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God made the world but seaweed made that field

  • 29-08-2013 05:30PM
    #1
    donutheadhomer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,658 ✭✭✭


    I saw a T Shirt in shop in Temple Bar with this written on it.

    Is there any truth in it? I've googled and not found any instances of seaweed making anything - except a big sticky/stinky mess

    Sounds like something right out of SpongeBob
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  • #2
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    It's from The Field, Bull McCabe tells his son Ned Stark as they use seaweed to fertilise the land.


  • #3
    neil_hosey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,712 ✭✭✭neil_hosey


    on the aran islands, and plenty of other places around the coast of ireland, they used to take seaweed from the beach and use it make fields out of the bare limestone bedrock


  • #4
    Jimminy Mc Fukhead
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 305 ✭✭Jimminy Mc Fukhead


    *Gone*, because I drove em out: me and my kind. Gone, but not forgotten Flanagan. No outsider will bid for my field.


  • #5
    donutheadhomer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,658 ✭✭✭donutheadhomer


    krudler wrote: »
    It's from The Field, Bull McCabe tells his son Ned Stark as they use seaweed to fertilise the land.

    an innocent explanation then


  • #6
    dr.bollocko
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,948 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    EurasianBadger wrote: »
    an innocent explanation then

    Oh no.

    The Bull was far from innocent.


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  • #7
    JONJO THE MISER
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 12,333 ✭✭✭✭JONJO THE MISER


    Your the Bull your the Bull your the Bull.


  • #8
    JONJO THE MISER
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 12,333 ✭✭✭✭JONJO THE MISER


    Outsiders? Are these the same outsiders who took the corn from our mouths when the potatoes went rotten in the ditches?


  • #9
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    Why're you interfering, Father? This is none of the Church's business


  • #10
    rubadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,387 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    EurasianBadger wrote: »
    I've googled and not found any instances of seaweed making anythingb
    You want to learn how to use google better so. Use "quotes" to find an exact phrase.


    "seaweed made that field"


  • #11
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    spin her Tadgh


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  • #12
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    dr.bollocko wrote: »
    Oh no.

    The Bull was far from innocent.

    It was his field. It was his child. He nursed it. He nourished it. He saw to its every want. He dug the rocks out of it with his bare hands and he made a living thing of it!


  • #13
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    spin her Tadgh

    Good man Tadgh!


  • #14
    wil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,188 ✭✭✭wil


    EurasianBadger wrote: »
    I've googled and not found any instances of seaweed.....
    Its the first thing that comes up when you google the sentence. Try it;)


  • #15
    padd b1975
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,910 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    That phrase pops up everywhere...


  • #16
    dirtyden
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,745 ✭✭✭dirtyden


    EurasianBadger wrote: »
    I saw a T Shirt in shop in Temple Bar with this written on it.

    Is there any truth in it? I've googled and not found any instances of seaweed making anything - except a big sticky/stinky mess

    Sounds like something right out of SpongeBob

    Did you google seaweed or the phrase at all?

    Sea weed is used for lashings of stuff as well as fertilising fields.


  • #17
    Auldloon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,242 ✭✭✭Auldloon


    I'll dance with you red head


  • #18
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    She's a woman like your mother. If we knew how to keep the women happy we'd still be in paradise.


  • #19
    Corvo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,811 ✭✭✭Corvo


    Tadgh McCabe: What age was I when Seami died?
    "Bull" McCabe: That's a queer question. I... I don't know.
    Tadgh McCabe: What age was Seami?
    "Bull" McCabe: Thirteen years, six months, twenty-four days.


  • #20
    caustic 1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,314 ✭✭✭caustic 1


    Who ate the meat out of this one...will have to ask the wife when I get home?


  • #21
    Corvo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,811 ✭✭✭Corvo


    I love the way he drinks tae from a glass bottle.

    I want to drink tae like that :(


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  • #22
    JONJO THE MISER
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 12,333 ✭✭✭✭JONJO THE MISER


    Corvo wrote: »
    I love the way he drinks tae from a glass bottle.

    I want to drink tae like that :(

    Nothing beats drinking hot tae out of a bottle after cutting turf all morning with a slan.


  • #23
    goose2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,798 ✭✭✭goose2005


    It's just begging for a remake "in da hood", where The Field is a trendy nightclub and the Bull a drug-dealer and pimp gone legit trying to build up his business, while the Yank wants to demolish the club and built a carpark


  • #24
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    "Bull" McCabe: There's another law stronger than the common law.
    Father Doran: What's that?
    "Bull" McCabe: The law of the land.


  • #25
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    EurasianBadger wrote: »
    I saw a T Shirt in shop in Temple Bar with this written on it.

    Is there any truth in it? I've googled and not found any instances of seaweed making anything - except a big sticky/stinky mess

    Sounds like something right out of SpongeBob

    Seaweed is great in vegetable gardens too. And like someone said, places like Aran they'll mix it with sand and gradually "make land". It goes into all sorts of things now from ice cream to fertilizer to animal feeds.


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