgow, only in ireland....
2011
Think it's just a reference to the irony of Carson, the hero of Ulster Unionism, being from Dublin - while Connolly, one of the 1916 rebels and signatories to the Proclamation, was not actually Irish but Scottish.
Never mind perception because it isn’t real. It’s only what people think. Go out and make them think something else.
- Alan Quinlan on believing in yourself
...they used to be referred to as "Reading South Africans"...
Had to do a double-take there, as I misread the placename as a reference to literacy and spent a moment trying to work out who specifically was being insulted and why.
Never mind perception because it isn’t real. It’s only what people think. Go out and make them think something else.
- Alan Quinlan on believing in yourself
Rodney Ah You - Golden Rod, ok he is not, but imo he should be with a surname like that.
...in what way will you feel more Irish if you force me to give up my feeling of being British? - David Ervine
Big Mal may have been called "the ruck inspector" but the original ruck inspector was Neil Francis who never joined a ruck in his life and hence is in a perfect position to comment on them in his column (not)
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. -T.S. Eliot
on the Lifemi Mafi = Larry Murphy origin.. I seem to remember that coming from the players as they thought Lifemi was too difficult to pronounce and they liked the idea of Larry & Barry as the center pairing. Pretty sure it was Seamus (Jim williams) who spilt the beans on it at a Q&A.
the Barry Murphy = Bambi was originally made public by Axel in a newspaper interview when he claimed it was Barry's nickname because of his running style. At a Q&A shortly afterward Barry himself said it was DOC who named him Bambi because of the initial's on his kit as previously described.
Mafro - Lifemi Mafi's Afro for any who weren't aware of it or missed it.
Ian dowling was also known as skinny from his school days, the J-Lo nickname was pretty much restricted to this forum.
Conor Murray claims his nickname is Spock, and that seems to be what the younger members of the munster squad call him, but all the older lads & irish squad went for Bieber.
niall ronan is using @durtburd as his name on twitter, though I've only heard the players call him Nialler on the pitch, and Pat Geraghty tends to call him Niallo.
SueBo = Damien Varley apparently due to his remarkably good singing voice, he admitted this one himself at a Q&A and the others on the panel agreed it
I think pretty much all the others have fairly obvious nicknames which are just based of their initials or a shortening of their surname.
e.g. the TOD = tommy o'donnell, fogs = denis fogarty etc.
Plato: \"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.\"
During the 2003 WC one of the commentators referred to Wood as 'The Raging Potato'. Never heard it before or since from anyone that wasn't watching that feed but it remains a personal favourite.
I believe that was the late great Bill McClaren (and was it not 'Keith Wood rampaging down the wing like a demented potato'?)
Marty in the Morning
Dai Young -Live Fast
brilliant....
He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck either, but a real duck that was actually lame. Maybe from stepping on a land mine or something.
Joey, sorry to burst your bubble but in every history I have read about the founding of Limerick it has always been said the Danes founded it, references to it are found all over the old city, the Tholsel, Singland, Danish entomology. The Danes bakery I think was a reference to this as well, but it would be more accurate to say Norsemen founded these cities.
http://www.libraryireland.com/topog/...k-Limerick.php
But the best nickname and the one most apt is Leo's "Plug"
EB: \"It is said, Percy, that civilised man seeks out good and intelligent company, so by learned discourse he may rise above the savage and be closer to God\"
Percy: \"Yes, I\'ve heard that\"
EB: \"Personally, however, I like to start the day with a total dickhead, to remind me I\'m best\"
"It's by no means a new phenomenon, being the reason why I christened them "The Todgers" all those years ago!I know Carson was born in Dublin,my original post was more or less all of OD's old post+linkage of what Forward.. was getting at and we can't ask him as he's in the dog pound.. I haven't a rashers what OD was going on about back then now!,others might!
(I added "The Dirty" because, for a while, they had some filthy stampers in the pack - happily, the players involved have since retired, moved on or cleaned up their act, hence the team is no longer deserving of that epithet.)" Quoting OD on the Ulster thread
Never mind perception because it isn’t real. It’s only what people think. Go out and make them think something else. Alan Quinlan Irish Times April 24th 2013
As a man who likes to move with the times, I believe that the Todgers epithet has now reached its sell-by date and needs updating in order to reflect what Gerry Adams never tires of describing as "the reality".
Henceforth, I propose to call them The Raving Yarpies. (The raving being to differentiate them from that much reviled bunch of rugby mercenaries known as the Watford Yarpies.)
That is all.
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