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IN RESPONSE TO THE ENGLISH/AMERICAN-ENGLISH/BRITISH THREAD

 
 
Setanta
 
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Reply Wed 1 Sep, 2004 09:45 am
Can't think why, but the preceding exchange reminded me of a bit of children's street doggerel from Belfast:

Ahem, ahem
I can't come out to play with you
I can't come out at all
It isn't because you're dirty
It isn't because you're clean
It's because your folks are Protestants
And you eat margarine . . .
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fortune
 
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Reply Wed 1 Sep, 2004 10:01 am
Ha ha, margarine!

I shouldn't laugh, I know.

I think I'll stick with my good old Aussie accent from now on.
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Setanta
 
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Reply Wed 1 Sep, 2004 10:10 am
And for some reason, whenever i see your moniker, i think of Goodnight Irene . . .

Sometimes I live in the country,
Sometimes I live in town,
Sometimes I have a great notion,
To jump in the river and drown.


(Nothing personal, Boss, it's just as a child i thought that third line ran: Sometimes is say good fortune . . . )
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fortune
 
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Reply Wed 1 Sep, 2004 10:14 am
Laughing Glad it's nothing personal. Reminds me of one of my father's favourite dismissive statements, ie "Go jump in the lake!" Trust me, it sounds much better with a broad Australian accent.
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Steve 41oo
 
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Reply Wed 1 Sep, 2004 10:28 am
Quote:
Ahem, ahem
I can't come out to play with you
I can't come out at all
It isn't because you're dirty
It isn't because you're clean
It's because your folks are Protestants
And you eat margarine . . .


I believe its true that kids from both communities would happily play together until someone was challenged to "Repeat the Lords Prayer!"

The subject of this inquisition would either say Our Father who art... or Our father which art...

The difference is apparantly enough to distinguish Protestant from Catholic and so make a potential enemy out of your former playmate.

Being a devout Jedi, I wouldn't know for sure. Anyone know which version is Catholic?
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Setanta
 
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Reply Wed 1 Sep, 2004 10:29 am
The one which begins:

In the name of the Daddy-O, the Laddie-O an' a Holy Spook . . .
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fortune
 
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Reply Wed 1 Sep, 2004 10:30 am
I learned the Catholic version which had a who, if that makes sense...
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Steve 41oo
 
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Reply Wed 1 Sep, 2004 10:32 am
You're not taking this entirely seriously are you Set?

Smile
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fortune
 
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Reply Wed 1 Sep, 2004 10:32 am
Nah, Set. Yer thinkin' of the sign of the most groovy cross.
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Steve 41oo
 
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Reply Wed 1 Sep, 2004 10:33 am
Tthink I prefer the Authorised Setanta version.
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Setanta
 
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Reply Wed 1 Sep, 2004 10:35 am
Steve (as 41oo) wrote:
You're not taking this entirely seriously are you Set?

Smile


Me mither was a Prod named Antrim . . .

Me Da wa a Paddy named Kelly . . .

You figure it out--Jaysus knows, oy never did . . .
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Tryagain
 
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Reply Wed 1 Sep, 2004 02:32 pm
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Setanta
 
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Reply Wed 1 Sep, 2004 02:35 pm
I knowed a English teacher oncet, she war the most reliable employee i ever employed, an' a lesbian to boot . . .

I ain't skeert . . .
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Steve 41oo
 
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Reply Wed 1 Sep, 2004 02:38 pm
content b
effort d
analysis f

Try again
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ehBeth
 
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Reply Wed 1 Sep, 2004 02:39 pm
You allow do-overs here?
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Setanta
 
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Reply Wed 1 Sep, 2004 02:40 pm
I'm thinkin' i may need a complete make-over . . .
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ehBeth
 
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Reply Wed 1 Sep, 2004 02:44 pm
We've got a good fashion thread goin' on at swolf's Madame Hillary (sounded like a fine name for a clothing stop)
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Steve 41oo
 
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Reply Wed 1 Sep, 2004 02:44 pm
And while I'm about it,

What

is an ex English teacher

one who now teaches Geography
one who is now French but teaches English sometimes
one who is ex in the sense of being shuffled off this mortal coil?
one who is ex is the sense of being exhumed?

Or all four above?
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Steve 41oo
 
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Reply Wed 1 Sep, 2004 02:46 pm
Quote:
You allow do-overs here?


only if your name is try again
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Tryagain
 
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Reply Wed 1 Sep, 2004 03:02 pm
First things first, Setanta rites, "…an' a lesbian to boot . . ." Youall still gotten her address?

Steve (as 41oo) rites, "b.d.f." Well, I go to the foot of our stairs. Them is the bestist marks I did ever got.

B.D.F. The British Digestive Foundation.
People vary a lot in how often they open their bowels - usually between three times a day and three times a week in the U.K. (as for loo) You British do make I laugh.
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