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becca da bakkah

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7. My Favorite Irish Poet, Brendan Behan.....

Reply to packman (Original post)

Thu Sep 7, 2017, 11:31 PM

Sep 2017

.....once remarked, "if it was raining soup, the Irish would run out with forks!"

Behan also told a nun, tending to him during his many futile attempts to dry out, "bless you, sister. May all your sons be bishops!"

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An Irish Joke ( I Love them all) [View all] packman Sep 2017 OP

I have a long list of Irish jokes Warpy Sep 2017 #1

Being of Irish descent I suppose I should be deeply offended by the use of racial slurs like "Paddy" Binkie The Clown Sep 2017 #2

Wife's favorite joke zipplewrath Sep 2017 #3

Yes, yes, yes! PoindexterOglethorpe Sep 2017 #4

Pat comes to America bif Sep 2017 #5

I always felt that way when I was loading and unloading trucks... hunter Sep 2017 #6

My Favorite Irish Poet, Brendan Behan..... becca da bakkah Sep 2017 #7

I love that "raining soup" quote red dog 1 Sep 2017 #8

A sobbing Mrs Murphy approaches Fr O'Grady after mass, red dog 1 Sep 2017 #9

Brian stayed in Ireland Alpeduez21 Sep 2017 #10

No one tells better offensive ethnic Irish jokes than ethnic Irish people Orrex Sep 2017 #11