"You don't get it, do you? My wife is Bono. She is not Larry." aka Dolores from The Cranberries and her pisshead husband vs their beleaguered nanny

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"My wife is Jackson. She is not Jermaine."

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 29 April 2004 16:25 (twenty years ago) link

"My wife is Axl; she is not Slash."

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 29 April 2004 16:29 (twenty years ago) link

"My wife is in the cranberries her music sucks."

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Thursday, 29 April 2004 17:04 (twenty years ago) link

"My wife is Dave Dee. She is not Beaky."

― briania, Thursday, 29 April 2004 17:29 (twenty years ago) link

"My wife is Joey, she is not Dee Dee"

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 29 April 2004 17:33 (twenty years ago) link

You all realise I have started using "Larry" as a dismissive term after reading this. And "Bono" as a term to describe successful people.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 29 April 2004 17:48 (twenty years ago) link

I think this is a sign that you should have another drink.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 29 April 2004 17:48 (twenty years ago) link

I mean after reading the news story original, you larry!

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 29 April 2004 18:16 (twenty years ago) link

originally*

it seems I am the larry.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 29 April 2004 18:16 (twenty years ago) link

Morrissey should have titled his new album You are the Larry.

Larry is an excellent term, I've already started using it.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Thursday, 29 April 2004 18:34 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.urbandictionary.com/confirm.php/640222/31de37e0ef

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 29 April 2004 18:36 (twenty years ago) link

Bonos are the go getters, the ones who make things happen while slack jawed Larrys gape on.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 29 April 2004 18:37 (twenty years ago) link

Larrys all over the world plan massive anti-Larry-defamation demonstration...

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 29 April 2004 18:37 (twenty years ago) link

Well, they planned it, but you know it was just all kinds of bother getting all the logistics worked out and besides there was a good soccer match on...

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 29 April 2004 18:39 (twenty years ago) link

"My wife is MES. She is not Marc/Martin/Una/Julia et bleedin' cetera."

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Thursday, 29 April 2004 18:40 (twenty years ago) link

You're not General Motors

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 30 April 2004 19:45 (twenty years ago) link

From the Y2Marketing site...

In "You're Not GM," Harshaw points out that the public is bombarded by marketing from so-called "Fortune 5000" companies who drop "a million bucks here, half a million there" on repetitive advertising intended to build distribution and brand awareness. General Motors, he says, spent $3.1 billion on worldwide advertising last year. "That's why they can sing 'like a rock, like a rock, like a rock' and it works. If you spend over 3 billion dollars, you'll get stellar results too." We've become so accustomed to this marketing and advertising approach, he says, that everyone assumes that's simply how it's done.

So THAT explains why the last couple of Cranberries albums are the way they are.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 30 April 2004 19:48 (twenty years ago) link

the cranberries need to cover "like a rock" now!

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 30 April 2004 19:50 (twenty years ago) link

"LIEEEKKK A ROOCC huuh-ROC huuh-ROC huuh-ROC!"

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 30 April 2004 19:50 (twenty years ago) link

"Have you seriously ever heard of anything so stupid as somebody calling themselves The Edge?"

― james porter (james porter), Friday, 30 April 2004 23:39 (twenty years ago) link

I have been listening to the first Cranberries LP again. I like it, really.

― the cranfox, Saturday, 1 May 2004 12:24 (twenty years ago) link

IN YOUR HEEEAAAAD, IN YOUR HEEEEE-EE-AAA-EEAADDDDDD, ZO-OMBIE, ZO-OMBIE, HEY-UP HEY-UP HEY-UP

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 1 May 2004 13:57 (twenty years ago) link

one year passes...

Hi i am your great fan suces

― Maycown Douglas de Oliveira Miranda, Tuesday, 4 October 2005 18:58 (eighteen years ago) link

THANKS!

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 4 October 2005 19:02 (eighteen years ago) link

I'M JUST A FULE FER YEW

― Old School (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 19:02 (eighteen years ago) link

zaw-om-bay zaw-om-bay! zaw-om-bay-ay-ay!

― dolores@loves.you (ken taylrr), Tuesday, 4 October 2005 19:18 (eighteen years ago) link

ay! ooh! yoo! Yoou! Oughta no-h!

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 07:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Do ya fancy a fish fingerrrrr, do ya fancy, do ya fancy, do you fancy a fish fingerrrrrrr?

