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  • Day 19

    Noel V. Ginty's Cabaret Show

    September 6, 2015 in Ireland ⋅ ⛅ 57 °F

    Tonight we went for supper to what is billed as a cabaret show. 10:45 pm we returned from Taylor's Three Rock Pub where we had dinner and an Irish folkloric show. The stand-up comedian, Noel V Ginty is an older gentleman who made me laugh harder than I have in years. One joke was about an Irishman who was thinking about vacationing in Spain but was afraid to do so because he didn't know the language. His friend told him, "Go ahead. Just speak very slowly and you'll have no problem at all." So once he was in Spain he went into a bar and said very slowly "may-I-have-a-pint-of-Guiness-and-a-glass of -red-wine-please." The bartender answered equally slowly, "Yes-of-course-you-may have-a-pint-of-Guiness-and-a-glass of -red-wine. The man asked the bartender very slowly, "where are you from?" Very slowly the bartender answered, "From Ireland." The man then asked, "Then why are we speaking Spanish?" Another was: When you buy a cured ham do you ever wonder what it was cured from?Read more