Difference between revisions of "Sharpen his pillowscone"
From FinnegansWiki
Jump to navigationJump to search| Line 17: | Line 17: | ||
* '''Bier''' '''''G''''' Beer | * '''Bier''' '''''G''''' Beer | ||
| − | **'''Tap up his bier''' Get him a beer from the tap | + | **'''Tap up his bier:''' Get him a beer from the tap |
Revision as of 11:21, 15 September 2006
- Sharpen his pillowscone, tap up his bier → the third of four comments by the Four Old Men (×)
- pillow
- pillowstone: grave marker
- pillar stone: a pillar-shaped monument or memorial stone
- stone → associated in FW with Shaun
- Scone: a place in Scotland; the Stone of Scone was supposedly the Lia Fáil, or Stone of Destiny, a monolith taken from Tara which roared its approbation when the true High King of Ireland was crowned; it is now the Coronation Stone in Westminster Abbey
- scone: a type of bun or cake
- Genesis 28.11: And he [Jacob] lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep"
- Bier G Beer
- Tap up his bier: Get him a beer from the tap
