The-Rigger wrote: » Website is brutal, only thing you can do is buy tickets.
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!
pickarooney wrote: » So they can turn it off? Something immensely pleasurable about that all right
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.
yoshytoshy wrote: » It sounds like a light-hearted laugh at ourselves. As long as people don't go in pi55ed, it should be fine
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?".
Forest Master wrote: » ^^ Didn't happen.
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.
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?
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:
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.
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.
fontanalis wrote: » ...I don't know of any such references to Leprachauns.
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.
Biggins wrote: » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leprechaun
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"
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.
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.
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.