Happy Saint Patrick's day, enjoy this little diddy

Billy's bayonet · March 17, 2016, 04:01:40 PM

Fine old Irishman that I'm am, I might have me credentials revoked on our special day, coz like St Patrick, I don't drink.

Enjoy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5g_64YByc8

SalemCat · March 17, 2016, 04:21:56 PM

We have a mild rainstorm in Salem, Mass today.

Following it we had a Double-Rainbow. For the Main RainBow one end terminated at the Water Tower; the other at a Power Plant.

Pots of Gold ?

daidalos · March 17, 2016, 05:05:58 PM

503 service temporarily unavailable when trying to watch the film/vid billy.

kit saginaw · March 17, 2016, 07:54:06 PM

Quote from: Billy's bayonet on March 17, 2016, 04:01:40 PM
Fine old Irishman that I'm am, I might have me credentials revoked on our special day, coz like St Patrick, I don't drink.

Enjoy

I did enjoy it.

It's been while since I read about St. Patrick, but Gunn is right I think. Those guys didn't drink. They rode around solving disputes and other problems. Terry Jones parodied it best in Monty Python & The Holy Grail in the scene where the townspeople thought a woman was a witch.

For some reason, like a lot of historical leaders, St. Patrick's favorite thing to do was matchmaking and solving marriage-quarrels.

Billy's bayonet · March 17, 2016, 07:59:54 PM

Quote from: kit saginaw on March 17, 2016, 07:54:06 PM
I did enjoy it.

It's been while since I read about St. Patrick, but Gunn is right I think. Those guys didn't drink. They rode around solving disputes and other problems. Terry Jones parodied it best in Monty Python & The Holy Grail in the scene where the townspeople thought a woman was a witch.

For some reason, like a lot of historical leaders, St. Patrick's favorite thing to do was matchmaking and solving marriage-quarrels.

He wasn't Irish either....

I remember the uproar I caused at a looooonnnngggg ago family ST Patricks Day party when I told 'em St Paddy wasn't Irish but likely a Roman (Italian), I'm lucky to have gotten out of the room alive....

SalemCat · March 17, 2016, 09:04:56 PM

Quote from: Billy's bayonet on March 17, 2016, 07:59:54 PM

He wasn't Irish either....

I remember the uproar I caused at a looooonnnngggg ago family ST Patricks Day party when I told 'em St Paddy wasn't Irish but likely a Roman (Italian), I'm lucky to have gotten out of the room alive....

Even St Patrick is IRISH on March 17th !

je_freedom · March 20, 2016, 10:15:59 PM

Quote from: Billy's bayonet on March 17, 2016, 07:59:54 PM

He wasn't Irish either....

I remember the uproar I caused at a looooonnnngggg ago family ST Patricks Day party when I told 'em St Paddy wasn't Irish but likely a Roman (Italian), I'm lucky to have gotten out of the room alive....

Actually, Patrick was English.
Around the year 500 something,
he was kidnapped by the Irish at age 14.
A few years later, he escaped.
After that, he went back to Ireland as a missionary.
Ireland is one of the few nations that adopted Christianity
without slaughtering lots of missionaries.

quiller · March 21, 2016, 03:53:11 AM

Quote from: je_freedom on March 20, 2016, 10:15:59 PM
Ireland is one of the few nations that adopted Christianity without slaughtering lots of missionaries.

No, Ireland divided itself into two halves of Christianity and killed EACH OTHER.

je_freedom · March 21, 2016, 07:22:51 AM

Quote from: quiller on March 21, 2016, 03:53:11 AM
No, Ireland divided itself into two halves of Christianity and killed EACH OTHER.

That happened about 1100 years later.

The English conquered the northern region
and moved lots of settlers in.
The English Protestants fought the Irish Catholics.

They've been fighting less in recent decades
because they don't want to scare away
the industries that have been moving in.

Capitalism brings peace!