http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claddagh_Ring#Significance
There's no UK edition of American Skin.
Four Spring Dwarf Technique is a pun on 90s German car
advertisements. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorsprung_durch_Technik
Al
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Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 3:15 AM
Subject: RARA-AVIS: Irish (and a touch of
British) questions
I'm reading Ken Bruen's The Priest. Got a
question:
The psychiatrist in the madhouse wore "a Claddagh
ring on her wedding
finger, heart turned in." I kinda know what a
Claddagh ring is, but
what's the significance of its being turned
in?
I also picked up Bruen's new one, American Skin.
It opens with a short
glossary of Irish slang. I haven't read it yet,
but given that it's set
on this side of the pond, I'm guessing there's
also a fair amount of US
slang. Does the UK edition open with a glossary
of US slang?
I watched the unrated director's cut of Lock,
Stock and Two Smoking
Barrels last night. During the end credits is
featured the full
treatment of one of the jokes told earlier, but
not in their entirety.
It's a story about a little person who puts
springs on his hands and
feet before screwing a whore. Turns out it's the
best she's ever had,
asks what he calls it: The Four Spring Dwarf
Technique. I must admit I
don't get it. Is it playing off some sort of East
End London slang I
don't know or am I just oblivious?
Mark
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