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Subject: Virtual Irish Pub

Posted by: Chavs
Date: May 14 13

Welcome to the Virtual Irish Pub - aka the VIP blog - a meeting place for any and all Fun Trivia Players from the island of Ireland.

Nice to meet you, pull up a chair and introduce yourself. Call in to the blog anytime just to say hello, meet other players from Ireland, chat about the weather or current events, start a topic for conversation, or simply to keep in touch. This is your blog!

Also welcome to post here are Fun Trivia players from all over the world who may have visited Ireland, or may want to visit Ireland, or may have family from Ireland, or may have celtic souls, or may just like Irish Pubs.

Please join the VIP private tournament @

http://www.funtrivia.com/private/main.cfm?tid=101321 -- active link and instructions for registration follow in the first post.

CÃ©ad mÃle fÃ¡ilte!

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_Morpheus_

Kill joy ;-D

Reply #201. Aug 16 13, 2:56 PM

rustic_les

Lolbeans and roflburgers, all quiet here now. We could hear the cheers on Wednesday evening. Fair play to norn iron.

Reply #202. Aug 16 13, 3:27 PM

dsimpy

Russia were playing without Anna Kournikova - so what do you expect! ;-/

Reply #203. Aug 17 13, 5:28 AM

Chavs

Our Category Schedule:

Monday: July August September
Tuesday: Music 1 : Easier
Wednesday: Movies 2 : Intermediate
Thursday: World Trivia 1 : Easier
Friday: July August September
Saturday: Animals
Sunday: General Knowledge 3 : Average

Reply #204. Aug 18 13, 2:13 PM

Chavs

Any favourites for the Rose of Tralee? I'm hoping for the New Orleans Rose. Not only a lovely girl but such a classic moment when her boyfriend proposed to her during the interview and she said "No..no!..NO..no no... No... NO..." (Eventually yes, allegedly|)

Reply #205. Aug 20 13, 2:46 PM

postcards2go

I just looked this up, having heard of the song, but not the festival. It seems this is much more than a beauty contest. Brains count! Not knowing anything about the contestants, I guess I'm rooting for the New York Rose, by default :-)

Reply #206. Aug 20 13, 5:26 PM

TippyStClair

Hi from across the street (The Isle of Man)! Just stopped by to say hello and cheers! :)

Tippy

Reply #207. Aug 20 13, 9:50 PM

Chavs

Hi Tippy! It's nice to have good neighbours. :D

Reply #208. Aug 21 13, 2:31 AM

Chavs

Postie, it's a strange contest, remarkably boring to watch, and very like The Lovely Girls in the 'Father Ted' comedy if you've ever seen that?

Instead of a swimsuit section they have a talent section, which can be anything, usually dancing, singing, saying a poem. And it's very centred on their mums and dads. In fact, when the winner is chosen, she's always walked down to her mum and dad in the audience. That's part of the prize.

The prize is a car, a week's holiday in Kerry, and a set of cutlery. The Rose also has to travel the world doing good wherever she goes for the next year. I mean, she HAS to. That's the price of success.

And yet... it's also probably the best of these types of competitions, I agree. You win for being a lovely person. Lovely girls.

Reply #209. Aug 21 13, 2:40 AM

playmate1111

Hellooooo ... is a South African allowed in an Irish Pub? ;)

Reply #210. Aug 21 13, 3:34 AM

Chavs

Always! Hello. :)

Reply #211. Aug 21 13, 3:49 AM

dsimpy

And particularly welcome if you're buying the drinks. :)

Reply #212. Aug 21 13, 3:58 AM

dsimpy

Three mates and I drove down from Belfast once for Rose of Tralee Week. We sat in a bar (mostly the same one) drinking nonstop for four days from 12 noon to 2.00am, and missed the whole thing.

I think the Rose from Leeds called into the bar we were in for a flying visit (as she was sponsored by that bar), but apart from foggily spotting her sash through a miasma of drink I recall nothing either of her beauty or brains! :)

For all we saw of Tralee or the festival, I've never been quite sure why we went down there (though I'm sure it's great!). We could just have sat drinking for four days in Hoppy Dobbins (now Biddy Duffys) on the Andersonstown Road and saved ourselves the drive! :)

Reply #213. Aug 21 13, 4:11 AM

Chavs

Quite obviously you were there to give the festival some je ne sais quoi! Ask not what the festival can do for you...

Reply #214. Aug 21 13, 5:11 AM

Chavs

Monday: A little bit of Irish Lit!
Tuesday: FunTrivia Mix
Wednesday: World Trivia 1 : Easier
Thursday: Geography 1 : Easier
Friday: A little bit of Irish Lit!
Saturday: Movies 2 : Intermediate
Sunday: General Knowledge 3 : Average

Reply #215. Aug 25 13, 5:14 PM

postcards2go

Love the categories, Chavs. I can see you spend time on the 'special' ones :-D

Reply #216. Aug 25 13, 6:05 PM

daver852

I'm happy to see the judges had the good sense to choose a Texas girl this year :)

Actually, "The Rose of Tralee" is probably not an Irish song at all. Local legends notwithstanding, the song appears to have been written around the middle of the 19th century by two Englishmen, C. Mourdant Spencer (lyrics) and Charles William Glover (music). They are the names appearing on the earliest sheet music.

Reply #217. Aug 25 13, 8:09 PM

dsimpy

Just like some Irish songs not being all they appear, it seems Haley O'Sullivan is only a recent Texas blow-in, and is actually a born and bred Arizona girl. :)

Dáithí

Reply #218. Aug 26 13, 8:02 AM

Chavs

Thanks, Postie. It's a bit hit and miss but I've been trying to pick some different topics but add an Irish taste (else what's the point? :)).

Any suggestions or requests for special topics or favourite categories are gladly received!

Reply #219. Aug 26 13, 3:43 PM

Chavs

Did you see the little storm in a teacup (well, mild squall in a thimble really) about it all being a fix? The cutlery had already been engraved with the O'Sullivan family crest, suggesting that they knew in advance who the winner would be (Miss O'Sullivan from Texas via Arizona). However, Newbridge Silver, proud makers of forks and tiaras and stuff, deny all prior knowledge saying the cutlery they showed on the night just had that crest on it coincidentally.

A likely story! ;)

Reply #220. Aug 26 13, 3:48 PM

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