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Well she sounds like a lovely person.
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Abuse her position? I’m sure any True Witch would agree that she must be burned!
Someone get Meredith Brooks on the phone to write an update to her 90’s hit “B*tch” based on that headline!
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Every podcaster is now workshopping episode and / or series titles
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She should have grifted in Sweden. It seems like the UK prisons are catching down to US prisons.
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A scammer who variously claimed to be an Irish heiress, a witch, a psychic and a celebrity shmoozer
Now a hot favourite for Trump’s VP pick.
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To be fair, she probably picked the US, because we’re probably easier marks, especially since so many Americans just love an Irish accent…
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Always go for the quality grifting!
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The headline sounds like something from the They Fight Crime! random generator…
“He’s a sword-wielding day-dreaming dog-catcher who knows the secret of the alien invasion. She’s an Irish heiress, a psychic, a witch… They fight crime!”
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An intriguing accent is no guarantee the owner is a pleasant person – I speak from experience.
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Yes, I know… I’m saying she might think Americans are an easy mark, as Americans tend to love an Irish, Scottish, or British accent…
Also, it was a joke… 
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I was surprised to recently learn that the etymology for “shenanigans” is unclear, and not necessarily Irish.
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If Kelly Macdonald is not cast in the lead role when this is made into a Netflix series, I will be dissapoint.
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I’m not surprised tbh. I’d flat out guess it’s American. The only words that sound like shenanigans are names that only sound like that in English, unrelated to the sounds the Irish spelling would make. In other words the names given people. I could see it as a generic American term for the kind of shenanigans we might expect from those Finegans or Mulligans or what have you.
Maybe there’s an etymology in Irish, who knows? Lots of European stuff is really American though.
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