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Barry

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 37,861 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    Hoop66 wrote: »
    I thought it was short for Barrington, or possibly Barchester.

    Or Bartholomew, which would mean Bart Simpson is a Bartholomew, which means he's also a Barry.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,990 ✭✭✭JustAddWater


    KKkitty wrote: »
    It's not his real name.

    It's Joel


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,450 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    syklops wrote: »
    ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

    Ah, the Doppler effect.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,096 ✭✭✭✭McDermotX


    Barry, is that how you get ants?

    Yes it is other Barry,...yes it is.


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


    Penn wrote: »
    Or Bartholomew, which would mean Bart Simpson is a Bartholomew, which means he's also a Barry.

    Bartholomew J, in fact.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,917 ✭✭✭BarryD


    Hoop66 wrote: »
    I thought it was short for Barrington, or possibly Barchester.

    Barrington!! Going up in the world so :) Sure you could say, Bartholemew as well.

    But I'll go by my old national school teacher, he said my real name was Finnbarr and whom am I to question that wisdom ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,079 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    syklops wrote: »
    I thought they were brother and sister?

    You didn't read before school?

    Nope, they were definitely friends, I think Tara and Ben were brother and sister. (whose father worked at the toothpaste factory)

    I 'read' before school (as far as you can call a anything a 4 or 5 year old does reading', but I didn't re-read the same sentence over and over the same way as you do in school so I don't remember any specific sentences that I may have encountered before then

    Ban billionaires



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants



    It's the same with Joel, ive never met a Joel I liked and the two I have met were massively obese.


    The do lovely grub in Joels restaurant on the naas road. Coincidence? I think not.

    Being called barry never done barry white any harm.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,450 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    The do lovely grub in Joels restaurant on the naas road. Coincidence? I think not.

    Being called barry never done barry white any harm.

    No, but the obesity did.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    Akrasia wrote: »
    Nope, they were definitely friends, I think Tara and Ben were brother and sister. (whose father worked at the toothpaste factory)

    I 'read' before school (as far as you can call a anything a 4 or 5 year old does reading', but I didn't re-read the same sentence over and over the same way as you do in school so I don't remember any specific sentences that I may have encountered before then

    Then why did they live in the same house?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,625 ✭✭✭barry181091


    :(:(:( I'll just go delete my account.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,713 ✭✭✭Lisha


    The name Barry reminds me of the town Barrie in Gavin and Stacey.
    Ergo Barry/Barrie makes me smile.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,079 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    syklops wrote: »
    Then why did they live in the same house?

    My memory of this is sketchy, but I'm pretty sure that their parents were Raëlians and they lived together in the commune while awaiting the return of their extra terrestrial overlords

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,285 ✭✭✭Summer wind


    If your name is Barry Barry does that make it twice as bad?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,123 ✭✭✭RikkFlair


    Barry is short for Finbarr?...you learn something new every day. It beats Finny I suppose.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18



    I came in here to post this! Great minds and all that



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    Birneybau wrote: »
    No, but the obesity did.

    That wasn't his fault, it was Joels:pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,208 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    Peter Kay always reminds me of Big Boy Barry
    I thanked that cos I got the reference :cool:
    The violent blade was a legend


    OP, what about Barry Scott from the Cillet Bang ad? Think I just destroyed your argument :cool:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,234 ✭✭✭honerbright


    Reminds me of this song

    "Who would call a kid Bruce anyway / the poor kid would have to hang his head in shame".

    Different name, but ya get the idea,


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,086 ✭✭✭TheBeardedLady


    gramar wrote: »
    Ah here now, that's a load of Barry White you're talking.

    Finbar White!! Ha!



    Is Barry REALLY short for Finbar?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    Big Boy Barry was cool!:mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,570 ✭✭✭RedXIV


    One of my best mates is a barry and all our best stories revolve around him.

    So I'll see your Barry and raise you a Lionel for boring name of the year award!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,646 ✭✭✭✭Sauve


    I can't think of one Barry that I know! That's a bit mad.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,655 ✭✭✭delw


    Depends if it's a first name or surname.

    Finbar Barry Furey :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    Barry Allen: fastest man alive!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,194 ✭✭✭eviltimeban


    Eh hello aren't we all forgetting Barry's Balloons Party Shop?? How can that be boring? It's a shop full of parties!

    I know one Barry and I like to call him Baz, cos I reckon that's cooler and I can pretend I'm a cockney. Bazza sometimes.

    "Barrytown" was where Jimmy Rabbitte and the Commitments were from; a thinly disguised Kilbarrack which also has a "barr" in its name.

    Some people who pretend they know him call Obama "Barry" instead of Barrack. (in fact, as an aside, I hate when people do that in interviews: "Q: So how was working with Robert De Niro? A: Oh Bob is great!" Its like, "look at me, I'm so in with Robert De Niro!". etc

    Barry De Niro? Yeah Baz is great!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    Cilit Bang is an anagram of I Bang Clit.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,404 ✭✭✭PirateShampoo


    The do lovely grub in Joels restaurant on the naas road. Coincidence? I think not.

    Being called barry never done barry white any harm.

    The food in Joels is muck, never had a nice meal in the place. Lemon grass in CityWest is lovely though.

    Isn't Barry White dead? Went all Joel on the burgers?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,404 ✭✭✭PirateShampoo


    The do lovely grub in Joels restaurant on the naas road. Coincidence? I think not.

    Being called barry never done barry white any harm.

    The food in Joels is muck, never had a nice meal in the place. Lemon grass in CityWest is lovely though.

    Isn't Barry White dead? Went all Joel on the burgers?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 424 ✭✭LoganRice


    Barry is not a great name but it beats Barra


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