st georges day a public holiday

Subject: RE: st georges day a public holiday
From: manitas_at_work
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 07:43 AM

Are you talking about the boy or the duke? The boy was English - and his dog was an Old English Sheepdog to boot. The duke made a comment about racehorses and stables.

Subject: RE: st georges day a public holiday
From: kendall
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 07:49 AM

Jacqui, my dear, I believe the English ARE different from the Scots and the Irish.

Spot, would you have us return to the days before standardized spelling when everyone spelled words any way they wished? What a mish mash that was!
It's true that many people don't spell, but CAN'T? How about a dictionary?

Subject: RE: st georges day a public holiday
From: jacqui.c
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 08:04 AM

"Jacqui, my dear, I believe the English ARE different from the Scots and the Irish"

Oh yes - the English are the ones who paint their faces and shout scary slogans before going into battle nowadays - or is that English footie louts?

Whatever - I think that it is time that we English took back our reputation from the ignorant element who seem to be doing the damndest to maitain the unpopularity of the country as a whole.

Subject: RE: st georges day a public holiday
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 08:05 AM

Wellington was Irish.

Little do you know. He was the creation of Maurice Dodd. Did the Perishers not give the game away?

St Crispin's slogan would be 'Cobblers to England'.

Of course it would. In the true tradition of the Carry On films. Come to think of it we could celebrate with 24 hour showings of these classics of cinematography.

Kendall - If you don't know how to spell it how can you look it up in a dictionary?

:D (tG)

Subject: RE: st georges day a public holiday
From: Emma B
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 08:16 AM

Well St Crispin is the patron saint of glovemakers too so maybe we could tie it in with Shakespeare after all.
- and for that special supper - nothing better than a Marlon "special" tomato ketchup butty!

Subject: RE: st georges day a public holiday
From: Dave Wynn
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 11:39 AM

Alas poor Perishers, I knew them well.

Spot the Dog

Subject: RE: st georges day a public holiday
From: Dave Wynn
Date: 08 Aug 06 - 11:48 AM

Kendall we haven't been able to standardise english spelling for thousands of years (colour /color and center/ centre etc) but it doesn't prohibit good communication. To be honest I was thinking about the few percentage of people who suffer from Dyslexia and how difficult and sometimes embarrassing for them to be upbraided on a public forum because of spelling errors. If the meaning is obvious then it's good enough for me.

I do appreciate your point of view however. The people who just don't care to learn when they could are indeed an irritant. (I have just cut and pasted this into Word and spell and grammar checked it just in case I shot myself in the foot)

Spot the Dog

Subject: RE: st georges day a public holiday
From: The Sandman
Date: 09 Aug 06 - 09:05 AM

all other countries that celebrate st georges day, bulgaria, georgia portugal,catalonia,should be encouraged to celebrate their own traditions alongside the english , along with the celebration of william shakespeare.wouldnt it be fun if scotland celebrated mcgonigle as wellas burns.

Subject: RE: st georges day a public holiday
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Aug 06 - 09:09 AM

'mcgonigle's' parents were Irish.

Subject: RE: st georges day a public holiday
From: Scrump
Date: 09 Aug 06 - 09:28 AM

Hey, that's got me thinking. I assume you're talking there about Wm MacGonagall, poet and tragedian? I wonder if anyone's ever set any of his famed works such as the Tay Bridge Disaster to music? If not, maybe I could have a go myself :-)

(Sorry this is off topic but I didn't start it!)

As for the St Crispin's thing, that sounds good to me, especially the 40 days and nights' drinking #~)

Subject: RE: st georges day a public holiday
From: The Sandman
Date: 09 Aug 06 - 09:41 AM

Mcgonigle considered himself to be scottish ,otherwise he woud not have tried to approach Queen victoria about wanting to be scottish poet laureate. Where he was born is also important in determining his nationality.

Subject: RE: st georges day a public holiday
From: The Sandman
Date: 09 Aug 06 - 09:49 AM

william Topaz mcgonagall[ apologies for the earlier incorrect spelling] was born in edinburgh in 1825, that makes him scottish.

Subject: RE: st georges day a public holiday
From: GUEST, Topsie
Date: 09 Aug 06 - 09:50 AM

Captain Birdseye,
Do you mean that Bulgarians, Catalans etc. who are in England should celebrate with their traditions alongside our activities here, or do you want to make them do morris dancing and such like in their own countries, as if St George was our property and they are just copying us in having him as their patron saint?

Subject: RE: st georges day a public holiday
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Aug 06 - 10:14 AM

There is not now and never was a post of Scottish Poet Laureate.

Subject: RE: st georges day a public holiday
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 09 Aug 06 - 10:45 AM

I guess that must be because old Vic was not too amused?

:D (tG)

Subject: RE: st georges day a public holiday
From: The Sandman
Date: 09 Aug 06 - 01:45 PM

topsie I meant that they celebrate with their own folk dancing.,if they want to study morris dancing, why not . but I wouldnt force anybody to do anything thay didnt wantTO.