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The farmer and the cheerleader

  • 27-11-2010 10:32PM
    #1
    Marie ridgeway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17 ✭


    I know a man in his mid 40s who lives alone on a farm in a rural village in the west of ireland, ye guys here in after hours would call him a looser but he is not really, back in the mid 80s he had a girlfriend, a beautiful blond cheerleader from los angeles, they met over a cb radio. He went to visit her in La but he just couldnt settle in over there, it was just too much of a culture shock for him and he missed his mammy so he went home as soon as he could. Now 24 years later his mammy is dead and he is all alone and he wonders every moment of his day what if he stayed in LA with the girl of his dreams ?


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  • #2
    alwaysadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,554 ✭✭✭✭alwaysadub


    Er..what??!


  • #3
    Midnight_EG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,849 ✭✭✭Midnight_EG


    She'd have broken his heart and fucked him over, then he would have probably wandered the streets and wrote a few songs about himself standing on a corner of the street looking for her with her picture in his hand. He'd then employ a few people to play guitar and keyboard, then call themselves The Script and make millions of moneys.


  • #4
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    Great title for a soft porn movie.


  • #5
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    /looks up marie ridgeway in galway phone book and plans pranks


  • #6
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,433 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    The Script? I was in Brisbane when I heard the lyrics 'Dublin city on a Friday night,' I nearly choked with laughter. Dublin city is about as romantic as a wheelie bin and only half as sophisticated.


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  • #7
    partyatmygaff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,992 ✭✭✭✭partyatmygaff


    Cool Story Bro


  • #8
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    How can the door be a jar? Why would they put a jar on a car?


  • #9
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    starbelgrade wrote: »
    Great title for a soft porn movie.

    Seen it..................erm..............cof............I mean. F*ck.


  • #10
    kowloon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,187 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    starbelgrade wrote: »
    Great title for a soft porn movie.

    The farmer could be there to fix her washing machine...

    And something about ploughing, I'm not sure it works...


  • #11
    Pookah
    Closed Accounts Posts: 544 ✭✭✭Pookah


    If she'd really loved him she'd have followed him to the West. He was better off with his Mammy.


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  • #12
    Earthhorse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,728 ✭✭✭✭Earthhorse


    I have a CB radio.


  • #13
    Nolanger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,556 ✭✭✭Nolanger


    Marie ridgeway wrote: »
    ye guys here in after hours would call him a looser
    Nah, we'd call him a loser!


  • #14
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    Earthhorse wrote: »
    I have a CB radio.

    Is The King alive? Were you talkin' to him?


  • #15
    Pompey Magnus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,406 ✭✭✭Pompey Magnus


    How on Earth could a farmer in western Ireland possibly pick up a CB radio signal from LA? I suspect someone is telling porkies...


  • #16
    Turtyturd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭Turtyturd


    Can't speak for anyone else around here but I've never called anyone a looser.


  • #17
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,073 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    Turtyturd wrote: »
    Can't speak for anyone else around here but I've never called anyone a looser.
    Me neither.
    What is a looser anyway?

    OP, Google Russian brides and you'll be grand.


  • #18
    Sofiztikated
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,995 ✭✭✭Sofiztikated


    I don't get it.

    Is there a punch line?

    Oh wait....His Ma? Is that right?


  • #19
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,784 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Pompey Magnus wrote: »
    How on Earth could a farmer in western Ireland possibly pick up a CB radio signal from LA? I suspect someone is telling porkies...

    On a CB radio.


  • #20
    OutlawPete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    Sell the farm Marie Mr Farmer, and head back to LA.

    If you can't find her, just spend all your money and high class hookers and coke.

    Then when you get tired of that, buy and Mustang and drive to New York.

    Post pics in the KYN thread every now and then also, so we know you're doing okay.


  • #21
    cml387
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,425 ✭✭✭cml387


    I heard about a little boy who had a CB radio.
    His father was dead and his mother had to go out to work to support them.The little boy got on the CB and described his sad plight (the boy was also paraplegic-did I mention that?)
    Anyway he says on the radio how he'd aways been promised a ride on a big truck but now he'd never get the chance.
    So anyway a trucker hears this and (sniff) he risks missing his delivery schedule to go and pick up the little boy and give him a spin in his truck,

    But when he gets to the boy's house (sorry,I can hardly type for the tears) he find a line of trucks whose drivers had also heard the little boy's tragic story.

    The boy gets his trip on the truck,and the drivers take up a collection for him and his mother,and she goes on the CB radio to thank them for all their kindness.

    So yes,it could happen.


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  • #22
    Poor Uncle Tom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,547 ✭✭✭✭Poor Uncle Tom


    CQ CQ CQDX


  • #23
    Pompey Magnus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,406 ✭✭✭Pompey Magnus


    dxhound2005 wrote: »
    On a CB radio.

    CB radios have ranges of a few miles, not thousands of miles.


  • #24
    cml387
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,425 ✭✭✭cml387


    Pompey Magnus wrote: »
    CB radios have ranges of a few miles, not thousands of miles.


    Not true,Single Sideband CB can be subject to ionospheric skip covering large distance of over 2000 miles.
    Oh the useless things that I know.


  • #25
    Iwannahurl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,156 ✭✭✭Iwannahurl


    Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »
    CQ CQ CQDX

    How do you greet a ham radio operator?

    With a short wave.


  • #26
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,784 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Pompey Magnus wrote: »
    CB radios have ranges of a few miles, not thousands of miles.

    Really good conditions the last couple of days on 27mhz.
    Plenty of USA, Caribbean, and south america booming in.

    Conditions are really starting to pick up.

    That was posted on the Hobby Radio forum on Oct 12. CB operates on 27 mHz, signals can propogate all round the world at times. You shouldn't make statements when you don't know what you are talking about.


  • #27
    FoxT
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,204 ✭✭✭FoxT


    Well, ye are both right...

    CB radios have a reliable range of a few miles, but depending on various factors can at times communicate over 000's of miles. I'll warrant that the West of Ireland-LA connection via CB is not reliable enough or private enough for 2 people to use it to develop a relationship .

    I still don't get the point of the OP though.


  • #28
    bonerjams03
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 393 ✭✭bonerjams03


    Confab wrote: »
    The Script? I was in Brisbane when I heard the lyrics 'Dublin city on a Friday night,' I nearly choked with laughter. Dublin city is about as romantic as a wheelie bin and only half as sophisticated.

    It doesn't mention it as if it's Paris. It goes on to say she was on Vodkas and Cokes and him on the Guinness all night. That's Irish/Dublin Romance. Anywhere that was home is Romantic or sentimental to someone. Especially looking back like in the song. I'm not even a Script fan. Just sayin.


  • #29
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    wheres the op?! this could be a legendary thread in the making


  • #30
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,784 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    FoxT wrote: »
    Well, ye are both right...

    CB radios have a reliable range of a few miles, but depending on various factors can at times communicate over 000's of miles. I'll warrant that the West of Ireland-LA connection via CB is not reliable enough or private enough for 2 people to use it to develop a relationship .

    I still don't get the point of the OP though.

    Read it again and you will see that they "met over a cb radio", it doesn't say that it was used to develop the relationship subsequently. And Pompey Magnus is not right.


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  • #31
    Athlone_Bhoy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 325 ✭✭Athlone_Bhoy


    Candy Cane waiting in room 17 as promised!


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