11 Entries Tagged “Irish”
Funny Insults
3. May the Devil Make a Ladder of Your Backbone While Picking Apples in the Garden of Hell
A traditional Irish curse. See also Irish.
Funny TV Shows
4. Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles
This is what they call Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in Britain and Ireland, because the censors over there think that "Ninja" is too violent. See also British, Cartoons, Irish.
Funny Places
5. Violently Named Villages
Kill, Ireland
Kilbride, Newfoundland
Great Kills, New York
Killinaboy, Ireland See also Canadian, Irish, Violence.
Funny Words
7. Craig
Pronounced "crack", in Ireland it means having a joke, e.g. "Ahh, I did it just for the craig!" See also Irish.
Funny Things
9. Hurls
Untoward connotations aside, these are sticks used in the traditional Irish sport of "hurling". See also Irish, Vomit.
Funny Jobs
10. Knocker-up
Before the invention of alarm clocks, inns located in Ireland hired people to take note of guests awakening time and then knock on their room door to wake them up. More information here. See also Irish, Old-Timey.