The Dew Drop Inn Virtual Rugby Pub, Béal Feirste

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Hello and welcome to the Virtual Rugby Pub - a place where you can come in for a sly beverage and discuss whatever's on your mind, or just eavesdrop on the regulars if you fancy a break from all the rugby chat.

The Pub has made it's way to Belfast - the rope-making and ship building capital of the world.

Now the Mouth of the Shoal awaits the safe arrival of one of it's long lost daughter's - Cariadwr - in her ongoing quest to be as close as possible to one of her favourite players... Tomás Ó Buaigh of Emyvale.... on her Birthday

The only rule in this pub is one of mutual respect for everyone in it, oh and no tampering with the pictures of Nial O'Connor, Cari & Tommy Bowe, "Pickles" the wonder dog of '66, Wikus van de Merwe and Black Caviar above the bar.



Last Pub: https://www.606v2.com/t31098p950-the-dew-drop-inn-virtual-rugby-pub-sydney

Only the Scots would invent a sausage loaf!

Mrs Penfro wrote:You've obviously never been to Scotland then. It's a delicacy up there isn't it Asbo.

A few times but not recently. Delicacies as in Tenants, pie and beans?

Eat these now, these are NEW potatoes….

Mickado wrote:Eat these now, these are NEW potatoes….

What the hell are NEW potatoes? My mother always raved about NEW potatoes and used the fact that they were NEW as an excuse when her chips turned out pasty and white.

They're just smaller and whiter Pete. I was never a fan of them myself. But it was always my mam's selling point.

Bore da pawb / good morning all, please!

Glas a du wrote:Joe Cocker, the only man to cover a Beatles song and improve it. Class.

As a ten year old I had the red album on tape. I loved it. My brother played me the Cocker version and I hated it. He asked me why. I said because its different and in one bit he just screams like a mad man. He explained to me why I was wrong using words like passion, soul and character. If he was just going to copy the Beatles what was the point? I dismissed him. But a few years later I found his tape. By then I'd, erm, developed and I suddenly knew what he'd been on about.

I love it.

I only like it because it was the theme tune to 'the Wonder Years'.

Mickado wrote:Eat these now, these are NEW potatoes….

Right its Glenrow then straight up

Mickado wrote:They're just smaller and whiter Pete. I was never a fan of them myself. But it was always my mam's selling point.

Aren't they baby potatoes Mick ?

The ones my Mum got were always the same size and covered in mud

My favourite now are the Anya potatoes, nothing needed on em, not even salt....well maybe an egg yolk or two, yummmmm!!

Hapless Freegan wrote:Bore da pawb / good morning all, please!

Glas a du wrote:Joe Cocker, the only man to cover a Beatles song and improve it. Class.

As a ten year old I had the red album on tape. I loved it. My brother played me the Cocker version and I hated it. He asked me why. I said because its different and in one bit he just screams like a mad man. He explained to me why I was wrong using words like passion, soul and character. If he was just going to copy the Beatles what was the point? I dismissed him. But a few years later I found his tape. By then I'd, erm, developed and I suddenly knew what he'd been on about.

I love it.

I only like it because it was the theme tune to 'the Wonder Years'.

It wouldn't be hard for anyone to do a better version of that song. Ringo Stars voice is dreadful. Even Octopus's garden could be improved upon.

Hoog wrote:

Mickado wrote:Eat these now, these are NEW potatoes….

Right its Glenrow then straight up

The theme tune to Glenrow sends shivers down the spine of every Irish person of a certain age. AHHHHHHHHHH I HAVEN'T GOT ME HOMEWORK DONE!

Mickado wrote:

Hoog wrote:

Mickado wrote:Eat these now, these are NEW potatoes….

Right its Glenroe then straight up

The theme tune to Glenroe sends shivers down the spine of every Irish person of a certain age. AHHHHHHHHHH I HAVEN'T GOT ME HOMEWORK DONE!

Mrs R and I did the tour a few years back. Dinny Byrne's cottage was an absolute tip.

Spoiler:

I NEED this tshirt...

Spoiler:

I can almost hear the Glenroe theme tune now. I never watched a single episode but that tune is pure nostalgia.

Terrifying, bone chilling, nostalgia.

You were missing out by not watching it Pete. Biddy, Miley, Dinny, Blackie Conors, Dick Moran etc. great stuff.

Mickado wrote:It wouldn't be hard for anyone to do a better version of that song. Ringo Stars voice is dreadful. Even Octopus's garden could be improved upon.

Ringo's voice has a charm of its own. It suits 'Octopus's Garden' down to the ground. Bob Dylan doesn't have a particularly good voice but I haven't heard many covers of Dylan songs that are as good as the originals (the Byrds' ones aside, and some of those are duds).

