Hate Mail - "What do you expect, he's an Irish Catholic"

Well, what do you expect a Brit without an argument to pull out of their head?  I remember a friend of mine once told me, after seeing a really good production of Brian Friel's play "Philadelphia Here I Come"  that the great difference between Irish men and Brits was that repressed Brits aren't sexy but repressed Irish men are all the more sexy for being repressed. 

Not exactly related but here's a good story:

Update:  No, I'm not going to comment on that con-fud-eration of dunces till after Easter.  They're each one stupider than the one before them.