Heard the one about the Irish Catholic forced to quit for jokes about Irish Catholics! (U.K.)

The Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | September 12, 2007 | LIZ HULL

[tundrachick]

Well I'm half Irish/half Polish, so I've heard 'em all! Here's an oldie but a goodie:

Q: How many Irishmen does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: Two. One to hold the bulb in place, and two to drink until the room spins!

[Gerish]

Another brainwashed PC feel-gooder with way too much time of her hands to make a big deal out of these jokes. Seems to have her “paddys” in a wad!

[Stoat]

First this pathetic woman says she is not speaking in her official capacity, then she goes on at some length to say that because of her official capacity, she is in a position to know how harmful the jokes are. Sounds like a threat to me.

Indeed it was.  She attempted to make life impossible for him by engaging in background subterfuge and machinations, which she did in a roundabout way to insulate her from charges of abusing her official capacity.  She probably never expected this to blow up into an international incident and will say ANYTHING now to distance herself from the matter.  I'm sure that she had expected all of the advertisers to quietly leave and for him to be effectively 'shunned' by the community, and for him to never know who started it all because it was a "private conversation"..

The fact remains, however, that she did indeed use her position in an effort to intimidate and slander this good man with the brush of Racism, whose taint no white person can escape once it's been applied.

By the way, I am mostly Irish and a Catholic, and I saw NO harm in those jokes. In fact, I loved the one about the priest telling people to go stand against the wall.

Drat, wish I had a good Irish joke to add right here.

I have no doubt that this thread will soon fill up with great Irish / Catholic jokes.....just check back occasionally :-)

 

First this pathetic woman says she is not speaking in her official capacity, then she goes on at some length to say that because of her official capacity, she is in a position to know how harmful the jokes are. Sounds like a threat to me.

Indeed it was.  She attempted to make life impossible for him by engaging in background subterfuge and machinations, which she did in a roundabout way to insulate her from charges of abusing her official capacity.  She probably never expected this to blow up into an international incident and will say ANYTHING now to distance herself from the matter.  I'm sure that she had expected all of the advertisers to quietly leave and for him to be effectively 'shunned' by the community, and for him to never know who started it all because it was a "private conversation"..

The fact remains, however, that she did indeed use her position in an effort to intimidate and slander this good man with the brush of Racism, whose taint no white person can escape once it's been applied.

By the way, I am mostly Irish and a Catholic, and I saw NO harm in those jokes. In fact, I loved the one about the priest telling people to go stand against the wall.

Drat, wish I had a good Irish joke to add right here.

[tundrachick]

Whoops. Make that three. My Polish side showing...

[SunkenCiv]

My pleasure. :’)

[livius]

ROFLOL!!!

[livius]

Liberals have NO sense of humor. I guess that’s why they’re liberals - a congenital failure of imagination when they look at the world.

I liked the joke about the priest sending the guys to stand against the wall, too.

Here’s the only Irish joke I remember at the moment:

Paddy and Mike are digging a trench in the street when an elderly nun arrives at the corner. She starts to cross the street but slips and falls on the dirt they’ve dug up.

Mike rushes to pick her up, but Paddy screams,

“Jaysus, Mike, don’t touch her, she’s holy! Pick her up with the shovel!”

[Malsua]

I guess that means Louis CK gets hung by the neck until dead then. His Catholic vid ...hooofa. It’d be really (explicitly, extremely, completely, totally)offensive if I were a Catholic. I’m not, but it’s not for those with tender ears.

http://www.youtube.com/louisck

[Stoat]

To All:

There's a little bit more on this matter in a local media outlet:

A parish council chairman has resigned as editor of his community magazine after he was accused of printing racist Irish jokes.Denis Lusby, who is Irish himself, said he was deeply...

(edit)

Mr Lusby's parish council colleague Jo Kay, who runs the village carnival committee, described the Irishman as a stalwart of the community.

"It's a pity for the village that he has given up because Denis has done a very good job and brought the magazine to life over the years," said Mr Kay.

"He does a lot for the village and helps a lot with the carnival by bringing in money from advertising in the programme," he added.

(end edit)

So now this nice man's community has been hurt in many ways as a result of this awful woman's slanderous, backdoor attack.

[MinuteGal]

I hope the newsletter goes back to a flysheet from the 56-pages he built it up to.

Would that St. Paddy could return and drive the snake....er, stick.....from this woman's Irish southern region.

Leni

[SunkenCiv]

“I’m Patrick FitzWilliam” “and I’m William Fitzpatrick” “and we’ve heard the joke, so save it!”

[SunkenCiv]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Wozniak#Trivia

[Red Badger]

“I’m Patrick FitzWilliam” “and I’m William Fitzpatrick” “and we’ve heard the joke, so save it!”

I've not heard that one..............

[Red Badger]

My joke:

Two Irishmen walked out of a bar.................

That IS the joke. That’s all there is..............

[RichInOC]

God save us all from humorless idiots.

[Scotsman will be Free]

Racist? He’s making fun of a nationality, not a race. At anyrate, the complainant is a silly twit with zero sense of humor, and a do gooder/moron mentality. Typical liberal.

[daku]

the council woman who wronged this man should be thankfull she wan’t born Polish, she’d of killed herself by now

[CholeraJoe]

So, an Irishman walks into a bar in Lexington, Kentucky, orders a Guinness and announces, "Hillary Clinton is a horse's a$$!"

Immediately, four burly men surround him and start beating him up. After a few minutes, they stop and the now bleeding Irishman pulls himself back on to the barstool and says to the bartender, "They must have been Hillary supporters."

The bartender says, "Nope. Horse supporters."

[Syberyenta]

The Irish would rather fight than win.

:)

[Larry Lucido]

*Seinfeld ping

Jerry enters confessional, sits down on kneeler. Father Curtis opens sliding door.

Father: That’s a kneeler.

Jerry: Oh. (Adjusts accordingly)

Father: Tell me your sins, my son.

Jerry: Well I should tell you that I’m Jewish.

Father: That’s no sin.

Jerry: Oh good. Anyway, I wanted to talk to you about Dr. Whatley. I have a suspicion that he’s converted to Judaism just for the jokes.

Father: And this offends you as a Jewish person.

Jerry: No, it offends me as a comedian. And it’ll interest you that he’s also telling Catholic jokes.

Father: Well.

Jerry: And they’re old jokes. I mean, the Pope and Raquel Welch in a lifeboat.

Father: I haven’t heard that one.

Jerry: Oh, I’m sure you have. They’re out on the ocean and, yada yada yada, and she says, “Those aren’t buoys.” (Father starts laughing) Father...