I saw this SpecSavers ad yesterday in Malahide train station and it nearly drove me mad last night and this morning but I've eventually got them all. Some are extremely cryptic and the last couple I probably wouldn't have got only for the process of elimination. There is also the chance to win All Ireland tickets..
http://www.lookforlonger.ie/play
Do you enter the names in Irish?
Typical. The non-bookfacers are ostracized again.
Took me a while, but got them all. To be honest, I didn't understand a couple.
Not so Benny, I entered ok without Facebook. In my first run through them I managed to get 25, took me a while to figure out the remaining 7.. some of them are just bizarre!
Quote from: Orior on July 25, 2016, 04:47:51 PM
Took me a while, but got them all. To be honest, I didn't understand a couple.
It is possible to finish it simply by trial and error but my thick wit wouldn't let me write in the last couple til I understood why they were right :-)
Got them all. Think there was just one I didn't understand, but got by process of elimination.
Quote from: Maguire01 on July 25, 2016, 11:37:13 PM
Got them all. Think there was just one I didn't understand, but got by process of elimination.
Where have you been?
Some of those were tough enough.
Quote from: ONeill on July 26, 2016, 12:14:21 AM
Some of those were tough enough.
Aye I got to about 25 handily enough and the last 2 or 3 were purely by elimination and I still don't know how the clue is related to the picture.
Quote from: Tony Baloney on July 26, 2016, 01:02:29 AM
Quote from: ONeill on July 26, 2016, 12:14:21 AM
Some of those were tough enough.
Aye I got to about 25 handily enough and the last 2 or 3 were purely by elimination and I still don't know how the clue is related to the picture.
Which ones??
Westmeath baffled me... an ear with a V?
Ear V
Iarmhí
Very enjoyable, some very clever ones. A good few I didn't understand though - Clare? Offaly? Limerick?
Quote from: gallsman on July 26, 2016, 11:38:49 AM
Very enjoyable, some very clever ones. A good few I didn't understand though - Clare? Offaly? Limerick?
Clare - Ban-her as in Banner County
Limerick - Took me ages to understand this one, it was the last I got. Presumably they were shaking hands and exchanging papers after signing a Treaty
What was pic for Offaly again? Edit was it someone praying? The Faithful county
Clare, Sligo and Galway were my headwreckers.
Although I should have got Sligo earlier.
Offaly was the praying one aye, but then there was a round rock or something as well.
Banner - should have got that one.
Limerick - maybe the most tenuous of the lot!
Quote from: gallsman on July 26, 2016, 11:54:17 AM
Offaly was the praying one aye, but then there was a round rock or something as well.
Banner - should have got that one.
Limerick - maybe the most tenuous of the lot!
Yea I was looking at the hands shaking and what I thought were two small planks of wood. With all the Sunday Game questions going on I thought the planks were referring to pundits!
Quote from: muppet on July 26, 2016, 11:50:02 AM
Clare, Sligo and Galway were my headwreckers.
Although I should have got Sligo earlier.
Sly fox.
Quote from: muppet on July 26, 2016, 12:00:50 PM
Quote from: gallsman on July 26, 2016, 11:54:17 AM
Offaly was the praying one aye, but then there was a round rock or something as well.
Banner - should have got that one.
Limerick - maybe the most tenuous of the lot!
Yea I was looking at the hands shaking and what I thought were two small planks of wood. With all the Sunday Game questions going on I thought the planks were referring to pundits!
Galway was okay I thought but Limerick was the last one I got and even now I understand the meaning, it is VERY tenuous. Struggled with Offaly also. Good wee quiz though. Ear V ;D
So... can someone explain Offally then?
Quote from: omaghjoe on July 26, 2016, 03:42:07 PM
So... can someone explain Offally then?
I can't remember the picture. But I know there's only one 'L'.
Quote from: omaghjoe on July 26, 2016, 03:42:07 PM
So... can someone explain Offally then?
