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Subject: BS: I know y'all will miss me From: Rapparee Date: 03 Mar 09 - 08:52 PM ...but I'll be back before you know it. Tomorrow I'm off to the Land of Snakes and Sham Rocks: Ireland. If you're in Cork or Kenmare or Castlegregory or I'm-not-sure-where perhaps you'll have an overweight, glasses-wearing American in your pub session. If that person orders Budweiser it'll be someone else, if he orders Bud Lite you can be CERTAIN it's not me. Kick them out into the rain. I'll be leaving The Auld Sod on 13th since I have to be back at w**k on the 16th. So unless you hear from me sooner I'm off to various places yet to be named in the green, in the green, my credit cards glitterin' in the sun. When I return I should have some Interesting News for the denizens of the Mudcat Cafe. (No, I'm not pregnant.) |
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Subject: RE: BS: I know y'all will miss me From: Bill D Date: 03 Mar 09 - 08:53 PM Have a Tullamore Dew for me! |
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Subject: RE: BS: I know y'all will miss me From: Rapparee Date: 03 Mar 09 - 08:57 PM Heck, I'll have dew or three. |
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Subject: RE: BS: I know y'all will miss me From: Amos Date: 03 Mar 09 - 09:44 PM Raise a pint of black stuff for me, if you sit down long enough to have one or three. Just remember what the Tullamore Dew in Dublin stays in Dublin... A |
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Subject: RE: BS: I know y'all will miss me From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 03 Mar 09 - 09:53 PM I won't miss you. In fact, I doubt I'll even notice your absence. For that matter, I'm not really sure I've ever even noticed your presence. Rapaire? Who's that? |
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Subject: RE: BS: I know y'all will miss me From: Janie Date: 03 Mar 09 - 09:53 PM Check your underwear for bramble thorns. I couldn't call off the leprechaun. |
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Subject: RE: BS: I know y'all will miss me From: catspaw49 Date: 03 Mar 09 - 09:57 PM Just go....See if I give a damn.....................Okay, maybe one damn...... DAMNYeah....that's about right......Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: I know y'all will miss me From: Lonesome EJ Date: 03 Mar 09 - 10:26 PM May you be picked up at the airport by a wee man in buckle shoes, who'll doff his top hat and shout "welcome to the Emerald Isle, Lad! Have a snootful of me auld poteen!" After which, he will snap his whip over a team of white harses, and you will be transported to a magical land of shamrocks, leprechauns, and laughing colleens who will offer you delightful green bars of soap to keep you fresh, and clean! Clean as a whistle! May you be serenaded by uillean pipes and bodhrans, and tucked gently beneath a downy coverlet by a sweet old lady named Mary McKenna, as the sun goes down outside over Galway Bay. May your nights be shrouded in a soft aire, while banshees croon softly in the distance. And in the morning may you be served rashers of thick bacon and cauldrons of steamy oatmeal, and a small glass of Jamesons's to help you forget about the banshees. HAVE A GREAT TRIP, RAPAIRE!! ;>) |
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Subject: RE: BS: I know y'all will miss me From: artbrooks Date: 03 Mar 09 - 10:27 PM Rapaire...I think I know him. Isn't he a libertarian? Or maybe a librarian? No - a libertine? Anyway, whoever he is, I hope he has fun. |
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Subject: RE: BS: I know y'all will miss me From: mg Date: 03 Mar 09 - 10:31 PM see if you can't get to Dingle and the Blasket Islands..isn't your wife from there? Or maybe it was someone else..shop at Garvey's store and sit on the Garvey bench if you can. mg |
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Subject: RE: BS: I know y'all will miss me From: olddude Date: 03 Mar 09 - 10:35 PM stay away from the sheep |
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Subject: RE: BS: I know y'all will miss me From: number 6 Date: 03 Mar 09 - 10:45 PM Just don't go visiting any after hours illegal booze cans in Galway city. Have a good one !! biLL |
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Subject: RE: BS: I know y'all will miss me From: Don Firth Date: 03 Mar 09 - 11:16 PM Have a helluva good time! Wish I was going with! Don Firth |
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Subject: RE: BS: I know y'all will miss me From: katlaughing Date: 03 Mar 09 - 11:44 PM Leave your epee at home!*bg* Have a good time! |
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Subject: RE: BS: I know y'all will miss me From: artbrooks Date: 04 Mar 09 - 12:08 AM Depends on his beer intake...'e may need to pee. I'll get me hat... |
