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Subject: BS: Happy St. Patricks Day ! From: number 6 Date: 16 Mar 09 - 11:19 PM It's been a celebration here in Saint John since Saturday nite. Will continue on through to the wee hours of tomorrow morning. This photo was taken at 8:30 a.m. on Sunday ... Callahans's was open, some good music going on inside. a happy St. Patricks day to all biLL |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Patricks Day ! From: Big Mick Date: 16 Mar 09 - 11:25 PM ... and from West Michigan, as well. We have been going great guns, and it all culminates tomorrown night, provided I last that long.....***chuckle***. I am headed to bed now at 11:25 PM, only to rise at 4:00 AM, to be in the TV studio at 4:45 AM, and then we will stop at about 1:30 some 21 hours later. Have a grand day........,. Mick |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Patricks Day ! From: Sandy Mc Lean Date: 16 Mar 09 - 11:44 PM Slainte Mhath all you Eirionnach! Have a good one! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Patricks Day ! From: katlaughing Date: 16 Mar 09 - 11:45 PM I called my daughter this evening to remind her to put green on The Grandson, Morgan, as he has preschool tomorrow. She told me they got him a new t-shirt, green, which says, It will be a fun day, even though there's not much going on here. Happy St. Patrick's Day. (This is the one day of the year my dad and I always knew we would speak on the phone, no matter what had been going on in our lives. Still seems weird not to call him.) kat'leen |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Patricks Day ! From: Ernest Date: 17 Mar 09 - 02:51 AM ...and a top of the morning to all of you! Slan Ernest |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Patricks Day ! From: Gweltas Date: 17 Mar 09 - 03:03 AM Lá Fhéile Pádraig Shona Dhaoibh Go Léir - Happy St.Patrick's Day To All !! Anne XX |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Patricks Day ! From: skarpi Date: 17 Mar 09 - 03:40 AM and from Iceland |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Patricks Day ! From: Nigel Parsons Date: 17 Mar 09 - 05:31 AM heard on BBC2 this morning (By The Corrigan Brothers) O'Leary, O'Reilly, O'Hare and O'Hara, there's no one as Irish as Barack Obama, From the old Blarney Stone to the green hills of Tara, there's no one as Irish as Barack Obama Slainte Nigel |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Patricks Day ! From: Victor in Mapperton Date: 17 Mar 09 - 06:08 AM I'm going to Wareham for a meal with friends, hosting a Saint Patrick's party there. To me Saint Patrick's Day is Miss Mayne's Ceilidh, such happy memories! Any of you that ever came to Wimborne may remember them. May the good man turn the stone over today. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Patricks Day ! From: gnu Date: 17 Mar 09 - 06:31 AM sIx... The Most Irish City in Canada only started on Saturday night? Moncton City Hall raised the Irish flag Friday afternoon. Slainte Mhath. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Patricks Day ! From: topical tom Date: 17 Mar 09 - 06:58 AM |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Patricks Day ! From: Bryn Pugh Date: 17 Mar 09 - 07:26 AM Slainte Mhor, is na mile gosceim. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Patricks Day ! From: Keith A of Hertford Date: 17 Mar 09 - 08:51 AM Simpsons in Dublin for the day! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7945760.stm |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Patricks Day ! From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 17 Mar 09 - 09:25 AM I missed a great St Pats day event - a 150th birthday - 2 folkie friends turned 75 & I forgot it was tonight! So, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Patricia & Avis! and Happy St Pat's day to the rest of you sandra |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Patricks Day ! From: katlaughing Date: 17 Mar 09 - 11:26 AM Thanks for the link, Keith! Can't wait to see that one, esp. with the talent they've lined up! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Patricks Day ! From: Rapparee Date: 17 Mar 09 - 11:56 AM As Aoife and Fionnula would say, "Fröhliche Sancte Patriches Tag!" |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Patricks Day ! From: goatfell Date: 17 Mar 09 - 12:35 PM and from Scotland |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Patricks Day ! From: GUEST,Bob Ryszkiewicz Date: 17 Mar 09 - 12:40 PM I come from that little known part of Ireland known as Poland. Well, genetically anyway. Everybody's Irish on this day... Happy St. Patrick's Day... bob |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Patricks Day ! From: Jeri Date: 17 Mar 09 - 12:50 PM I managed to actually forget about it this year. I don't know if the usual local suspects have a gig tonight or what. I have an emerald green cotton shirt on and I'm going out to do some yard work in what will (I have FAITH) will one day be green. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Patricks Day ! From: curmudgeon Date: 17 Mar 09 - 02:28 PM Now just resting up in preparation for what will be my thirty third consecutive St. Patrick's Day show at the Press Room. I'll be joined by old friend and banjo player Bob Frost, who's been with me for 32 of these, and Bat Goddess, Linn who started being part of the show a few years back. We're also looking forward to special guests Jeff Warner, and maybe Barbara Benn. I cannot imagine the quantity of beer that has been poured and consumed over these years; gigagallons? In the early years, there was a manager who would open at 7:00AM to awaiting throngs. One year the taps went dry and the owner had to go around the corner and buy up all the bottled beer at the market. And I think that the Press Room still holds the state record for the quantity of Guinness served. We'll be starting tonight around eight, or maybe seven; we'll do three sets or maybe more. And we'll stop when the owner decides that enough drink has been poured. In any case we're looking forward to a pleasant evening of good music and good cheer with very moderate tippling (in NH, musicians can't drink on stage) and a good time will be had by all - Tom |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Patricks Day ! From: Bonzo3legs Date: 17 Mar 09 - 02:46 PM I sincerely hope you make a similar fuss about St George's Day!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Patricks Day ! From: GUEST,Allan Date: 17 Mar 09 - 02:57 PM I,d like to wish the Irish a good St Patricks day. It seems from the pubs I.ve visited that it is a sin to celebrate it. No evidence that it exists. I have always tried to celebtrate any of the days given. I do not mind Scot Irish Welsh or English. They are a tradition that should be remembered. Allow political interference or thinking, they will be lost.Its not the people that commit the wrongs it is the politicians and criminals of this world. Do not allow them to segregate you. Celebrate your Saints. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Patricks Day ! From: katlaughing Date: 17 Mar 09 - 03:36 PM Darn it, Mick!:-) I was doing really well, today. Put on the Conklin Ceilidh Band CD and watched as Morgan sang along and danced. Then he went off to school. His parents were so good about remembering a bit of orange in memory of my dad. Now, I am alone for the afternoon, have your CD on, again, and just got hit by a huge longing for my dad and the special phone call we always had on this day. You are singing a sad song, so I guess that's partly why tears are rolling down my cheeks, missing "me da." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Patricks Day ! From: Donuel Date: 17 Mar 09 - 03:37 PM top of the blarney to ya Erin go braless |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Patricks Day ! From: gnu Date: 17 Mar 09 - 03:58 PM Me too kat. I can still hear the old guitar, fiddle, whistle, spoons.... the wood stove laden with pots of stew... beans and fresh bread baking... Gramma watching Gramps like a hawk to TRY to keep him away from a sip... realtives and neighbours coming and going. But, I have an odd feeling just now. I cannot remember a single St. Pat's in those days when it wasn't cold and windy with snow or rain or both. Today, at nearly 5PM, we have glorious warm sunshine, no wind, about 5C. As I sit here, remembering those kitchen parties, I almost hate the nice weather. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Patricks Day ! From: Amos Date: 17 Mar 09 - 04:02 PM I told you Spring was coming!! See? See?? Happy Blarney Day to all of youse! A |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Patricks Day ! From: Jeri Date: 17 Mar 09 - 05:04 PM So there IS a Press Room gig! I made it on stage one year, but mostly stay home these days. Break a |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Patricks Day ! From: GUEST,mg Date: 17 Mar 09 - 06:17 PM It is sort of sad here..I don't have a single thing to do to celebrate..but the good news is I would rather be alone than try to explain it to non-Irish Americans and that includes For Real Irish Persons. I have given up doing anything with Non-IAs. Any other day of the year, fine. And at least I was spared hearing the lovely St. Patrick's Day songs put down and ridiculed. mg |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Patricks Day ! From: The Sandman Date: 17 Mar 09 - 07:11 PM thanks,we had a good music session. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Patricks Day ! From: Victor in Mapperton Date: 17 Mar 09 - 07:35 PM GUEST,mg, Irish stew,a few bottles of Guinness, great music and wonderful company. The perfect day, I now go to bed contented. Goodnight. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Patricks Day ! From: GUEST,pattyClink Date: 17 Mar 09 - 07:53 PM mg, same here. Stayed home to avoid people asking me when St. Patrick's day is. No celebration today, just hung the tricolor, and a bit of Bailey's this evening. There will be a great ceili and pseudo-parade on the weekend, so we'll just celebrate then. However, the day was its own reward. Brilliant sun, everything suddenly has gone green with spring. And a few shamrocks survived. Silent toasts and remembrances of laughing pink-cheeked storytelling relatives now gone, and Dad's always having green carnations for us girls. With all the recent gloom and worry, we are given another year, another spring, another flower, another song. