skivee ([info]skivee) wrote,
@ 2009-03-17 05:36:00
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Current music: I Kranski's "Die Kröte Jene Schüttelt Die Gerste "

On This Special Day
This always brings a tear to my eye


An olde Irish saying:
If you die with a jar of potcheen in your hand, the smell of peat smoke in your nose,a Kerry polka in your ears, and a shamrock in your heart, then it was probably the shamrock that killed you.


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[info]delerium69
2009-03-17 12:46 pm UTC (link)
I think the first time I saw that clip I almost hyperventilated from laughing so hard.

"Oh Danny Boy, Oh Boy, Oh Boy..."

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[info]pyllgrum
2009-03-17 02:49 pm UTC (link)
License Shamrocks!

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[info]pyratelady
2009-03-18 02:43 pm UTC (link)
Shamrocks don't kill people... idiots who practice open heart shamrock transplants while drunk on irish whiskey and listening to the Titanic soundtrack... *blink* *blink* what the hell was I saying again?

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[info]naturelf
2009-03-19 07:08 am UTC (link)
I've forwarded that link to my Irish-enough-to-call-himself-Irish, "Danny Boy"-obsessed father. We'll see how it goes over. (He really likes that darn song.) Thanks!

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[info]skivee
2009-03-19 07:10 am UTC (link)
1 Why the HELL are you up this late?????
2. do you want to know the TRUTH (I'm not kidding) about Danny Boy?

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[info]naturelf
2009-03-19 02:22 pm UTC (link)
1. School-related panic! You?
2. This I know: I can't handle the truth.

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[info]skivee
2009-03-19 04:51 pm UTC (link)
1. I've severely dented my sleep cycle and can't seem to get a new wheel.
2. Too, bad. Honesty is the best policy. Danny Boy isn't an Irish folk song. It was composed in 1910 by an English church composer named Fred Weatherly. He first set it to another tune, with two sets of lyrics. Second version was meant to be sung by males, was called "Ellie, Dear". His sister sent him sheet music for "Londonderry Air" in 1912, and he instantly realized that it was a better fit to his lyrics. He made the switch and the song took off. All of the above has been personally verified by my friends at the Library of Congress Archives of American Folk Culture. Don't tell dad. It will just upset him.
xxxx
Craig

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[info]naturelf
2009-03-19 05:40 pm UTC (link)
1. I just tell people I'm living in a different time zone.
2. Ah, I think he knows that one. If I had a nickel for every time Dad made a joke about a "London Derriere"...

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[info]pyratelady
2009-03-21 04:25 am UTC (link)
1. She's a grad student. They're supposed to keep crazy hours. It's the law.
2. There's a parody for that! http://sniff.numachi.com/pages/tiDERRIERE;ttLONDERRY.html

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[info]skivee
2009-03-21 04:28 am UTC (link)
That's like sacriledge, only funnier.

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