BS: Happy St. Patricks Day !

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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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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From: Sandy Mc Lean
Date: 16 Mar 09 - 11:44 PM

Slainte Mhath all you Eirionnach! Have a good one!

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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, (I got it wrong, will correct it in the morning when I can call her to ask!) "I'm not lucky, I'm good!" When I reminded her her granddad (my dad) would also want him to wear a bit of orange, her husband, a "Kilgore" told me his red hair would suffice!

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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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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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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From: skarpi
Date: 17 Mar 09 - 03:40 AM

and from Iceland

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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

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.

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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From: topical tom
Date: 17 Mar 09 - 06:58 AM

HAPPY SAINT PATRICK's DAY, MUDCATTERS!

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From: Bryn Pugh
Date: 17 Mar 09 - 07:26 AM

Slainte Mhor, is na mile gosceim.

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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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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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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From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Mar 09 - 11:56 AM

As Aoife and Fionnula would say, "Fröhliche Sancte Patriches Tag!"

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From: goatfell
Date: 17 Mar 09 - 12:35 PM

and from Scotland

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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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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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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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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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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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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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From: Donuel
Date: 17 Mar 09 - 03:37 PM

top of the blarney to ya

Erin go braless

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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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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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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 leg string, guys!

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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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From: The Sandman
Date: 17 Mar 09 - 07:11 PM

thanks,we had a good music session.

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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.

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.

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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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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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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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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From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 18 Mar 09 - 03:56 PM

Nice to see the shamrocks growing from the Google logo yesterday!

Google logos

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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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

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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From: gnu
Date: 20 Mar 09 - 03:10 PM

What was the prob, Doug?

Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Patricks Day !
From: gnu
Date: 17 Mar 10 - 12:52 PM

For this year too!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Patricks Day !
From: DougR
Date: 17 Mar 10 - 12:57 PM

What topical tom said!

DougR

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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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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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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From: gnu
Date: 17 Mar 10 - 03:31 PM

Never heard of that Dan... cool.

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From: GUEST,mg
Date: 17 Mar 10 - 04:12 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48gFj15tMcQ

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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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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From: Lox
Date: 17 Mar 10 - 04:30 PM

Chocolate Armagh!!

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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 ...

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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.)

Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Patricks Day !
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

Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Patricks Day !
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.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Patricks Day !
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.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Patricks Day !
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

Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Patricks Day !
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.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Patricks Day !
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?

Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Patricks Day !
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.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy St. Patricks Day !
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.