New Posts For Thread: Burn in Turn -the originhttps://community.betfair.com/irish_sports/go/thread/view/94110/29414397/burn-in-turn--the-originThe mention of the horse Burn and Turn is interesting for any student of Irish social history.The phrase is a corruption of Burn In Turn ( people mangle phrases all the time ).For further elaboration of the origin and meaning of the phrase I refer tha secondary school english teacher of mine was a kavanagh fanatic....we read the book....we visited inniskeen as part of a school trip.......1994 i think it was......very interesting indeed.....https://community.betfair.com/irish_sports/go/thread/view/94110/29414397/burn-in-turn--the-origin?post_id=524798643#524798643a secondary school english teacher of mine was a kavanagh fanatic....we read the book....we visited inniskeen as part of a school trip.......1994 i think it was......very interesting indeed.....Fri, 05 Oct 2012 15:45:42 -0500Probably the most underrated poet of the twentieth century,still a joy to read.Our education system is now a vehicle of indoctrination,something they picked up from Britain where they ate forced to learn poetry from the West Indies from someone who dhttps://community.betfair.com/irish_sports/go/thread/view/94110/29414397/burn-in-turn--the-origin?post_id=524798439#524798439Probably the most underrated poet of the twentieth century,still a joy to read.Our education system is now a vehicle of indoctrination,something they picked up from Britain where they ate forced to learn poetry from the West Indies from someone who dFri, 05 Oct 2012 15:39:43 -0500the potato pits were white with frost......https://community.betfair.com/irish_sports/go/thread/view/94110/29414397/burn-in-turn--the-origin?post_id=524797855#524797855the potato pits were white with frost......Fri, 05 Oct 2012 15:23:01 -0500Were these Monaghan men insured with Quinn Insurance?https://community.betfair.com/irish_sports/go/thread/view/94110/29414397/burn-in-turn--the-origin?post_id=524797403#524797403Were these Monaghan men insured with Quinn Insurance?Fri, 05 Oct 2012 15:10:51 -0500Could very well be - I can't be sure but it seemed very suggestive in an Irish contextMy impression ( also possibly erroneous)is that insurance scamming was/is much more common in the ROI than poker jargon.Gave me a pretext too for promoting the genihttps://community.betfair.com/irish_sports/go/thread/view/94110/29414397/burn-in-turn--the-origin?post_id=524789179#524789179Could very well be - I can't be sure but it seemed very suggestive in an Irish contextMy impression ( also possibly erroneous)is that insurance scamming was/is much more common in the ROI than poker jargon.Gave me a pretext too for promoting the geniFri, 05 Oct 2012 10:53:55 -0500Vubiant while your story of Burn In Turn is correct can I ask how you are sure that the horse is not correctly named Burn And Turn. A phase familiar to those who play poker i.e. burn the next card and turn the next community card - Burn And Turn? Thehttps://community.betfair.com/irish_sports/go/thread/view/94110/29414397/burn-in-turn--the-origin?post_id=524787907#524787907Vubiant while your story of Burn In Turn is correct can I ask how you are sure that the horse is not correctly named Burn And Turn. A phase familiar to those who play poker i.e. burn the next card and turn the next community card - Burn And Turn? TheFri, 05 Oct 2012 10:17:27 -0500Vubiant I dont believe any of that burn in turn stuff. No one in monaghan would ever dream of doing anything like that.https://community.betfair.com/irish_sports/go/thread/view/94110/29414397/burn-in-turn--the-origin?post_id=524783127#524783127Vubiant I dont believe any of that burn in turn stuff. No one in monaghan would ever dream of doing anything like that.Fri, 05 Oct 2012 08:01:00 -0500Oh ..and just in case anyone might get the impression that the book is a novel -it's not .It's Kavanagh's autobiography for the first half of his life.As anyone who has read any of Kavanagh will know -he is not a soppy romantic.The Green Fool is a mihttps://community.betfair.com/irish_sports/go/thread/view/94110/29414397/burn-in-turn--the-origin?post_id=524783043#524783043Oh ..and just in case anyone might get the impression that the book is a novel -it's not .It's Kavanagh's autobiography for the first half of his life.As anyone who has read any of Kavanagh will know -he is not a soppy romantic.The Green Fool is a miFri, 05 Oct 2012 07:57:22 -0500Very interesting thankshttps://community.betfair.com/irish_sports/go/thread/view/94110/29414397/burn-in-turn--the-origin?post_id=524782605#524782605Very interesting thanksFri, 05 Oct 2012 07:43:19 -0500Sorry db1974 for this offence to your sense of calendrical propriety . The phrase relates to an insurance scam. PK tells how in his area of Co. Monaghan farmers would deliberately arrange for their house to be burned so they could gain from an insurahttps://community.betfair.com/irish_sports/go/thread/view/94110/29414397/burn-in-turn--the-origin?post_id=524781517#524781517Sorry db1974 for this offence to your sense of calendrical propriety . The phrase relates to an insurance scam. PK tells how in his area of Co. Monaghan farmers would deliberately arrange for their house to be burned so they could gain from an insuraFri, 05 Oct 2012 06:57:43 -0500