NearTheSea
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posted on March 17, 2005 12:01:50 PM new
and Happy St. Pattys Day to ya all
hmm wonder if these will work!
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kraftdinner
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posted on March 17, 2005 12:25:22 PM new
Happy St. Patricks Day to you and Lily and everyone else! 
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fiset
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posted on March 17, 2005 12:30:19 PM new
I work in Manhattan on the corner of 5th Avenue and 52nd Street. If you're not familiar with Manhattan, St. Patrick's Cathedral is on 5th Avenue and 51st Street. It is an absolute mob scene outside my office because of the St. Paddys Day parade (which is now almost over as I write this). We went out for lunch a little earlier and its just amazing to see so many drunk people wandering the streets. But truth be told, I can't wait to get out of here tonight.
Happy St. Paddy's Day.
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dblfugger9
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posted on March 17, 2005 12:37:37 PM new
lol nts. just what this board needs: a patron saint and a leprechaun!!
Fiset, have you ever heard of S.F. Co., Fifth ave? Thats not saks is it?
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parklane64
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posted on March 17, 2005 01:03:01 PM new
I've been trying. The older you get, the harder it is to lighten up. Happy Holiday, to be politically correct!
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I see green people.
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crowfarm
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posted on March 17, 2005 01:14:17 PM new
OK, I got the day off so let's stop the nicey, nicey and have some fun!
Let's vote for best representative of St. Patrick....the short guy with the pot of gold or the tall guy dripping gold ?
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maggiemuggins
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posted on March 17, 2005 02:21:05 PM new
 Crow!
Happy St.Patty's day to everyone!
As a person of Scottish ancestry, I am curious though how old St.Patty gets his own special day and parade and old St.Andrew doesn't even get a mention???
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crowfarm
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posted on March 17, 2005 02:25:09 PM new
Cuz Andy was a NAMECALLER!
and went straight to hell when he died....saint my foot!
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profe51
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posted on March 17, 2005 02:39:16 PM new
Don't fret maggie. You can take comfort in the knowlege that St. Patrick, the Patron of Ireland, was a SCOT by birth.
out of the top 20 european countries ranked by GDP, Ireland is #19, beating out the Czech Republic by a narrow margin.
Over 30% of all teens over the age of 15 are full time smokers in Ireland.
Ireland has the highest birth rate in the EU.
Northern Ireland has one of the highest suicide rates in the EU.
Respiratory cancer accounts for a whopping 20% of all deaths in Ireland.
The luck of the Irish to you
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crowfarm
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posted on March 17, 2005 02:40:35 PM new
JEEEZ Profe, you're getting to be about as much fun as linDUH!
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NearTheSea
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posted on March 17, 2005 02:42:21 PM new
The myths abound about St. Patty (or Paddy )
In the picture, he should have snakes around him, as he was supposed to have driven out the snakes and into the sea of the Isle. (I actually have a statue of him with that)And another is he used the 3 leaf shamrock when he taught about the Holy Trinity.
But he was actually from Britain long, long ago, and went to Ireland to convert the people there. (and he did)
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kraftdinner
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posted on March 17, 2005 02:43:09 PM new
Uhh Crow, the guy with the crown on is Near's husband, Mike. They have a lot of money so she makes him wear weird clothes with lots of gold thingies.
Are you showing off again Prof?
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crowfarm
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posted on March 17, 2005 02:46:54 PM new
Well, I vote for the chubby little short stud muffin with the pot of gold...
He's a couple thousand years older than MR. Patrick, has a big "stick", knows his 'shrooms, and has a lucky "charm"!
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NearTheSea
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posted on March 17, 2005 02:47:45 PM new
Profe! we musta been posting at the same time. So he was a Scot? I had thought he was a Brit. But your probably right!
I am cooking the corned beef (that is not really tradition of Ireland this day ) but me grandparents were from Ireland, and my grandpa was a Leprachaun ( we all really thought that LOL )
I have a dancing leprachaun thing screen saver on my computer screen now, and I have kept the 4 leaf clover my oldest gave me long ago, I put my Mega Millions ticket with it when I buy them LOL!! Hey! Anything that will help win! 
