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Quit Nyamming
Fr Colum Wright this morning in his sermon, with a congregation ranging in age from four to eighty plus years, recounted how he had just returned from visiting Santa in Daisy Hill Hospital. Really? No, really? Was he ill?
It was all the children ‘nyamming’ that put him there, he said, and it wasn’t at all certain that he’d recover soon enough to do his essential rounds this year.
Meddling with Prayers
Youngsters of all ages hold little respect for things held sacred by their elders.
Crude Sayings
We usually avoid like the plague, any reference to ‘shameful’ body parts. This is one small exception. Please excuse the (direct and) implied crudities.
Local sayings in Everyday Use [2]
Personal: ….. towards youth and the very young …
‘Who’re you looking at?
‘I’m looking at you
With your eyes so blue
And you’re nose turned up
Like a kangaroo!’
Sayings in Everyday Use [1]
The Almighty: Church occasions require the use of the term, God, or The Good Lord. Sometimes referred to as, The Man Above, but then in a secular rather than a sacred sense. e.g.
Skipping Rhymes we knew
DO ACTIONS while jumping in the rope
I am a little Irish girl dressed in blue
Here are the things I like to do:
Salute to the captain, bow to the queen
Turn my back on the submarine.
I can do the tap dance, I can do the splits
I can do the hokey kokey, just like this.