FabSwingers.com forum: Songs with factual errors

By *asual777 OP Man
over a year ago

i travel all over

Sometimes, all I need is the air that I breathe

And to love you

By the Hollies. They forgot food and water

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By *uriousVoyeurMan
over a year ago

Northside

The whole of the moon by The Waterboys...you can only see one side of the moon,not the whole thing!! And as it's a sphere,does it actually have sides?

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By *ichael McCarthyMan
over a year ago

Lucan

Seán South of Garryowen...

"... but the leader was a Limerick man, Seán South from Garryowen"

He was neither the leader, nor was he from Garryowen

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By *asual777 OP Man
over a year ago

i travel all over

Yellow , Coldplay

Stars are a range of colours including blue and white

They aren’t all yellow

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By *eralt80Man
over a year ago

cork

There is not 9 million bicycles in Beijing

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By *ichael McCarthyMan
over a year ago

Lucan

Prince was full of shite.

That's not what it sounds like when doves cry.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Not factual but poor word usage

"A few questions that I need to know".

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By *ichael McCarthyMan
over a year ago

Lucan

"Limerick, you're a lady.."

Limerick is a city ffs

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By *otmrgreyMan
over a year ago

Belfast

A traffic jam when you’re already late

A no-smoking sign on your cigarette break

It’s like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife

It’s meeting the man of my dreams

And then meeting his beautiful wife

And isn’t it ironic … don’t you think?

To be fair that's unlucky maybe even unfortunate but it's not ironic!

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

Everybody doesn't hurt

Its not the end of the world as we know it

Lots of things compare to you

Rain is not purple

Everything I do is for me...not you

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

You weren't always on my mind

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By *asual777 OP Man
over a year ago

i travel all over

Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti

Not true Toto

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By *DSGCouple
over a year ago

That place in

"Pride (in the Name of Love)", U2, 1984.

Probably the most famous lyrical error, Bono pinpointed the death of Martin Luther King, Jr. as occurring on "early morning, April 4th..." The problem? King was assassinated in the early evening on April 4, 1968. Yes, it may have been early morning in Ireland during that fatal moment... but it was already April 5.

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

Last Christmas I gave you my heart.....so I was dead then.

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By *oghunter33Woman
over a year ago

on the hill NordWest of

""Limerick, you're a lady.."

Limerick is a city ffs

There's folks out there with first names like Paris or Dakota, so you never know there might be a Limerick out there...

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By *ilthyNightsCouple
over a year ago

East / North, Cork

Apparently "nothing ever grows" in Africa according to "Do they know its Christmas"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Push pineapple shake the tree

Pineapples dont grow on trees

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

All is not quiet on New Year's Day.

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By *etmebeurfantasyWoman
over a year ago

My town

Wind beneath my wings

But we dont fly ....

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By *asual777 OP Man
over a year ago

i travel all over

Thunder only happens when it’s raining.

Not really fleetwood Mac

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

every one was kung fu fighting ......erm dont think so

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

Doesn't sound atrocious

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

Money is not always funny

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By *s LollyWoman
over a year ago

The pub then supermacs ...

It's raining men.....really REALLY.......

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"A traffic jam when you’re already late

A no-smoking sign on your cigarette break

It’s like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife

It’s meeting the man of my dreams

And then meeting his beautiful wife

And isn’t it ironic … don’t you think?

To be fair that's unlucky maybe even unfortunate but it's not ironic! "

Yes, it’s only ironic if you’re a weather man and predicted fair for your wedding and then it rained!

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By *ava-voomCouple
over a year ago

Craigavon

Pink Floyd sang "we don't need no education"

The use of a double negative suggests they actually do...

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

Nobody left a cake out in the rain

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Nirvana - Come as you are.

"And I swear it, I don't have a gun"

I'm pretty sure you did Kurt, I'm pretty sure you did!

