Ross O' Carroll Kelly

Ishmael · 06-07-2005 02:11PM

I read the ones on his school and college years and found them funny in parts, i'd rate them as a read once kind of books.

DAEDULUS · 06-07-2005 02:35PM

ferdi wrote:

Ross O' Carroll Kelly
R O C K
> Blackrock ----> Blackrock College ----> well to do south dublin rugby school.

its just this comedy newspaper column about this d4 jock stereotype character Ross O' Carroll Kelly. its just about he xdrinks heino and oes to anables to chase 'berds' and takes the 'darsh'.

actually he went to castlerock! god damn skobies dont know ****...

shakaman · 06-07-2005 02:50PM

can't remember the name of the book (it's the one where Ross gets married to Sorcha) but when the chick from the northside he got up the pole is working the wedding as a waitress that was hilarious!

And on a theme on this week's boards, when the got the t-shirts which read 'I scored Ross O'Carroll Kelly/Fionn etc etc at the Old Wesley school disco' was pretty funny too!!!

Has to be taken with a pinch of salt but v good light readin...and not to far off some of the rugger boys from the southside

BizzyC · 06-07-2005 03:57PM

I cant stand it. It reminds me too much of people I've meet. I always want to punch those guys out whenever they start talking like that.

06-07-2005 04:04PM

P.S. I scored the bridesmaids.
A friend gave me the book to read, I had to text her every so often for some of the slang. Never did fid out what "Grey Thursday" is about.

Nightwish · 06-07-2005 04:26PM

i have an autographed copy of the original "Teenage Dirtbag Years".
The older books are way funnier than the reprints.I LOVE the column but it was way funnier when he was in school and college as opposed to out working

WizZard · 06-07-2005 04:48PM

shakaman wrote:

can't remember the name of the book (it's the one where Ross gets married to Sorcha) but when the chick from the northside he got up the pole is working the wedding as a waitress that was hilarious!

Should have spoiler tag since that is (now was) one of the big surprises of the book.

Books are very cool. Goys loike him do exist... sad to say.

Deadwing · 06-07-2005 05:13PM

Bungalow Bill wrote:

Tell me your focking joking?
Mildly humerous?

Ross is a focking legend roysh.

WHAT THE F*CK ARE YOU BLITHERING ABOUT MAN?!?
*SLAP*
*SLAP*
*SLAP*

Wertz · 06-07-2005 05:26PM

Aren't there enough of these tossers out there IRL without creating ficticious ones? Christ...

jesus_thats_gre · 06-07-2005 05:48PM

I have to admit that I really enjoy the books... I resisted reading the Teenage Dirtbag years for long enough but am glad I cracked...

Tampax Ross is my favourite line yet - 1 week in 3 weeks out!!

jesus_thats_gre · 06-07-2005 07:03PM

It rips the piss out of all the tossers.. Its funny.. If yoo not like it, feck off.

Khalim · 06-07-2005 07:22PM

is the column still in the paper?

(seeing as this was last year's thread...)

jonny68 · 06-07-2005 08:01PM

Ross o Carroll Kelly =Posh **** :rolleyes:

Jonny Arson · 06-07-2005 08:17PM

I only picked up my 1st Ross O'Carroll-Kelly book there last week (teenage dirtbag years) and after only 2 chapters I'm in stitches.

The funny thing is D4's in real life are just like that ! Not kidding.

Roysh......... mwhhaaaaahhhaaaa ha!

Nightwish · 06-07-2005 08:58PM

Khalim wrote:

is the column still in the paper?

(seeing as this was last year's thread...)

yes, back page of the tribune

OFDM · 06-07-2005 10:28PM

G-R&#211 wrote: »

ross o carroll kelly-living legend need i say more!
cant stop the rock!

Muppet draggin up old posts.

Roysh = right with the "soft 't'" that Gay Byrne keeps yapping on about.

All the RTE newsreaders are getting this accent.

melekalikimaka · 06-07-2005 10:58PM

everyone knows a ross o carrol kelly, he thinks everyone thinks hes the ****, but he isnt but its funny to watch him think he is

Ooly · 12-07-2005 11:56PM

aw man Ross O Carroll Kelly is such a legend. I have all 4 books & they're savage, can't wait for no.5. Anyone read him in the trib?

gsand · 12-07-2005 11:57PM

dont you mean the trib you focking imbecile! roysch.

Ooly · 13-07-2005 03:04PM

oooops that was like TOTALLY my focking bad roysh, Sorry

gsand · 13-07-2005 03:10PM

kool and the asociates my man.

ionapaul · 13-07-2005 03:25PM

Just borrowed the Teenage Dirtbag Years after reading the column in the Tribune a few times in recent months, very humourous. He's not a totally unredeemable or unsympathetic character, though maybe that's just me being nice...

Selik · 13-07-2005 04:06PM

Saw his Orange Mocha Chip Frapuccino Years book in a store in Bangkok and thought it looked funny (in an in-joke sorta way) I bought it coz it was cheap and although I read the first 30 odd pages or so I just got sick of his style of writing especially the way he has to write EVERYTHING in that roight goys any soign of Fiacra and Lorcan etc etc.... it just became tiresome so I gave up (and I don't give up on books easily). Might get back to it at some stage unless I can trade it for something better!

Sleepy · 13-07-2005 04:20PM

I think that's what makes it so funny paul, if he was a complete bastard all the time it'd be a bit boring and wouldn't be able to make the point that it was his upbringing and background that had him turn out the way he did...

The books are pretty funny

Ooly · 13-07-2005 04:26PM

Giles wrote:

Saw his Orange Mocha Chip Frapuccino Years book in a store in Bangkok and thought it looked funny (in an in-joke sorta way) I bought it coz it was cheap and although I read the first 30 odd pages or so I just got sick of his style of writing especially the way he has to write EVERYTHING in that roight goys any soign of Fiacra and Lorcan etc etc.... it just became tiresome so I gave up (and I don't give up on books easily). Might get back to it at some stage unless I can trade it for something better!

hmmmmmm i thought that too when i read the first one about 3 years ago, i got sick of it less than half way thru but a few months later i started reading it again & i couldn't put it down..........Give it another try Giles :rolleyes:

Peteee · 13-07-2005 04:46PM

Read all these in about a week! Focking hilarious. tbh i'm glad I dont know anyone like this (even though i'm, for the time being, living in blackrock)

Some of the funniest books i've read.

'Looks like you'll have to get off at sydney parade' had me in stiches for weeks.

'I wanted to call this book, 'The Guy who went to sleep in a bed, but woke up in a tent' but it wouldnt fit on the cover'

Also had me giggling like a school girl!

andyman · 13-07-2005 05:25PM

Makaveli wrote:

Only 2 in print at the moment though.
Teenage Dirtbag Years and Orange Mocha Chip Frapuccino Years.

Isn't Ps I Scored The Bridesmaid still in print??

ROCK is an Absolute LEGEND

chump · 13-07-2005 05:36PM

Love all the books, pity they're so short!

Makaveli · 13-07-2005 05:36PM

The date of that post was the 15/3/2004.

andyman · 13-07-2005 08:08PM

Oops my bad sorry Makaveli

Ross O' Carroll Kelly

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