{"id":242,"date":"2003-07-21T00:41:39","date_gmt":"2003-07-21T08:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscorrigan.com\/blogs\/?p=242"},"modified":"2003-07-21T00:41:39","modified_gmt":"2003-07-21T08:41:39","slug":"105877329942247708","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/105877329942247708\/","title":{"rendered":"105877329942247708"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am really grooving on Dervala’s blog<\/a> these days. And it is getting cooler by the day as she pokes around central Canada, bringing her sharp eye and lucid prose to our forested heartlands.<\/p>\n

Her notes on Canadian culture have been great, and they were topped recently by this brilliant take on the “I Am Canadian” rant, featuring a distinctly Irish theme:<\/p>\n

\n(lifts pint)
\nHowya.
\nI’m not a potato farmer
\nor a hod carrier<\/p>\n

and I don’t live in a thatched cottage,
\nor drink whiskey, or own a horse and cart
\nI probably do know Jimmy, Mary or Sin\u00ef\u00bf\u00bdad from Ireland
\nand I’m sure they’re really, really good crack.<\/p>\n

I have a Taoiseach
\nnot a Prime Minister
\nI speak English and Irish
\nnot Received Pronunciation
\nand I never say ‘Top o’ the mornin’ to ye’<\/p>\n

I’m too cool to sew a shamrock on my backpack
\nbut I believe in peace keeping, NOT policing.
\nSPONTANEITY, not respectability
\nAND THAT MICHAEL FLATLEY’S HAIR IS A TRULY PROUD AND NOBLE ANIMAL.
\n‘FECK’ IS BETTER THAN ‘CRIKEY’
\nTACKIES ARE TRAINERS
\nA PRESS IS A CUPBOARD
\nAND THE PLURAL IS PRONOUNCED ‘YE’ NOT ‘YOU’. ‘YE!’<\/p>\n

IRELAND IS THE LARGEST CONSUMER OF TEA IN THE WORLD (per head)
\nTHE FIRST NATION IN RIVERDANCING
\nAND IT IS THE MAINLAND<\/p>\n

MY NAME IS DERVALA
\nAND I AM A PADDY\n<\/p><\/div>\n

Cool, eh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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