lotsafuzz
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posted on March 15, 2001 12:36:15 PM new
Keep 'em coming guys and gals!
I've been sharing ALL the jokes, songs, and (now) toasts with the rest of my (Irish) family and we have all enjoyed them very much. I even printed some of them out to send to my grandmother (who isn't one for computers).
Spaz: your comment of, "Time to shut you off, Zilvy." REALLY rubs me the wrong way. Until you post in green, you don't have the power to 'shut anyone off'.
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december3
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posted on March 15, 2001 12:40:18 PM new
Irish Toast
May you be in Heaven a half-hour before the devil knows you're dead.
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stusi
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posted on March 15, 2001 12:53:22 PM new
spaz- i can't believe what i am reading here and on the mod's board. talk about hypocrisy! first you "defend" the "Burning Bush" thread, claiming it has no possibly defamatory references, then you question the "sopranos" thread's intentions, now you are taking a position against this thread! to what one standard are you holding the appropriateness of these threads? or are you just making it up as you go along?
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atozgoodies
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posted on March 15, 2001 12:56:38 PM new
Spaz--here is one of my favorite sayings--not originial to my Irish Uncle Bob--but--fondly remember his voice saying this:
"May the road rise to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face.
And rains fall soft upon your fields.
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the hollow of His hand."
I hope to meet him in heaven some day. Miss him.
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zilvy
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posted on March 15, 2001 01:12:52 PM new
Ni'l mo'ra'n Gaelige agam Spaz so I'll say it in English....this is for fun...we won't find any Irish in South Boston sitting around being dour on St. Paddy's day, nor will the others Irish or Not who join in to sing all the wonderful songs and wish they were IRISH!!
Our motto: Be green or be gone, by gorrah!!
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spazmodeus
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posted on March 15, 2001 01:14:41 PM new
and the insight to know when you've gone too far.
Now there's a real joke.
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spazmodeus
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posted on March 15, 2001 01:18:58 PM new
I'm Black Irish, zilvy. I'm sure you know the stereotype, versed as you are in them.
fuzz,
"Time to shut you off" is something a bartender says to a customer when he thinks the customer is past his limit. In my opinion, zilvy had made one too many jingoistic booze-related Irish jokes. Regardless of how it rubbed you, there was nothing more to it than that.
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zilvy
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posted on March 15, 2001 01:29:42 PM new
An offering of limited explanation to Spazmodeus' reference to being Black Irish.
Black Irish, - some will say that this term was applied to those persons who were the offspring of local citizens (women) and shipwrecked sailors from Spain or other countries where the people have darker skins. Others will say that the term
pertains to a person of a very mean disposition.
This is not a criticism or disparaging in content merely an explanation. look up Black Irish (Keyword) many sites available.
[ edited by zilvy on Mar 15, 2001 01:31 PM ]
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Twelvepole
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posted on March 15, 2001 01:30:14 PM new
and alas we did see who was the bartender and who wasn't. 
Ain't Life Grand... 
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Hepburn
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posted on March 15, 2001 01:36:53 PM new
I am black irish too. Always wondered where that phrase came from and what it meant. Much obliged!
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atozgoodies
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posted on March 15, 2001 01:41:14 PM new
Zilvy-- I'm orange. Could never figure out as a young one why my Irish family didn't embrace St Paddy's Day. Personally loved the green decorated cookies and leprachauns!
As I grew older--realized that our family was originally from N Ireland and we were Protestant.
And to make a long story short--there was grief--heartbreaking grief for our one small family. Due to famine, religious beliefs---ignorance.
So excuse me--if I don't buy into the Boston pubs and slugging down the brew.
There is a bit more to the Irish than that!
Don't mean to rain on your parade or be grim--but the Irish are fricking complicated.
Stereotypes are demeaning to many.
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zilvy
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posted on March 15, 2001 01:51:23 PM new
===============
Living on Earth is expensive, but it does include a free trip around the sun.
[ edited by zilvy on Mar 17, 2001 06:51 PM ]
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Muriel
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posted on March 15, 2001 01:59:17 PM new
I've always liked this description of Irish foreplay: "Brace yerself, Brighid!"
Why Xardon - I'm blushing!! 
[ edited by Muriel on Mar 15, 2001 02:00 PM ]
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nettak
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posted on March 15, 2001 02:00:37 PM new
Okay Zilvy, here is my little bit. An Irish Prayer. my neighbour who is Irish has this hanging in the entry of her home.
May your neighbours respect you,
Trouble neglect you,
The Angels protect you,
And Heaven accept you.
May the Irish hills caress you.
May her lakes and rivers bless you.
May the luck of the Irish enfold you.
And may the blessings of Saint Patrick behold you.
Here is another prayer.
May god grant you always....
A sunbeam to warm you,
A moonbeam to charm you,
A sheltering angel
So nothing can harm you....
Laughter to cheer you,
Faithful friends near you,
And whenever you pray, Heaven to hear you.
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zilvy
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posted on March 15, 2001 02:12:42 PM new
Thank you Nettak the balance is needed so that all may enjoy and in your usual lovely fashion you have done just that.