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Subject: RE: BS: I know y'all will miss me From: katlaughing Date: 04 Mar 09 - 12:11 AM I knew it was too good of a straight line...had to be done, by you or Spaw, or someone.:-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: I know y'all will miss me From: open mike Date: 04 Mar 09 - 01:11 AM wow i hope you have a great time.. probably not green beer there like here, eh? |
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Subject: RE: BS: I know y'all will miss me From: freda underhill Date: 04 Mar 09 - 06:43 AM don't take the skeleton suit! |
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Subject: RE: BS: I know y'all will miss me From: gnu Date: 04 Mar 09 - 06:46 AM Bon Voyage! |
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Subject: RE: BS: I know y'all will miss me From: John MacKenzie Date: 04 Mar 09 - 07:10 AM Rapaire repairs to Ireland. Watch out for the Celtic Tiger. |
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Subject: RE: BS: I know y'all will miss me From: kendall Date: 04 Mar 09 - 07:14 AM I give anything to be able to stand on Dingle Beach and sing, "Song for Ireland." Do it for me wouldya? |
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Subject: RE: BS: I know y'all will miss me From: Bobert Date: 04 Mar 09 - 07:44 AM Don't kiss the rock, Rap... |
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Subject: RE: BS: I know y'all will miss me From: Rapparee Date: 04 Mar 09 - 07:59 AM Bobert, I kissed the Blarney Stone back in 1978 when I was young and supple (I have grown better looking in the following years, however). I'll do that, Kendall. As mg intimates, my wife's family is from Dingle. It might be a bit out of the town limits these days since the beach IN TOWN is pretty much covered by wharves, buildings, cops and such. |
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Subject: RE: BS: I know y'all will miss me From: Noreen Date: 04 Mar 09 - 08:55 AM You MUST drink Guinness when in Ireland. However good it tasts elsewhere, it is far better on home turf :0) Oh and see Trinity College library, they've got some old stuff in there... Have a wonderful time! Is the news that you plan to retire to Ireland??! N |
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Subject: RE: BS: I know y'all will miss me From: Stu Date: 04 Mar 09 - 09:25 AM If you're in Dingle then head down the road to Inch Strand and marvel at the wonder of it all (although I've heard they've built a cafe there now). When I was at school I handed in an English assignment and the teacher (who was excellent but deeply sarcastic), in an attempt to humiliate me when handing the papers back said "Jack, you must have kissed the Blarney Stone" and I replied "Actually sir, I have". Not sure I would now though - can you still do it with all the leaning back over the drop etc? Also, it's worth getting up early for a stroll along the Kenmare River at dawn. Aside from the rumours there's no Irish in my family as far as I know but arriving at that place for the first time felt like coming home. |
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Subject: RE: BS: I know y'all will miss me From: olddude Date: 04 Mar 09 - 10:58 AM kendall I actually did that and the exact song when I last visited we were having lunch and a guiness with friends and he brought his guitar ... great minds think alike. I can't believe you said that Visit, Killarney National forest ... love it and the burren Gosh I love that place, there are small flowers in the Burren that grow no were else on earth. My kids and I have wandered up and down it for years when I visted a lot ... The dolman .. still presses my buttons |
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Subject: RE: BS: I know y'all will miss me From: katlaughing Date: 04 Mar 09 - 11:08 AM My French-Canadian first generation mother-in-law, a woman I cherished dearly, went to visit with my sister-in-law, when she was in her 70s AND she kissed the Blarney Stone! They really enjoyed their visit. |
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Subject: RE: BS: I know y'all will miss me From: DougR Date: 04 Mar 09 - 11:13 AM Olddude cautioned you to stay away from the sheep. I would suggest that you be particularly cautious if driving at night when the sheep love to sleep on the wee roads. Have fun. DougR |
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Subject: RE: BS: I know y'all will miss me From: olddude Date: 04 Mar 09 - 11:34 AM No kidding when I go there and come home. I don't know if I am coming home or visiting. When I am in Ireland I feel like that is where I belong. I cherish the place, the people ... no matter how many times I never get tired of it.. also watch for the darn tour busses, they drive really really fast and the roads are terribly narrow. I have been shoved off the road more times than I can count. Don't drive to Dublin, take the train ... much more fun and a lot less hassel |
