Leprachaun Museum....groan...

Ruu_Old · 10-03-2010 06:11PM

*not affiliated with the national cabbage and spud museum.

adamski8 · 10-03-2010 06:13PM

The-Rigger wrote: »

Website is brutal, only thing you can do is buy tickets.

you can also "add magic" by clicking "here" on the bottom right of the page. very strange

pickarooney · 10-03-2010 06:15PM

Biggins wrote: »

That wouldn't be too hard.
Give some of them a remote control, an episode of "Sex in the City" and a can of "Duff" - they'll be happy as Larry!

So they can turn it off? Something immensely pleasurable about that all right

Biggins · 10-03-2010 06:24PM

pickarooney wrote: »

So they can turn it off? Something immensely pleasurable about that all right

So true... :pac:

smellslikeshoes · 10-03-2010 06:31PM

Bet they get more people in the door than any other Dublin museum :pac:

I am kind of tired of the whole Leprechaun thing but I'm all for businesses taking money from stupid people so hopefully this will be a big sucess.

Biggins · 10-03-2010 06:37PM

smellslikeshoes wrote: »

Bet they get more people in the door than any other Dublin museum :pac:

I am kind of tired of the whole Leprechaun thing but I'm all for businesses taking money from stupid people so hopefully this will be a big sucess.

Now if we can just turn it into a religion, yahoo...
We're in the money!

...O' but hang on. The space Xenu based aliens has got there before us. Bummer.

"What a crock!"

yoshytoshy · 10-03-2010 06:38PM

It sounds like a lighthearted laugh at ourselves.

As long as people don't go in pi55ed ,it should be fine:D

Biggins · 10-03-2010 08:02PM

yoshytoshy wrote: »

It sounds like a light-hearted laugh at ourselves.
As long as people don't go in pi55ed, it should be fine

I think we're ok.
Its normally when they fall out drunk certain establishments that they usually see them.

Coriolanus · 10-03-2010 08:14PM

Well, I hold out against hope that it'll be a bit more serious than it sounds. A museum to folklore in general would be really interesting.

Bolag_the_2nd · 10-03-2010 08:52PM

willy o'dea's new job

Forest Master · 10-03-2010 09:45PM

deisedude wrote: »

i'm in America and i have lost count of the amount of fcukers who have asked me to say "Are you after my lucky charms?".

^^ Didn't happen.

Coriolanus · 10-03-2010 09:47PM

Forest Master wrote: »

^^ Didn't happen.

They do find it wierd that we don't have Lucky Charms over here though!
NAsty horrible things they are anyway. :mad:

sron · 10-03-2010 10:16PM

Does anyone think that the Leprechaun's careful hoarding of his wealth is very un-Irish, we being a notably improvident people?

Also, I hope they hire that gob****e from College Green so I don't have to see him every day.

BluesBerry · 10-03-2010 10:50PM

sron wrote: »

Does anyone think that the Leprechaun's careful hoarding of his wealth is very un-Irish, we being a notably improvident people?

Also, I hope they hire that gob****e from College Green so I don't have to see him every day.

Have you ever met a Cavan man?:P

I cant wait to visit the museum, I seen it on the news looks brilliant I hope they let you take pics :pac::pac::D:D:pac::pac:

Dudess · 10-03-2010 11:28PM

Birneybau wrote: »

http://www.leprechaunmuseum.ie/

Some cynical fcuker just on the radio there,
Opening a Leprachaun museum just off Jervis St..

Ah,to be sure,to be sure...Begorrah,etc..

Anybody else sick of this kind of rubbish?

Well I personally don't think there IS much of this rubbish.

OutlawPete · 10-03-2010 11:47PM

I don't mind it.

Have a mate who runs a tour company in Dublin and he rolls out all the cliches for the tourists .. :pac:

Pic

Biggins · 11-03-2010 05:41PM

News report on it: http://www.rte.ie/news/morningireland/player.html?20100310,2715565,2715565,real,209

Tchaikovsky · 11-03-2010 05:48PM

I take offence to those foreigners who dress up as leprechauns at the Molly Malone statue and in Temple Bar, by the way. :mad:

lugha · 11-03-2010 07:05PM

Tchaikovsky wrote: »

I take offence to those foreigners who dress up as leprechauns at the Molly Malone statue and in Temple Bar, by the way. :mad:

What's wrong with being a leprechaun? Harmless little devils I say.

fontanalis · 11-03-2010 07:05PM

The Leprachaun thing befuddles me. It seems to be something that grew from the film Darby O'Gill and the little people. Aren't fairies much more prominent in Irish folklore? I think it actually looks bad, pandering to the nonsense.
And another idiotic thing that seems to have gron in years is the "Black Irish" nonsense!

lugha · 11-03-2010 07:15PM

fontanalis wrote: »

The Leprachaun thing befuddles me. It seems to be something that grew from the film Darby O'Gill and the little people. Aren't fairies much more prominent in Irish folklore? I think it actually looks bad, pandering to the nonsense.

