Monday, September 29, 2014

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Assigned reading (2+ pars [] plus 87 notes) [secondary] [McH] [*]


synopsis: 'the publican cleans the bar-room, drinks dregs and passes out — King Roderick O'Connor, last high king of Ireland'




"fall and fall about"

chateaubottled winecork
FW2 fixes the misspelling of Guinness's
VI.A-Painful "Roob-Coccola" drunken slurring of rootbeer and coca-cola?

a 'shot' is ~1.5oz
'the rising of the moon'
'Larry's on the force' [lyrics]
'The flea in the hair on the tail of the dog of the daughter of the wife of the wild man of Borneo has just come to town' [lyrics]
cf U13.1223 "The sister of the wife of the wild man of Borneo has just come to town."
Nancy Hands = pub hostess [more]
"Farvel" = Fairy Well??? [etext]
'Fallen is your star, low'


fdv: "such as it was either Guiness's or Phoenix Brewery Stout or John Jameson and Sons or for that matter O'Connell's Dublin ale as a fallback of several different quantities amounting in all to I should say considerably more than the better part of a gill or naggin of imperial dry and liquid measure"

4dv: "such as it was no matter whether it was chateaubottled Guinness's or Phoenix brewery stout it was or John Jameson and Sons or Roob Coccola or for the matter of that O'Connell's famous old Dublin ale that he wanted like hell as a fallback of several different quantities and qualities amounting in all to I should say considerably more than the better part of a gill or naggin of imperial dry or liquid measure."


mysteries:



[07:35-09:10]

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