tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14524408.post112350564147376781..comments2024-03-28T21:52:12.109+00:00Comments on Forget What Did: 'Begorrah, Father Pat, I've dropped me shillelagh in me Guinness!' Or is that too obvious?John Finnemorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09256463878193280694noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14524408.post-27220967365673646222013-02-05T21:46:36.350+00:002013-02-05T21:46:36.350+00:00Coincidentally, yesterday at a party in Manchester...Coincidentally, yesterday at a party in Manchester, I gave my daughter-in-law a hanukka menorah made of brass, as a bon voyage gift. <br /><br />The reason this is worthless as exposition is that I am Catholic, she is an agnostic Australian, and she was leaving for East Timor. <br />She just happens to collect menorahs. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14524408.post-1123507158506024482005-08-08T14:19:00.000+01:002005-08-08T14:19:00.000+01:00If this suits the occasion, you could always put i...If this suits the occasion, you could always put in one of those characters who insist on telling you things you don't care about - like the sort of person who reads a newspaper, gives a short laugh at something, and then waits for you to ask them what they're laughing at.<BR/><BR/>That really irritates me. Then you don't, of course, ask, and they laugh again, and then eventually they tell you. Or they say, "Oh, this is really funny," and then no matter how much you ignore them, they tell you.<BR/><BR/>My brother Gerald's solution is, as soon as someone gives him the first indication they're doing this, he leaves the room.<BR/><BR/>Or course, your problem <I>appears</I> to be more about the character's religious/ethnic/yaddayaddayadda persuasion.James Caseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05930767947864770938noreply@blogger.com