50 Tings I likes about being a Waterfordian!

March 4, 2010 by wellboy
Filed under: Waterford Culture 
  1. Aytin’ blaas and drinkin’ large bohhels
  2. Firing me gallybander (slingshot) and shellakybookies (snails)
  3. Headin’ out for a few large bohhels off de shellef with de lads
  4. Aytin’ a few scallops afterwards
  5. Headin’ out to de flicks with de lack
  6. Reminding Kilkenny they’re not a city
  7. The city’s characters such as Martin Hunt and Joey de Blonk over de years (see Appendix wan)
  8. Knowin Waterford is de oldest city in Ireland
  9. Listenin to d’owl fellas accent and wishing I couldn’t pronounce me rrrs properly too
  10. Getting in me car and being at one of 10 beaches near the city within 10 minutes
  11. Drivin up d’Ard Ree with de lack lookin at de view of de city
  12. Goin off with me lack and stawlin’ de head offa her durin d’Erection section in wan of de nighclubs in the city
  13. Wipin wilnots offa de baaieegs of me barse
  14. Aytin ghrrribs and hang sangwiches and drinkin’ tay out de boot of me cayer at de matches
  15. Being amused by Cork thinking they’re de real capital
  16. Getting dilisk in d’Summer
  17. Headin’ up tew de magic hill in d’Mountains
  18. Not being able to say one, two or three (wan, tew, tree)
  19. Saying dat ting over dayer
  20. Saying heow neow browen keow
  21. Saying well boy and listening to gerhels saying well girl boy!
  22. Chanting I, I I-I-I when two lads are fighting
  23. Asking people do they want ‘their go’ and when they refuse saying to them ‘smell off yer lack boy’
  24. Responding to people who want their go with the phrase ‘ask yer mudder!’
  25. Bummin’ de dogs end off a fag
  26. Canting the ball over de shed and listening to disappointed younfellas saying ‘das cat boy’
  27. When they ask why I did it telling dem ‘das de why’
  28. Headin’ down tew de payple’s park at tenna past wan for me red lead blaa
  29. Getting de scutters after too many large bottles of clonmel chardonnay and getting an irey hole off it (ok I don’t enjoy dat about Waterford, das actually cat malojan boy!)
  30. Calling narky owl wans baaiieeegs and waving me waterford flaaiieeeegs
  31. Talkin’ about de blues when they usesta be unbelayvable boy!
  32. Talkin about the Waterford hurlin’ curse and using that as a handy excuse for not winning the All Ireland in 50 years (and saying this is our year perpetually)
  33. Reminding Cork that we beat them 4 times in 2007 :-D
  34. Calling all me friends and me father and me children busshie
  35. Giving people cheesers and shaymusses in school
  36. Drinkin so many cans of Hoppmans dat I ends up in da Horrars boy!
  37. Playin knockadolly on de neighbours and doin’ a legger
  38. Being laxy daisy (lackadaisical) about tings
  39. Puttin de juice from a pissy bed on me warts tinkin it will work miracles
  40. Puttin peteral in me cayer
  41. Runnin up to the baldy man and being beyond bollixed afterward
  42. Pickin belly busters off a country bush and aytin’ em dayer and den
  43. Askin for a few flogs in the shop
  44. Playin with knucks and me conkers on kaynes road
  45. Having a lash down a shore
  46. Being as cute as cut-de bags
  47. Saying up ya boyo at matches
  48. Saying ‘well wear’ to people when they get something new
  49. Complaining about Brendan McCan’t for holding up developments in the city and wishing he’d move back to Galway!
  50. Usin’ the wooden spoon as a means of scaring young children into being good.

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