Have you got a favourite word?

Started by 5 Sams, November 12, 2010, 09:28:07 PM

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Hardy


Sandy Hill

Varmint as cowboy version of vermin!
"Stercus accidit"

stew

Armagh, the one true love of a mans life.

maggie


JUst retired


Banana Man

shuck - just love it

hoor - like it too

Orior

Cover me in chocolate and feed me to the lesbians

seafoid


Banana Man



Billys Boots

Inappropriate is my favourite word today; it has certainly made work enjoyable for me today (i.e. it has wound up no end of obnoxious (another good one) f*ckers).  ;)

Normally I also like peripatetic. 
My hands are stained with thistle milk ...

Hardy

Did you ever hear the one about Phil Greene (RTÉ radio soccer commentator of old) and "peripatetic"?

seafoid

I like "bhfaca tú" as in giving something bhfaca tú.

Billys Boots

Quote from: Hardy on November 16, 2010, 03:49:46 PM
Did you ever hear the one about Phil Greene (RTÉ radio soccer commentator of old) and "peripatetic"?

I've heard a load of great Philip Greene stories, but not that one.  Go on.
My hands are stained with thistle milk ...

Hardy

Liam Nolan, a man who would engineer opportunities to use words like "peripatetic" just to show off his erudition (a word he'd probably love as well) used to anchor the Sunday sports programme on Radio One. One Sunday he was doing the round of the League of Ireland grounds for half-time reports.

He did Dundalk, Sligo, Athone, etc. and when the reporter from Ballybofey handed back, Liam says, "so we continue now on our peripatetic way and call in Philip Greene from Milltown – Phil?

Phil: "Well, there was nothing very pathetic about Rovers' performance here in the first half ..."