Great pick up lines in Irish – Quiet Road, Milk Girl

Ah yes, that quiet road, and the milk girl..

The ad, for those that haven’t see it, goes like this. Three young Irishmen are on holidays in some foreign city. They go into a nightclub, and shout three Carlsberg. The bartender asks where they are from and they reply “Ireland”. So next the lads are expected to do something “Irish”. Hot and available women are close by. They must act and quickly…

Anyway, they decide to speak in Irish. So the leader turns around and says falteringly “An bhfuil cead agam dul amach go dtí an leithreas?” May I go to the restroom?. This is considered very typical of what anyone first learns in Irish class.

The lascivious women are starting to come closer…My god they like it. Another lad tells them it is a poem in his land’s ancient Irish tongue….The lad’s confidence builds then and he begins orating wildly to an eager crowd. “Agus madra rua. Is maith liom caca milis. Agus Sharon Ní Bheoláin! Tá geansaí orm. Tá scamall sa spéir. Tabhair dom an caca milis!” And a fox. I like sweet cake. And Sharon Ní Bhaláin. I am wearing a shirt. There is a cloud in the sky. Give me the sweet cake!, etc.

The scene ends with our hero cutting a rug with the local talent. “Speak more Irish,” she asks him. “Ciúnas bóthar cailín bainne”Quiet road milk girl he tells her, dancing away. She laughs seductively. Fade to black.

Actually I seem to recall picking up my wife that way, whilst reading real Irish poetry on a plane…

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Sean

Tien Tien

Had dinner this evening at a terrific restaurant.  I will have to take my team there for lunch.  It is a Chinese buffet with a great selection.   I will have to learn what Tien Tien means in Chinese…I believe it means sweet sweet.  I read that in Chinese when you use a term of endearment with someone, you tend to repeat the term.  So tien means sweet and when referring to something or someone, you would say “tien tien” as a nickname. 

Sean