― Don King of the Mountain (noodle vague), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 07:20 (eighteen years ago) link

hi i am a great fan of your sauces

― 100% WJE (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 07:20 (eighteen years ago) link

My wife is Ned. She is not Dan!
(ooooh)

― when something smacks of something (dave225.3), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 10:50 (eighteen years ago) link

hi I am your great fan - sucks

― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 11:21 (eighteen years ago) link

Hi, I am a great fan of success.

― Ayn Rand (joseph cotten), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 11:30 (eighteen years ago) link

five years pass...

my wife is win, she is not regine

― bernard snowy, Friday, 29 April 2011 12:11 (thirteen years ago) link

my wife is panda bear, she is not geologist

― bernard snowy, Friday, 29 April 2011 12:12 (thirteen years ago) link

my wife is zooey, she is not m.ward

― bernard snowy, Friday, 29 April 2011 12:13 (thirteen years ago) link

my wife is eddie, she is not sammy hagar

― bernard snowy, Friday, 29 April 2011 12:15 (thirteen years ago) link

etc etc

― bernard snowy, Friday, 29 April 2011 12:15 (thirteen years ago) link

lol

― Dr. Suggestban, or How I Learned to Stop etc. (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 29 April 2011 12:18 (thirteen years ago) link

Can't help feeling this thread peaked early. Like The Cranberries I guess.

― Lidl Monsters (seandalai), Friday, 29 April 2011 12:22 (thirteen years ago) link

my wife is Lil B. she is not Stunnaman.

― bernard snowy, Friday, 29 April 2011 12:58 (thirteen years ago) link

my wife is lil wayne, she is not baby aka birdman

― ur reading from a season in hell but u don't know what it's abt (missingNO), Friday, 29 April 2011 13:11 (thirteen years ago) link

my life is lil wayne

― bernard snowy, Friday, 29 April 2011 13:41 (thirteen years ago) link

^^^new meme

― bernard snowy, Friday, 29 April 2011 13:41 (thirteen years ago) link

my wife is panda bear, she is not geologist

― bernard snowy, Friday, April 29, 2011 8:12 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

love this

― call all destroyer, Friday, 29 April 2011 13:50 (thirteen years ago) link

thanks yo

― bernard snowy, Friday, 29 April 2011 14:08 (thirteen years ago) link

one month passes...

eight years later, i still think about this and lol:

it seems I am the larry.
―Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, April 29, 2004 2:

― strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Friday, 17 June 2011 13:34 (twelve years ago) link

or seven years. whatever.

― strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Friday, 17 June 2011 13:35 (twelve years ago) link

i hope one day i have some kind of huge family argument in which i can find a reason to yell "My wife is Bono. She is not Larry."

― some dude, Friday, 17 June 2011 13:45 (twelve years ago) link

when dolores expresses doubt, her husband will often say: "Someone is thinking like a Larry today. Are we a Larry?"

― scott seward, Friday, 17 June 2011 14:04 (twelve years ago) link

poor larry. kind of a bigger dis to be called an adam, if you ask me.

― scott seward, Friday, 17 June 2011 14:05 (twelve years ago) link

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lol yeah no precedent for that one

― da croupier, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 22:58 (nine years ago) link

wonder what 90s female singer-songwriters sounded like before the prototype dropped in 1993

― da croupier, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 23:02 (nine years ago) link

no references to sinead o'connor on the page. two references to "sundays" - but in the comment section

― da croupier, Tuesday, 11 November 2014 23:03 (nine years ago) link

did they mean to write "postotype"?

― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 11 November 2014 23:19 (nine years ago) link

or perhaps the follow-up line was "my roommates are idiots." (not going to give that link any clickthroughs)

― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 11 November 2014 23:19 (nine years ago) link

one year passes...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/cranberries-singer-dolores-oriordan-pleads-guilty-to-air-rage-incident-a6775896.html

― Turrican, Thursday, 17 December 2015 21:00 (eight years ago) link

In evidence read to the court, Inspector Tom Kennedy said the singer-songwriter's behaviour was at first erratic, then unruly, irate, threatening, irrational and aggressive.
"Ms O'Riordan was very belligerent," he told the court.
"She said 'you are not going to arrest me. I am an icon. I'm the Queen of Limerick, I pay my taxes, I pay your wages. I'm going to sue you'."

― Turrican, Thursday, 17 December 2015 21:01 (eight years ago) link

Man, when 90s alt rock icons fall, they fall hard, don't they?

― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Friday, 18 December 2015 03:00 (eight years ago) link

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