I clicked on this because it came up as active yesterday, spent the whole day reading all 714 posts and only now I've realised that except for yesterday's paddy's day posts, it is a thread from last year!
Anyway, it was great fun to read and made me very nostalgic. I recognise most, but not all, of what was said.
I remember Wanderly Wagon ('the most unusual wagon you ever saw') and Fortycoats and his flying sweetshop and Sneaky snake. And Bosco and 'knock knock on the magic door'. Zig and zag were their best with Ian Dempsey.
The person who mentioned 'Calvita' - just mentioning that reminded me of a telly ad that sang 'we've got as much protein as galtee or calvita'. Does anyone remember what the ad was for? It's stuck in my head now...annoying...
I think you definitely know you're Irish when a guy thinks "is there something I can 'elp" (said in a French accent) is the sexiest thing he can say to a woman...!
Or if you can visualise Sally O'Brien and the way she might look at you. saucy trollop
Do they still do the late late toy show? Surely it's not the same without Gay? not sounding like her grandmother at all My father used to say 'sure, he's an awful fecking eejet' but watched the whole show anyway every week.
In Dublin a good looking person was 'a ride', in Cork they used to be 'a fla'. I think 'ride' won out in the end, did it?
Why don't English people know what 'runners' are? Isn't it self explanatory?
But I'm another one who has no recollection all all of anything described as 'cat'. What's that all about? Is it a culchie thing?