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Monday, 30 September, 2002, 10:19 GMT 11:19 UK
Caption competition winner 115
Ryder Cup heroes Paul McGinley, Padraig Harrington and Darren Clarke savour victory under the Irish flag.
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But who won the goodie bag?
The Ryder Cup is back in Europe's hands after they produced a magnificent show of strength in the decisive singles matches at The Belfry. And it was rookie Paul McGinley who holed the winning putt on the 18th green, to the delight of his fellow Irishmen Harrington and Clarke. This week's winner is Louise Comb from England who came up with this little fella: "Edwina Curry and John Major? You're having us on!" Hurrah! The big bag of stuff is on its way!
Here's the best of the rest.
The Irish faithful find out Sven has included Frank Lampard in the England squad.
"Who's going tell them the gurning championship was last week?"
"Edwina Curry and John Major? You're having us on!"
The green men, left it to the greenest of them all to win it on the final green.
"They're never getting there hands on me Lucky Charms"
Laughs all around when the Irish trio discover they're still standing in the lake.
Did you hear the one about the three Irishmen...?
"Right lads, that should sew up the Colgate sponsorship!"
The Annual Norman Wisdom Impressionist Festival got off to a roaring start.
Gerry Slawson's team of Irish lawyers celebrate an historic victory in the long running and acrimonious "Invisible Man vs the entire Singapore Cap Comp Team".
Determined to laugh off their embarrassment at being discovered, the Hibernian heroes emerge from under their duvet.
Jack Nicholson convinces Darren and Padriag that this is as good as it gets!
Keep smiling lads, but I'm afraid the hotel has sold out of Guinness!
Showing signs of burn-up on re-entry, the Irish astronauts still have time to smile even though their first manned space mission ends in failure when they fail to locate the man in the moon.
Three happy Irishmen today are released from prison after police could find no evidence to charge any of them with theft of thirty low range tanning beds.
Golfer signs new deal with Max Factor.
Latest photographic evidence strongly supports recently released statistics that one in three Irishmen are red heads.
After the sad news of the split up of Hear'say, good news arrives in the form of a new boy band "Golf Boys Inc" and the release of their new single, "Hole in One".
When the boys saw the advert for tree fellahs wanted at the Belfry they thought they'd be pruning the shrubs.
Gerry Slawson's invisible corn on the cob went down well with the Irish in the Belfry canteen.
It was all smiles to start with but there were tears later as Harrington and Clarke came to blows over the ownership of the ventriloquist's dummy.
Mike Atherton does a Karl Power and gatecrashes the Irish celebrations.
The Three Degrees were well pleased with their comeback concert in Dublin.
There was an Englishman, an Irishman, and a Scotsman. And an Irishman, an Irishman, a Spaniard...
Where are the Sisters of Murphys when you need them?
The lads are remaining tight-lipped over who switched Tiger's US golfing colours to the European colours.
Did you hear the one about the Tiger entering the lions' den?
Hey, get the American team in here so we can have a picture with 12 guys who didn't win the Ryder Cup at the Belfry!
The celebrations didn't flag all night.
The guys are told that the Guinness lorry has managed to get through the traffic jams.
"The red face? Oh, we told him the microwave was a sun lamp."
The scene moments before Paul "I can catch a bullet between my teeth" McGinley's party trick ended in tragedy.
McGinley: "Well I'm Hugh Jarse but which one of you entered as Norma Snockers?"
They sang with delight when they were informed that Ireland is actually part of Europe and not the USA.
"Drrrrink! Fek! Girls!"
Irish trio celebrate after winning three-legged race!
The Irish contingent couldn't decide whether to sing the golfing hokey-cokey: "you putt your three-foot in...", or their own version of an old classic renamed "Paddy McGinley's putt".
McGinley, Harrington and Clarke show their versatility by packing down for the Irish rugby team.
Colgate sponsor victory celebrations.
Paddy, have you heard the one about the 12 yanks!!!
Against all odds, we win! Hey Clarke, is that Lois?
Wonder why they're smiling? Ever heard of the "Half Monty?"
Previous winners of the caption competition.
Pats in The Belfry.
And so the boys go off to celebrate with a beer and a Major Curry.
The victorious Paddies take time out to advertise for the team dentist.
Hey, let's get Monty in here so we can have a picture of four men that will never win a tournament in the US.
Darren: Has anyone got a European flag?
Paul: "Daz, you have to get the ball out of the sand, not sunbathe in it!"
Padraig: "Someone give Colin the flag! He's about to do the Full Monty!"
Tree fellas conquer Woods
"Bejaysus lads, do you think we have a chance at getting that green card visa now?"
Why's his face red? Well, there's only space for two in the golf-buggy.
The boys take time out of The Ryder Cup to show their support for Monty of Ireland's winning caption (114).
Organisers of The Ryder Cup breathe a sigh of relief as Colgate's sponsorship of the event looks safe for yet another year!
Delight in Dublin, as the Irish Miss World produces a three-way tie.
Irish guys are stylin'.
Did you hear, lads? Tiger's just three-putted the last!
Paddy was STILL the laughing stock of the town as his new internet bride was introduced to the family.
The bridesmaids (see caption 112) become the brides!
Reaction from the Irish contingent as Monty is suggested as a candidate for sports personality of the year.
The muggers celebrated after robbing Joseph of his technicolour dream coat.
McGinley: "We were all flagging come the end, but my putt capped a great day."
The Irish ambassador's not too happy about our win - we tore the flag off his car.
And we would have done even better if we hadn't been tied together with this flag.
The Ryder Cup's great, but we would have preferred a BBC Sport goodie bag.
The lads enjoyed every minute of the tournament. But they could not see any reason for Frank Carson to throw his underpants at them!
'Heh Heh Heh...Darren, we told yer to wear a sun hat, it's yer own fault.'
The Irish team members are overjoyed, knowing that the win has spared them from Torrance of abuse.
Says McGinley, "Oh well, at least the Americans have an exciting F1 race to look forward to this afternoon!"
"If you think Clarkie's red in the face, you should see Curtis Strange!"
"Look at the size of the lobster we got for dinner, Paddy!"
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