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I'm going to Ireland!
#25re: I'm going to Ireland!
Posted: 5/6/07 at 1:24pmbut they sure know how to get into your pants!
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
vmlinnie
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/06
#26re: I'm going to Ireland!
Posted: 5/6/07 at 1:26pm
Your pants are particularly easy, Car!
And the exchange rate is around E1 = $1.32. Not sure what that is for you, and I'm too lazy to figure it out. Remember, we've been independent since 1921, so we don't use sterling, Dollypop.
The rain we knew is a thing of the past -
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
#27re: I'm going to Ireland!
Posted: 5/6/07 at 1:34pm
Pfft, when it comes to Irishmen, I feel like my pants would be particularly easy too...
I've seen Boondock Saints about a billion times, and the accent just kills me...in a very *nice* way.
vmlinnie
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/06
#28re: I'm going to Ireland!
Posted: 5/6/07 at 1:35pmYou do mean the Boomtown Rats, right? Or are the saints a tribute band or something?
The rain we knew is a thing of the past -
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
#29re: I'm going to Ireland!
Posted: 5/6/07 at 1:39pm
The Boondock Saints...movie with Willem Dafoe and Sean Patrick Flanery.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144117/
I think there was supposed to be a sequel...but that got nixed for some reason.
It's not set in Ireland. Boston, but with some hot Irish guys. =P
Updated On: 5/6/07 at 01:39 PM
#30re: I'm going to Ireland!
Posted: 5/6/07 at 1:42pm
zOMG. I love Boondock Saints.
Linnie- ahem, I resent that remark about my pants! Just because you have a charming accent and breathe that smells seductively like whiskey and cigarettes, doesn't mean my pants are easy to get into! HARUMPH!
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
vmlinnie
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/06
#31re: I'm going to Ireland!
Posted: 5/6/07 at 1:49pmI wouldn't have laughed at that if it weren't for the fact that I've never touched a cigarette or a bottle of whisky. You know me by now, CQTB! PMs are in order, I suspect.
The rain we knew is a thing of the past -
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
#32re: I'm going to Ireland!
Posted: 5/6/07 at 1:52pm
bee tee double-you, is it breathe or breath...?
i can never remember...
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
vmlinnie
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/06
#33re: I'm going to Ireland!
Posted: 5/6/07 at 1:53pmI breathe in air, and I have fresh-smelling breath.
The rain we knew is a thing of the past -
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
#34re: I'm going to Ireland!
Posted: 5/6/07 at 1:54pmContrary to the popular vision of the Irish...who breathe in smoke and have whiskey-smelling breath.
#35re: I'm going to Ireland!
Posted: 5/6/07 at 1:55pm
that's what I thought.
many thanks.
ok, back to Ireland...
I honestly love this country. Not to mention the fact that as a little 13 year old boy they sold me a beer! haha
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
vmlinnie
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/06
#36re: I'm going to Ireland!
Posted: 5/6/07 at 1:57pmI'm 15, and have never had a drink in my life, but if I wanted, they probably would have given me beer from the time I was three. Legally, the drinking age is 18. In practice, if you are old enough to be able to ask for a beer, you're old enough to have one.
The rain we knew is a thing of the past -
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
#37re: I'm going to Ireland!
Posted: 5/6/07 at 1:57pmI need to go find my book now. It's not in its usual place. =[
vmlinnie
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/06
#38re: I'm going to Ireland!
Posted: 5/6/07 at 2:04pmI'm hoping CQTB's internet just went bust for a while, because if not, it must be that he's dumped me for some younger model (awful, considering I'm younger than him already).
The rain we knew is a thing of the past -
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
#39re: I'm going to Ireland!
Posted: 5/6/07 at 2:06pm
That would be a travesty.
(And I found my book!)
vmlinnie
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/06
#40re: I'm going to Ireland!
Posted: 5/6/07 at 2:07pm
I sense sarchasm.
Oh, and show us some of the book! Open to us the delights of my fatherland!
The rain we knew is a thing of the past -
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
#41re: I'm going to Ireland!
Posted: 5/6/07 at 2:09pm
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0789401886/ref=sib_dp_pt/002-8094547-5007218#reader-link
Go there...and behold the wonders of my beautiful book. =]
vmlinnie
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/06
#42re: I'm going to Ireland!
Posted: 5/6/07 at 2:11pm
I can't see it. 
The rain we knew is a thing of the past -
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
#43re: I'm going to Ireland!
Posted: 5/6/07 at 2:12pm
"I honestly love this country. Not to mention the fact that as a little 13 year old boy they sold me a beer! haha"
That made me remember when I bought cigarettes in Argentina when I was 12!
"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one".
-Felicia Finley-
vmlinnie
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/06
#44re: I'm going to Ireland!
Posted: 5/6/07 at 2:15pm
Muscle - Im ashamed!
AT 15, nearly 16, and n ot ever having taken a drink, or a smoke, or sex, am I falling behind, or am I just in the clear?
The rain we knew is a thing of the past -
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
#45re: I'm going to Ireland!
Posted: 5/6/07 at 2:17pm
Well goodness gracious!
Hmm, under "What to Eat in Ireland," it says:
Ireland's rich pastureland, unpolluted rivers and extensive coastline provide tender lamb, beef and pork, an array of fish and seafood and fresh fruit and vegetables. From hearty rural fare that makes the most of ingredients available, Irish cooking has evolved into gourmet cuisine created by internationally trained chefs. Often you will find the best of both worlds, with Irish stew or ham and cabbage on the same menu as more exotic dishes. The ideal end to a meal is an Irish coffee - coffee, cream, and whiskey.
The description gives off a sort of "We throw whatever we find together in a pot and hope it turns out well" vibe. And the pictures don't help. But I'm sure the food is delicious. Eh? Oh, sorry, that's Canadian.
And now I've turned to a page with a sculpture of three naked women. How interesting.
vmlinnie
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/06
#46re: I'm going to Ireland!
Posted: 5/6/07 at 2:20pm
Where does it say the sculpture is?
Oh, and this make me laugh; "unpolluted rivers". Ha! By unpolluted, do they mean green-brown water with shopping trolleys visible on the bed at low tide? They're filthy!
The rain we knew is a thing of the past -
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
#47re: I'm going to Ireland!
Posted: 5/6/07 at 2:24pmHaha, yeah I was wondering about the unpolluted rivers thing. I'm fairly certain that most semi-developed countries in the world don't have any unpolluted rivers. Aaand the sculpture (after flipping through and re-finding the picture) is a copy of The Three Graces by Antonio Canova. It's at the Dunkathel House, just outside the village of Glanmire...northeast of Cork!
vmlinnie
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/06
#48re: I'm going to Ireland!
Posted: 5/6/07 at 2:33pm
CQTB loves Cork, I avoid it when at all possible. Not familiar with the sculpture.
And, I'll have you know, that we're not semi-developed! We're in full bloom, baby!
The rain we knew is a thing of the past -
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
#49re: I'm going to Ireland!
Posted: 5/6/07 at 2:33pmWe collect Dorling Kindersly travel books, I actually just bought the Ireland one at Costco a week ago.
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story...
AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956
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