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nettak
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posted on March 15, 2001 02:27:46 PM new
I like the jokes as well, but alas I do not know any Irish Jokes, so I put a prayer in for everyone. I think they are almost song like, I hope everyone including Spaz enjoy reading the lines.
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zilvy
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posted on March 15, 2001 02:35:39 PM new
Here we go now....break out the tin whistles
lets get into the Irish Step Dance and Dust off the Irish furniture. Ya say ya dunna know what is Irish furniture....well lad
it's Paddy O Furniture...course it's not warm enough here to use it yet.
[ edited by zilvy on Mar 17, 2001 06:52 PM ]
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atozgoodies
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posted on March 15, 2001 02:44:47 PM new
Oh dear--and some wonder why we have never seen eye to eye. Not for the lack of trying.
Celebrate Zilvy--and the tears of Ireland will be celebrated.
Such a hurtful thread---sorry folks--just call em the way I see em.
Zilvy--are your Irish?
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december3
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posted on March 15, 2001 03:02:54 PM new
Chill out. I'm Irish, still have relatives I keep in touch with there. This thread doesn't offend me one bit. I have a bit of the Irish sense of doom about me, and Lord knows being raised Catholic I feel guilty about most everything. Thank heavens I inherited the sense of humor to balance out the rest.
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zilvy
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posted on March 15, 2001 03:27:40 PM new
WHY DID SHE START THIS THREAD YOU MAY ASK OR NOT....BECAUSE IT WAS SO BLOODY SAD AROUND HERE. I SEARCHED OLD THREADS, I WENT TO OTHER BOARDS, I TRIED TO COME UP WITH SOMETHING WE COULD ENJOY The thread on abortion was on the top...talk about depressing, AW was getting all kinds of grief, the folks across the Bay are watching folks..I'm getting grief from them too.
So I'll make a modest proposal What shall we do with Zilvy? A good old fashioned hanging, draw & quarter the *itch, (that's for you b**ts) nice edit huh V.T.? Perhaps we should Stone her The very idea, of celebrating St. Paddy's Day. I imagine some of you give me way too much credit....I didn't author the jokes, songs or prayers they are all part of Our heritage....we are what we are, history made us and the devil take the hindmost.
KRS the world is waiting! Saints preserve us.
edited to correct speeling.
[ edited by zilvy on Mar 16, 2001 08:30 AM ]
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atozgoodies
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posted on March 15, 2001 03:35:11 PM new
Hey Zilvy--the lord help us all if we are a waiting for KRS!!! Finally-- this thread made me laugh!
Dang--your dramatics are much better than mine.
Are your Irish?
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zilvy
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posted on March 15, 2001 03:42:43 PM new
Truth be told....I am plus, French, English, and American Indian...we are a Catholic family in the broad sense of the word. (Comprehensive, Universal: esp. broad in sympathies, tastes or interests)
[ edited by zilvy on Mar 18, 2001 06:22 PM ]
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xardon
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posted on March 15, 2001 03:48:31 PM new
Ya did fine, lass! And who else might there be among this fine company that has offered more to slake our troubled spirits? Dinna let it worry ya, now! Yer awright, lass, awright indeed!
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zilvy
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posted on March 15, 2001 03:52:24 PM new
Aye and thank ye Xardon, in case the mob begins to close in I hope you are not too far off.....especially since part of this was (dare I say HER name?) Muriel's idea...she was tired of reading the same old stuff!!
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Muriel
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posted on March 15, 2001 03:53:49 PM new
Xardon - I love it when you speak French!
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zilvy
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posted on March 15, 2001 03:56:06 PM new
ROFLMAO, Muriel you pixie you. Get in
your Purple Love Machine and ride, ride, ride
as if the Banshees were after ya, lass.
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Muriel
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posted on March 15, 2001 03:59:41 PM new
Zilvy - Sadly, I can only ride in my purple Firebird for short distances because it makes my lower back hurt.  If I'm driving farther than 50 miles, I have to take the old 1984 Eldorado. 
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atozgoodies
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posted on March 15, 2001 04:00:41 PM new
"Ya did fine lass"--
Gag me with a stick-
Whatever--geesh where is that bombastic wonder KRS?
Bye all--sure you will miss me
(Just as an aside--why on god's green earth do I use this forum? Sometimes it's just so blame lonely to ask some basic questions. The starter of this thread is not Irish--but finds great glee in continuing the stereotypes. Whoa--big surprise!
Oh Well---for the truly Irish-- One Country One People--Yes!! It is possible.)
I do believe. And it is in my prayers.
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zilvy
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posted on March 15, 2001 04:04:14 PM new
Cleary, O'Connor and Finn don't count as Irish..what part of Truth be told, I am didn't you understand?
[ edited by zilvy on Mar 18, 2001 06:22 PM ]
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december3
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posted on March 15, 2001 04:08:42 PM new
I like your thread zilvy. I'm named after my grandmother, she was a Quigley from Galway.
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