In a "Sunday Life Exclusive"(!), they report that on a radio interview he gave in Dublin yesterday, Gerry Adams mentioned the inspiration he took from Monty Python's "Try to Look on the Bright side of Life" to get him through the hard times when he was in prison*.
According to the Sinn Fein President, he and his fellow Republican comrades enjoyed dark humour and belted out the ditty despite savage beatings etc.
Specifically he said: "Away down at the bottom of the wing we heard 'Always look on the bright side of life' and before you knew it you had 100 men singing this at the top of their voices"
Gerry Adams was in prison from 1973 to 1977.
Monty Python recorded "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" in 1979... ::)
P.S. Is there any chance Adams wrote the song for Monty Python when he was in prison?
* - For NOT being in the IRA, btw
Surely this song(Always look on the bright side of Life, by the way) is ages old. Did the Monty Python team not just mess around with the lyrics a bit?
I beleive the song was written by Eric Idle specifically for the film.
Quote from: T Fearon on June 01, 2009, 02:14:44 PM
Surely this song(Always look on the bright side of Life, by the way) is ages old. Did the Monty Python team not just mess around with the lyrics a bit?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Always_Look_on_the_Bright_Side_of_Life
Slow weekend EG?
The Sunday Life is a piece of shit when you look at it.
Don't be silly chumps.
Sillius Soddus
Always look on the bright side of Revisionism
da dum,
da da da da da dum.
Quote from: full back on June 01, 2009, 02:40:00 PM
Slow weekend EG?
Picked up a free Sunday Life at the airport, had nothing else to read whilst waiting for my flight. That Adams story was just about the "highlight" of the whole 100-odd pages.
Speaking of which, any comment on the story itself?
I would have thought the boys would have entertained themselves with rebel songs, not with Monty Python brit shit?
Quote from: Evil Genius on June 01, 2009, 03:21:07 PM
Quote from: full back on June 01, 2009, 02:40:00 PM
Slow weekend EG?
Picked up a free Sunday Life at the airport, had nothing else to read whilst waiting for my flight. That Adams story was just about the "highlight" of the whole 100-odd pages.
Speaking of which, any comment on the story itself?
The themmuns version of Tony Fearon
On the story itself, if true, it looks as though Gerry was talking sh1te :o
No doubt this will be front page on the Irish News - if only they could link somehow to Caitriona Ruane...
I can just imagine the reaction on here if a Unionist MP can out with the same bullsh1t...
Quote from: whiskeysteve on June 01, 2009, 03:39:32 PM
No doubt this will be front page on the Irish News - if only they could link somehow to Caitriona Ruane...
Gerry & Caitriona.....now, that is a story!
Ah, your father was a Woman?
Quote from: full back on June 01, 2009, 03:30:14 PM
On the story itself, if true, it looks as though Gerry was talking sh1te :o
Hmmm.
My definition of "talking sh1te" is when someone expresses a fanciful opinion (or somesuch).
Making something up and presenting it as an actual occurrence is something else entirely.
Lying, in fact.
P.S. I like your qualification of "if true". I suppose it is possible that the Sunday Life might be the ones making it all up, in which case I look forward to legal proceedings against them from Mr. Adams. I mean to say, nothing could save them in such a case, except, a recording of the ahem,
alleged radio interview and how likely is that to exist? Otherwise, they'd have to rely on sworn testimony from the station staff, or from any one of a couple of million-odd Dubliners who might conceivably have tuned in to the programme...
Quote from: Evil Genius on June 01, 2009, 04:15:12 PM
Quote from: full back on June 01, 2009, 03:30:14 PM
On the story itself, if true, it looks as though Gerry was talking sh1te :o
Hmmm.
My definition of "talking sh1te" is when someone expresses a fanciful opinion (or somesuch).
Making something up and presenting it as an actual occurrence is something else entirely.
Lying, in fact.
P.S. I like your qualification of "if true". I suppose it is possible that the Sunday Life might be the ones making it all up, in which case I look forward to legal proceedings against them from Mr. Adams. I mean to say, nothing could save them in such a case, except, a recording of the ahem, alleged radio interview and how likely is that to exist? Otherwise, they'd have to rely on sworn testimony from the station staff, or from any one of a couple of million-odd Dubliners who might conceivably have tuned in to the programme...
Hmmmmm,
Well my definition of talking sh1te is when someone makes something up that isnt true
Ah I don't know, made me giggle ;)
Lighten up fellas
Quote from: ziggysego on June 01, 2009, 04:28:28 PM
Ah I don't know, made me giggle ;)
Lighten up fellas
Ziggy what's with your fascination with the word giggle? Its a P4 word. P4 girls at that.
I can just picture you tee-heeing away!
Quote from: SidelineKick on June 01, 2009, 04:42:17 PM
Quote from: ziggysego on June 01, 2009, 04:28:28 PM
Ah I don't know, made me giggle ;)
Lighten up fellas
Ziggy what's with your fascination with the word giggle? Its a P4 word. P4 girls at that.
I can just picture you tee-heeing away!
I met Ziggy once-he very macho yet giggles like a wee girl. It is disconcerting
Quote from: longrunsthefox on June 01, 2009, 04:48:34 PM
Quote from: SidelineKick on June 01, 2009, 04:42:17 PM
Quote from: ziggysego on June 01, 2009, 04:28:28 PM
Ah I don't know, made me giggle ;)
Lighten up fellas
Ziggy what's with your fascination with the word giggle? Its a P4 word. P4 girls at that.
I can just picture you tee-heeing away!
I met Ziggy once-he very macho yet giggles like a wee girl. It is disconcerting
Lucky you, he just told me he'd meet up with me once. Then he didn't bother. Said he had to "work".
You caught him fair and square. He's a bare faced liar.
As long as that's the worst he's ever done, it's ok though.
Who gives a shit, ffs.
Quote from: pintsofguinness on June 01, 2009, 06:13:56 PM
Who gives a shit, ffs.
About Adams or Ziggy not meeting up with me?
Quote from: SidelineKick on June 01, 2009, 06:18:36 PM
Quote from: pintsofguinness on June 01, 2009, 06:13:56 PM
Who gives a shit, ffs.
About Adams or Ziggy not meeting up with me?
About Adams.
I think it's awful ziggy lied to get out of meeting you.
Quote from: pintsofguinness on June 01, 2009, 06:23:41 PM
Quote from: SidelineKick on June 01, 2009, 06:18:36 PM
Quote from: pintsofguinness on June 01, 2009, 06:13:56 PM
Who gives a shit, ffs.
About Adams or Ziggy not meeting up with me?
About Adams.
I think it's awful ziggy lied to get out of meeting you.
Good. I was hoping you saw the more serious underlying issue in this thread. Thanks pints.