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Toiseach announces Irish entering 'Polite Queueing' Olympic team

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Ironduke

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'We've nailed the tea drinking, we've slaughtered them at that cricket malarkey, we even owe more money than they do...sure they've got nothing over us and we'll take them on their own ground' says Irish premier.

Posted 2 years ago #
yamashow

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I think the correct phrase toeachisown

Posted 2 years ago #
be reasonable

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The English polite queueing team must all live in the provinces; no-one from that London would qualify.

Posted 2 years ago #
Ironduke

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hard to think of something more quintessentially english than cricket for the contrast. And 'sternly but silently dissaproving of someone pushing in' didn't scan

Posted 2 years ago #
rikkor

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I like the fact that he is a man, but his first name is Edna.

Posted 2 years ago #
Scroat

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I really worry about the Gaelic and the Gallic. What's written down seems to bear little or no relation to what's actually said.

I mean, Toiseach is so much closer to 'teashop' than 'toys-each'....

Posted 2 years ago #
John Wiltshire

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You're right. And O'Brien is pronounces 'bar-sted'.
Mind you, the same thing happens in English occasionally. 'Mainwaring' is pronounced 'Mannering' and 'the English cricket team' is pronounced 'bunch of hopeless losers.'

Posted 2 years ago #
Scroat

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It's called the Featherstonehaugh syndrome.

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