Irish DUers - what is a shelele, a shamrock and blarney? Italian DUers - What is a mook?

[Taverner]

Some one clear up this lack of knowlege I have living on the West Coast...

[RushIsRot]

1. shelele, a shamrock and blarney

Shelele - Misspelled s/b shillelagh, in which case it is a club to bash silly the person who cannot spell the word.

Shamrock - A fake stone, or a three-leafed plant that resembles and sometimes is a clover. Tis the national emblem of Ireland!

Blarney - BS with a brogue.

[mcctatas]

3. Blarney is also a stone outside of Blarney Castle in Cork

which tourists typically kiss to give them the gift of gab and which locals typically pee on (although this claim is dubious due to the fact that it is on private property with lots of guards, not impossible, but improbable)

[Taverner]

4. Smell test anyone?

I can smell urine a mile away!

[rcrush]

13. I'd pee on it

If there was something in my town that tourists came from all over to kiss I would do whatever I could to sneak over to it in the middle of the night and pee all over it.

[Ken Burch]

26. A better word to know than "blarney" would be "craic"

(no, it doesn't mean THAT...or rather either of those things...it refers to conviviality and good conversation).

[NightWatcher]

2. woohoo, St Patty's in one week from tomorrow

can I get a liver put on hold at the hospital for me?

[Taverner]

5. Just one of these days I want to do St Paddys day in Boston

Just one...

I am not Irish, if any part of Brittania there is Welsh in me. Along with a lot of other things. But no Irish, I am sad to say.

But that can't stop my on St Paddy's day in Boston, can it?

[NightWatcher]

6. Savannah's way more fun than Boston....

[Taverner]

7. It might be, but there's something about Boston drunkeness that puts any other place to shame

[SoxFan]

8. Nothing more comical than a drunken Boston accent

And I speak from experience...

[Ken Burch]

27. Even a drunken Peter Griffin Rhode Island accent?

[KamaAina]

10. Never been there, but NOLA St. Paddy's rules

an actual parade complete with throws, green beer at Parasol's on Constance (the heart of the "Irish Channel"), and even cabbages and potatoes as throws! (though this has lessened in recent years due to Our Litigious Society)

[Gormy Cuss]

15. The cabbage throws were a surprise for me when I was there on St. Pat's

Crazy, but it's NOLA.

[tigereye]

19. green beer is just gross- I don't know too many self-respecting Irish folks

who would actually drink it. :)


Ugh. Why drink that when there are really good beers and stouts to drink? :shrug:

[jmowreader]

21. Let me ask you something:

Is there anything New Orleans will NOT throw a parade for? "This year's vintage of Tabasco has just been released; get your box of throws and get out in the street." "Walmart just got a new shipment of socks. Everyone get in the street." "Tony Chachere introduced Catfish Boudin. Call your krewe!"

Of course NOLA has a St. Patrick's parade even though there's not one Irishman in the entire city. It's kinda like a city ordinance.

[Terra Alta]

20. Everyone's Irish on St. Paddy's Day. nt

[Mopar151]

22. My old roomie Tommy was black

And it did'nt slow him down a lick in Boston on St. Pats
If you'll drink green colored beer at 6AM, that's apparently Irish enough.....

[SoxFan]

9. Shilelagh

It's a club made out of an oak or blackthorn sapling. Useful for dealing with mooks.

[name not needed]

11. A mook is a fucking moron.

[EvolveOrConvolve]

12. How'd you know that?

Inquiring minds want to know.

[name not needed]

14. I'm of Italian descent and grew up in North Jersey.

As a result, mook is one of my most used insults.

[Rabrrrrrr]

16. A shamrock is what a mook wishes he had when the Irishmen shillelaghs him for his mookish blarney

I'll put an Irishman up against a mook any day; even a drunk Irishman. Maybe especially a drunk Irishman. We'll never know, because no one's been able to do any kind of study on a non-drunk Irishman.

[Taverner]

17. AWESOME!!!!

:thumbsup:

Love it!!!

[keroro gunsou]

18. first of all

it's spelt SHELEIGHLY. it's a walking stick that cna be used as a club. a shamrock is a three-leaved clover used by saint patrick to define the holy trinty to the irish. and blarney is a catch-all term for the gift of gab. it can also mean a person is full of shit.

[Drunken Irishman]

23. I'm drunk

[jmowreader]

24. You wanna know what a mook is?

You got a copy of "Jackass the Movie"? Johnny Knoxville and Bam Margera are mooks.

[Ken Burch]

25. The first thing you mentioned is a large cudgel

And the correct spelling of the word is Shillelagh:

It looks like this(when held by a typically calm and relaxed Irishman):

[MiddleFingerMom]

28. I don't like to brag or nothin'

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... but when I tried to kiss the Blarney Stone... ... ... ... ... it kissed me.
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Strictly for the benefit of those who've not heard that old chestnut.
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Hmmmm... MiddleFingerMook has a nice ring to it.
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