Reply to: Any Paddies out there

[Brussels Slumdog]

Ask Manfred Mann's dad

what exactly does

skiddley aye dum diddle aye day

mean ?

There she was just a walkin' down the street singin' doo waa diddy diddy dum diddy doo

[shaunbhoy]

My Irish grandad spent most of his time in Yorkshire - used to say 'now then begorrah... tha nos'

That would be Mick McCarthy then?

[norrahe]

ah don't bash me - I was sending it up.

My Irish grandad spent most of his time in Yorkshire - used to say 'now then begorrah... tha nos'

must be a Yorkshire thing

[Fishface]

WSS

ah don't bash me - I was sending it up.

My Irish grandad spent most of his time in Yorkshire - used to say 'now then begorrah... tha nos'

[Board Game Geek]

Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio

Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

Rosenbergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, "The King and I" and "The Catcher in the Rye"

Eisenhower, vaccine, England's got a new queen
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye

CHORUS
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser aand Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc

Roy hn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, dacron
Dien Bien Phu falls, "Rock Around the Clock"

Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland

Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Krushchev
Princess Grace, "Peyton Place", trouble in the Suez

CHORUS

Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, "Bridge on the River Kwai"

Lebanon, Charlse de Gaulle, California baseball
Starkweather, homicide, children of thalidomide

Buddy Holly, "Ben Hur", space monkey, Mafia
Hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go

U-2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, "Psycho", Belgians in the Congo

CHORUS

Hemingway, Eichmann, "Stranger in a Strange Land"
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion

"Lawrence of Arabia", British Beatlemania
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson

Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex
JFK, blown away, what else do I have to say

CHORUS

Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Moonshot, Woodsto/ck/, Watergate, punk rock
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline
Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan

"Wheel of Fortune", Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide
Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz
Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law
Rock and roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore

CHORUS

We didn't start the fire
But when we are gone
Will it still burn on, and on, and on, and on...

[TimberWolf]

i'll be dead

forgotten

mouldy.

sheet - i'll be sasguru

Only 25 years?

25 isn't much is it? 25 years ago doesn't seem at all long ago: 1984. Reagan and Thatcher. Miners strike. Michael Jackson's hair catches on fire.

[thunderlizard]

Found it !

Hi Di Ho Man

SFW (unless you are onsite at the BNP or KKK)

I was going to suggest Cab Calloway! He does the "hi de hi" thing in loads of his songs - I was thinking of "Minny the Moocher".

[Zippy]

Apparently a lot of my ancestors were either paddies or Welsh. Fill yer boots with innuendo!

[cailin maith]

Found it !

Hi Di Ho Man

SFW (unless you are onsite at the BNP or KKK)

I love Sesame St

[norrahe]

WSS

Thanks!

[Board Game Geek]

Found it !

Hi Di Ho Man

SFW (unless you are onsite at the BNP or KKK)

[cailin maith]

consult your dictionary, it's probably summat made up by you Engerlish folks that we "paddies" supposedly use

WSS

top o' the morning begorrah ye scared the bejazus oyt ome aye stickin oyt

[EternalOptimist]

Please keep it up.

What will you be doing in 25 years?

i'll be dead

forgotten

mouldy.

sheet - i'll be sasguru

[Churchill]

top o' the morning begorrah ye scared the bejazus oyt ome aye stickin oyt

You'll be sorry...

[Fishface]

top o' the morning begorrah ye scared the bejazus oyt ome aye stickin oyt