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Help! Completely OT but I trust your brains

  • 14-12-2012 12:38pm
    #1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,870 ✭✭✭


    I am organising a trip to Las Vegas (2 UK women, 2 Irish women) and have based daily activities/drinking/eating around "city" or "country" themes. Each day has a pithy/phrase name and I'm going to make a little information card. So, the day where we go for a gondola trip and Roman baths is "Little Italy". The day we eat French and go up that mini Eiffel Tower is "Vive la France". You get the picture.

    I want to do things that are English and Irish. However, I cannot fill a whole day for each theme, so I'm combining.

    I need a pithy name, maybe a song/book title, a band name, anything, something that reflects joint UK/Irishness.

    "The Good Friday Agreement" is not an option (or is it?).

    Help, please, oh witty Irish people of A&A.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    "A Series of Unfortunate Events"?


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,870 ✭✭✭doctoremma


    Sarky wrote: »
    "A Series of Unfortunate Events"?
    And so it begins... ;)


  • Registered Users Posts: 390 ✭✭sephir0th


    "The British Isles" is an obvious one, but I'd rather "The Easter Rising"


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,870 ✭✭✭doctoremma


    sephir0th wrote: »
    "The British Isles" is an obvious one, but I'd rather "The Easter Rising"
    My grandmother was born during it - likely to induce severe melancholy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,218 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    Have seen 'British' isles/archipelago referred to as the 'Islands of the Ocean' in Antique documents.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,870 ✭✭✭doctoremma


    Bannasidhe wrote: »
    Have seen 'British' isles referred to as the 'Islands of the Ocean' in Antique documents.
    Is "The British Irelands" a pun too far?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,218 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    doctoremma wrote: »
    Is "The British Irelands" a pun too far?

    Should manage to p*ss off just about everyone.:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,586 ✭✭✭ahnowbrowncow


    doctoremma wrote: »
    Is "The British Irelands" a pun too far?

    Yes


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,059 ✭✭✭Squarewave


    Anglo Irish Banquet


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    "The Anglo Irish Bailout" might be a bit too Irish-centric!

    EDIT - Snap @ ahnowbrowncow!


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,870 ✭✭✭doctoremma


    Facepalm moment. Could go with "Anglo-Irish relations", given that we are a mix of Anglo, Irish and are relations.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,218 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    doctoremma wrote: »
    Facepalm moment. Could go with "Anglo-Irish relations", given that we are a mix of Anglo, Irish and are relations.

    Anglo-Celt? Or are we ignoring the Scots, Welsh, Cornish? ...:p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    The British & Irish Lioness tour


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,218 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    mikom wrote: »
    The British & Irish Lioness tour

    I like that one!


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,870 ✭✭✭doctoremma


    mikom wrote: »
    The British & Irish Lioness tour
    I think we have a winner. We all watch rugby so it works well!

    Thanks all!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    800 Beers!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,218 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    Sarky wrote: »
    800 Beers!

    No. No. No. :mad:

    It's 269 Beers!

    The whole island of Ireland did not officially come under the remit of the English monarch until 1542 (and even that was aspirational). Total control didn't happen until 1653 with the defeat of the independent Irish Catholic Confederacy - any more sloppy historical thinking from you matey and I will call a dolphin a fish.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    Next you'll be telling me vikings weren't invented by Marvel in the 60's... :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,218 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    Sarky wrote: »
    Next you'll be telling me vikings weren't invented by Marvel in the 60's... :rolleyes:

    Funny you should mention that... 'Viking' is properly a verb to describe an activity engaged in by some of the inhabitants of the region now called Scandanavia - for example the Ostmen. :p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    Well "viking" is far less a mouthful than "Crushing my enemies, seeing them driven before me, and hearing the lamentation of the women".


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,218 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    Sarky wrote: »
    Well "viking" is far less a mouthful than "Crushing my enemies, seeing them driven before me, and hearing the lamentation of the women".

    Hard to fit that on a t-shirt alright.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,736 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    Bannasidhe wrote: »
    Funny you should mention that... 'Viking' is properly a verb to describe an activity engaged in by some of the inhabitants of the region now called Scandanavia - for example the Ostmen. :p

    So, Viking is a verb meaning, essentially, to Vike? Like Maffeking and Banting? I like that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,218 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    kylith wrote: »
    So, Viking is a verb meaning, essentially, to Vike? Like Maffeking and Banting? I like that.

    I think the word used was avikinga (Old Norse isn't my strong point) lit meaning 'to go a viking' i.e sign on as crew of a longship on a shareholder basis and go and steal other people's stuff using such force as is a)required and b)fun.

    Interesting side note - anyone remember being told Round Towers were built to protect monasteries from those engaging in a spot of free-enterprise viking? Anyone notice how many round towers there are which are very far from either the sea or a navigable river?

    Think about that....:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    Clearly the vikings also had tanks.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,218 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    Sarky wrote: »
    Clearly the vikings also had tanks.

    With horned turrets.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    No, they were retconned out at the last Thor reboot.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,218 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    Sarky wrote: »
    No, they were retconned out at the last Thor reboot.

    I reckon they are all still stuck outside Buttevant waiting for the temporary lights to fecking change


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    Vikings aren't to be confused with the lessor known hordes of Buntings.

    These savages used to festoon local towns with brightly coloured flags making it impossible for religious Holy Mary floats to pass through the streets unhindered.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,218 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    Dades wrote: »
    Vikings aren't to be confused with the lessor known hordes of Buntings.

    These savages used to festoon local towns with brightly coloured flags making it impossible for religious Holy Mary floats to pass through the streets unhindered.

    Plus their dreaded country fete where vegetables were judged, large hats baring floral arrangements were compulsory and Morris dancing was perpetuated. Let's not even discuss the symbolism of the May Pole - disgusting!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,940 ✭✭✭Corkfeen


    Erm.......... What the hell am I reading? :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,218 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    Corkfeen wrote: »
    Erm.......... What the hell am I reading? :pac:

    The on-line version of a Ken Nicholl's lecture.

    Have you encountered Ken?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,940 ✭✭✭Corkfeen


    Bannasidhe wrote: »
    The on-line version of a Ken Nicholl's lecture.

    Have you encountered Ken?

    Lectured before my time and book titles seem unfamiliar, so i'm going to say no. Might have touched upon him in first year but i'm obsessed with American History so I pretty much stick to it as much as I can. But it's all looking rather interesting now, I guess the topic has become as strange as Vegas.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,218 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    Corkfeen wrote: »
    Lectured before my time and book titles seem unfamiliar, so i'm going to say no. Might have touched upon him in first year but i'm obsessed with American History so I pretty much stick to it as much as I can. But it's all looking rather interesting now, I guess the topic has become as strange as Vegas.

    Sometimes he is still let loose on a 2nd yr core lecture - guy is a genius and very funny due to his zero tolerance for misinformation and BS and his passionate rants against same.
    You missed out there.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,182 ✭✭✭Genghiz Cohen


    The United Flingdom


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