Plain people of Ireland come forward and be counted

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Just wondered how many AAM members belong to the elite club The Plain People Of Ireland.

Jackie Healy Rae when questioned who did he represent,he answered the Plain people of Ireland.
When questioned who are these people he answered the people who still eat their dinner in the middle of the day.

So all you members who opt for evening restuarant romantic dinners with wine please remember you are relinquishing membership of this very important group.

If Bertie does a deal with Jackie what is in store for the women of South Kerry or the Republic for that matter ? {thats assuming women are more inclined towards these evening dinners than men folk]
 
Who eats in the middle of the day? The unemployed and pensioners? (Us Beautiful People are too busy working otherwise....)
 
Haille said:
When questioned who are these people he answered the people who still eat their dinner in the middle of the day.
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I often eat the leftovers of the previous day's dinner in the middle of the day - for lunch. Does that count? :confused:
 
Haille said:
When questioned who are these people he answered the people who still eat their dinner in the middle of the day.
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:D thats the funniest thing i have heard in a long time.

Who is at home in the middle of the day to eat dinner? Stay at home mums, the elderly, the unemployed and famers? Not sure if they would like to be included in his definition of "plain people".
 
Aah cant beat a bit of nostalgia. Having said that alot of elderly people eat dinner in middle of day, my aunt is living proof and she is eighty six, still running family business, siesta two to four for years and not a wrinkle, has all her faculties and more. Alot to be said for it.
 
I'd be asleep for the afternoon if I had dinner in the middle of the day. Makes more sense from a weight point of view though - get your calories in early so you've the rest of the day to work them off. A light snack in the evening is better that a big meal, if you're just going to sit on the couch or go to bed afterwards.
 
I think it was Mark Killilea, a Mayo politician who first coined that phrase....back in a time when people did eat dinners in the middle of the day. How come Jackie HR is now being accredited with it?:confused:
 
Same way Ivan Yates rather than David McWilliams seems to have been credited with coining the term "breakfast roll man" (i.e. dinner in a sandwich at the start of the day)?
 
I eat a pub dinner in the middle of the day, I know Eddie wouldnt approve but it does give me the sustinance required to work a bit late if I have to - longest working employees in Europe fuelling the Celtic Tiger innit !!
 
ClubMan said:
Same way Ivan Yates rather than David McWilliams seems to have been credited with coining the term "breakfast roll man" (i.e. dinner in a sandwich at the start of the day)?
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Pat Shorts' Breakfast Roll song didnt influence anybody ? ;)
 
ClubMan said:
Same way Ivan Yates rather than David McWilliams seems to have been credited with coining the term "breakfast roll man" (i.e. dinner in a sandwich at the start of the day)?
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Am I the only one to have Egg, Bacon, Sausage, Black Pudding and a Potato Wedge in my Breakfast Roll? And in a crusty/soft roll. As for dinner? I eat it at dinner time!
 
Simeon said:
Am I the only one to have Egg, Bacon, Sausage, Black Pudding and a Potato Wedge in my Breakfast Roll? And in a crusty/soft roll. As for dinner? I eat it at dinner time!
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If you aren't you should be. Think of your arteries...

Anyway obviously this thing about eating dinner in the middle of the day was a metaphor. Speaking as one of the plain people of Ireland.
 
The only people I know who eat their dinner during the day are the people who get "Meals on Wheels" :)
 
Welfarite said:
I think it was Mark Killilea, a Mayo politician who first coined that phrase....back in a time when people did eat dinners in the middle of the day. How come Jackie HR is now being accredited with it?:confused:
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Welfarite,
Myles Na gCopaleen(Flann O'Brien, Brian O'Nolan) frequently referred to "The plain people of Ireland" in his column for the Irish Times, Cruiskeen Lawn. He easily predates Mark Killea and was, I suspect, the originator of the phrase.
 
Vanilla said:
Anyway obviously this thing about eating dinner in the middle of the day was a metaphor. Speaking as one of the plain people of Ireland.
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I wouldn't have expected one of the plain people of Ireland to be talking about metaphors - what's that all about?
 
rmelly said:
I wouldn't have expected one of the plain people of Ireland to be talking about metaphors - what's that all about?
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Clearly you underestimate the plain people of Ireland who have never been known to lack intelligence.
 
We may not know our metaphors but we certainly know our black pudding. Incidentally, Vanilla, after a recent visit to my doctor ....... I've been warned off such things as I mentoned earlier. Triglycerides or something. Also bananas for some reason. Now I don't want to go off topic, but if we descended from those banana-loving bipeds, how come they didn't die out from this triglyceride thing.:confused::D:confused:
 
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