BS: Happy St. Patricks Day !

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From: JohnInKansas
Date: 17 Mar 10 - 05:52 PM

So Everybody IS Irish on St Pat's day?

Everybody is Irish on St. Patrick's Day, we say as we ditch work to catch a parade or sneak down to the pub for a pint of cheer in honor of the Emerald Isle and its patron saint. For more than a few of us, it turns out, there's truth to the tongue-in-cheek claim.

Geneticists from Trinity College Dublin have found that a whopping 3 million men worldwide carry a distinctive Y chromosome that links them to Niall of the Nine Hostages, a fifth century Irish king who clearly wasn't shy about spreading his genes. Only the Mongol emperor Genghis Khan is thought to have more descendents.

#!$@ F***s

John (with an actual few ancesters of the tainted kind)

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From: Lox
Date: 17 Mar 10 - 06:57 PM

Thats pretty good going ...

Ghengis Khan did his ... er ... work ... over a huge area of the Asian continent.

Niall presumably had a more ... er ... limited ... er ... resource ...

Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Patricks Day !
From: LadyJean
Date: 17 Mar 10 - 11:03 PM

Grace O'Malley, my Irish Cat-o-lic tabby cat, wishes everyone a happy St Patrick's day. (Gracie went to the pet blessing at Sacred Heart Church shortly after I got her. So I know she's a Cat-o-lic.)

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From: Richie Black (misused acct, bad email)
Date: 17 Mar 11 - 05:44 AM

Best wishes for the day to one and all.

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From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 17 Mar 11 - 05:50 AM

HAPPY ST PATRICK's DAY TO ALL, HOPE YOU ALL HAVE A GOOD ONE!

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From: gnu
Date: 17 Mar 11 - 07:25 AM

Top o the mornin to yas all.

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From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 17 Mar 11 - 02:34 PM

My favourite place in Ireland - http://walkaboutsverse.webs.com/#12.

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From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 17 Mar 11 - 03:33 PM

I wish my St Patrick's Day could be happy as others people's. I'm live near the jammed-packed Westport bar district, and I'm not going anywhere.

The only year I went to the parade, I saw more drunks and more men pissing in public than I ever had in my life. After that I avoided the parade. A few years ago, some people were shooting guns at each other at the parade, and that finally led our civic leaders to do something. They moved the time from 2 pm to 11 am in the hopes that the general public would be more sober. It has seemed to help.

However, the rowdy drunkenness, the accidents and the fights continue. There's a hospital, St Luke's, a couple blocks from the bars, and St Luke's girds its loins every year for a stream of broken noses, head injuries, etc.

The year before last, a young guy, drunk, managed to go off an upper storey of a parking garage. He landed on his back, paralyzing himself forever. Last year, a high school (high school!) football player got drunk and smashed the family SUV at high speed, killing a buddy (or was it two buddies?) and seriously injuring himself.

This is considered normal in my home town.

As for my family and friends, we'll mark the feast on the 19th, with food and music. There will be twelve of us. A six pack might get drunk, just to show we can do it, but that will be all.

And it will be a very happy occasion.   
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Walkie, I must confess I never thought of you as a golfer. Do you have a niblick or a mashie? (I love those old names for clubs.)

There was a Chicago socialite in the 1920's who named her son Niblick.

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From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 17 Mar 11 - 06:34 PM

.... and happy St. Patrick's Day, by the way.


DC

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From: LadyJean
Date: 17 Mar 11 - 09:30 PM

Always remember an Erin go bra is better than a Freudian slip!

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From: vectis
Date: 17 Mar 11 - 09:52 PM

Happy St Paddies to one and all from the Irish half of my mongrel soul.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Patricks Day !
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 18 Mar 11 - 04:23 AM

Paddy's day in Dublin and Belfast.
Some pics.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-12779682

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From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 18 Mar 11 - 05:10 PM

Thanks, Keith. I enjoyed the pictures.

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From: gnu
Date: 18 Mar 11 - 05:18 PM

Nice pics. I don't understand the Chinese dragon tho???

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From: saulgoldie
Date: 14 Mar 12 - 12:36 PM

Looking ahead...Gonna smoke my Peterson St Patrick's Day pipe, and drink some NON-green beer. (Green beer is so cliche!) Maybe some whiskey. Listen to some great Irish music at a local pub. Toast the dead--"The Parting Glass"--and celebrate life! "The Spree"

Saul

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From: Beer
Date: 14 Mar 12 - 04:48 PM

Break a leg everyone. For those who don't know. This is a good luck Irish saying.
Adrien

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From: topical tom
Date: 14 Mar 12 - 04:59 PM

Top o' the mornin to you on Saint Paddy's day!

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From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 15 Mar 12 - 08:52 AM

Happy St. Patricks Day to all which also happens to fall on Saturday, even better. I can enjoy some Guiness without having to worry about getting up the next morning.

