Comment On Souvenir Potpourri: Irish Girl

Ever since the first Free Sticker Week ended back in February '07, I've been sending out WTF Stickers to anyone that mailed me a SASE or a small souvenir. More recently, I've been sending out the coveted TDWTF Mugs for truly awesome souvenirs. Nothing specific; per the instructions page, "anything will do." Well, here goes anything, yet again! (previous: Steak Dinner). [expand full text]
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Re: Souvenir Potpourri: Irish Girl

2009-01-09 09:06 • by Bert from Earth (unregistered)
Is it a WTF or a TFW that you didn't arrange the dutch chocolate letters in the correct order? : )


Note from Alex: TRWTF is that I didn't even notice that they were letters! That's extra awesome.

Re: Souvenir Potpourri: Irish Girl

2009-01-09 09:07 • by Joon (unregistered)
I love the baby animals. I wonder what the FIRST one in the book is?

Re: Souvenir Potpourri: Irish Girl

2009-01-09 09:08 • by Joon (unregistered)
238294 in reply to 238293
Joon:
I love the baby animals. I wonder what the FIRST one in the book is?


Curses! I should not have spent so long reading the article :-)

Re: Souvenir Potpourri: Irish Girl

2009-01-09 09:13 • by Steve (unregistered)
Classic Souvenir Potpourri, the shot of you with Irish Doll is just too beautiful for words!

Re: Souvenir Potpourri: Irish Girl

2009-01-09 09:34 • by DKO (unregistered)
238297 in reply to 238295
Steve:
the shot of you with Irish Doll is just too beautiful for words!


Indeed, is there a wallpaper-sized version of that photo?

Re: Souvenir Potpourri: Irish Girl

2009-01-09 09:43 • by Wilt (unregistered)
So, you let the inflatable blow out onto the ice, so risking the chance that some public-spirited type would call 911 for a rescue or retrieval, and the local emergency services would get to risk their lives?

Perhaps you should use handcuffs next time...

Re: Souvenir Potpourri: Irish Girl

2009-01-09 09:45 • by Vincent (unregistered)
Those chocolate letters are in the wrong order...

Re: Souvenir Potpourri: Irish Girl

2009-01-09 09:47 • by Vincent (unregistered)
238302 in reply to 238301
Vincent:
Those chocolate letters are in the wrong order...


*cough* Good thing I didn't read the first comment...

Re: Souvenir Potpourri: Irish Girl

2009-01-09 09:51 • by jimlangrunner
Things ended pretty quickly after that, as a strong gust of wintery wind carried the inflatable to the frozen lake. A more chivalrous man would have certainily attempted a rescue, but I just sneaked away, somewhat relieved that I wouldn't have to find a place in the office for the simulacrum.

So that's where she came from. She landed in Erie (halfway to Buffalo) where we welcome the Browns back & cheer the Steelers. She's now wearing a Troy Polamalu jersey and is sitting in my chair (at home). My wife isn't happy about it, but so long as she doesn't eat the MnMs, she's okay.

Oh, yeah. I'll be dropping by for a beer the next time I'm in Cleveland. Thanks for the tip!

Re: Souvenir Potpourri: Irish Girl

2009-01-09 10:00 • by ParkinT
Hey. I found this inflatable girl (wearing an Irish Girl T-shirt) the other day. Where do I send it?

Re: Souvenir Potpourri: Irish Girl

2009-01-09 10:16 • by Chris Ridenour (unregistered)
I miss Irish girl already :(

Re: Souvenir Potpourri: Irish Girl

2009-01-09 10:33 • by clickey McClicker (unregistered)
grandma is dead? and you replace her with what?

Re: Souvenir Potpourri: Irish Girl

2009-01-09 10:36 • by Bob (unregistered)
I find that slightly disturbing...

Re: Souvenir Potpourri: Irish Girl

2009-01-09 10:42 • by Sionnach (unregistered)
Why so you all insist on spelling it St. Patty's Day? It's St. Paddy's Day!

A bit anal of me I know but I just can't help it!

With all that said, what Danny sent you was bloody funny, and posing for that pic was just hilarious!

Re: Souvenir Potpourri: Irish Girl

2009-01-09 11:07 • by Lincoln (unregistered)
Jeez... I knew the WTF HQ was close, but I guess I'll have to drop a note next time I'm picking up dry cleaning at Master Cleaners

Re: Souvenir Potpourri: Irish Girl

2009-01-09 11:36 • by Apostrophe'Man (unregistered)
238317 in reply to 238311
Sionnach:
Why so you all insist on spelling it St. Patty's Day? It's St. Paddy's Day!