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By *edknobsMan
over a year ago

mullingar

"Going on up to the spirit in the sky, that's where I'm gonna go when I die......"..... yeah right, like that idea's gonna catch on

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By *he zephyrCouple
over a year ago

The Sol

'In the jungle the mighty jungle the lion sleeps tonight'

Nope - they are savannah and grassland animals

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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago

Newry Down

Vera Lynn was wrong: bluebirds never flew over the while cliffs of Dover.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Your sex is on fire" it wasn't on fire, slightly singed at most. And the toaster was absolutely fine afterwards

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By *edknobsMan
over a year ago

mullingar

"The first time I met her, I met her in brown, all in brown all in brown, she pulled my knickers down...." .... she didn't

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

It's not fun to stay at the YMCA

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By *ocial SwingerMan
over a year ago

Rosses

Surely not everyone was king-foo fighting

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By *asual777 OP Man
over a year ago

i travel all over

"It's not fun to stay at the YMCA "

I’ve been going to a YMCA gym

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By *uriousVoyeurMan
over a year ago

Northside

"And we'll really shake them up,when we win the world cup,coz Ireland are the greatest football team...." Eh, seriously????

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By *ty31Man
over a year ago

NW London

And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda (Eric Bogle) is a fantastic anti war song but in reality Australian troops weren't conscripts (they volunteered) and they didn't wear steel hats either.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

""Limerick, you're a lady.."

Limerick is a city ffs

There's folks out there with first names like Paris or Dakota, so you never know there might be a Limerick out there...

That's possible, I can tell you there are numerous Paris,Dakota and Shakira's in Limerick though

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By *ollypop9Woman
over a year ago

wouldn't you like to know

We all live in a yellow submarine - No, we don't

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By *itemeagainMan
over a year ago

Wexford

If it hadn't been for cotton eye Joe.... bullshit that ain't why I'm not married

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By *anny Boy31Man
over a year ago

Belfast all over the Uk and Ireland

Wasn’t there a few songs written about Mayo winning the Sam Maguire??

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By *itemeagainMan
over a year ago

Wexford

"Wasn’t there a few songs written about Mayo winning the Sam Maguire??

In so many dreams that is accurate

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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago

Newry Down

I haven't actually checked, either on a map or in real life, but Van (the man) Morrison's trip through north Down is sung out of sequence, allegedly That is, unless you know differently!

I don't know the specific title of his song, but the music buffs here will know what I am alluding to!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The whole of the moon by The Waterboys...you can only see one side of the moon,not the whole thing!! And as it's a sphere,does it actually have sides?

The person he's singing about saw the whole of the moon , we as humans didn't or don't but the person he's singing about did .

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By *imonlebangMan
over a year ago

Casa Lebang Bang

Do you ever feel lime a plastic bag....eh no

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By *illbillMan
over a year ago

dublin

God save the Queen....in fact he didnt

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By *ustinSiderMan
over a year ago

Belfast

"The whole of the moon by The Waterboys...you can only see one side of the moon,not the whole thing!! And as it's a sphere,does it actually have sides?

Do you not realise he was singing about ass cheeks and being mooned?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"A traffic jam when you’re already late

A no-smoking sign on your cigarette break

It’s like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife

It’s meeting the man of my dreams

And then meeting his beautiful wife

And isn’t it ironic … don’t you think?

To be fair that's unlucky maybe even unfortunate but it's not ironic! "

You forgot the guy that won the lotto and died the next day

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By *he rover returnedWoman
over a year ago

xxx

Watermelon sugar.... really !!

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By *eardedvillainMan
over a year ago

Bangor N.Ireland

Like flava flav in the club riding on the back of John wayne-Idles

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By *uriousVoyeurMan
over a year ago

Northside

"The whole of the moon by The Waterboys...you can only see one side of the moon,not the whole thing!! And as it's a sphere,does it actually have sides?

Do you not realise he was singing about ass cheeks and being mooned?

Would that not be the "hole" of the moon then???

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By *unFellaMan
over a year ago

Derry

“I made that bitch faaaamous” no Kanye, you did not make Taylor Swift famous.

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By *ryan...Man
over a year ago

1950's Original

Saying "I love you " is not necessarily saying something stupid..

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By *antra MassageMan
over a year ago

city

The boys from the NYPD choir... There was no such choir.

