the half century

[lesbos]

sorry lads to go a bit ofF topic but can i on behalf of all regulars on this board just wish a happy 50th birthday today to the greatest living Englishman Stephen Patrick Morrissey Thanks.

[Hookey]

Originally Posted By: richard193

sorry lads to go a bit ofF topic but can i on behalf of all regulars on this board just wish a happy 50th birthday today to the greatest living Englishman Stephen Patrick Morrissey Thanks.

He's Irish!

From Wikipedia...

Steven Patrick Morrissey was born at Park Hospital (now known as Trafford General Hospital) in Davyhulme, Urmston, Lancashire, on 22 May 1959 to Irish Catholic immigrants.

The Duke of Wellington was being teased about the fact he was born in Dublin and therefore Irish. He replied "Being born in a stable doesn't make you a horse"!!!

[Lightweight]

And if a double decker bus crashes into us.

 

To die by your side is such a heavenly way to die.

 

And if a ten ton truck kills the both of us.

 

To die by your side well the pleasure the privilege is mine.

 

There's a light and it never goes out.

[Hookey]

I was sleeping in the haze of a drunken hour.....

[Lightweight]

From the ice age to the dole age there is but one concern.

 

I have just discovered some girls are bigger than others.

[lesbos]

Leave it out hookey morrissey is as english as auden and larkin, you will be claiming oscar wilde,george bernard shaw and WB Yeats as irish next, sorry they were all english,the only great writer who could possibly be called irish was james joyce and feck me did he lost the plot after ulysses.

we wont go down the sectarian route but shaw,wilde,o'casey,beckett,yeats,synge even sheridan were all English Protestants.

[Guest MOB on the rock]

Hookey is correct, Richard sorry mate you are wrong.

[lesbos]

wrong about what? how can the irish claim morrissey?

only england could produce morrissey and he is the last of my england,the england of out of season seaside resorts, that repression,the melancholy et cetera anyway its half two in the fecking morning and im here claiming writers for my homeland stop winding me up hookey.

[coupwotcoup]

I have done most of that piece for your programme Rich, just needs a month's worth of polishing now..

[Jenko]

Morrissey is a c**t so he must be Irish!

[Hookey]

So much for celtic solidarity.

[lesbos]

ok coup im putting together a protype on monday for next seasons programme,i cant do a lot until i know whos playing for us and other missing information but i need to start to make progress.

i intend to do separate programmes for all 5 friendlies.

[Hookey]

Originally Posted By: richard193

Leave it out hookey morrissey is as english as auden and larkin, you will be claiming oscar wilde,george bernard shaw and WB Yeats as irish next, sorry they were all english,the only great writer who could possibly be called irish was james joyce and feck me did he lost the plot after ulysses.
we wont go down the sectarian route but shaw,wilde,o'casey,beckett,yeats,synge even sheridan were all English Protestants.

I'm more of a Brendan Behan fan myself.

"Last night as I slept, I dreamt I met with Behan, I shook him by the hand as we passed the time of day..."

[lesbos]

aah Behan, that old alcoholic lived up to every stale and cliched irish sterotype, a shame as The Quare Fellow showed great promise.

[Darter]

lol, I think you have all fallen for this one. You don't really think you could tell Richard anything about Morrissey, do you? He knows EVERYTHING about him

[Hookey]

When I spoke to Morrissey a couple of weeks ago (He had been in London for the One Show), he said he'd never heard of Richard!