LoL copyright?

Re: Souvenir Potpourri: Irish Girl

2009-01-09 11:49 • by Skippy (unregistered)
Read more pages of "Grandma's Dead" here:
http://browseinside.harpercollins.com/index.aspx?isbn13=9780061673764

Re: Souvenir Potpourri: Irish Girl

2009-01-09 12:04 • by Capt. Obvious
238321 in reply to 238299
Wilt:
So, you let the inflatable blow out onto the ice, so risking the chance that some public-spirited type would call ...

Wilt, don't worry. That entire story is fictional. Alex just wants to encourage people to send of latex Irish girls. Maybe one of his friends is having a bachelor party soon?

Or maybe, after inspiring competition among the techically minded, he expects a fully functional andriod version to arise from all the one-ups-manship.

Re: Souvenir Potpourri: Irish Girl

2009-01-09 12:08 • by willem (unregistered)
238322 in reply to 238292
Bert from Earth:
Is it a WTF or a TFW that you didn't arrange the dutch chocolate letters in the correct order? : )


Note from Alex: TRWTF is that I didn't even notice that they were letters! That's extra awesome.


Ah, yes. Every Christmas, my mother would give myself, my older brother Tomas and my younger sister Freda chocolate letters.

Re: Souvenir Potpourri: Irish Girl

2009-01-09 12:46 • by Misha (unregistered)
Dammnit, now I'm jealous. I was just in Holland, and reading this article has made me realise I must have left my Speculaas at my grandmothers. Oh well, still got my chocolate letters.

Re: Souvenir Potpourri: Irish Girl

2009-01-09 13:06 • by clickey McClicker (unregistered)
238326 in reply to 238309
Bob:
I find that slightly disturbing...

I just call them as I interpret them and am otherwise not involved. That said, "Welcome to the Internet!"

Re: Souvenir Potpourri: Irish Girl

2009-01-09 14:08 • by Procedural (unregistered)

Can't see it properly; but is that a strip of Ubuntu condoms in the image ?

Re: Souvenir Potpourri: Irish Girl

2009-01-09 15:12 • by Nodody (unregistered)
238336 in reply to 238333
Procedural:

Can't see it properly; but is that a strip of Ubuntu condoms in the image ?


I think they are stickers, but I'm pretty sure that's a Royal Palms Restaurant condom.

Re: Suspicious package

2009-01-09 15:50 • by Sam Thornton (unregistered)
Reassuring to you that your underlings thought enough of you to save the potential bomb for your exclusive attention.

Re: Souvenir Potpourri: Irish Girl

2009-01-09 15:55 • by BikeHelmet (unregistered)

Re: Souvenir Potpourri: Irish Girl

2009-01-09 15:59 • by DShpak (unregistered)
238343 in reply to 238324
Misha:
Dammnit, now I'm jealous. I was just in Holland, and reading this article has made me realise I must have left my Speculaas at my grandmothers. Oh well, still got my chocolate letters.

I just ate my annual Christmas chocolate letter last night (we're not Dutch enough to do Sinter Klaas). The puur ones are the best!

I would also like to note my long-held conviction that most Dutch is simply badly-spelled English:

Chocoladeletter = Chocolate letter
Wit = White
Melk = Milk
Puur = Pure (i.e. dark chocolate)

Re: Souvenir Potpourri: Irish Girl

2009-01-09 17:30 • by Dekker3D (unregistered)
238348 in reply to 238343
Oh man, you should read "I always get my sin" or it's sequel, "We always get our sin too". I wonder if there's a version with most of the descriptive text in english, i'm sure that most wtf readers would love it. That book is to the english language what this site is to programming languages.

Re: Souvenir Potpourri: Irish Girl

2009-01-09 17:33 • by Dekker3D (unregistered)
Just clarifying... i was referring to the post above me, who proposed that dutch might just be misspelled english. Truth be told, i agree. I can tell if someone's dutch by the grammar they use by now, even if they're doing their best to type in english.

Anyway, those books i mentioned are collections of commonly mistranslated sayings and proverbs used by dutch people trying (and failing) to speak english.

