Who said this. He was an Irish man?

Question

Where does this particular phrase come from " the scrotum tightening sea" If you get this I'll give you your valued points!

Answer 1

I heard St Patrick said it while at the Patent office.
I went to the Patent Office to register some of my inventions.

I went to the main desk to sign in and the lady at the desk had a form that had to be filled out. She wrote down my personal info and then asked me what I had invented.

I said, "A folding bottle."

She said, "Okay, what do you call it?"

I said "A Fottle."

"What else do you have?"she asked me.

I said "A folding carton."

"And what do you call it?"

I said "A Farton."

She snickered and said, "Those are silly names for products! And one of them sounds kind of crude."

I was so upset by her comment that I grabbed the form and left the office without even telling her about my folding bucket.


Yours: grumpy

Answer 2

The beginning of Ulysses by James Joyce:

"God", he said quietly, "isn't the sea what Algy calls it: a great, sweet mother? The snot-green sea. The scrotum-tightening sea. Epi oinopa ponton. Ah Daedalus, the Greek. I must teach you. You should read them in the original. Thalatta! thalatta! She is our great, sweet mother. Come and look."

Also quoted by Toby David at the May, 2006 Swarthmore Commencement Address.

Answer 3

James Joyce's Ulyssess

Answer 4

Joyce's Ulysses. This comment comes from the first chapter entitled Telemachus. The comment is made by Buck (Malachi) Mulligan to his friend Stephen Dedalus as he looks out across Dublin Bay.

'God, he said quietly. Isn't the sea what Algy calls it: a grey sweet mother? The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea. Epi oinopa ponton. Ah, Dedalus, the Greeks. I must teach you. You must read them in the original. Thalatta! Thalatta! She is our great sweet mother. Come and look.'

Answer 5

James Joyce

Answer 6

Snot green and scrotum tightening - James Joyce of course! And no one would publish Ulysses! Hard to believe.

Answer 7

James Joyce in Ulysses

Answer 8

Well, Everybody say's

James Joyce, from 'The beginning of Ulysses'


maybe he did, but I think Rab C Nesbitt (a Glaswegian) could have done a brilliant job.

ya ken?

Answer 9

James Joyce . Ulysses.

Answer 10

Brendan Behan