Stand up, mickos! Make strake for minnas!

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  • Move over, Mick, make room for Dick: anonymous Dublin doggerel which was quoted in the Illustrated Sunday Herald on 26 Nevember 1922, shortly after the death of Michael Collins in the Irish Civil War at the hands of the IRA, referring to Collins [Mick] and his successor as leader of the Free State forces Richard Mulcahy [Dick]
  • stand up: get an erection
  • mickey: (Irish slang) penis
  • Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse: animated cartoon characters created by Walt Disney
  • make straight for
  • Isaiah 40.3: “Make straight a path for the Lord”
  • strake: to strike
  • strake: a strip of land; a beam of light
  • mina: in the Bible, a weight of money equivalent to 50 or 60 shekels
  • Mná: (Irish) women
  • Minnesingers: aristocratic German minstrels of the 12th-14th Centuries who sang of courtly love (Minne) → continuing the musical foliation in this paragraph
  • минет' (Russian) blowjob, derived from fr. minette pussycat
  • Stand up straight! an order to the troops being reviewed in the Military Review in the Phoenix Park