"Do something Irish..."
Nov. 23rd, 2007 06:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dduaneThis 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:
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.
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.