Faith - Hand together praying
Full - Assume it's a full moon
Quote from: lfdown2 on July 26, 2016, 03:44:37 PM
Quote from: omaghjoe on July 26, 2016, 03:42:07 PM
So... can someone explain Offally then?
Faith - Hand together praying
Full - Assume it's a full moon
I thought it was Jimmy Cooney's watch? :D
Some tough and obscure ones.
What was Galway again?
The cork looked like a cup or chalice
What about Westmeath? The ear?
Quote from: Gold on July 26, 2016, 04:45:35 PM
Some tough and obscure ones.
What was Galway again?
The cork looked like a cup or chalice
What about Westmeath? The ear?
Cork was a...eh......cork.
Westmeath was Ear V.
Galway was some kind of a shield representing a tribe and a man :-)
What was Mayo, it looked like a yellow barrel with a blue slot
Quote from: Nigel White on July 26, 2016, 04:54:13 PM
What was Mayo, it looked like a yellow barrel with a blue slot
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Cheers Boyce.
Limerick have always been known as the treaty county
Galway are known as the tribes men
Simples
Quote from: Windmill abu on July 26, 2016, 05:02:37 PM
Limerick have always been known as the treaty county
Galway are known as the tribes men
Simples
I got Galway handily enough and everyone knows Limerick is the treaty but it was poorly represented by two men in suits shaking hands and passing planks of wood between each other! Apart from that it was very good.
When signing up for this, did anyone notice that when asked for your county, the list of counties is in the same order as the quiz?
That's unfortunate!
The fcukers are racialist towards the way we spake.
I kept putting Dublin in for the toilet.
'Jacks' I assume rather that Lu
Quote from: ONeill on July 26, 2016, 07:58:25 PM
The fcukers are racialist towards the way we spake.
Wouldnt be so bad if they cud hear it right
Its Tirrone with the rr being a slight rasp and the entire word being one syllable, a sort of mega dipthong.
"Thrown" is way closer than "Throne", and besides the way them feckless Southerners say throne is "Drone" so God knows what their intent was. It took me while to get it anyway
Quote from: mikehunt on July 26, 2016, 10:24:05 PM
I kept putting Dublin in for the toilet.
Well, that's the way it should be but whoever thought up the clues is suffering from an over fertile imagination.
Quote from: omaghjoe on July 26, 2016, 10:55:52 PM
Quote from: ONeill on July 26, 2016, 07:58:25 PM
The fcukers are racialist towards the way we spake.
Wouldnt be so bad if they cud hear it right
Its Tirrone with the rr being a slight rasp and the entire word being one syllable, a sort of mega dipthong.
"Thrown" is way closer than "Throne", and besides the way them feckless Southerners say throne is "Drone" so God knows what their intent was. It took me while to get it anyway
Maybe it's an east-west thing but i'd be ttrone
What about Pat Spillane's Tie-Rone... Is that a different place altogether??
O'Rourke is a very pronounced Tie-rowan too. And bad smell.
Quote from: Nigel White on July 26, 2016, 10:31:14 PM
'Jacks' I assume rather that Lu
Nope. I seen a toilet and immediately thought 'Dublin'
Quote from: mikehunt on July 27, 2016, 12:13:27 AM
Quote from: Nigel White on July 26, 2016, 10:31:14 PM
'Jacks' I assume rather that Lu
Nope. I seen a toilet and immediately thought 'Dublin'
There was no white powder on it...so couldn't have been the Dubs
Quote from: Gold on July 27, 2016, 12:50:20 AM
Quote from: mikehunt on July 27, 2016, 12:13:27 AM
Quote from: Nigel White on July 26, 2016, 10:31:14 PM
'Jacks' I assume rather that Lu
Nope. I seen a toilet and immediately thought 'Dublin'
There was no white powder on it...so couldn't have been the Dubs
+1 ;D
Got through them ok until the last few which I got through elimination:
Offaly
Clare
Sligo
Limerick
Good craic though!
Quote from: Nigel White on July 26, 2016, 10:31:14 PM
'Jacks' I assume rather that Lu
It was the Wee County that got that one for me.