The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #55038   Message #854647
Posted By: Seamus Kennedy
28-Dec-02 - 03:07 PM
Thread Name: BS: Baltimore Pub Fails Stephens Day Test
Subject: RE: BS: Baltimore Pub Fails Stephens Day Test
And no fake wrens either. Kill the wee bastards before they take over the world. Wake up, people! Didn't you see The Birds by Alfred Hitchcock? (I know, I know...it was by Daphne du Maurier.)
So let's get dressed up in outlandish clothing, get hammered and go round the houses and pubs on our sacred wren-elimination mission, before it's too late.
Ard-Macha, a chara, I believe there was a very similar tradition in your county with Mummers or Rhymers (the Armagh Rhymers) going out on St. Stephen's day for some and frolics. Not sure if there was a wren involved, though, I hope so. Vicious wee shites!

Seamus