Saturday, March 13, 2010

Another One Down

Another "pre-alien event" down today.

Changed the oil and rotated the tires of my car by my own hands. First time since before the alien era. Therapeutic and I still got it. Felt good.







Funny Irish Phrases

* You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.
* The longest road out is the shortest road home.
* The Irish are very fair people; they never speak well for one another.
* A quarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shake it, the more sour it grows.
* God invented whiskey to keep the Irish from ruling the world.
* Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat.
* The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet.
* The Irish ignore anything they can't drink or punch.
* When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.
* He is bad that will not take advice, but he is a thousand times worse that takes every advice.
* One of the worst things that can happen in life is to win a bet on a horse at an early age.
* A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book.
* Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
* An Irishman is never drunk as long as he can hold onto one blade of grass to keep from falling off the earth.
* As you slide down the banister of life, may the splinters never point in the wrong direction!
* If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.
* Here's to our wives and girlfriends: May they never meet
* I can resist everything except temptation.
* My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
* Cheaters never prosper, unless they get away with it.
* The Irish don't know what they want and are prepared to fight to the death to get it.
* God is good to the Irish, but no one else is; not even the Irish.
* If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
* The Irish forgive their great men when they are safely buried.
* Irish Alzheimer's: you forget everything except the grudges.

(Source: http://lifestyle.iloveindia.com/lounge/funny-irish-phrases-3082.html)

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