Things I learned today (Part 1)

I remember sitting in my pyjamas on a Saturday morning waiting for anything goes to come on

Didn’t he get a 147 lately?

No, he got his P45.

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Into cooked salmon salads and the likes I’d say

He always struck me as a decent sort

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That auld lad from Laois who helps out in Craobh Ciaran lives in Artane just beyond the shopping centre.

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If you’re heading into artane from poland I presume?

Presume nothing kid

I thought he was long retired.

“He has also collaborated with his actor son, Aonghus Óg, on a tribute to Limerick musician Christie Hennessy.”

This is one for the things I learned today thread. It’s also I’d imagine one for the things Christie Hennessy’s family and Friends learned today.

They’ll have to send us up the statue from Tralee. Cute Kerry whores have been claiming him all along

International bollox, wanderly wagon

Tralee I thought

Iskra Lawrence has an arse you could serve tea off.

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In the action-adventure film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Indy and his father, professor of Medieval History Dr. Henry Jones, are running for their lives from a Nazi fighter plane strafing them with bullets. Finding themselves on a rocky beach, the senior Jones (played with aplomb by Sean Connery) pulls out his trusty umbrella and, squawking like a chicken, uses the large black apparatus to frighten a flock of seagulls, who take startled flight into the path of the plane. There they meet a gruesome fate, crashing into the windshield, getting caught in the propellers, and sending the plane careening into the hillside.

As Indy (the inestimable Harrison Ford) looks on in stunned silence, his father twirls the umbrella on his shoulder and strides jauntily back up the beach. “I suddenly remembered my Charlemagne,” he explains. " Let my armies be the rocks, and the trees, and the birds in the sky. "

It’s a terrific moment and a wonderful line. Unfortunately, Charlemagne never said it.

From Einhard’s biography to Bullfinch’s Legends of Charlemagne, there is no record of this quote before it appeared in Last Crusade in 1989.

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And when Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer.

Hans Gruber in [Die Hard] (1988)

This is sometimes mistaken as a quote from more ancient sources; Hans claims it is from Plutarch, who wrote Life of Alexander . While ancient sources record that Alexander sat and wept because he had conquered the known world, there has never been a record of this actual quote, and is in fact entirely put together by the writers for this movie.

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Was it not taken from Sid Waddell quote re Eric Bristow.

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Keith deller ??

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More checkouts than Tesco.

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He’s gone into that treble 19 cover like a fox on speed.

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Alexander Graham Bell insisted the correct way to answer the telelphone was “Ahoy”.

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