Archive for the "Ireland" category

Excerpts from Europe: “A Limerick in Limerick”

by teasugaradream
( November 27th, 2010 )

Which came first – the town of Limerick in Ireland, or the five-line poem? According to history it seems that the town was established about 1,000 years before the origin of the naming of the poem was. And it seems that the origin of the naming of the poem is …

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till the cows come home…

by teasugaradream
( February 27th, 2010 )

Cows are quite the unhurried animal. Kind of like the tortoise, as opposed to the hare. They take their own sweet long time making their way home. Thus the notorious phrase.

Did you know that the saying quite possibly originates from farmers because they are actually familiar with the time …

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