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i drink your milkshake
right - first thing, it's Paddy NOT Patty. I mean for fucks sake.
secondly, read this little MSN conversation two of my old colleagues sent me today.
::clef::
secondly, read this little MSN conversation two of my old colleagues sent me today.
St. Paddy's horror story... from China!
This is a lovely little horror story that happened over "Irish Week" celebrations in Shanghai, prior to St. Patrick's Day.
Told through an impromptu MSN conversation with my Scottish colleague up at the Shanghai Bureau:
will says: (4:14:29 PM)
I was at the Paddy's day parade here in SH on Saturday
Ed says: (4:14:54 PM)
yeah? good craic?
will says: (4:15:15 PM)
aye, great
Ed says: (4:15:15 PM)
i got a flight weds morning so i've decided to sleep at the airport afterwards
will says: (4:15:30 PM)
ouch
will says: (4:15:48 PM)
Tell you a story about a funny bit in the middle of the march though:-
Ed says: (4:16:19 PM)
someone angry at us beating the Scots? mwahaha
will says: (4:16:20 PM)
picture the scene: big crowd of green-clad celts (suitably supping on plastic glasses of Murphy's o'course) have tramped through Fuxng Park and are now encamped around a little stage at the top of Yandang Rd pedestrian area
will says: (4:16:32 PM)
it was before the match, ya git
Ed says: (4:16:47 PM)
go on...
will says: (4:16:48 PM)
says the announcer, Eoin Murphy, pres of Le Cheile Shanghai: "Oi'd like you all to give a big hand now for the Fudan University Irish dancing club. These kids have been learning their steps by watching DVDs and they're doing grand now."
will says: (4:17:04 PM)
On they come, a dozen Chinese lads and lasses, all fine for now ...
will says: (4:17:23 PM)
cue the music:
(Irish flutey stuff): fiddle-dee-diddle-dee dee-dee-dee dee fiddle-dee
(drums): brumbadabubabada dumpritty-dum
will says: (4:17:32 PM)
fiddle-dee dee
drumpitty-dum
will says: (4:17:49 PM)
fiddle-dee- dee dumpritty-dum
will says: (4:17:56 PM)
fiddle-dee dee
will says: (4:18:03 PM)
drumpitty-dum
Ed says: (4:18:08 PM)
ah yes, it's a classic
will says: (4:18:13 PM)
*pause*
will says: (4:18:18 PM)
RULE BRITTANNIA! BRITTANIA RULES THE WAVES! BRITONS NEVER, NEVER, NEVER SHALL BE SLAVES!!!!!
will says: (4:18:33 PM)
little tricolours drop from hands mid-wave
Ed says: (4:18:33 PM)
?
will says: (4:18:45 PM)
picture the Irish consulate staff at the back of the stage, suddenly going ashen-faced
will says: (4:19:04 PM)
Eoin Murphy looks like he's having a heart attack
will says: (4:19:09 PM)
every Irish jaw in the crowd hitting the floor in unison
Ed says: (4:19:33 PM)
you are shitting me
will says: (4:19:44 PM)
then the Irish music kicked back in and everything was fine and good
will says: (4:19:50 PM)
but the damage was done
Ed says: (4:20:05 PM)
how??!!
will says: (4:20:08 PM)
for an instant there, time stood dead still
will says: (4:20:15 PM)
exactly.
will says: (4:21:04 PM)
the consular attache I spoke to later on was sure there must have been an English spy "helping" the students put their backing music together
will says: (4:23:07 PM)
I mean, there is no way they could have made a mistake of that magnitude by ACCIDENT, could they?
will says: (4:23:12 PM)
what are the chances?
::clef::