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From: ChanteyLass
Date: 17 Mar 12 - 01:32 PM

Happy St. Patrick's Day 2012 from me, too!

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From: gnu
Date: 17 Mar 12 - 01:57 PM

Sláinte mhaith.

Picked up a box of Irish Oatmeal today at Sobeys grocery. Read the box. Had one of those "May you..." sayings on it. $5. We got oats up to our *** here in Canada. I bought Canuck oats for $3.29. No saying on the package tho.

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From: SINSULL
Date: 17 Mar 12 - 02:42 PM

Here you go, gnu:
"Heal of the evening to you!"
LOL
Corned beef simmering in the pot; Jameson's or Bushmills or something similar in the cupboard; Beer in as well.
Happy St. Patrick's Day.
With two Patricks in the family, we celebrate.

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From: gnu
Date: 17 Mar 12 - 02:46 PM

Thanks SINS

Of course, if there was a saying on the Canuck package, it would have to be in English and French.

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From: Sandy Mc Lean
Date: 17 Mar 12 - 03:46 PM

All the best to you Irish wherever on this Earth you may be! I'm off to a concert where I'll be sure to do a couple of Irish songs. I havn't decided what yet but I'm thinking The Rising Of The Moon and perhaps Galway Bay. I did Kevin Barry, Isle Of Innisfree, The Irish wake last night. Another one tomorrow afternoon so I have to save something for that. Slainte Mor!

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From: Ed T
Date: 17 Mar 12 - 07:28 PM

My Irish dinner. It was good.
Guinness stew

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From: gnu
Date: 17 Mar 12 - 07:56 PM

She could cook my stew anytime! What a stunningly beautiful woman. That smile is beguiling.

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From: Genie
Date: 18 Mar 12 - 02:44 AM

I'm sitting outside on my Irish lawn chairs (Paddy O'Furniture) gazing up at my favorite constellation (the mighty hunter O'Ryan) and listening to the Corrigan Brothers sing about my favorite Irish American President.

No Guinness for me this year, as I gave up drinking at home for Lent and I didn't go out this evening, but I did do two St. Patrick's music programs earlier in the day, at a geropsychiatric unit and an assisted living community. So 'twas a very nice, uneventful St. Pat's. Even the snow in Seattle today didn't stick on the roads, and the sun came out in the afternoon and early evening.

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From: David C. Carter
Date: 18 Mar 12 - 06:12 AM

I spent so much time looking at that beautiful woman I never heard a word she said!

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From: Leadfingers
Date: 18 Mar 12 - 08:26 AM

Gaelic Hat were 'out' in Aldershot - Fooled them again , AND we got paid Cash !!

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From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 18 Mar 12 - 10:20 AM

Irish forwards reduced to rubble!!!

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From: gnu
Date: 18 Mar 12 - 01:46 PM

How inappropriate.

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From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 18 Mar 12 - 11:14 PM

I doubted she was Irish until she said to trow the beef into the Dutch oven.

Thanks for the link, Ed. I've taken notes and plan to make the stew.

Today we celebrated by playing Irish music - Cill Chaise, Beauty in Tears and Red-haired Boy. We also did Maiden Lane, but that's probably English.

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From: Sandy Mc Lean
Date: 18 Mar 12 - 11:28 PM

I must say that I am a wee bit disappointed that there was not a lot of St.Patricks Day content on the 'Cat this year. In any case this cranky old displaced Scotchman's descendant sang Irish songs at three different venues this weekend. I had a Hell of a good time doing it as well! I just wonder where other catters were hiding?

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From: GUEST,mg
Date: 19 Mar 12 - 12:19 AM

I was at a pub with my favoritemost band...one of the band members is ailing and it was both beautiful and sad to be there...

We did discuss if it was possible to overbedeck oneself for St. Patrick's Day. I made do with green fingernail polish and a kiss me I'm Irish T shirt...was quite underdressed..but I do not know if the green tutu and the shamrock tights and the vest with thousands of sequins and the shamrock necklace and the tiara together would have been too much...I am inclined to think one can gild the lily..and especially since some..not all..Irish jewelry can be had for mere pennies..it is easy to go overboard...I personally would not wear the headgear that has the bobbling shamrocks on it.. but to each her own. mg

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From: GUEST,Bluesman
Date: 19 Mar 12 - 07:46 AM

I see they celebrated it in style in Canada.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/st-patrick-s-day-celebration-turns-violent-in-canada.html

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From: gnu
Date: 19 Mar 12 - 02:32 PM

Bluesman... ain't that just plain sick? Musta been the Scots.

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From: GUEST,Allan Conn
Date: 20 Mar 12 - 03:30 AM

"Musta been the Scots" Know you're joing but just wanted to add that in truth outside of football games the Scots are just about the least likely people to riot. Even when the riots were sweeping certain British cities last year Scotland was pretty much immune. Just as it was during the steet riots in the 1980s etc.