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By *ryan...Man
over a year ago

1950's Original

Moonlight becomes you..

by Bing Crosby...

technically it is sunlight reflected

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By *ryan...Man
over a year ago

1950's Original

It takes 3 minutes to boil an egg.

8 minutes for the sun's light to reach Earth,

So it must take more than one minute to fall in love( girl)

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By *amsevenMan
over a year ago

cork

'Shes a mac shes a mac shes a maniac'

Nope. She was one of the Fitz's

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By *ursecretmischiefCouple
over a year ago

The West

You can check out anytime you like, but you can't ever leave.

'Course you can, I don't even leave back the key card most of the time!!

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By *B 4099Man
over a year ago

North West, Outer Letterkenny area

1 is the loneliest number that there ever was. Nope numbers don't have emotions

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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago

Newry Down

Lyricists(songwriters) use what is euphemistically called artistic license to modify facts and factual scenarios in order to make their output more entertaining.

Disregard any factual inaccuracies and simply enjoy the song! If you are pedantically inclined to focus on the factual discrepancies, the lyrics have inadequately sparked your imagination, perhaps?

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By *B 4099Man
over a year ago

North West, Outer Letterkenny area

"Lyricists(songwriters) use what is euphemistically called artistic license to modify facts and factual scenarios in order to make their output more entertaining.

Disregard any factual inaccuracies and simply enjoy the song! If you are pedantically inclined to focus on the factual discrepancies, the lyrics have inadequately sparked your imagination, perhaps?

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I think this was not a literal post. More a way to have a laugh.

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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago

Newry Down

"Lyricists(songwriters) use what is euphemistically called artistic license to modify facts and factual scenarios in order to make their output more entertaining.

Disregard any factual inaccuracies and simply enjoy the song! If you are pedantically inclined to focus on the factual discrepancies, the lyrics have inadequately sparked your imagination, perhaps?

I think this was not a literal post. More a way to have a laugh. "

Actually, it's a faux intellectual way of taking the p***!

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By *atherjackhackettMan
over a year ago

Tipperary

Bon Jovi...We're half way there......they were actually 3/4s of the way

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Sometimes, all I need is the air that I breathe

And to love you

By the Hollies. They forgot food and water "

They didn't forgot ..they said " sometimes " ..they didn't say all they need ..they said sometimes before that

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By *atherjackhackettMan
over a year ago

Tipperary

I went through the desert on a horse with no name. No you didn't...all horses have a name.

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By *ryan...Man
over a year ago

1950's Original

The hills are alive with the sound of music ...

it's more likely to be escaping methane gas

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By *ryan...Man
over a year ago

1950's Original

Three lions.....( on my shirt)

Should accurately be named Three leopards...

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By *osBeautifuksCouple
over a year ago

Dublin (sometimes London)

"A traffic jam when you’re already late

A no-smoking sign on your cigarette break

It’s like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife

It’s meeting the man of my dreams

And then meeting his beautiful wife

And isn’t it ironic … don’t you think?

To be fair that's unlucky maybe even unfortunate but it's not ironic! "

It's ironic that a song titled Ironic contained no examples of irony?

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By *asual777 OP Man
over a year ago

i travel all over

Band aid are wrong. It does snow in Morocco and Lesotho in December

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

"Band aid are wrong. It does snow in Morocco and Lesotho in December "

And they do know its Christmas

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By *adger BrocMan
over a year ago

Co. Cork

"Thunder only happens when it’s raining.

Not really fleetwood Mac"

But Players only love you when they're playing

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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago

Newry Down

Vera Lynn,now deceased was an extremely popular UK singer during WW2.

Her most famous song, by a long chalk, included the words, there'll be bluebirds over the white cliffs of Dover (an iconic British landmark); in fact bluebirds have never flown over these cliffs because they are a species that is exclusive to north America

Thinking laterally, as per Edward de Bono, it may be that the lyricist wanted to appeal to the vast number of American military personnel who were stationed throughout the UK during WW2: also perjoratively described by the British forces as being overpaid, oversexed and over here!