I think they were around a lot longer than that. I certainly remember reading books about them as a child which I don't think were inspired by Hollywood. I wouldn't say it looks any worse than English folk pandering to Robin Hood or the King Arthur stuff or anyone else for that matter. It's all myth / legend / tosh stuff.

fontanalis · 11-03-2010 07:18PM

lugha wrote: »

I think they were around a lot longer than that. I certainly remember reading books about them as a child which I don't think were inspired by Hollywood. I wouldn't say it looks any worse than English folk pandering to Robin Hood or the King Arthur stuff or anyone else for that matter. It's all myth / legend / tosh stuff.

Sorry what I meant was that they were popularised/brought to the fore by Hollywood. A bit of a crude example would be fairy forts or fairy trees, I don't know of any such references to Leprachauns.

Biggins · 11-03-2010 07:22PM

fontanalis wrote: »

...I don't know of any such references to Leprachauns.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leprechaun

The earliest known reference to the leprechaun appears in the medieval tale known as the Echtra Fergus mac Léti (English: Adventure of Fergus son of Léti). The text contains an episode in which Fergus mac Léti, King of Ulster, falls asleep on the beach and wakes to find himself being dragged into the sea by three lúchorpáin. He captures his abductors, who grant him three wishes in exchange for release.

fontanalis · 11-03-2010 07:33PM

Biggins wrote: »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leprechaun

But still going by that the whole idea of leprechauns goes beyond of what you see today (hopefully the museum may address that), basically what I'm saying is that we shouldn't fall into some stereotype created by someone else.
As Alan Partridge said "Ders more to Oirland dan dis"

Biggins · 11-03-2010 07:41PM

fontanalis wrote: »

But still going by that the whole idea of leprechauns goes beyond of what you see today (hopefully the museum may address that), basically what I'm saying is that we shouldn't fall into some stereotype created by someone else.
As Alan Partridge said "Ders more to Oirland dan dis"

True somewhat but until we, ourselves can appreciate our history, it all or even some of the parts, we can't begin to understand that which makes us "Irish" and different from all the rest of the world.

So as funny as this type of new place is, it can also be a way to celebrate what which also partly makes us special.

Thomas828 · 12-03-2010 02:47AM

Birneybau wrote: »

http://www.leprechaunmuseum.ie/

Some cynical fcuker just on the radio there,
Opening a Leprachaun museum just off Jervis St..

Ah,to be sure,to be sure...Begorrah,etc..

Anybody else sick of this kind of rubbish?

I'm glad to say, we never get any of this nonsense in Belfast, or anywhere in the North. In the main we've no time for it.

OutlawPete · 12-03-2010 03:08AM

Thomas828 wrote: »

I'm glad to say, we never get any of this nonsense in Belfast, or anywhere in the North. In the main we've no time for it.

It's in the Hillsborough agreement.

The Leprechauns are coming

IrishManSaipan · 12-03-2010 03:32AM

Nevore wrote: »

Well, I hold out against hope that it'll be a bit more serious than it sounds. A museum to folklore in general would be really interesting.

Dublinia?

IrishManSaipan · 12-03-2010 03:43AM

pickarooney wrote: »

So they can turn it off? Something immensely pleasurable about that all right

I like this idea. It will create jobs and gives the customer(yanks) what they want.

Let us go one further. When I visit Prague, I nearly always visit their "sex museums". Purely for the novelty, although it has since rubbed off.

Prague, and indeed large swathes of eastern europe, are popular for a number of reasons. Cheap beer, nice scenery, culture and cheap women. By that I mean "escorts".

Ireland has one of the highest number of escorts, per capita, when compared to the rest of the EU. Lets take advantage of that. Regulate the bollocks out of the industry, tax it to phuc, and make it a selling point(without advertising). Make the industry legitimate. The state cannot beat it, so lets tax it and make money.

Charge "escorts" a flat rate of tax to operate within the law. Introduce health tests every three months. Issue them with a licence to ply thier trade.

I would never use a brasser due to moral reasons, but I wouldnt look down on somebody who did. Whatever two adults get upto in their own time is none of my business.

Lets make some cash out of it.

Biggins · 12-03-2010 10:47AM

IrishManSaipan wrote: »

I like this idea. It will create jobs and gives the customer(yanks) what they want.

Let us go one further. When I visit Prague, I nearly always visit their "sex museums". Purely for the novelty, although it has since rubbed off.

Prague, and indeed large swathes of eastern europe, are popular for a number of reasons. Cheap beer, nice scenery, culture and cheap women. By that I mean "escorts".

Ireland has one of the highest number of escorts, per capita, when compared to the rest of the EU. Lets take advantage of that. Regulate the bollocks out of the industry, tax it to phuc, and make it a selling point(without advertising). Make the industry legitimate. The state cannot beat it, so lets tax it and make money.

Charge "escorts" a flat rate of tax to operate within the law. Introduce health tests every three months. Issue them with a licence to ply thier trade.

I would never use a brasser due to moral reasons, but I wouldnt look down on somebody who did. Whatever two adults get upto in their own time is none of my business.

Lets make some cash out of it.

Jeasus man! Don't be saying things like above.
Your talking too much sense - the boyo's in Dublin (or where ever they have fecked off to for Paddy's day!) don't like it when others talk sense and they don't!

Leprachaun Museum....groan...

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