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Nov-18-07
 | | Domdaniel: Hogspawn, weekly supplements, Zombie Woof (Dogspawn?) ... yeh young pups ... I'll never keep up with all the spin-offs. But it's cool to approach me again, as I've recovered from the trauma of playing like an idiot and losing a stupid chess game. And I saw a brilliant live musical comedy ('Improbable Frequency') last night, featuring Myles na Gopaleen, John Betjeman and Erwin Schrodinger (all actually resident in Dublin during the 1940s) and their surreal adventures together during what was elsewhere called World War 2 but was known in Ireland as 'The Emergency'. "We're all in the gutter -- but some of us have an ear to the ground." What item of confectionary does it purloin? It takes the biscuit. |
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Nov-18-07
| | Domdaniel: <Niels> "Yes, I had no bananas" |
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Nov-18-07
| | Domdaniel: Was it ♕ (with F. Mercury) who sang "We are the Cham♙s/ Nous Sommes Les Cham♙s"? Than♔ you. |
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Nov-18-07
| | Domdaniel: ... aka <Freddie Hg>, obviously ... |
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| Nov-18-07 | | achieve: Hi <Dom>! -- Hey, speaking of which... Did you ever hear the intro by <Bruce Nitro> where he explains the kwiksilver quality of F. Ready in the mythological thriller based on the novel by <Jeff Loanshark>?? Me neither, but I ordered the DVD with <BONUS material>! (I'm so excited that I can barely hide it!!) |
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Nov-18-07
| | Domdaniel: "I am not a c♖"
- Richard M. Nixon |
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| Nov-18-07 | | achieve: "Oh... please keep span♔ me, André!"
-- B♖e Shields |
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Nov-18-07
| | Domdaniel: Heh. Heh. Looking madly round me for inspiration, I notice the highly appropriate title of JG Ballard's latest book: ♔DOM COME. - Right, that's enough, move along there please - and you, Watson, haven't you got any Holmes to go to? |
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| Nov-18-07 | | achieve: heh
Cham♙ was a nice one...
Didn't The Scor♙s have a huge hit, back in the nineties? (Scheiss, I can't recall the songtitle - aber ich werde nicht Googeln) |
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Nov-19-07
| | Domdaniel: <nicht Googeln> or <defense de geugler> as we say en frog. Wait, that gives me a *brilliant* idea ... The Googel Defense ... a site or utility or sump'n that automatically lists all possible opening moves in order of popularity, and, and... Aha. Been done, has it? Opening Explorer? I see. |
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| Nov-19-07 | | achieve: Give it another shot, buster Keaton.
Ta for deleting me yesterday - it would certainly not have looked good among the xx-visitors 'n Frogue.' Would it?
To make up:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP3c... & http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ6S... -- "shoob-doob-doodeli-doo..." |
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| Nov-19-07 | | achieve: <Dom> I saw the movie '23', last night... Starring Jim Carrey, whom I'm a fan of -- but except for some nice twists, that weren't actually that great, it was below par IMO. I'd rather read one of your posts on that number, was what I thought while watching the film... So there you go - although Jim Carrey did act well, I think. |
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Nov-20-07
