In article , Tom Nakashima
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"JR" wrote in message ...
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The first guy responds, Sure and begora, and so am I. And what street
did you live on in Dublin?"

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Into a Belfast pub comes Paddy Murphy,

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These are the best two Irish jokes I've heard. This Irishman will
treasure (and steal) them. Like Irish pubs, they don't really have
Irish jokes in Ireland itself.

There's a nice comment on them by P.G.Wodehouse, who went to school,
along with that other great prose stylist, Raymond Chandler, at Dulwich
College, only about a mile from the particularly unsavory corner of
South London where I'm writing this. When Bertie Wooster shows Gussie
Fink-Nottle his script for Pat and Mike knockabout cross-talk act,
Gussie studies it with a sullen frown.

'The thing is absolute drivel. It has no dramatic coherence. It lacks
motivation and significant form. Who are these men supposed to be?'

'I told you. A couple of Irishmen named Pat and Mike.'

'...He prefaces his remarks at several points with the expressions
"Begorrah" and "Faith and begob". Irishmen don't talk like that. Have
you ever read Synge's *Riders to the Sea* ? Well get hold of it and
study it, and if you can show me a single character in it who says
"Faith and begob", I'll give you a shilling. Irishmen are poets. They
talk about their souls and mist and so on. They say things like "An
evening like this, it makes me wish I was back in County Clare,
watchin' the cows in the tall grass".'

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