"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

[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.