Calling for all experts ! fairytale of New York (following)

[Niall]

I can help you out on this one Vince.I know for a fact The Drunk Tank was Shanes favourite bar when he was a teenager in Tipperary.He was fond of a local girl but she was only seventeen and not allowed in the pub.However on her birthday she appeared beside Shane at the counter and as he elequently states "came on to one".Being Christmas Eve,they left the pub early and headed for Midnight Mass.Shane took her back to his ancesteral home after. The relationship soured the following morning when Shanes Mum was unable to cook his traditional Birthday/Christmas Day fry-up because she couldn't find the fat.Hours later Shane rolled the drunken mott over and found it.Shane knew then it would make a brilliant song but the episode scarred him and as he recently said he rewrote it a hundred odd times.

where did you get this info from?

[philipchevron]

I knew I would not be disappointed. Niall wins.

[MacRua]

a competition in kindergarten, who'll make the funniest mug. Children throw themselves into face pulling, teacher looks around:
- the winner.., the winner is.... the winner is you! - points at someone in the corner...
the winner (in offended voice):
- i didn't play in your stupid game!!

[MissWalshy]

got on a lucky one = I backed a winning horse

I swear when I first read this response I parsed it as:

"got on a lucky one = I banged a winning horse"

I'm still laughing.

We don't need to know your sexual fantasies DzM - I'm laughed me socks off here too - I'll get the sack if I'm not careful.

[MacRua]

Yow are not allowed to sit sockless there? fascists...

[Tiff]

easy...

drunk tank - a pub! its blaitenly obvious!

drip - its a bag of fluid (usually sugar and water) that is fed intravenously into your bloodstream. the fluid is fed in in drips (hence the name). the water stops you getting dehydrated and the sugar means you don't need to eat. seen as he's referring to her as a junkie in that verse shes probably unconcious so the drip keeps her goin till she wakes up. they might also put you on drip if you go into shock (low blood pressure).