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Patricks Day ! From: Joe_F Date: 17 Mar 09 - 08:34 PM And I think that of St. Patrick's Day St. Patrick never heard. -- Ogden Nash |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Patricks Day ! From: Big Mick Date: 18 Mar 09 - 02:19 PM I miss the days with friends. We used to always start by going to Mass. Now it starts for me in a TV studio at 4:30 AM. Used to be we would then enjoy a fine breakfast among friends..... now I end up eating catered eggs, hash,.. blah blah .... at a corporate event. Then another. Later in the daywe used to find a corner of a pub and play and sing for whoever wanted to listen. Now the we head off for the loony time, when we play the pubs full of drunk folks wearing wierd clothes and drinking green beer, until we collapse in our own beds at half 2 the next morning, our pockets full of money, but our hearts emptied of the joy of a day to just reflect and celebrate. The one thing we have refused to give up in the pursuit of the dollar is when we play for the kids at St. Patrick's School, Parnell, MI, USA. We go there, the kids, ranging from 5 years old to 15 years old, and we play them the happy music of our people, they all get up and dance merrily around the gym, some dancing the proper steps, others just with the joy of being young, allowed to move, and listening to the reels and jigs and letting the joyful noise infect their precious souls. We tell of the history of the place they are in, and how a people came there. This year a neighbor brought over their Wolfhound whose name is Tiernan. I told the kids about Bran, and Aibe, and Gelert, and how young Setanta became Cuchullain. We have many paid gigs during the leadup to St. Pat's and the celebration of the day. But I and my bandmates refuse to give up this one. It may not pay in coin of the realm, but it certainly pays much better than anything we do. So the exercise in Hibernian self flagellation is over for another year. I miss the old days........ Mick |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Patricks Day ! From: katlaughing Date: 18 Mar 09 - 02:23 PM Mick, do you have any video of the session at the school? I'd love to see it and I know Morgan would love it as would a bunch of other Mudcatters, I'll bet. It sounds wonderful! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Patricks Day ! From: Big Mick Date: 18 Mar 09 - 03:17 PM I wish we had filmed that one kat. These kids are such a joy, and it would do your heart good to see a school gym, in the middle are the five of us, and all around us are a couple of hundred boys and girls dancing and just loving the music and the stories.. What a joy! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Patricks Day ! From: Nigel Parsons Date: 18 Mar 09 - 03:56 PM Nice to see the shamrocks growing from the Google logo yesterday! Google logos |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Patricks Day ! From: katlaughing Date: 19 Mar 09 - 10:57 AM It sounds wonderful, Mick...next year maybe a video? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Patricks Day ! From: mg Date: 19 Mar 09 - 02:28 PM Next year give them the day off please as little Catholic children should have and can you do the celebration the day before. Children should not have to go to school on St. Patrick's day I heartily believe. And grownups should not have to go to work. And here and thre and everywhere are people who remember something..what it is I do not know but it is osmething. mg |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Patricks Day ! From: DougR Date: 20 Mar 09 - 02:30 PM Sorry I missed it. I celebrated flat on my back on a hospital bed. DougR |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Patricks Day ! From: gnu Date: 20 Mar 09 - 03:10 PM What was the prob, Doug? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Patricks Day ! From: gnu Date: 17 Mar 10 - 12:52 PM For this year too! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Patricks Day ! From: DougR Date: 17 Mar 10 - 12:57 PM What topical tom said! DougR |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Patricks Day ! From: katlaughing Date: 17 Mar 10 - 12:59 PM Same here, gnu, thanks for refreshing this! I have on orange for me da and a big green shamrock pin on my blouse. I feel very balanced.*bg* Have a happy one, folks! kat'leen |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Patricks Day ! From: PoppaGator Date: 17 Mar 10 - 02:56 PM Greetings and all the best to everyone; hope you find a way to enjoy the day wherever you are! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Patricks Day ! From: olddude Date: 17 Mar 10 - 03:07 PM happy St. Pats day to all my friend. I only wish my kids were little again and still here so I could have helped them make their Leprechaun traps like we did when they were small. I use to put a little green sock or a hat and a tiny note that read "better luck next time" next to their candy .. They would get pretty clever, a trap door in a shoe box or some duct tape to stick him when he tried to get the penny as bait ... what fun ... miss that a lot |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Patricks Day ! From: gnu Date: 17 Mar 10 - 03:31 PM Never heard of that Dan... cool. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Patricks Day ! From: GUEST,mg Date: 17 Mar 10 - 04:12 PM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48gFj15tMcQ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Patricks Day ! From: GUEST,mg Date: 17 Mar 10 - 04:15 PM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CsEfbRwaaQ&feature=related |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Patricks Day ! From: gnu Date: 17 Mar 10 - 04:26 PM Just try to log on to Come By The Hills / Isle Of Inishfree - Tommy Makem [3/8]. I have the second highest speed access offered by my cable ISP and I can only get a few bits at a time. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Patricks Day ! From: Lox Date: 17 Mar 10 - 04:30 PM Chocolate Armagh!! |
