"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.

[cmdr-zoom.livejournal.com]

the cake is a lie

[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!

[ninjadebugger.livejournal.com]

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

[azikale.livejournal.com]

That is brilliant!