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Subject: RE: BS: I know y'all will miss me From: The Sandman Date: 04 Mar 09 - 11:37 AM come to Ballydehob, SESSION FRIDAY NIGHT ,or did I see you this morning were you driving a car with back Obama on it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: I know y'all will miss me From: Den Date: 04 Mar 09 - 01:32 PM Rapaire, try and leave it the way you find it, oh and have fun. As I'm sure you will. I'm headin' home in May. |
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Subject: RE: BS: I know y'all will miss me From: Big Mick Date: 04 Mar 09 - 01:36 PM I'll call ahead and have the Gardai put on a few extra lads........ |
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Subject: RE: BS: I know y'all will miss me From: Mrrzy Date: 04 Mar 09 - 01:39 PM Hot whiskey! At the Jack Duggan in Castlemaine, the Whistle in Klonakilty or Ballinascathy, srtaying out of Bandon, the castle of Waterford, or the Mollie Malone in Dublin. They might remember long hair, hat, and a very large and long tie-dyed sweater, who sounded more and more Irish as we got closer to Dublin! |
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Subject: RE: BS: I know y'all will miss me From: ard mhacha Date: 04 Mar 09 - 01:46 PM What a pity you cannot get any further than the south-west, get yourself up to the wonderful north-west, Donegal it beats them all. |
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Subject: RE: BS: I know y'all will miss me From: Genie Date: 04 Mar 09 - 02:31 PM Just try not to corrupt the political system whilst you're in old Erin, Rapaire. Then hurry back and tells us all about your exploi..., er, escapad..., er, adventures. The ones you can remember, anyway. ; D Genie |
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Subject: RE: BS: I know y'all will miss me From: Joe Offer Date: 04 Mar 09 - 03:01 PM Hope you find some good music there, Rapaire. Thanks to Martin Ryan, I did. -Joe- |
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Subject: RE: BS: I know y'all will miss me From: Seamus Kennedy Date: 04 Mar 09 - 04:01 PM The Soda Bread Mines in Co. Donegal are worth a visit; as are Lough Guinness and Lough Harp in Connemara - great drinking! The Black Pudding bushes in Glendalough are impressive, also the Leprechaun Millinery & Cobblery at the same location. Check them out, and have a ball at the Cannibal Cafe in Cork. Seamus |
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Subject: RE: BS: I know y'all will miss me From: katlaughing Date: 05 Mar 09 - 12:06 AM Den! Good visit home to you! |
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Subject: RE: BS: I know y'all will miss me From: artbrooks Date: 05 Mar 09 - 12:26 AM "Interesting news"? Retirement? Running for Congress as a Republican? Sex-change operation? We will anxiously await your return. Avoid Guinness at all costs - but the genuine Smithwick is worth a try! |
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Subject: RE: BS: I know y'all will miss me From: Peace Date: 05 Mar 09 - 01:12 AM He'd have to change his handle--no double entendre intended--to Rapairette. |
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Subject: RE: BS: I know y'all will miss me From: gnu Date: 05 Mar 09 - 06:34 AM I don't miss him already. |
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Subject: RE: BS: I know y'all will miss me From: GUEST,Rapaire (Still In Chicago) Date: 05 Mar 09 - 10:40 AM Neither do I. He was a noisome, troublesome sort. |
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Subject: RE: BS: I know y'all will miss me From: catspaw49 Date: 05 Mar 09 - 11:30 AM I dunno'......Must be an Irish thing, but if I were standing on Dingle beach, I'd sing "My Ding-A-Ling" instead............Then I might let my dingle dangle and whiz............. Remember to take the sheep to a cliff to enhance your experience.....but you already knew that didn't you? Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: I know y'all will miss me From: GUEST,Rapaire (even yet in Chi) Date: 05 Mar 09 - 01:01 PM Sheep? There are no sheep in Ireland...only friends you haven't met yet. |
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Subject: RE: BS: I know y'all will miss me From: gnu Date: 05 Mar 09 - 02:34 PM Spaw. The sheep might jump rather than get... |
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Subject: RE: BS: I know y'all will miss me From: Amos Date: 05 Mar 09 - 02:37 PM The adrenaline really enhances the overall sense of adventure... A |
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Subject: RE: BS: I know y'all will miss me From: Janie Date: 05 Mar 09 - 04:11 PM Is his plane ever going to leave? |
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Subject: RE: BS: I know y'all will miss me From: gnu Date: 05 Mar 09 - 04:16 PM Yo! RAP! We are on the Jet Stream right now. Wave as you go over eh! |
