General Chat

The barman asks: "Why the long phrase?"

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Blimey Maggie, you're an intellectual.

I must be fick!!! - don't get it :-(

Paddy goes for a job on a building site. The foreman askes him "do you know the difference between 'girder' and 'joist'? Paddy replies, "Sure, Goethe wrote Faust, and Joyce wrote Ulysses". This is in no way a racist joke, it merely shows the intellectual superiority if the Irish.

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Ann, James Joyce wrote really long sentences!
Finnegans Wake (one of the books wot he wrote) is considered the most difficult work of fiction to read :-S

He deliberately left off the possessive apostrophe from Finnegans. Was it a call to the Finnegans to awaken?

Isn`t it the truth I told you? Lots of fun at Finnegan's Wake.

Ah One morning Tim was rather full, his head felt heavy which made him shake.
He fell from a ladder and he broke his skull, and they carried him home his corpse to wake.

Well they rolled him up in a nice clean sheet, and laid him out upon the bed.
A bottle of whiskey at his feet and a barrel of porter at his head.

Well his friends assembled at the wake, and Mrs Finnegan called for lunch.
First she brought in tay and cake, then pipes, tobacco and brandy punch.

The widow Malone began to cry, "Such a lovely corpse, did you ever see,
Arrah Tim avourneen, why did you die?", "Will ye hould your gob?" said Paddy McGee.

Oh well Mary O'Connor took up the job, "Biddy" says she "you're wrong, I'm sure".
Oh well Biddy gave her a belt in the gob and left her sprawling on the floor.

Well civil war did then engage, woman to woman and man to man/
Shillelagh law was all the rage and a row and a ruction soon began.

Oh well Tim Maloney ducked his head when a bootle of whiskey flew at him.
He ducked and landing on the bed, the whiskey scattered over Tim.

oh bedad he revives, see how he rises, Tim Finnegan rising in the bed.
Saying "Whittle your whiskey around like blazes, t'underin' Jaysus, do ye think I'm dead?" :-D

I never read that book wot he wrote!! ta :-D

y'see, I was thinking Lord Haw Haw - wrong Joyce

Not many people have read that book, Ann.
Life's too short! :-D

If it was William Joyce (Lord Haw Haw), it would be 'Why the long noose' :-D

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