Pete330v2 wrote:I can almost hear the Glenroe theme tune now. I never watched a single episode but that tune is pure nostalgia.

Here have another listen Pete

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw2kJJQKD1g

Mickado, Pete. Trivia question.

Dinny Byrne (Joe Lynch) was a character in an earlier RTE programme. What was it called?

Mrs Penfro wrote:You've obviously never been to Scotland then. It's a delicacy up there isn't it Asbo.

It certainly is, E, right up there with haggis, fruit pudding and white pudding. Every day should start with these basic food groups

Was Miley from Glenrow Leo cullens dad??

Rava wrote:Mickado, Pete. Trivia question.

Dinny Byrne (Joe Lynch) was a character in an earlier RTE programme. What was it called?

Braken I suppose.

Hoog wrote:

Rava wrote:Mickado, Pete. Trivia question.

Dinny Byrne (Joe Lynch) was a character in an earlier RTE programme. What was it called?

Braken I suppose.

Aye. Miley was in it as well. Surprised you knew that. Bit before your time.

I don't remember Braken and it definately wasn't before my time

Morning!

Quick break. You Irish regs aren't being stereotypical much on about potatoes are you?
Mickado, I haven't forgotten your cheeky comment yesterday. Smacked bum for you. We just don't have a suitable smiley here.

Hapless Freegan wrote:

Mickado wrote:It wouldn't be hard for anyone to do a better version of that song. Ringo Stars voice is dreadful. Even Octopus's garden could be improved upon.

Ringo's voice has a charm of its own. It suits 'Octopus's Garden' down to the ground. Bob Dylan doesn't have a particularly good voice but I haven't heard many covers of Dylan songs that are as good as the originals (the Byrds' ones aside, and some of those are duds).

Fair point that there are some singers who aren’t great singers technically but their voice is still good, but I really don’t like Ringo’s voice. In fact, I really hate it. He strikes me as the luckiest man in musical history to be honest, Lennon and McCartney wrote some masterpieces, George Harrison has some really fantastic tunes, but Ringo… well they just let him have a song on every album didn’t they. As Paul McCartney said when asked if Ringo was the best drummer in the world “he’s not even the best drummer in the Beatles…”

Sure it launched Gabriel Byrnes career didn't it.


Reeling in the years teaches you some great stuff

Cari wrote:Morning!

Quick break. You Irish regs aren't being stereotypical much on about potatoes are you?
Mickado, I haven't forgotten your cheeky comment yesterday. Smacked bum for you. We just don't have a suitable smiley here.

Hehe, i was only kidding. His face is far from smackable. But if i was a fan from another country, i'd dislike him. For the same reasons i dislike Dan Carter, he's bloody good and women love him.

You don't think 'Octopus's Garden' is a good song, Mick? I think it's lovely, and all the better for being quite simple. His song off the White Album is poor enough, though.

Tommy Bowe looks like a turtle

Peter Ebdon looks like a baby dinosaur.

Stephen Lee likes like a 20 stone baby.

I do quite like Octopus's Garden, but i like it more for the guitar intro and the solo. In fact, the music is good, but if Paul McCartney rerecorded the vocals today I'd say i'd prefer them more.

You're a bit of a Beach Boys fan Mick, have you bought the 'Smile Sessions' album yet? It's incredible. The first CD with an approximation of what the finished album might have sounded like is good enough, but the second CD with excerpts from various album sessions is something else. There was such an insane amount of creativity going on.

Hapless Freegan wrote:You're a bit of a Beach Boys fan Mick, have you bought the 'Smile Sessions' album yet? It's incredible. The first CD with an approximation of what the finished album might have sounded like is good enough, but the second CD with excerpts from various album sessions is something else. There was such an insane amount of creativity going on.

I would say i'm a fan of their music but I never really got listening to their albums if you know what I mean. I only have the greatest hits...

TOL looks like a drowned rat.

McCartney is a Mammy's Boy. Lennon said so.

Robert Pattinson looks like a cross between Fergal Sharkey and an owl

&

Leona Lewis IS Lewis Hamilton

Am I right Mick?


I think Ringo Starr's voice is more suited to Thomas the Tank Engine and as for the Beetles.......

You know the story of Smile though, don't you?

Gibson wrote:TOL looks like a drowned rat.

McCartney is a Mammy's Boy. Lennon said so.

Me too!

How are you pal? Long time no chat. I believe you've been in Dublin recently. Hope everyone's ok?

Hapless Freegan wrote:You know the story of Smile though, don't you?

