Spurious Or Not...You Decide:
When Irish eyes are smiling,
Sure, 'tis like the morn
in Spring.
In the lilt of Irish
laughter
You can hear the angels
sing.
When Irish hearts are
happy,
All the world seems bright
and gay.
And when Irish eyes are
smiling,
Sure, they steal your
heart away.
Spurious
Nib #17
On this day in 400AD
Patrick led a parade from Galway to Dublin driving snakes into the
sea and by "driving snakes" he meant Danny O'Malley's
mother-in-law, "the Medusa of Killarney."
Spurious
Ad Nibs
Condy
O Boyle: Coffee
One
taste of our fine coffee and you’ll say, “Boy, O boy, its
O’Boyle’s!”
And
for that special added hint of Irish flavor be sure to add a touch of O'Shaughnessy's
fine whiskey, “Imported from Dublin-Preferred by elves.”
Spurious
Nib #101
Patrick
traversed Ireland planting potatoes near every village. Saint
Germanus of Auxerre wrote, “His visage was a might peculiar, what
with tha’ cook’n pot for a hat and the shamrock he collected in
his pockets.”
Spurious
Nib Irish Erudition:
“Give
an Irishman a drink and he’ll be your friend for life, give a Scot
a drink and you’ll lose every penny, but don't ye drink with an
Englander he'll take yer land, yer faith an' yer wife!”
Spurious
Nib#7
The
lyrics,
“Oh Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling
From
glen to glen, and down the mountain side,”
refers to Iron Age Celt
Carnyx players who thought they could traverse the Irish sea with
their new fangled metal air tubes. Fortunately, the Flynn brother's
(Paddy, Mick and Quinn) discovered the musicality of the Carnyx
at McGuiness' bar. It's rumored Paddy Flynn attached a sheep's
bladder to one of the horns as a prank and handed it to a visiting
Scottish bar patron and that is how the bag-pipes were invented!
