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STRANGE IRISH CURSES

June 25th 2009 19:49
grave
May your obituary be written in weasel's piss.

May the lamb of God stir his hoof through the roof of heaven and kick you in the arse down to hell.

May the devil swallow him sideways.

May the snails devour his corpse And the rains do harm worse May the devil sweep the hairy creature soon!

May your hens take the disorder(the fowl-pest), your cows the crippen(phosphorosis) and your calves the white scour! May yourself go stone-blind so that you will not know your wife from a hay-stack!

May the seven terriers of hell sit on the spool of your breast and bark in at your soul-case

The treatment of the boiled broken little fish to you

The roasting of the salmon to the very end on you

May you be broken over the masons cliff

Six horse-loads of graveyard clay on top of you

May the entrails and mansion of pleasure of this worm fall out

May the devil cut the head off you and make a days work of your neck

No butter be on your milk nor on your ducks a web. May your child not walk and your cow be flayed. And may the flame be bigger and wider which will go through your soul than the Connemara mountains if they were on fire

The curse of the crows on you

May you be afflicted with the itch and have no nails to scratch with!

I bind you by grave injunctions of magic from the river, back to the river, may you fall in a nettle patch and may savage dogs eat your one good foot on a mountain.

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HARI KARI? HARI KUYO!

May 21st 2009 10:49
sewing needle threaded
In Japan, every village has a shrine dedicated to broken sewing needles. Yes, that's right, broken sewing needles! The name for this shrine is Hari Kuyo.

This is done in the belief that a sewing needle which has performed its task well over its entire life and in the service of others, has 'died' whilst in active service. Broken needles are therefore laid to rest on a soft bed of tofu.
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gravestone headstone

This gravestone is located in the Notre-Dame-des-Neiges Cemetery, Montreal, Section C, Plot: 01369.

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money free clipart
In 2001, Yiannis Katsanis, a Greek millionaire passed away leaving a rather disturbing clause in his will. Disturbing that is, for his relatives and the people of his hometown, Afitos.

The will stipulated that the sum of two billion drachmas ($5.28 million) was to be bequeathed to the town to aid in the construction and running of a new hospital, on the proviso that detailed letters he had written about the sexual exploits and affairs of his relatives and other townspeople were to be read out in public at the town square.

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Top Hats! A Menace To Society!!!

July 9th 2008 10:30
top hat
James Heatherington, the inventor of the top hat, introduced his design to the world in London during 1797.

Upon leaving the shop wearing his unusual headwear he was surrounded by a crowd of onlookers where some pushing and shoving ensued, resulting in women fainting and a young boy having his arm broken.

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So Who Knows Japanese???

March 15th 2008 09:00
OK, I'm not giving out a fact for today, unless I can say that it's a fact that this is seemingly idiotic, but actually I need someone out there in cyberspace to explain this one to me?!?!

flag of Japan Japanese
So if there are any Japanese speakers around, you can probably help me out with this rather bizarre little man and his website. I know the Japanese have a reputation for having a bizarre sense of humour, but can someone explain to me what he's saying HERE?

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toilet
Sometimes you wonder exactly what you pay your taxes for!

The other day we visited the old Viking and Roman town of York, UK.

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A Motorola 12 Days Of Christmas

December 19th 2007 00:05
mobile phones motorola KRZR K1
Only a year ago mobile phone company Motorola came up with their own version of the 12 Days of Christmas which it played on the radio stations of certain countries such as the Philippines.

Going by the last verse of the song, it plays as thus:

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BEER For Your BEST FRIEND!

July 14th 2007 00:25
Here's the beer really designed for your best friend. However you may not be thinking of the same type of best friend as this beer company is. That's because this beer isn't designed for the friend of the 2-legged variety, but the 4-legged variety.

Kwispelbier - Beer for Dogs

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