Rules of Calling Shotgun:
Stake your Claim: You must shout out "Shotgun" clearly and loudly. In order for this claim to be valid, at least one other member of the party must hear it.

Finish The Job: In order to establish a clearly-defined time frame for the calling of Shotgun, Shotgun can only be called after the event immediately preceding the car ride. This is can be going out to eat, or visiting a friend or whatever. This is to prevent someone from calling Shotgun for an upcoming trip far into the future. This I should mention is a severe sin.

Take It Outside: The calling of Shotgun can only take place outside. This defines the precise moment that time frame for the calling of Shotgun begins. In addition, you must be outside with the intention of walking to the vehicle and driving. The jingling of keys is usually a very good indication of this. Hearing the driver say "let's go" is another one.

No Barefoot: You must have your shoes on to call Shotgun. This is to prevent someone from just grabbing their shoes and running out the door to call Shotgun and then put on shoes.

Re-Entry: If you go outside and call Shotgun, and then go back in for any reason, your call of Shotgun becomes void, and can immediately be called by someone else.

Line-Of-Sight: In the event that the activity directly prior to the car-ride is outdoors, the vehicle must be completely in sight in order to call Shotgun.

Abandoning Your Post: If the person sitting in Shotgun leaves their seat for any reason, then Shotgun immediately becomes available for other passengers.

Exception: If the Shotgunner leaves his seat to allow other passengers to get into the vehicle or is running an errand for the driver, they retain their Shotgun position.

Hand-On-Door or Ass-In-Seat: If you manage to place your hand on the door of Shotgun or sit in Shotgun before anyone calls Shotgun, you are hereby granted Shotgun even if someone calls Shotgun afterwards.

Multiple Cars: If there are multiple cars involved, when calling Shotgun you must specify which car you are calling Shotgun for. For example, calling out the drivers name or the type of vehicle immediately following "Shotgun".

In-Context: Someone can only call Shotgun, in the actual context of calling Shotgun. Asking if someone has called Shotgun is not in itself a calling of Shotgun. Talking about Shotguns is also no no

Above the clouds, what's to be found
I have to wonder - Will I be around

As my anger shouts - At my own self-doubt
So a sadness creeps - Into my dreams

When your scared of living - but afraid to die
I get scared of giving - and I must find the faith to beat it

Here's a few brief summaries of counties and their inhabitants:

Carlow = Mad for sugar beet, can't get enough of it. Hobbies:
Growing sugar beet.

Cavan = filthy, ignorant hillbillies, tight. Hobbies: discovering
IRA ammo dumps and knitting black balaclavas.


Clare = fiddle-playing charming people and, more recently, fine
footballers. Hobbies: Falling into pot-holes and being never heard
from ever again, setting up golf courses in their back lawns.

Cork = the loveable rogues of Ireland. Here for everyone else's
entertainment. Hobbies: Milking cows, being European capital of
culture but not knowing what exactly that means or how they got it boy?

Donegal = away in their own world up there, not much known about
this Eccentric type. Hobbies: Stripping the Irish coast of fishies,
running back up to their corner of the island and blaming the spanish....aye
twas the spanish!!

Dublin North = criminals, drug dealers and factory workers, dirty
women, skinheads and all-round examples of human waste. Hobbies: Heroin
and watching serial numbers being filed off stolen BMW's, joy-riding
anything from a lexus to a washing machine.

Dublin South = west Brits, snobs, rich, easy glamorous women.
Hobbies:talking shite and sleeping with their best friend's spouse or
mother.

Galway = sophisticated culchies, sexually adventurous, cultured and
wealthy. Hobbies: Teaching sex acrobatics to foreign tourists,
dropping acid, juggling with fire on the streets, paying a million pounds
for a three bedroom suburban house and pretending it was a bargain.

Kerry = God's kingdom on earth, no doubt about it. Some of the best land
in Ireland but they don't tell anyone this. Hobbies: Football, swimming
with dolphins, football, seeing how many foreigners they can score each
year, football, hosting a massive festival every week, football, going
to the south pole and football.

Kildare = is anyone really from Kildare or are they all just from
Dublin? Hobbies: Denying they have anything to do with Dublin.
Spending best part of 4 hours each day travelling to and from Dublin. Using
Daz for whiter than white jerseys on a summer's day.

Kilkenny = red haired alcoholics who refuse to believe not all land in
Ireland is capable of growing barley and wheat "not a bother".
Hobbies = driving massive combines, hosting comedy festivals and having
red-haired babies.

Laois = harmless aul bunch of lads, hope to have the whole county
by-passed at some stage by 2025 so they can get on with their own
business. Hobbies: Living an honest life, collecting EU development
grants, getting the piss taken out of them for being the queen's
county...haha ye plantation bastards!

Leitrim = enigmatic reclusive weirdos. Hobbies: learning about traffic
lights and roundabouts in school (night school for adults that is)

Limerick = grand place, great sports people, city has bad reputation
through no fault of its own. Hobbies: stabbing people, gang-land
murders, drug hauls, graffiti spraying, joy-riding....

Longford = Gombeen men. Hobbies: Legalising bestiality.

Louth = IRA supporters, smugglers and bandits. Hobbies: Tearing
through Cooley at 125MPH trying to stop the boxes of cheap vodka from
falling out the window.

Mayo = Depressing, defeatist, negative, misery-laden losers, emigrate as
soon as the umbilical cord is cut. Hobbies: roaring about how great they
are, whinging about why nobody likes them.

Meath = either Dublin wannabes or mad country bucks. Hobbies: Beating
Dublin at GAA and hoping that one day somebody in Dublin will actually
notice, driving massive john deere's cos they're big, green and yellow
too.

Offaly = Bog. Hobbies = exploiting bogs and later making them into
tourist attractions...hats off!

Roscommon = flat county, a silage pit is a mountain. Hobbies:
Sheep-stealing.

Sligo = either in their 20s and a surfer or in their 80s and a granny,
no in-betweens. Hobbies: Surfing and knitt