| | Domdaniel: <Niels> Uh oh. I didn't delete you yesterday. I don't think I ever even saw whatever it was that got zapped. Must have been an Act of God. Or our local equivalents. <23> Yeah, not a great movie. But it's typical ... the 23-meme lurked on the fringes of visibility for years, and when somebody finally makes a movie, it's rubbish. Same thing happened with cyberspace: Tron, Johnny Mnemonic, etc. Or anything with Kanue Revvs. You're lucky, in a way -- when Hollywood situates a movie in Holland the characters (all wearing tulips and toy windmills while working in sex shops) speak English with strange accents. You don't have to suffer their version of Dutch. But Hollywood actors just love playing the 'fighting Irish', whatever that is. All I know is, it talks funny. |
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| Nov-20-07 | | achieve: <Dom> <It talks funny> Hmm yes I can imagine... I'm quite good at mimicking dialects of Germans speaking French, or Dutch or even English - various Belgian accents and even Maroccans in Holland talking various dialects... BUT I still feel I do not come close to some specific Irish - Ken Doherty and Padraig (porrick) Harrington I've studied their dialect - but - in my view - haven't come close to... I'd really have to come over and talk and listen even more carefully, to come close to a Dublin accent... But I can *hear* you say "dontcha know." (in the Doherty accent) PS. Dennis Taylor's accent does sound a lot different - Let alone Alan McManus' Glaswegian sounds... |
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Nov-20-07
| | Domdaniel: <Niels> That, sir, is an Ear. Remarkable skill you got there. Doherty's accent is 'old Dublin' -- there's a newer variety, now spreading among teenagers around the rest of the country, sometimes called 'Dortish' or 'Dortspeak', because it first originated along the DART, or Dublin Area Rapid Transit line -- which it pronounces 'dort' in a pseudo-posh way. Me, I go with what JP Donleavy advised in 'The Unexpurgated Code' -- "When your accent slips, be sure to have a better one on underneath". |
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| Nov-21-07 | | achieve: <Dom> Here is a hilarious clip (well, to me it is) on how to learn to speak "dublinese" -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC6e... Lesson 4 - Inter-personal skills:
-- English: "I like you very much!"
-- Dublinese: "You don't sweat much for a fat bird"
- CRACKED ME UP!! Still laughing here, honest... if I want to get some practice in I have to be in control over certain mudcles... Ahh "Ye doan sweat moch for a fat board" -
Dang, that IS hard to nail... "Bottom get'n closer..." |
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Nov-21-07
| | Domdaniel: <Niels> That, sorry, dat clip is bleedin' funny, it is -- hilfeckin-larious, in fact. "Get away from me, yeh effin' tourist" -- just today I had a conversation about some of the consumption rituals employed in various cities to scare off the tourists. Pints in Dublin, and raw meat aka Steak Tartare in Paris. I once cheerfully poured month-old curdled milk over my cornflakes, in Sweden, after being told the ordinary milk was all gone. It wasn't bad. As for accents: Cork is about 1/10th the size of Dublin, but still seems to have many different accents based on class, school, region, suburb, street, etc. Some of which I still can't understand after a decade here. Seriously, you must have an amazing ear for accent variations. I can tell Parisian from l'accent du Midi, and Geordie from London Cockney, etc, but nothing so precise as you. If Jess is listening, Vancouver and Toronto ('Trawna') are also pretty easy to tell apart. It's the prairie states in between that throw me. Actually, some Canadian accents - especially Newfie - sound very Irish. |
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Nov-21-07
| | Domdaniel: <Niels> PS on Dublinese: the 't' sound often becomes a glottal stop: "Sa'urday" or "yeh doan swea' much" ... try it. |
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Nov-22-07
 | | jessicafischerqueen: Heh.
Fat bird.
Irish = ·Á¤Í
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BLoody keypboard hang on a sec
OK
Irish = funny.