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NearTheSea
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posted on March 17, 2005 02:49:25 PM new
kraft LOLOL!! yep that there is Mikey.. he has always had that halo glow too!
LOL!!
Happy St Pats!!
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maggiemuggins
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posted on March 17, 2005 02:54:11 PM new
No, I'll bet it's because St. Andrew was a fisherman and a teetotaler ...One who abstains completely from alcoholic beverages. So his parties just didn't cut it.. Fishcakes and Tea..uck..
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crowfarm
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posted on March 17, 2005 03:20:12 PM new
Maggie
I still go with the 'chaun....no teetotaler is he! And he's definitely a party guy....money and mushrooms!
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crowfarm
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posted on March 17, 2005 03:22:33 PM new
BUT all this silliness about a saint! YIKES!
People will lose their faith!
QUICK!
Somebody google up PROOF that there are no leprechauns !!!!!!!
QUICK before the weak minded lose their faith !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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replaymedia
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posted on March 17, 2005 03:24:27 PM new
Is there any point to this silly holiday besides wearing green and getting drunk? I'v always felt this was the stupidest holiday on the calender. Worse than groundhog day even.
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maggiemuggins
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posted on March 17, 2005 03:24:47 PM new
Crow!!
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maggiemuggins
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posted on March 17, 2005 03:27:52 PM new
Oh..Lord..Replay..now you've done it...You're going straight to hell..don't mess with an Irishman's chance to booze and party!!
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crowfarm
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posted on March 17, 2005 03:30:03 PM new
Replay, don't faint, I agree!
It's almost as silly as Christmas where there is also much obligatory drinking.
At least on St. Pat's Day you are not lead to believe you have to spend all your money on gifts nobody really wants and you can't afford, and also it's only one day....not 4 months like that goofy asp Christmas.
HOw abut Boss's Day....ya, right...kiss my butt.
How about Valentine's Day...invented to get suckers to buy those boring, trite, overpriced roses.
Yup, silliness prevails!
[ edited by crowfarm on Mar 17, 2005 06:50 PM ]
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profe51
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posted on March 17, 2005 05:52:21 PM new
Let's not forget the Shriners, those goofy rich white guys in the fez hats who buzz around in their silly little cars at every St. Paddy's day parade...I know, they do lots of good for sick kids and all...
maggie, I guess maybe you could debate whether Patrick was a Scot or not. He was born about 385 in Scotland,most likely in Kilpatrick. His parents were named Calpurnius and Conchessa, and they were supposedly Romans living there as part of the Holy Roman colonial population. I doubt the native Scots of the time would have claimed him as one of their own
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yellowstone
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posted on March 17, 2005 07:01:58 PM new
Well Lasses and Lads, all this talk uv drinkin an partyin makes me feel like gettin me whiskey still out o the moth balls an cookin up a batch, aye.
Have any of you ever smelled moth balls??
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maggiemuggins
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posted on March 17, 2005 07:32:45 PM new
No.. how disgusting! Didn't even know that moths had balls!!
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hillbillymo
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posted on March 17, 2005 08:01:15 PM new
hillbillies, brew a batch or two for Saint Patty's Day. A flagon or two and you will sleep like a baby!
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replaymedia
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posted on March 17, 2005 08:01:53 PM new
Only the male moths, maggie. How would you like to be the person on the assembly line that has to tell the male moths from female moths?
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crowfarm
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posted on March 17, 2005 08:03:25 PM new
How much is a flagon ? And what is in those bottles?
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bigpeepa
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posted on March 17, 2005 08:16:04 PM new
Hey replay, I will always remember a big old Irish New York Fireman right after 9-11 saying on TV to Bin Laden. "Hey Bin Laden you can kiss my Royal Irish Ass". That's my kind of guy.
A old Irish saying is, "may the wind always be at your back" to blow the smoke out of Linda K's you know what.
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hillbillymo
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posted on March 17, 2005 08:19:06 PM new
A flagon is a large vessel from which you slake your thirst. The amount is a arbitrary quantification.
Beer!
[ edited by hillbillymo on Mar 17, 2005 08:20 PM ]
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