Mine too, CB. / Now, who was it who wrote "Three Quarters of a Nation Once Again"? (Along, I think, with "God Save the Southern Part of Ireland":) Big Tim - "...a piece of nonsense, 'The West's Awake' should have won it!" LOL! Spot on!! *Much* better song. A few days ago I read a quote from one of the (decommissioned??) Wolfetones -- Derek? -- to the effect that the Irish, and Diaspora Irish, 'had a good little campaign going'. O to be Sure. :) It didn't hurt to have the Beatles vote (and others' too) split up among so many nominees from the same group. T'anks be to Gawd for Mere Pluralty Winners./ Now, if the poll had been done by the Single Transferable Vote system, as for, e.g., the Dail -- well, we'll never know, will we. Like Sinn Fein (their political wing), the Wolfetones might not have gotten too many transfer votes... Declan - "As they say in Irish Republican circles vote early and vote often." Yup. And, I see by the papers the Republic is going all-electronic-voting-systems, next time around. Woo woo... / Katlaughing, if you liked Florida, yer gonna LOVE internet voting in actual elections... / "Now the time is coming fast, and I think it's almost here..." -D. Behan
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