Trip to Ireland #16

[McClef]

I fear that the other baskets were the ones other posters were referring to Phil!

Those are somewhat in danger of overflowing!

[Phil]

I fear that the other baskets were the ones other posters were referring to Phil!

Those are somewhat in danger of overflowing!

I couldn't help thinking of this line from Robert Burns' "Willie Wastle" - Her walie nieves like midden-creels.

Sorry I should translate - walie, big, plump; nieves, fists but in this context a euphemism for another part of the female form; midden-creels, baskets.

Here is the whole poem - Willie Wastle


Willie Wastle dwalt on Tweed,
The spot they ca'd it Linkumdoddie.
Willie was a wabster guid
Could stown a clue wi onie body.
He had a wife was dour and din,
O, Tinkler Maidgie was her mither!
Sic a wife as Willie had,
I wad na gie a button for her.

She has an e'e (she has but ane),
The cat has twa the very colour,
Five rusty teeth, forbye a stump,
A clapper-toungue wad deave a miller;
A whiskin beard about her mou,
Her nose and chin they threaten ither:
Sic a wife as Willie had,
I wad na gie a button for her.

She's bow-hough'd, she's hem-shin'd,
Ae limpin leg a hand-breed shorter;
She's twisted right, she's twisted left,
To balance fair in ilka quarter;
She has a hump upon her breast,
The twin o that upon her shouther:
Sic a wife as Willie had,
I wad na gie a button for her.

Auld baudrans by the ingle sits,
An wi her loof her face a-washin;
But Willie's wife is nae sae trig,
She dights her frunzie wi a hushion;
Her walie nieves like midden-creels,
Her face wad fyle the Logan Water:
Sic a wife as Willie had,
I wad na gie a button for her

[Niblox]

Hi Tref

The more recent statues of Dublin (such as Molly Malone) have been rechristened by the populace of Dublin with their usual excoriating wit.

Molly Malone has become "the tart with the cart";

The statue of Anna Livia in O'Connell street, representing the River Liffey (a recumbent naked woman with water flowing all over her) is "the hoor in the sewer", or "bidet mulligan" (Biddy Mulligan was another well-known Dublin character);

The millennium clock (a digital clock submerged just below the surface of the river below O'Connell Bridge, counting the time to 2000) became "the chime in the slime";

A statue of two working women with enormous shopping bags became "the hags with the bags";

The statue of James Joyce became known as "useless" (a play on "Ulysses", his great novel)....

and so on...

[slohairt]

I wonder who was the model for the sculptor...

I can't tell you how many lewd pictures I've seen involving that statue. Alas, I cannot post them, for this is a family-friendly website!

[McClef]

I mentioned some of the Dub names for the statues in the previous set of pictures Niall but had to be a little circumspect in those relating to the Spire.

I will be pleased to discover where they site the Anna Livia one next!