PLEASE HELP! (from a Moscow lass) Irish quiz query

Subject: RE: PLEASE HELP! (from a Moscow lass) Irish quiz query
From: kai
Date: 14 Mar 03 - 07:54 AM

Hello, Elena!

It's great to see you here at Mudcat. I'm using it for over two years and think it's pretty useful and friendly for all, even for dumb Russians :).

Hope to see you on Paddy's Day!

MacQuilly

Subject: RE: PLEASE HELP! (from a Moscow lass) Irish quiz query
From: belfast
Date: 14 Mar 03 - 08:00 AM

Let's face it, Elena's English is better than that of many native English speakers. I hope she gets to visit Ireland.

And, just for clarity, as regards Green and Orange. There are plenty who would regard themselves as Nationalist or Republican ("Green") who would have no time for the Catholic Church. There are many Protestants who loathe and despise the Orange Order and all it stands for.

Subject: RE: PLEASE HELP! (from a Moscow lass) Irish quiz query
From: Bullfrog Jones
Date: 14 Mar 03 - 08:21 AM

Hi Elena and welcome. Please let us know if you win the competition!

BJ

Subject: RE: PLEASE HELP! (from a Moscow lass) Irish quiz query
From: belfast
Date: 14 Mar 03 - 09:43 AM

I forgot to say "Welcome". Failte Romhat!

Subject: RE: PLEASE HELP! (from a Moscow lass) Irish quiz query
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 14 Mar 03 - 10:25 AM

Still a bit suspicious about this [Russian?] guest's command of the English language, it's better then many native English speakers that I know.
Giok

Subject: RE: PLEASE HELP! (from a Moscow lass) Irish quiz query
From: An Pluiméir Ceolmhar
Date: 14 Mar 03 - 10:57 AM

Elena,

I don't think anyone answered the "why" part of question 6.

Ireland is known as the Emerald Isle because the landscape stays very green pretty much all the year round because the climate is quite temperate (even) with mild temperatures and rainfall spread quite evenly throughout the year. Of the two names which you quote, that is probably the one most often used nowadays, especially in tourist promotions , so that's probably the better answer to give in your quiz.

The name 'Island of Saints and Scholars' is an older name which refers to the fact that, after the collapse of the Roman Empire in the Dark Ages, many Irish monks (priests) brought Christianity back to Northern Europe, founding monasteries, schools, etc. as they travelled.

Good luck with the competition, and let us know how you get on!

Roger

Subject: RE: PLEASE HELP! (from a Moscow lass) Irish quiz query
From: kai
Date: 14 Mar 03 - 10:59 AM

Giok,

You may be sure she is Russian. At least, as I last time met her, she still was Russian. :)

Subject: RE: PLEASE HELP! (from a Moscow lass) Irish quiz query
From: GUEST,red-faced idiot
Date: 14 Mar 03 - 01:20 PM

I'm the one responsible for kat's "brain drain" line, and it sure wasn't her who's brain was draining, the dribble all came from me.

I DID ask the clones to remove my post. Sorry, fans of excitement and expletive deleteds, you didn't really miss anything, I was simply RUDE to katlaughing, who I love dearly, and implied that she hadn't caught what I saw as another one of those Irish flame threads that have plagued the cat and really cause bad feelings.

Due to a number of things that I won't get into, I was feeling crotchety, cranky, curmudgeon-like and in general, not my normal laid back self. I won't get into THAT again. So I'm sorry for disrupting this thread. When the alarm bells went off, I should have just ignored it and looked at something else.

I figured after 50 plus posts I could come back in and explain to the people who asked, what happened, without disrupting continuity. And once again kat, I'm really sorry.

Maybe in a few weeks I'll even come back and take a few tomatoes in the kisser without the cloak of anonymity, but at the moment I'm feeling a little too sheepish, so I'll remain

Red-faced idiot

Subject: RE: PLEASE HELP! (from a Moscow lass) Irish quiz query
From: ard mhacha
Date: 14 Mar 03 - 01:55 PM

Jimmy C, I have been around the oul Isle all of 65 years and I have never heard of the custom of "idle wheels" on St Brigid`s Day.
In Texas they might have cow-pat skimming competitions and up in New England this pratice is unheard off, and in Cornwall they may participate in Pastie eating competitions and in and around London they would find this custom very quaint, likewise in County Kerry they might stand a poor goat on a pedestal for three or four days while the locals have all the fun of the Fair, elsewhere in Ireland the goat would be a provider of good healthy milk.
Now somewhere else in the Emerald Isle they may have that "idle wheels" ritual, but in all of my time in and around County Armagh the wheels have always kept turning on St Brigid`s Day.
And God Bless all the lovely lasses of Moscow.

Subject: RE: PLEASE HELP! (from a Moscow lass) Irish quiz query
From: Bonnie Shaljean
Date: 14 Mar 03 - 01:58 PM

Don't stay away that long, RFI. We've ALL done silly things at one time or other - it's seems to be a mandatory initiation to the Internet. And not everyone has the guts to admit it and apologise.

Welcome Elena, so glad you joined us! Be sure to let us know if you win the competition, and what parts of Ireland you'll be visiting. Do you sing or play any music?

All the best, Bonnie

Subject: RE: PLEASE HELP! (from a Moscow lass) Irish quiz query
From: GUEST,,Elf (Elena)
Date: 14 Mar 03 - 02:43 PM

Dear everyone,

I confess I am laughing my posterior off, haw haw haw.

What a nice gullable bunch you all are!

Realy in Nigeria, also Elena is a man!

Haw haw haw.

Subject: RE: PLEASE HELP! (from a Moscow lass) Irish quiz query
From: Elena
Date: 14 Mar 03 - 05:39 PM

To someone who has dared to steal my nickname:
Hey, it ain't funny! All rights reserved and do not discredit lovely Russian lasses..

To other Mudcatters:

Thanks for all the kind words about my English (well.. I was obviously fishing for compliments), but your generosity inspires! :) I wish I could learn Gaelic as well..

To Bonnie: I sing and play. Mostly Celtic songs, for (as everyone might have already noticed) I'm very fond of Celtic culture.

To Giok: Kogo ya vijou! Quite unexpected, I would say, but pleasant.. BTW, I liked the way you have proved my Russianness. :) I'll be at "Tochka" on Saturday.

If I win this competition, the Mudcatters will be the first to know! :)

P.S. Thanks to everyone who have added useful details. I am getting more and more grateful.. :)

Subject: RE: PLEASE HELP! (from a Moscow lass) Irish quiz q
From: mooman
Date: 14 Mar 03 - 05:45 PM

Welcome to the Cat Elena!

êëàññíàß äåâ÷îíêà!

moo

Subject: RE: PLEASE HELP! (from a Moscow lass) Irish quiz q
From: mooman
Date: 14 Mar 03 - 05:49 PM

,,,and don't worry too much about

òîðìîç

anonymous flamers!

moo

Subject: RE: PLEASE HELP! (from a Moscow lass) Irish quiz query
From: Elena
Date: 14 Mar 03 - 07:04 PM

Moo, your Russian is getting better than my English! :)

A note to my previous message: strangely enough, I was going to write "to Kai", but wrote "to Giok" and remembered it only now… Something to do with subconsciousness, I believe…

Subject: RE: PLEASE HELP! (from a Moscow lass) Irish quiz query
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Jan 12 - 08:48 AM

How do you say " Merry Christmas " in russian

Subject: RE: PLEASE HELP! (from a Moscow lass) Irish quiz query
From: GUEST
Date: 07 Jan 12 - 11:14 AM

С Рождеством Христовым (S Roždestvom Khristovym)