Re: Souvenir Potpourri: Irish Girl

2009-01-09 17:50 • by Worzel Gummage (unregistered)
238352 in reply to 238333
Procedural:

Can't see it properly; but is that a strip of Ubuntu condoms in the image ?


Yeah, because people that know what ubuntu is need condoms...

Re: Souvenir Potpourri: Irish Girl

2009-01-09 19:27 • by mvm92
238355 in reply to 238303
pics or it didn't happen ;)

Re: Souvenir Potpourri: Irish Girl

2009-01-09 20:41 • by Steve (unregistered)
So, in jail there was this guy who had a giant irish girl tattoo on his back... Whats that about?

Re: Souvenir Potpourri: Irish Girl

2009-01-10 06:27 • by Mod Vinson (unregistered)
238394 in reply to 238343
DShpak:
I would also like to note my long-held conviction that most Dutch is simply badly-spelled English:

Chocoladeletter = Chocolate letter
Wit = White
Melk = Milk
Puur = Pure (i.e. dark chocolate)
It is probably more likely the other way around.

Re: Souvenir Potpourri: Irish Girl

2009-01-10 06:32 • by mcr (unregistered)
just in case you didn't know, that "irish girl" is just a bustedtees.com model for that shirt, as she is for many others.

http://www.bustedtees.com/irish

Re: Souvenir Potpourri: Irish Girl

2009-01-10 17:37 • by Daniel Beardsmore
I must say, I am truly impressed with the blow-up doll with the t-shirt and face :) Alex's humor never lets us down.

dutch and english...was Re: Souvenir Potpourri: Irish Girl

2009-01-11 07:05 • by ed (unregistered)
I suppose Dutch lookslike badly spelled German to me but I remember reading years ago that untilrelatively recently the dialects of parts of the south-east of _ngland were close enough to DUTCH THAT THEY COULD TAL TO EACH OTHER faairly easily

Excuse caps

ed

Re: Souvenir Potpourri: Irish Girl

2009-01-11 16:32 • by BillyBob (unregistered)
So blow up dolls have no feet. They were creepy before but now they are extra creepy... but, you do learn something every day...

Re: dutch and english...was Re: Souvenir Potpourri: Irish Girl

2009-01-12 03:51 • by bjolling
238494 in reply to 238475
ed:
I suppose Dutch lookslike badly spelled German to me but I remember reading years ago that untilrelatively recently the dialects of parts of the south-east of England were close enough to DUTCH THAT THEY COULD TALK TO EACH OTHER fairly easily

Excuse caps

ed
I know for a fact that the dialects in North-East of Belgium are close enough to those in Western Germany. Language doesn't respect artificial boundaries such as country borders

Re: Souvenir Potpourri: Irish Girl

2009-01-12 03:59 • by bjolling
238495 in reply to 238351
Dekker3D:
Just clarifying... i was referring to the post above me, who proposed that dutch might just be misspelled english. Truth be told, i agree. I can tell if someone's dutch by the grammar they use by now, even if they're doing their best to type in english.

Anyway, those books i mentioned are collections of commonly mistranslated sayings and proverbs used by dutch people trying (and failing) to speak english.


My favorite one was a Dutch politician saying "There you say me something", a direct translation from "Daar zeg je me wat" which means something like: "You're right, I didn't think of that"

Re: Souvenir Potpourri: Irish Girl

2009-01-12 04:17 • by IHasYerCheezburger (unregistered)
238497 in reply to 238351
Dekker3D:
Just clarifying... i was referring to the post above me, who proposed that dutch might just be misspelled english. Truth be told, i agree. I can tell if someone's dutch by the grammar they use by now, even if they're doing their best to type in english.

But can you tell the difference between someone who's dutch and someone who's belgian/flemish? Ha!

Dekker3D:
Anyway, those books i mentioned are collections of commonly mistranslated sayings and proverbs used by dutch people trying (and failing) to speak english.

TRWTF is that the dutch can't even speak (or write) dutch.
And you don't need grammar to tell that I'm not dutch. Calling me dutch would be like calling a cymro or an albannaich english: an insult. :-)

Re: dutch and english...was Re: Souvenir Potpourri: Irish Girl

2009-01-12 04:23 • by IHasYerCheezburger (unregistered)
238498 in reply to 238475
ed:
I suppose Dutch lookslike badly spelled German to me but I remember reading years ago that untilrelatively recently the dialects of parts of the south-east of _ngland were close enough to DUTCH THAT THEY COULD TAL TO EACH OTHER faairly easily

Excuse caps

ed

Correct.
Old Kentish, West-Flemish and Old Frisian come from (or were influenced by) Ingvaeonic, also known as North Sea Germanic.
Frisian is even more similar to English than it is to Dutch!

