# Ireland : Shut yer hole about being the "Emerald Isle"
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ireland-shut-yer-hole-about-being-the-emerald-isle/257832
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [August 1, 2004, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ireland-shut-yer-hole-about-being-the-emerald-isle/257832 "2004-08-01T12:32:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2004, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ireland-shut-yer-hole-about-being-the-emerald-isle/257832/1 "2004-08-01T12:32:40Z")
First off: let’s not turn this into Ireland v. The World, as that seems to be the way the wind is blowing anyway, so any thread on that would be pointless - all we gotta do is wait ‘n’ see.
But this bunch-of-arse that I keep hearing about Ireland being “the emerald isle”? And Ireland producing emeralds WTF? You guys are can’t compete with fucking Sierra Leone for emerald production, when you actually look at it.
Columbia: Leading the world
Zambia: Loads more emeralds
Brazil: Not as many emeralds as coffee, but still a load of 'em.
Zimbabwe: Known for fine emeralds. And not much else.
United States:
Okay, some production in North Carolina where the glaciers couldn’t destroy them.
Plus you look at all those emeralds on people’s fingers and necks. Try and take them and there’d be a fucking civil war!
Okay: “Home of the Blarney Stone”, well, yeah, you’d d need to kiss that to get by in today’s world of emerald trade.
Rather you than me.
“United States: Home of the Emerald”
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### Author:  [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2004, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ireland-shut-yer-hole-about-being-the-emerald-isle/257832/2 "2004-08-01T12:34:37Z")
Was one thread not enough for this crap?
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### Author:  [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2004, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ireland-shut-yer-hole-about-being-the-emerald-isle/257832/3 "2004-08-01T12:41:16Z")
Dude, you can’t be serious. Ireland isn’t called the Emerald Isle because of its emeralds (or lack thereof, as the case may be. I’m not up on world emerald production.) It’s called the Emerald Isle because of the vegetation.
Sheesh.
Robin
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### Author:  [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2004, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ireland-shut-yer-hole-about-being-the-emerald-isle/257832/4 "2004-08-01T12:42:06Z")
I’m gonna say no, but I will give points on being mildly clever and not just ranting about the thread in question.
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### Author:  [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2004, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ireland-shut-yer-hole-about-being-the-emerald-isle/257832/5 "2004-08-01T12:44:43Z")
No silly. it’s not about Ireland **producing** emeralds, it’s about Ireland **tasting** like emeralds. Thus “The Emerald Isle”.
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### Author:  [@furt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furt)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2004, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ireland-shut-yer-hole-about-being-the-emerald-isle/257832/6 "2004-08-01T12:50:42Z")
And here I thought it was the Emeril Isle. Isn’t he from there?
Robyn, you’ve been [wooshed.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=268833)
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### Author:  [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2004, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ireland-shut-yer-hole-about-being-the-emerald-isle/257832/7 "2004-08-01T13:19:04Z")
Besides, the REAL reason to Pit Ireland is that they’re after me Lucky Charms™!!!
Oh come on! You guys were probably betting money on when I was gonna do that!
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### Author:  [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2004, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ireland-shut-yer-hole-about-being-the-emerald-isle/257832/8 "2004-08-01T13:24:25Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#):
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> Oh come on! You guys were probably betting money on when I was gonna do that!
Noooooooooooooooo-body bets on **NoClueBoy**!
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### Author:  [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)
#### Post date: [August 1, 2004, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ireland-shut-yer-hole-about-being-the-emerald-isle/257832/9 "2004-08-01T23:39:13Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#):
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> Noooooooooooooooo-body bets on **NoClueBoy**!
Well, we certainly didn’t _expect_ anyone to…
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### Author:  [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2004, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ireland-shut-yer-hole-about-being-the-emerald-isle/257832/10 "2004-08-02T00:32:15Z")
What is Australia noted as “The land of”?
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### Author:  [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2004, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ireland-shut-yer-hole-about-being-the-emerald-isle/257832/11 "2004-08-02T00:38:15Z")
Oz
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### Author:  [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2004, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ireland-shut-yer-hole-about-being-the-emerald-isle/257832/12 "2004-08-02T00:39:31Z")
or maybe downunder. We’ve got a lot of that.
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### Author:  [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2004, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ireland-shut-yer-hole-about-being-the-emerald-isle/257832/13 "2004-08-02T00:45:47Z")
What about those alleged 40 shades of green? I’ve counted exactly 2,547 shades of green here. This is misrepresentation of the highest order.
Bunch of fucking arse.
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### Author:  [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2004, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ireland-shut-yer-hole-about-being-the-emerald-isle/257832/14 "2004-08-02T01:06:46Z")
> [@astro](#):
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> What is Australia noted as “The land of”?
It’s the land of TNT, of dy-no-mite!!!
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### Author:  [@Tikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tikki)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2004, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ireland-shut-yer-hole-about-being-the-emerald-isle/257832/15 "2004-08-02T01:07:12Z")
Hey, since Seattle was nicknamed “The Emerald City” those stones have been popping up all over. Maybe you’re just not looking in the right places.
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### Author:  [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2004, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ireland-shut-yer-hole-about-being-the-emerald-isle/257832/16 "2004-08-02T01:22:28Z")
I had stones last year.
Not fun.
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### Author:  [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2004, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ireland-shut-yer-hole-about-being-the-emerald-isle/257832/17 "2004-08-02T01:27:01Z")
And another thing.
“If You’re Irish, Come Into the Parlour”. Well lookee here - there’s three and a half million of the buggers, not counting the diaspora and all its descendents. How big a fucking parlour do they expect me to have?
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### Author:  [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2004, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ireland-shut-yer-hole-about-being-the-emerald-isle/257832/18 "2004-08-02T03:21:21Z")
You seem to have forgotten that Ireland is also the land of the Blarney Stone. Might that not explain all these outlandish claims about the abundance of emeralds? Well, that and a more than amble serving of Bushmills… (Kidding.)
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### Author:  [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2004, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ireland-shut-yer-hole-about-being-the-emerald-isle/257832/19 "2004-08-02T03:34:14Z")
> [@Rubystreak](#):
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> Well, that and a more than amble serving of Bushmills…
Hmmm, a Protestant, ey?
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### Author:  [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Chitwood)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2004, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ireland-shut-yer-hole-about-being-the-emerald-isle/257832/20 "2004-08-02T03:38:05Z")
> [@Eonwe](#):
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> It’s the land of TNT, of dy-no-mite!!!
Oi.
Oi.
Oi.
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