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Legends of small towns in Ireland.

  • 12-09-2015 11:20am
    #1
    6541
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,989 ✭✭✭


    Every town in Ireland has the legend ! He is the man that owns the pub, great gambler, massive street fighter, in tricky situations he outwits ! Local events he is there to officiate, he consults with both cops and robbers let's hear it for the local legend !


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  • #2
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Nope, no legend in our small town. Your scenario doesn't resonate with life here at all.


  • #3
    lakesider
    Closed Accounts Posts: 136 ✭✭lakesider


    Have a guy in our town hes always getting wasted then falls down..known locally as " the legend of the fall":)


  • #4
    kneemos
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    There was The Slasher:always urinating in public.

    Chopper:local butcher.

    Chopper 2:pilot.

    The Collector:binman.

    The Lone Ranger:builder.


  • #5
    Annasopra
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    Knickers; crazy woman who screamed at her dogs

    Chicken reilly; sold the herdild on the street corner - fag stuck in mouth

    Ethel; legend on a postcard - everyone called honeybunch

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #6
    Son Of A Vidic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    Sounds like the OP has just finished watching a John Wayne box set.


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  • #7
    pmasterson95
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    Shaggy Boi


  • #8
    Dyr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    There was a local legend in small town Ireland that a better life awaited in the big shmoke


  • #9
    biko
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    Feet of small towns.



    Leg-end, get it?


  • #10
    6541
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,989 ✭✭✭6541


    What if in years to come your do some self reflection and you realise that you are the local legend?


  • #11
    Boring username
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    6541 wrote: »
    Every town in Ireland has the legend ! He is the man that owns the pub, great gambler, massive street fighter, in tricky situations he outwits ! Local events he is there to officiate, he consults with both cops and robbers let's hear it for the local legend !


    I think you are getting confused with Taffin, the fictional character played by a young Pierce Brosnan.


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  • #12
    Del2005
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    6541 wrote: »
    What if in years to come your do some self reflection and you realise that you are the local legend?

    If you don't know who the local legend is, it's you.


  • #13
    NachoBusiness
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    Del2005 wrote: »
    If you don't know who the local legend is, it's you.

    Ah, that explains it. Was racking my brains here and coming up with nothing.
    Right enough, when locals see them they do tend to whisper to each other as they point at me.
    Always wondered what that was about, cheers.


  • #14
    DEFTLEFTHAND
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    Every small town also has a local wackjob who sometimes doubles as the town's 'legend'.


  • #15
    DanielODonnell
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 652 ✭✭✭DanielODonnell


    I hate towns, full of chavs and townies


  • #16
    Le Surge Eyed Amant
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    The lad who was great at sports. This guy was the next George Best, we all knew it. Got trials at one of the big English clubs but he was mad for the drink and now he's an alcoholic.


  • #17
    FloatingVoter
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    Le Surge Eyed Amant wrote: »
    The lad who was great at sports. This guy was the next George Best, we all knew it. Got trials at one of the big English clubs but he was mad for the drink and now he's an alcoholic.

    Can be found in every bar from Delhi to Dublin - the sport varies, the outcome doesn't.


  • #18
    DanielODonnell
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 652 ✭✭✭DanielODonnell


    and the fellow who played county minor and couldn't make it at senior level


  • #19
    ToddyDoody
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    Eddie Durkan. (In general)


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