Heh |
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| Nov-22-07 | | Red October: "The Soviet Union...has seized to exist"> I think that deserves to go into my profile... |
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| Nov-22-07 | | WBP: <I once cheerfully poured month-old curdled milk over my cornflakes, in Sweden, after being told the ordinary milk was all gone. It wasn't bad.> Yuck!!!! You're a better man than I, <Gunga Dom>. |
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Nov-23-07
| | Domdaniel: <Bill> -- <You're a better man than I, Gunga Dom> ... No, I'm not. To attempt precision: I may, at some unspecified point in the past, have been a teenager. And therefore less averse to what other folk may see as risk, or just plain <yuck>. I was about 18 when I downed the curdled milk (as in Little Miss Muffet, her <curds and whey>, plus spider) -- sounds like a good breakfast cereal with added <arachnoid protein> ... Hmm ... a food idea with some potential there. Right now, it wouldn't get past the marketing dept or the FBA (Federal Breakfast Authority) -- but just wait until those protein shortages kick in. Give it 30 years: a longterm investment tip. Buy spiders. In the meantime, I've become pretty lactophobic. Don't much care for cow-milk in any form, curdled or fresh. Also, I started playing chess around the same time I downed the Swedish mjelk. Is there a possible connection? A lacto-caissiac gene? Let's round up 1000 students, put 'em on a diet of milkshakes and soft pawns, and see what happens. We could have the Michelson-Morley experiment of the century here ... Buy spiders. Wrestle poodles and win. "No, no, you silly goose, I'm just doing the Watusi, that's all." - No, sorry, we can't make any promises concerning <total and irreversible mental derangement> ... but you might actually enjoy it, kids. In fact, I *know* you will. Just sign here. And don't worry about dead-as-a-dodo and turkeys voting for Christmas: they're just <fat birds>. |
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| Nov-23-07 | | achieve: Hi there, <Dom> -- Besides practicing my dublinese frantically at every occasion conceivable ( I haven't been arrested, yet) and bending over in several directions while laughing uncontrollably (than followed by a smothered curse for yet another miserable attempt - I think I need surgery...)- I would appreciate it if you would have a look at some posts, in my forum, on CHANGE, progress, evolution-- initiated by a post by <Jess> on players who may "have changed the way the game is played." "Cheers bod"
(aawww... @#$%#@#$ !!! )
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| Nov-23-07 | | achieve: ...<I would appreciate it if you would have a look>... HA!
Besides the "look" - sharing your thoughts/views would also be highly appreciated, sir. "TAXIiiiii !!! - Hey! com back here ye' f-♔ @#@#$!!" (even that small sentence proves difficult...) |
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Nov-23-07
| | Domdaniel: <Niels> Hoi dere, bud ... I been a bi' T'in Lizzy but I'm not brown bread yet. (Thin Lizzy = busy; brown bread = dead; okay, bud? awroight, bod?). One of the best Dublin accents I've heard from a non-Dubliner was (again) the great Viv Stanshall in Sir Henry at Rawlinson End -- the original recording where Viv did all the voices and songs, not the film version with Trevor Howard as Sir Henry. Also good, but differently good. The Dublin bit is really just one line. Henry -- blitheringly, trumpetingly English as tuppence, Lord of the manor, and brother of Hubert Rawlinson ("now in his mid-forties and still unusual") is addressing his manservant, Scrotum (aka 'Old Scrotum, the wrinkled retainer') like this -- "You're supposed to love me, you vile jelly" -- when they are suddenly interrupted. A brick comes smashing through the window and lands on the floor. There is a note attached. It reads [adopt strong Dublin accent]: "Hello now, Oi'm yer new neighbour..." "Seems a decent enough sort of chap", says Henry. "At least he didn't have the impertinence to announce himself at the front door". Hello now, Oi'm yer new neighbour. Yer 'Nu' nabor ... ? Not quite. <New> is a tricky one. Other Irish accents are easier: a broad 'noo' ... In the South-west, Kerry & West Cork, this vowel sound -- a loose, jowelly 'oo' -- is pervasive. Two examples: (1) I met a retired judge who had worked in Africa in the last gasps of the colonial era. He said the Tanzanian (Swahili) cry of 'uhuru' (freedom) sounded exactly like a Kerryman shouting "you hoo-er, you", ie "Oo hoor oo!" (2) There was a person named W.G. Wood whose name I heard, as a child, spoken in this accent. I heard it as a (scary) place: <The Blew-jee Wood>. "W" or double-yew is pronounced something like "double-oo", but stressed on the 'oo' so that the 'double' is all slurred together. D'BLOO Jee Wood. But that, er, isn't Dublinese. Stress on the Dub, bud. Doab? 'Doab is my washpot' as I'm told it sez in de bible.
Oh, I'm confident that I'll have something to add to the great evolutionary change debate, in due course ... Heard from Ireland's new chief police (Gardai) commissioner just now on radio: "The Gardai will not LET OP". |
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