Codding
Comes from the word Cod which is a UK slang word meaning to joke, so codding is joking
Poteen (pah-CHEEN)
Whiskey illicitly distilled in Ireland. The name comes from the word pota which means Pot because poteen was traditionally distilled in a small pot. For Centuries, Poteen was produced in pot-stills under the bright moon, and because of the also became known as ‘The Shine’ or Moonshine. This type of brew was very strong usually 80% volume (160 units) and had a distinctive dry grainy flavor with a delicate aftertaste that became sweeter as it developed.
Myth: People would pour the liquid on wounds and sores for they believed it had disinfectant properties
EC
An international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members.
Gobshites
A person regarded as mean or contemptible
Cadging
Begging
Bob
European slang for Shilling
Maudlin
Drunk enough to be emotionally silly. Stems from the alteration of the Mary Magdalene, from her depiction as a weeping penitent.
Canonized
The act of declaring a dead person an official saint
Feigning
To fabricate
Gasurs
A small boy
Boss-eyes
Cross-eyed
Scalextrix
B&B
Bed and Breakfast
Flogging
English slang for selling
Batter
To beat with successive blows
Shingle
Mostly found in Western Europe, a beach composed of pebbles.
Montgomery Clift
An Academy Award winning american actor who died in the 60's. The film that Colman refers to is the 1953 film entitled I Confess by Hitchcock where he played Father Micael William Logan.
I Confess
The film by Alfred Hitchcock staring Montgomery Clift. Interesting piece of knowledge - the film was banned in Ireland because it showed a priest having a relationship with a woman (even though, in the movie, the relationship takes place before the character becomes a priest). Click here to watch trailer.
Bella:
First published in October of 1987. Its target audience is 25 -44 year old women with children, median age is 44.
Take a Break:
First published in March 1990, and is now the largest bestselling weekly coming in at 1.2 million copies.
Ker Plunk:
A nerve-racking game of skill & judgement with a helter skelter marble drop. For 2-4 players. This is a classic game of skill for all ages, it's a great test of hand-eye coordination. The game consists of a clear plastic tube, 30 thin sticks and 32 marbles. The object of the game is where each player pulls out one of the sticks hopefully without making any of the marbles fall to the bottom, if you happened to be unfortunate and all the marbles fell it would definitely be a 'Ker-plunk! and you would lose the game.
Vol-au-vents:
French for "windblown" to describe its lightness - it is a small hollow case of puffy pastry with a round opening at the top where ingredients such as mushrooms, meat, fruit and cheese can be added.
Taytos
A 1981 TV series in the US but started showing reruns in Ireland in the 1990’s. What Hill Street Blues did was revolutionize TV sitcoms by creating “interwoven plot lines, which created [their] distinctive ambience: “ ‘Quick cuts, a furious pace, a nervous camera made for complexity and congestion, a sense of entanglement and continuous crisis that matched the actual density and convolution of city life’ ”. The show also pushed the envelope by portraying controversial social issues like TV taboos (ex. Strong language and sexuality)
PREMISE: Set in the Hill Street Station, the show gave a narrative of this station which was located in a crime-infested ghetto metropolis. Each episode would chart a “day in the life” at the station. It would start from the early morning roll call to the late-night rehash of the day’s events.
Alias Smith and Jones: Video clip
A 1971 TV series originally staring Pete Duel (Hannibal Heyes) and Ben Murphy (Kid Curry) premised around a pair of western outlaws desperately trying to reform. However, when Hannibal Heyes killed himself, allegedly a self inflicted gunshot, the network hired Roger Davis to replace Pete Duel – however after Roger joined the show never regained its popularity that it had with Duel.