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By *errardNo8Man
over a year ago

Galway/Mayo

I just did a whole song and I didn't say shit.

Eminem, Rainman

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By *ay_Gatsby_D4Man
over a year ago

Ballsbridge, City Centre

Robin Swann is in fact, not dangerous

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By *elfastSteamWhistleMan
over a year ago

bangor

Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes there are some limits!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Even though Pitbull will try to make you think so... Kodak and kodak do not rhyme.

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By *ocial SwingerMan
over a year ago

Rosses

..and the boys of the NYPD choir were singing Galway bay….

NYPD don’t have a choir

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By *cotsguyyMan
over a year ago

Belfast and Fife

"Shot through the heart

And you're to blame

Darlin', you give love a bad name"

Think your confusing love for murder there, easy mistake to make.

....aaaaand don't listen to Meatloaf, he would do that.

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By *easingTimMan
over a year ago

Loughlinstown

Every rose does NOT have its thorn

.. as there is only one completely thorn free rose available today that is the magnificent Zepherine Drouhin which was first cultivated in 1868 featuring cerise-pink blooms with a fantastic scent

And also...

every cowboy DOES NOT sing a sad sad song as many don't have a note in their head

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By *ryan...Man
over a year ago

1950's Original

"Vera Lynn,now deceased was an extremely popular UK singer during WW2.

The writer ( his name elsewhere on a similar thread)did actually admit he just didn't realise there weren't any Blue birds in the Uk

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Just a city boy, born and raised in south detroit

There is no south detroit, you're in Canada

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By *ischief2020Man
over a year ago

Borderline

[Removed by poster at 20/12/22 01:11:47]

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By *ischief2020Man
over a year ago

Borderline

"Shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather

Whiplash girl child in the dark

Comes in bells, your servant, don't forsake him

Strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart"

I don't think it's his heart she's curing!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"If it hadn't been for cotton eye Joe.... bullshit that ain't why I'm not married

Fun fact, apparently the "Cotton Eyed Joe" in the songs is actually STDs.

Fairly sure Freddie Mercury didn't actually kill anyone, regardless of what he told his mother.

James Hatfield from Metallica is not actually a table.

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By *ryan...Man
over a year ago

1950's Original

" footballs coming home" ..

Well it didn't

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By *ryan...Man
over a year ago

1950's Original

Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket.

.each star weighs around 2 quintillion kilos.....

what happened to dark matter and dark energy that a star would disobey the laws of physics....you Canne change the laws of physics

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

All I want is you wouldn't be factually true on a swingers site

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By *ryan...Man
over a year ago

1950's Original

"All I want is you wouldn't be factually true on a swingers site

Unless you were sheepish

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By *ryan...Man
over a year ago

1950's Original

While Shepherds watched their flocks by night......

What!...in December..did they have night vision goggles

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By *ichael McCarthyMan
over a year ago

Lucan

"While Shepherds watched their flocks by night......

What!...in December..did they have night vision goggles

To be fair, that would have been common practice. Shepherds lived out in the hills with their sheep for months at a time in order to protect them from predators, especially at night in the case of wolves.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"While Shepherds watched their flocks by night......

What!...in December..did they have night vision goggles

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Mick your as bad as me killing threads lol look .. think I win

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By *ichael McCarthyMan
over a year ago

Lucan

"While Shepherds watched their flocks by night......

What!...in December..did they have night vision goggles

Mick your as bad as me killing threads lol look .. think I win

Hahaha, sure you couldn't expect me to let that go?

We need to get together to discuss tactics!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"While Shepherds watched their flocks by night......

What!...in December..did they have night vision goggles

Mick your as bad as me killing threads lol look .. think I win

Hahaha, sure you couldn't expect me to let that go?

We need to get together to discuss tactics!

Gowan so ...I'm kind to the over 50s club

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By *asual777 OP Man
over a year ago

i travel all over

His did this become a major flirting thread

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By *ryan...Man
over a year ago

1950's Original

It's a long way to Tipperary..not if you live just outside it it's not..

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By *ryan...Man
over a year ago

1950's Original

We all live in a yellow Submarine....

No we don't - mines not yellow

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