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    #32
    Donkey Oaty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,533 ✭✭✭Donkey Oaty


    Dean09 wrote: »
    Cloak and Daggers ;)

    The original Bertieism was in relation to deferring his pension and he said "playing smokes and daggers" so as well as the cloak and mirrors he may actually have been thinking of snakes and ladders.


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    #33
    Kimia
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    FlutterinBantam wrote: »
    What the fook

    :confused::confused:


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    #34
    Kimia
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    Donkey Oaty wrote: »
    The original Bertieism was in relation to deferring his pension and he said "playing smokes and daggers" so as well as the cloak and mirrors he may actually have been thinking of snakes and ladders.

    Also, :confused::confused::confused:


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    #35
    THall04
    Registered Users Posts: 266 ✭✭THall04


    When talking about Irish politics in the early eighties , english news readers used to talk about "Charles Hock-ey.....the Irish Tea-Shop"


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    #36
    Scarydoll
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    Keithm89 wrote: »
    Up on a pedal stool... :)


    You got that from the IT Crowd. Don't lie.


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    #37
    KeithM89_old
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    Scarydoll wrote: »
    You got that from the IT Crowd. Don't lie.

    Dont be such a damp squid :D


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    #38
    Donkey Oaty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,533 ✭✭✭Donkey Oaty


    Kimia wrote: »
    Also, :confused::confused::confused:

    I'll explain. This is from the Independent, November 6th 2007, and is the origin of the phrase "smokes and daggers".
    Creating another so-called "Bertie-ism" to add to the list, Mr Ahern mangled his metaphors once again by saying deferring the payments would be "only be playing smokes and daggers".

    Now, most people think that he confused "smoke and mirrors" and "cloak and dagger". I'm suggesting that he might have really had a three-way mix-up with "snakes and ladders".

    Hope that clarifies it!


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    #39
    [Deleted User]
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    Does the pope shlt in the woods?

    Is the bear a catholic?


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    #40
    PostHack
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    foxyboxer wrote: »
    In Cork there was a church called "The Good Shepherds" who would take in orphans. It was a popular threat to children "Cop on, or I'll send ya to the Cuchepurds!" :D


    Another Cork one was; "The doctor sent me up to the Iron Throat...."

    As in, the Eye, Ear and Throat (hospital).


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    #41
    D4NI3L88
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    Nearly almost.


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    #42
    lemonjelly
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    My girlfriend goes to the hair saloon :p


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    #43
    ldxo15wus6fpgm
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    Had a friend in england who would call spaghetti "biscetti".
    "catchup" instead of ketchup, I've heard so many people say this. Drives me up the wall.
    There's many more I can't think of...


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    #44
    sron
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    Briana Large Spoonful wrote: »
    Had a friend in england who would call spaghetti "biscetti".
    "catchup" instead of ketchup, I've heard so many people say this. Drives me up the wall.
    There's many more I can't think of...

    Fun fact: When ketchup was first introduced to Britain, it went under a variety of different names: ketchup, catsup, catchup, etc. So it's not indefensible.


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    #45
    ldxo15wus6fpgm
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    sron wrote: »
    Fun fact: When ketchup was first introduced to Britain, it went under a variety of different names: ketchup, catsup, catchup, etc. So it's not indefensible.

    Yeah but they mean to say ketchup, and say catch up. As in I'd say "you mean ketchup?" and they'd say "yeah, catchup." :pac:


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    #46
    El Guapo!
    Registered Users Posts: 12,430 ✭✭✭✭El Guapo!


    On a kind of side-note, I really really hate it when a somebody (usually a news reporter) says Gardaí with a "th", like "Garthaí". WTF???:confused::confused::mad:


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    #47
    ColaBeDamned
    Closed Accounts Posts: 125 ✭✭ColaBeDamned


    Malapropisms

    Have a good example that I heard recently- someone describing a really skinny person as emancipated, instead of emaciated


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    #48
    Dunjohn
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    Dean09 wrote: »
    Well theres a song that I always sing and dunno the words, ye know the one

    "my love has got no money, he's got his trombeleeze..."

    WTF is a trombeleeze???!!!!!!:confused:
    THall04 wrote: »
    It's "Strong Beliefs"
    THANK you. No more shall I hear "humble niece."


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    #49
    take everything
    Registered Users Posts: 9,804 ✭✭✭take everything


    I was at an interview where the interviewer kept on saying "what are the primary tenants of..." instead of "what are the primary tenets of..."
    It took everything to stop myself correcting him, or (more politely?) give him a nonsensical but literal answer about tenants.

    What was so infuriating was how he wrongly used the word so confidently.
    I mean seriously how do you confuse principles and people renting.


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    #50
    take everything
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    Briana Large Spoonful wrote: »
    Yeah but they mean to say ketchup, and say catch up. As in I'd say "you mean ketchup?" and they'd say "yeah, catchup." :pac:

    I say tomayto, you say tomahto.


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    #51
    coffee_cake
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Politics Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 81,309 CMod ✭✭✭✭coffee_cake


    take everything wrote: »
    I was at an interview where the interviewer kept on saying "what are the primary tenants of..." instead of "what are the primary tenets of..."
    It took everything to stop myself correcting him, or (more politely?) give him a nonsensical but literal answer about tenants.

    What was so infuriating was how he wrongly used the word so confidently.
    I mean seriously how do you confuse principles and people renting.

    Knowing me, I think I'd be sitting there twitching. I think I'd even risk the job because I'd have to correct him!!!
    Or just say "tenets" very clearly a few times in your reply... :pac:


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    #52
    take everything
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    bluewolf wrote: »
    Or just say "tenets" very clearly a few times in your reply... :pac:

    Yes actually that would be the best thing to do.


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    #53
    Ricardo G
    Registered Users Posts: 1,308 ✭✭✭Ricardo G


    Brother if mine was a Garth Brooks fan (yeah i know) and one such song used to catch him was "I'm Shameless"
    My brother always thought he was singin "I'm Seamus" :D


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    #54
    AskMyChocolate
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    Donkey Oaty wrote: »
    The original Bertieism was in relation to deferring his pension and he said "playing smokes and daggers" so as well as the cloak and mirrors he may actually have been thinking of snakes and ladders.

    And I'd say he claimed for all of them.:mad:


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    #55
    TPD
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jfq3c4Cf1Fs


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    #56
    kilmuckridge
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    I have read about phparagus and blphphemy


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    #57
    Lust4Life
    Registered Users Posts: 6,350 ✭✭✭Lust4Life


    ColaBeDamned wrote: »
    Malapropisms

    Have a good example that I heard recently- someone describing a really skinny person as emancipated, instead of emaciated

    Ha! They are free to be extra skinny if they choose! Love it!


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    #58
    pearliefan
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    Our principal used to say 'to-s-evening' instead of this evening. It was so irritating!


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    #59
    Big Nasty
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    Ricardo G wrote: »
    Brother if mine was a Garth Brooks fan (yeah i know) and one such song used to catch him was "I'm Shameless"
    My brother always thought he was singin "I'm Seamus" :D

    You meam Garreth Brooooks surely?


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    #60
    Big Nasty
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    storm2811 wrote: »
    My geography teacher used to say pacific instead of specific,don't know if it was intentional though.

    I sea what you did there!


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    #61
    midlandsmissus
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    MCMLXXV wrote: »
    I sea what you did there!

    My mother always says "he's so impotent" about bad behaviour. I think she means impudent :confused:


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