Re: Souvenir Potpourri: Irish Girl

2009-01-12 07:00 • by Kiss me I'm Polish
238503 in reply to 238497
IHasYerCheezburger:
Dekker3D:
Just clarifying... i was referring to the post above me, who proposed that dutch might just be misspelled english. Truth be told, i agree. I can tell if someone's dutch by the grammar they use by now, even if they're doing their best to type in english.

But can you tell the difference between someone who's dutch and someone who's belgian/flemish? Ha!
Yeah, in Belgium they speak French with Dutch accent.

Re: Souvenir Potpourri: Irish Girl

2009-01-12 07:30 • by Tom (unregistered)
238507 in reply to 238351
Dekker3D:
I can tell if someone's dutch by the grammar they use by now


That's a crock o' shyte!

can you tell i'm dutch? ;)

Re: Souvenir Potpourri: Irish Girl

2009-01-12 08:18 • by jimlangrunner
I think I just threw up a little bit in my mouth.

Irish Girl has been replaced with Irish Guy. (http://www.bustedtees.com/irish)

I'm sorry. I just don't play that way. Irish Girl forever!

Re: Souvenir Potpourri: Irish Girl

2009-01-12 10:59 • by RiF (unregistered)
238573 in reply to 238510
jimlangrunner:
I think I just threw up a little bit in my mouth.

Irish Girl has been replaced with Irish Guy. (http://www.bustedtees.com/irish)

I'm sorry. I just don't play that way. Irish Girl forever!

Just a guess but is there a "female" tab on the modelling shots?

Re: Souvenir Potpourri: Irish Girl

2009-01-12 14:46 • by jimlangrunner
238632 in reply to 238573
RiF:
jimlangrunner:
I think I just threw up a little bit in my mouth.

Irish Girl has been replaced with Irish Guy. (http://www.bustedtees.com/irish)

I'm sorry. I just don't play that way. Irish Girl forever!

Just a guess but is there a "female" tab on the modelling shots?


Good catch, RiF! I can now go back to being a good little boy, dreaming about the good things in life, like Irish girls in t-shirts and football in January.

Re: Souvenir Potpourri: Irish Girl

2009-01-13 06:32 • by Ex-Pat in Holland (unregistered)
God verdorrie! =]
The letters are from Sinter Klaus (I'll let you wiki that)
The difference between Dutch and flemish is the "hard G" or the death gurgle :)
In Belgie they don't pronounce the g, hardly at all. up north (im in the middle) it's very pronounced.

Basically think Klingon. start to pronounce G, then hit yourself in the throat really hard, that's what a proper Dutch G is supposed to sound like. very hard for most allochtonen (of which i'm one. But i do know a little Klingon (he's so cute), and my G's are GOED!)

Dutch Grammar is an oxymoron. It simply doesn't exist. They sling sentences together somewhat haphazardly. At least that's how it seemed in taal les (language lessons). Whenever I asked questions I'd get "that is a goed question (Dat is een goede vraag)" and no actual answers.

TRWTF is that you let that shirt get away with the doll!

Re: Souvenir Potpourri: Irish Girl

2009-01-14 14:56 • by IT Girl (unregistered)
239101 in reply to 238510
jimlangrunner:
I think I just threw up a little bit in my mouth.

Irish Girl has been replaced with Irish Guy. (http://www.bustedtees.com/irish)

I'm sorry. I just don't play that way. Irish Girl forever!


I for one approve of the Irish guy.. +!

Re: CornerStone Brewing Company :)

2009-01-14 18:16 • by SamIAM (unregistered)
Sweet! I'm always down to try new brew pubs.

TRWTF is- small breweries are the TRUE made in America brews!

also..my captcha appellatio, first glance I thought it was "fellatio"

Crazy Irish doll has my mind in the gutter!

Re: Souvenir Potpourri: Irish Girl

2009-01-23 12:46 • by Connoisseur (unregistered)
Actually, Sangre de Toro isn't a Rioja. It's from Catalunya.

More info at http://www.torres.es

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