Into a Belfast pub comes Paddy Murphy, looking like he"d just been run over by a train.
His arm is in a sling, his nose is broken, his face is cut and bruised and he"s walking with a limp.
"What happened to you?" asks Sean, the bartender.
"Jamie O"Conner and me had a fight," says Paddy.
"That little ****, O"Conner," says Sean, "He couldn"t do that to you, he must have had something in his hand."
"That he did," says Paddy, "a shovel is what he had, and a terrible lickin" he gave me with it."
"Well," says Sean, "you should have defended yourself, "Didn"t you have something in your hand?"
"That I did," said Paddy. "Mrs. O"Conner"s twat, and a thing of beauty it was, but useless in a f*cking fight."