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Sayings.....Rural/Regional even Funny!

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    #482
    onyerbikepat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,921 ✭✭✭onyerbikepat


    Muckit wrote: »
    I got a queer look off the missus this morning when I asked was 'the tae wet?'

    It sounds silly now that I think of it but we always say it at home.

    Ya, 'Wet the tae' and 'Let it draw for a while'. What's wrong with that? :D


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    #483
    Muckit
    Registered Users Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    Nobody knows how to let tae 'draw' nowadays. Poking the bags off the side of the f**kin tea pot from the minute it hits the table. Drives me cracked!!!!!


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    #484
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    Squeezing a teabag draws out the bitter tannins.
    Tmyk :D


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    #485
    bmw1bmw1
    Registered Users Posts: 7 ✭bmw1bmw1


    bad land... its not even an aerodrome for a snipe

    long life to you and the best wife to you
    and if you dont like her that she may die on you

    useful as a small pot

    thats another thing said the doctor to the fella with the two mickeys


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    #486
    syklops
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    The best place for snipe in my area is next to a main road which my dad calls "Snipe Intersection". Not sure if that counts...

    A fella in work was complaining about a client of ours and referred to him as "Awkward as a sow in remorse". Not heard it before but it tickled me.

    My uncle, king of descriptive sayings, was talking about dropping a friend of his off after a few(read lots) pints in the pub and he said:"He went in the door, the way you'd see a badger go in a gap".


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    #487
    Qualitymark
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,824 ✭✭✭Qualitymark


    syklops wrote: »
    A fella in work was complaining about a client of ours and referred to him as "Awkward as a sow in remorse".

    Can you guilt-trip a sow, or does "remorse" have a different meaning in relation to pigs?


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    #488
    Muckit
    Registered Users Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    I think the word was maybe 'reverse' :)


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    #489
    Sam Kade
    Registered Users Posts: 12,313 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    Donkeys years ago (well before my time :)) a farmers wife was bringing the tae and sandwiches out to the field during haymaking, she was short of tae so she said right lads take big bites and small sups :D


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    #490
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk3BMG-gsgY


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    #491
    foxy farmer
    Registered Users Posts: 3,194 ✭✭✭foxy farmer


    After a gatherer comes a scatterer.
    Someone who sqaunders farm, money,etc that they inherited through relations who worked hard to aquire it in the first place


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    #492
    foxy farmer
    Registered Users Posts: 3,194 ✭✭✭foxy farmer


    At a thrashing years ago the lads were all having the grub. The selection and helpings were small, spuds meat but loads of boiled turnips.3 big pots of them on the table. After the dinner the lads are heading back out when they notice the bull in the yard and he screeching away.
    "Well" says one fella "tisnt for the want of turnips hes roaring id say"


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    #493
    Deepsouthwest
    Registered Users Posts: 2,282 ✭✭✭Deepsouthwest


    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk3BMG-gsgY

    Savage stuff there GG, and emotion at the end to get the heart strings going


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    #494
    Nekarsulm
    Registered Users Posts: 11,199 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


    Deepsouthwest wrote: »
    Savage stuff there GG, and emotion at the end to get the heart strings going

    If you get a chance to see Seamus in "Pauric Potts guide to walking" you should go, its excellent.


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    #495
    tanko
    Registered Users Posts: 9,233 ✭✭✭tanko


    Saw him in "victors dung" a few years ago, it was hilarious stuff.


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    #496
    Greengrass1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,493 ✭✭✭Greengrass1


    tanko wrote: »
    Saw him in "victors dung" a few years ago, it was hilarious stuff.

    He has a great story telling voice. Something that's dying out in rural Ireland


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    #497
    generic2012
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,013 ✭✭✭generic2012


    Nekarsulm wrote: »
    If you get a chance to see Seamus in "Pauric Potts guide to walking" you should go, its excellent.
    tanko wrote: »
    Saw him in "victors dung" a few years ago, it was hilarious stuff.

    Two great plays, but Victor's Dung is something else, unreal. Saw them both in Seamus' hometown Carrigallen.

    Spose I better add a saying -

    Yon lad's land should be measured in gallons.

    Jaze, you're some man for one man, if you were two men ya'd be three men.


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    #498
    Fungums
    Registered Users Posts: 122 ✭✭Fungums


    Nearly never bulled a cow lads!


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    #499
    darragh_haven
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    Deepsouthwest wrote: »
    Savage stuff there GG, and emotion at the end to get the heart strings going

    Too fuking close to the bone.


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    #500
    Sam Kade
    Registered Users Posts: 12,313 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    There was a very bad driver collecting milk for the co-op and a farmer said he couldn't drive a bull to a cow, not even if the cow was bulling.


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    #501
    Nekarsulm
    Registered Users Posts: 11,199 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


    Bad land- "It would give a snipe a heartburn"


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    #502
    Kovu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,241 ✭✭✭✭Kovu


    Just wandered into the kitchen there and I stopped to look at my phone.
    Must have been in the way of the tv as my dad roared out ''You'd make a better door than a window lass''


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    #503
    Reggie.
    Registered Users Posts: 24,388 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Kovu wrote: »
    Just wandered into the kitchen there and I stopped to look at my phone.
    Must have been in the way of the tv as my dad roared out ''You'd make a better door than a window lass''

    He has ya pegged alright :D


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    #504
    Miname
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,984 ✭✭✭Miname


    im that hungry id ate a nuns habit through a convent gate.


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    #505
    Qualitymark
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,824 ✭✭✭Qualitymark


    Kovu wrote: »
    Just wandered into the kitchen there and I stopped to look at my phone.
    Must have been in the way of the tv as my dad roared out ''You'd make a better door than a window lass''

    American version of this, when people leap to their feet at a game: "Your ass ain't glass!"


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    #506
    El_Duderino 09
    Registered Users Posts: 20,095 ✭✭✭✭El_Duderino 09


    My uncle used to say 'that house is as dirty as a skip of mickys'.

    About a promiscuous woman :
    She's a c0ckaholic

    She'd take Wavin.


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    #507
    buyer95
    Registered Users Posts: 3,343 ✭✭✭buyer95


    She's as old as Atty Hayes' goat.


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    #508
    whisky_galore
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    Miname wrote: »
    im that hungry id ate a nuns habit through a convent gate.

    I'd ate a scabby babby out through the bars of a cot.


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    #509
    foxy farmer
    Registered Users Posts: 3,194 ✭✭✭foxy farmer


    Another one for the hunger.
    My belly is out through my backbone.


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    #510
    zetecescort
    Registered Users Posts: 5,073 ✭✭✭zetecescort


    Kovu wrote: »
    Just wandered into the kitchen there and I stopped to look at my phone.
    Must have been in the way of the tv as my dad roared out ''You'd make a better door than a window lass''

    you're a pain but not a window!


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    #511
    Muckit
    Registered Users Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    An oul lad recalling the poor quality of the small farm he grew up on...' we had the grass for ten cows and the water for a hundred.'


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