I have a slight suspicion that wooden spoons are more to be feared by hefty rugby men than by the bean a tí in the kitchen.

, The wooden spoon is the title given to the team who comes last in the Six Nations Championship. The 6 Nations championship is a rugby competition between Ireland, England, Scotland, Wales, France and Italy. It occurs every year during the beginning of February and finishes up in the Middle of March. Ireland are playin the "auld enemy" England tomorrow for Paddy's day in Londan.

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Well all I can say is that I was young at the time, so I didn't know much about it - but I had the impression that it begin heating when you started running the hot water - anyway there wasn't any waste of energy as far as I know. I remember the cold draught of night air that came in through the overflow pipe when you were in the bath.
Just getting back to the Irish theme (as we seem to be getting away from that) we knew quite a few Irish families - the O'Malleys for example. Yer man was a bricklayer and once he came back after a hard day's work to find that some builders had done some work at the back of his house - his practised eye went over what they done, and he surprised them by telling exactly how they'd got it all wrong and went on to tell them what he thought of them.....
Our parish was run by the Capuchins at that time, amongst them were some fine Irish musicians, some even had Irish names, but not one of them was Irish.

Well, I had that one wrong. The wooden spoon was my grandmother's weapon of choice for corporal punishment - until the day she broke one on my bum. My mother never let her punish us again after that.

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Same here! It was either a wooden spoon or a hairbrush, depending on which was handier.

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Ya, we all got a fair wack off the wooden spoon, worse of all is when your mam says "come here till I bait ya", if you didn't come you knew it would be worse if you ran!

Wooden spoons have the tendency to brake alright, the sting off it is worse than anything. A flake off a hurly accross the arse is fairly sore too

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My grandma's weapon of choice was the wooden yardstick. When it broke, my brother and I had a good laugh, until she got a metal one!

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Should we rename this thread, 'Weapons of choice' or something equally sinister? You can never quite tell what direction a thread will take....

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I too had a wooden spoon broken on my bum by my mother. Same happened to my Dad. Wooden spoon makers must had the strength of their products gauged just right so as to ensure repeated sales! Hate to be the guy in the factory who had the testing done on him!

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