Archaic phrases

[ibis]

Shifting.

Getting a dance and/or kiss/more from the other one.

Lamping - shifting, but particularly up against a streetlight after a dance.

[The Field Marshal]

Lamping - shifting, but particularly up against a streetlight after a dance.

Sounds uncomfortable.
"Underneath the lamplight by the barrack gate"

[ibis]

"Eenie meenie, Miney mo,
Catch a n*gger by his toe...." We used to sing this in class at school.
Sweet jesus.

I remember sitting down with some friends in UCD cafe, and someone we hadn't seen coming over and saying "are yez not going to sit with me? What am I, black or something?".

[Baron von Biffo]

Ya hoors melt !
I dont have a clue what it means . My ma used to call me it all the time !

Was she from Westmeath by any chance?

[Oppenheimer]

Good question.

"She had a flange on her like a wizards sleeve. It was like throwing a sausage down a hallway"

Ha ha, that's a whole thread on its own....how to suggest a female is below your standards without saying it..I heard that one as "It was liking throwing sausages up O'Connell street!"

If I had a garden full of mickey's I wouldn't let her look over the wall.

If she fell into a barrel of mickey's she'd come out sucking her thumb.

I know, I know, crude and derogatory but funny nonetheless just in their own right.

[The Field Marshal]

Mickey Dodger,

[nun]

[Moogie]

As a child if my face was dirty I was often referred to as looking like a sick black.

[The Field Marshal]

As a child if my face was dirty I was often referred to as looking like a sick black.

Are you the "boogie man" by any chance?

[IvoShandor]

Ha ha, that's a whole thread on its own....how to suggest a female is below your standards without saying it..I heard that one as "It was liking throwing sausages up O'Connell street!"

An Irishman resident in Vienna to whom I once talked,put it this way:'It was like throwing a frankfurter up Mariahilferstrasse'.

[Truth.ie]

"As tight as a Jew", as my mother referred to me.