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    #32
    Sinfonia
    Registered Users Posts: 3,854 ✭✭✭Sinfonia


    wazky wrote: »
    Its actually, "Top o the morn ta ya".

    Reminds me of this:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE7hGMMIyfE


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    #33
    Kev_2012
    Closed Accounts Posts: 976 ✭✭✭Kev_2012


    Why did the leprechaun wear 2 condoms?

    To be sure, to be sure!


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    #34
    Yester
    Registered Users Posts: 1,496 ✭✭✭Yester


    I use it sometimes.
    Thought it was an American saying though?


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    #35
    False Prophet
    Registered Users Posts: 831 ✭✭✭False Prophet


    Ive said it (with extra strong irish accent) to foreigners after requests. Good way of breaking the ice etc


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    #36
    bullhits
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26 ✭bullhits


    Play up to the stereotype. Tell them if they say "Top of the morning" again you'll plant a bomb under their car.


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    #37
    nineteen66
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    who the fug wrote: »
    A bit off topic but big changes in the 54 years since my father first arrival in deepest deepest kerry

    Himself and the mother were collected by the grandfather in a sidecar from station , and taken to the house with no running water or electricity.

    Amazing how you could get on a train in Manchester and end up 24 hours later two miles from the house in Kerry

    Weird thing about it was my mothers aunt remembered his grandfather doing tours of inspection of the coast guard during WW1
    My aunt brought her new husband ,an Englishman home to Ireland for the first time in the 1940's to visit her mother.After the "tea"he asked his new wife where the toilet was.She brought him out to the back door and opened it .There's 36 acres out there,pick your spot!


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    #38
    Sinfonia
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    Jakers, there's a bomb in me potato.


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    #39
    who the fug
    Registered Users Posts: 4,041 ✭✭✭who the fug


    nineteen66 wrote: »
    My aunt brought her new husband ,an Englishman home to Ireland for the first time in the 1940's to visit her mother.After the "tea"he asked his new wife where the toilet was.She brought him out to the back door and opened it .There's 36 acres out there,pick your spot!

    Yes but to be fair my old fella grew up during the war in a two up two down house in the middle of Stockport, one family down stairs and one family upstairs shared facilities and kitchen.

    NO wondered he loved going to his granny in Dublin during the summer


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    NinjaK
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    pablomakaveli wrote: »
    I find a lot of my British friends say this to me a lot and are usually surprised when i tell them that i never use that greeting and I don't know anyone who does either.

    Which makes me wonder does anyone in Ireland use this greeting? Does anyone here on Boards greet people with "Top of the morning" or know anyone who does?

    For a greeting that seems to be strongly linked with Ireland for foreigners it doesn't seemed to get used a lot here.

    Its used as an insult, to belittle the Irish. I would say get new friends.


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    Sunnyisland
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    When I lived abroad a lot of English people said it to me,It was said in jest and I would just wink at them and tell them its a soft day thank God. no matter what the wether.


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    Son Of A Vidic
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    pablomakaveli wrote: »
    I find a lot of my British friends say this to me a lot and are usually surprised when i tell them that i never use that greeting and I don't know anyone who does either.

    Thankfully, I spent 10 years living in London and I never heard that greeting once.


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    Insect Overlord
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    who the fug
    Registered Users Posts: 4,041 ✭✭✭who the fug


    realies wrote: »
    When I lived abroad a lot of English people said it to me,It was said in jest and I would just wink at them and tell them its a soft day thank God. no matter what the wether.


    I take top of the morning in good spirit but will whack Keith Lemon if he said potato to me, and my mates know not to say that to me


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