Is that the one that was only released in the last few years?

Octopus's Garden is the one song that always manages to cheer me up. It's such a happy bouncy song

Yeh, I don't like PM either. He comes across as some self proclaimed 'king/saviour of brit music...

That's the one. They abandoned it in 1967 and bootlegs of the sessions have been doing the rounds for years. Then last year they released an official CD of what the album might have sounded like (Brian Wilson either can't remember or never knew the running order of the tracks). The outtakes from the sessions are mindblowing, really.

Pete330v2 wrote:Robert Pattinson looks like a cross between Fergal Sharkey and an owl

&

Leona Lewis IS Lewis Hamilton

Am I right Mick?


I think Ringo Starr's voice is more suited to Thomas the Tank Engine and as for the Beetles.......

Michael Angelis is 10x the narrator starr ever was on Thomas. Mind you, Thomas has sold out now with all this CGI. It's just not the same!

Mickado wrote:

Gibson wrote:TOL looks like a drowned rat.

McCartney is a Mammy's Boy. Lennon said so.

Me too!
How are you pal? Long time no chat. I believe you've been in Dublin recently. Hope everyone's ok?

I'm a big aul Mammy's Boy too Michael. Its why Im still here.

Ive spent most of my time in The Mater. Really hate hospitals. But...

Ah just want to get her out of there Mick. Nearly there bud. I bring her boiled bacon and cabbage every day, from The Temple on Dorset St and pretend Ive cooked it at home. White Lies to get her to eat. She wolfs it!

Anyway, hope you are well too Sir. And the rest of the regs.

Im heading up to Hughie Country this week (Blackbriggaaan), to see an aul mate. Need time out.

Meet up for a pint sometime bud? I'll give you a text when Im in town. Here till next Thurs...

Yeah Mick, but Dan Carter is the most boring bloke on the planet.

Pete330v2 wrote:
Leona Lewis IS Snoopy

Just corrected that.

Your going to blackbriggan without me gibbo??? I'm hurt, hurt I tells ya.

Gibson wrote:

Mickado wrote:

Gibson wrote:TOL looks like a drowned rat.

McCartney is a Mammy's Boy. Lennon said so.

Me too!
How are you pal? Long time no chat. I believe you've been in Dublin recently. Hope everyone's ok?

I'm a big aul Mammy's Boy too Michael. Its why Im still here.

Ive spent most of my time in The Mater. Really hate hospitals. But...

Ah just want to get her out of there Mick. Nearly there bud. I bring her boiled bacon and cabbage every day, from The Temple on Dorset St and pretend Ive cooked it at home. White Lies to get her to eat. She wolfs it!

Anyway, hope you are well too Sir. And the rest of the regs.

Im heading up to Hughie Country this week (Blackbriggaaan), to see an aul mate. Need time out.

Meet up for a pint sometime bud? I'll give you a text when Im in town. Here till next Thurs...

I’m away this weekend pal but any day next week defo give me a shout. Would love to get a pint in with ya. I pass by the temple every day so even if you just want to take an hour off from the hospital just let me know.

How are things down Swansea way, Breadvan?

Breadvan wrote:

Pete330v2 wrote:Robert Pattinson looks like a cross between Fergal Sharkey and an owl

&

Leona Lewis IS Lewis Hamilton

Am I right Mick?


I think Ringo Starr's voice is more suited to Thomas the Tank Engine and as for the Beetles.......

Michael Angelis is 10x the narrator starr ever was on Thomas. Mind you, Thomas has sold out now with all this CGI. It's just not the same!

You're damn right and what with that new fancy theme tune and all. I can assure you my wee fella gets the classic Thomas with Ringo's dulcet tones

Hiya Gibbo!!!! Hope you are rip roaringly well

Hope your Mam is getting better Gibbo.



Sad night yesterday for the family hear, saying goodbye to relatives moving to NZ. So many people gone in the last few years.

Hoog wrote:Your going to blackbriggan without me gibbo??? I'm hurt, hurt I tells ya.

Ah Hugs... be nice if you were there allright bud.
Made contact again with Eamon Killeen (via his bro) ... at a Wake in the Skylon. Ha! Irish Wakes are far better craic than weddings. In a nice way like. She was 91 (Ma's sis) and was drinking double-gins and dancing up to a few months ago. So... we celebrated her life in style.

2 Dutch guys and a few Croatians, on Tour, were filming a load of us, pished as newts, singing Nat King Cole and Rebel songs (eclectic or wha?) ... Thought we were celebrating a wedding or a birthday. They thought it was wonderful. Bless em.

Check ye later regs.

EDIT: Chreers T, and Pete.