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My mom told me a similar story. She siad she was shopping in a department store and there was a woman with a little boy who was acting up. The mom said "Settle down or I'll wallop you." The kid said "You can't wallop me coz if you do, I'll tell everybody I saw Daddy's pee-pee in your mouth!"
(that's what mom told me. For a devout Catholic, my mom has something of filthy sense of humor)
years ago I got a late bus home with my friend Miriam. We overheard a conversation that was so funny we told everyone about it.
Now we lived in a very working class area of an small Irish city.
Girl had obviously just asked boy "do you love me?"
we didn't hear this part we only heard his response
"Wha?? What dye mean do I loves ya? Sure don't I buy ya chips an don't I Fla ya?, sure of course I loves ya!"
End discussion.
A Fla(dh) normally means an Irish festival, in this case the meaning is less edifying.
As we became more sucessful (socially) we told this story many times. Miriam ended up working for the leader of the Opposition and invited me many years on to a very important event in our capital city. We both heard the same conversation given as an example of Dublin Northside /Southside divide
( typical joke What do you call a Northsider (dublin) in a suit? Ans: The defendant)
We told people there that this was a conversation we had overheard in our own little city many years earlier. No-one believed us, they thought it impossible.
This is what it's like being in on the beginning of an urban legend (- It was the No 2 bus from Pana to Gurran)
Anyways
another Northside /Southside joke (Southside in both cases being the economically advantaged part of the city)
What's the difference between Northside girls and Southside girls?
Northside girls wear fake jewellry and have real orgasms
Oh that's brill. What a great response. Poor kid, named Dylan. Ack. A guy on one of my hockey teams has a son called River. He's about 13 years old and plays hockey too. Eeek.
Hysterical!!! I'm with the black lady, too. Maybe not a smack, per se. But I'd most certainly lean down with my best Mom-Of-Doom glare and say some choice things through gritted teeth. Always worked.