{"id":74,"date":"2007-08-29T21:09:13","date_gmt":"2007-08-29T20:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/29\/ah-the-dubs\/"},"modified":"2007-08-29T21:15:56","modified_gmt":"2007-08-29T20:15:56","slug":"ah-the-dubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/29\/ah-the-dubs\/","title":{"rendered":"Ah, the Dubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, County Dublin&#8217;s gaelic football team <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.ie\/sport\/gaelic-football\/kingdom-come-1066743.html\">lost to County Kerry<\/a>. So Kerry will play Cork for the All-Ireland title on September 16th.<\/p>\n<p>In the spirit of self-deprecation, here are a few jokes that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.ie\/sport\/gaelic-football\/just-another-day-of-blood-and-tears-at-croker-1066609.html\">require a basic understanding of Irish culture<\/a> to understand. In the spirit of sadness at the Dub&#8217;s loss, I&#8217;ll give bonus points towards Commenter of the Week to commenters who kill the comedy by explaining the jokes. (Jokes courtesy the culchies at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.askaboutmoney.com\/showthread.php?s=1f279c34f55c7e6e872faff3188d95f9&#038;t=62458\">askaboutmoney.com<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWhat&#8217;s the difference between a Dublin jersey and a school uniform??<br \/>\nYou can see school uniforms in September.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Caffrey, Dubs manager, was arrested last night after vandalising a cigarette machine. He replied by saying he was in a bad way for 20 players!!<\/p>\n<p>What is blue and navy and goes beep, beep, beep?<br \/>\nThe Dubs&#8217; bus reversing back into the garage.<\/p>\n<p>What do you call a Dublin man with an all Ireland medal?<br \/>\nAn antique dealer!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What I find remarkable is that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/County_Dublin\">County Dublin<\/a> comprises almost 20% of the population of the island. Many of the 32 counties have less than a tenth of that population. Croke Park, the site for the All-Ireland contests, is in Dublin (although it is not Dublin&#8217;s home stadium). Yet Dublin is relatively unsuccessful in both football and hurling.<\/p>\n<p>The Bakker Bugle staff are engaged in a long-term research project to determine the cause for this anomaly. We hope it will bring insights to similar oddities in American sport. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, County Dublin&#8217;s gaelic football team lost to County Kerry. So Kerry will play Cork for the All-Ireland title on September 16th. In the spirit of self-deprecation, here are a few jokes that require a basic understanding of Irish culture to understand. In the spirit of sadness at the Dub&#8217;s loss, I&#8217;ll give bonus points [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,7,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}