| Title: | Celt Notefile |
| Moderator: | TALLIS::DARCY |
| Created: | Wed Feb 19 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Tue Jun 03 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1632 |
| Total number of notes: | 20523 |
This is a true story heard by myself 5 or 6 years back in County
Clare in a public house.
An American visitor was in the bar and there was a group playing
some traditional music, it was 12 o'clock at night and in walks
the local police man. The tourist turns to him and asks him when
the pub closes, it was the month of August, to which the police
man replies, sometime in September.
I thought it was very funny. The police man was being serious. What
he meant and I understood was that once you were in the bar when
the doors officially closed you could stay until everybody left
and in some cases it was vwery early moring, in time for them to
officially open again.
Rene
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| 180.1 | My kinda' town Lisdoonvarna is ... | ENGGSG::BURNS | Is it right or left for Gibraltar ? | Thu Apr 16 1987 10:50 | 8 |
I NEVER asked that question ..... :-)
keVin
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| 180.2 | A real kerry joke | DUBSWS::D_OSULLIVAN | We're not stopping before Park Gate Street | Tue Apr 21 1987 12:29 | 10 |
A Yank was visiting the kingdom and was amazed that he could not
get a straight answer from any of the Kerrymen he met. On the last
day of his holidays (vacation!) he spotted this local leaning on
the door of the post office. The Yank was sure he could get
a straight answer when he asked: "Is this here a Post Office?"
The local's response was:
Is it a shtamp 'ou want?
--Dermot
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| 180.3 | another 'true' one | MEO78B::FARRELL | Wed Apr 22 1987 03:34 | 4 | |
A Kerryman when asked why does he always answer a question with
a question replied 'why do you ask'
- Joe
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| 180.4 | Been lost in Kerry lately? | KAOA01::MCCROHAN | Mike McCrohan @KAO Dtn 621-2543 | Wed Apr 22 1987 09:46 | 32 |
re .2 Its Kingdom, not kingdom :-) Anyhow.... Hank is driving in Kerry and gets lost. He comes to a crossroads and spots one of the locals perched on the ditch. He stops and approaches him. "Say, Paddy, I'm lost. Maybe you can help me" (...No its not that one...) "Can you give me directions to Listowel" "No problem," sez yer man, "here's what you do." He indicates the road heading North. "Go up here about a mile. you will come to a fork on the road. Take a left. After a few hundred yards, you'll come to Murphys pub. Take the second left after the pub. then....." He trailed off. "No," he said, "this'll be better." He points nor'west. "Go up here as far as the house with the green gate and take the second turn right. Go along there until you come to a small church. About a mile after the church, turn right again near a house with a white gable end....." He trailed off again. "H'anam an diall!" he sez, and looks the visitor in the eye, "you know, if I were you, I would'nt start from here at all!" Mike | |||||