"Do something Irish..."

[dianeduane]

This Carlsberg ad has started turning up on Irish TV recently. Three Irish guys walk into a bar in Rio... and one of them, challenged to "Do something Irish", improvises a poem. Of sorts.

The joke is that the "poem" is a random string-together of phrases or words that an Irish school kid might pick up... and some concepts that on the face of it don't have much to do with school. But the natives in Rio, naturally, don't realize this. A rendering of the poem:

Can I please go out to the bathroom?
And a fox, I like... a cake!
And Sharon Ní Bheoláin!*
I'm wearing a jumper...
There are clouds in the sky --
Give me the cake!

And at the end of the commercial, when the lady asks our hero a question, the answer is: "Quiet road, milk girl...!"

(A tip of the hat to YouTube user gurthnarea for the translation.)

*Sharon is a co-anchor on RTÉ's version of the six o'clock news.

Comments

[dorianegray.livejournal.com]

I hardly ever watch TV, so I hadn't seen that.

It's hilarious! (To an Irish person, at least...though I do wonder why they left out the first line or two of the Lord's Prayer; that's what we used to use in Berlin.)

Thank you.

[clanwilliam.livejournal.com]

Personally, I find the rhythm of the Hail Mary slightly better for starting a convincing-sounding conversation (although you can't beat "hallowed be thy name" and "thy kingdom come" for sounding like things are getting rather heated), but it's really a matter of what works for you.

[cmdr-zoom.livejournal.com]

the cake is a lie

[dduane.livejournal.com]

Is that a line that should be going in there as well?

[tropism.livejournal.com]

I believe that was a reference to Valve's new Portal game. Actually, I know it is.

...And because I played the game through, I know the truth:

THE CAKE IS NOT A LIE!

[ninjadebugger.livejournal.com]

Have you earned vanilla crazy cake yet?

[anton-p-nym.livejournal.com]

Still haven't earned my cupcake yet, here, though I haven't devoted much time to it yet. I will definitely return to the Aperture Science Enrichment Centre though...

-- Steve thinks folks who haven't tried Portal really should give it a go; if, for no other reason, to meet the most passive-aggressive villain in SF.

[aliaspiral.livejournal.com]

*cackles* that is awesome! I picked up a few words, but I dont know nearly enough to even know the nonsense phrases..although, Ive now learned how to say cake. Cake is good.

[(Anonymous)]

Ah but that's the beauty of gaelic even when spouting nonsense it sounds lyrical!

[jaxomsride.livejournal.com]

Oops that was me but LJ is playing silly buggers with my cookies.

[ninjadebugger.livejournal.com]

That's better poetry than a lot of the stuff people post on their blags.

[azikale.livejournal.com]

That is brilliant!