We’ll kick off this St. Patrick’s Day with an open thread, LGF greetings and salutations to all Irish readers (which includes me), and an old bit of Irish doggerel for the occasion.
Saint Patrick was a gentleman
Who through strategy and stealth
Drove all the snakes from Ireland
Here’s a drinkee to his health!
But not too many drinkees
Lest we lose ourselves and then…
Forget the good Saint Patrick
And see them snakes again!
— Author unknown
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Sol Berdinowitz Wed, Mar 17, 2010 9:37:00am |
"God invented whiskey to keep the Irish from ruling the world!"
-author unknown
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Kragar Wed, Mar 17, 2010 9:39:06am |
Most heard pick up line at bars tonight:
"Got any Irish in ya? Would you like some?"
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Vicious Babushka Wed, Mar 17, 2010 9:41:03am |
I have relatives in Belfast. Does that count?
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The Sanity Inspector Wed, Mar 17, 2010 9:41:10am |
95% of Irish history ends with the words, "And then he was betrayed
by..."
3% of Irish history ends with the words, "And then success went to his
head and turned his brains to crap."
2% of Irish history ends with the words, "And then he made something
of himself, but he had to get the hell out if Ireland to do it."
-- Richard McEnroe
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The Sanity Inspector Wed, Mar 17, 2010 9:43:08am |
...the relationship of the English with the Irish is a saga of unrelieved tragedy, from the mid-twelfth century to the present day. Any theory that the English have a natural capacity for governing other races cannot survive even the most cursory examination of
Anglo-Irish history: English policy-makers committed every conceivable error from the first moment of contact, then sought to retrieve their blunders by savagery. The chief trouble, ironically, was that Ireland never was sufficiently occupied the centre of England's political consciousness. It was a marginal threat, a marginal problem, and a marginal asset.
--Paul Johnson, The Offshore Islanders, 1972
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darthstar Wed, Mar 17, 2010 9:44:33am |
Incidentally, Sirius is streaming the 6/16/90 Grateful Dead show from The Shoreline in Mountain View right now...good show...I was there. The Terrapin Station/Jam/Drums/Space in the second set is worth sitting down for.
Cassidy is rockin' right now...
Full Setlist:
06/16/90 (Sat) Shoreline Amphitheatre - Mountain View, CA
Set 1: Let The Good Times Roll > Truckin' > Touch of Grey, Mama Tried > Big River, Friend Of The Devil, Cassidy, Big Boss Man, One More Saturday NightSet 2: China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, We Can Run > Estimated Prophet > Terrapin Station > Jam > Drums > Space > China Doll > Sugar Magnolia-, E: It's All Over Now Baby Blue
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MandyManners Wed, Mar 17, 2010 9:45:54am |
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Darth Vader Gargoyle Wed, Mar 17, 2010 9:46:38am |
Happy Maewyn Succat Day!!!
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The Sanity Inspector Wed, Mar 17, 2010 9:46:49am |
The English are not happy unless they are miserable, the Irish are not at peace unless they are at war, and the Scots are not at home unless they are abroad.
-- George Orwell
Peat is found only in Celtic countries because God realized the Celts were the only people on earth who drank so much that they would try to burn mud.
-- P.J. O’Rourke
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Cato the Elder Wed, Mar 17, 2010 9:47:19am |
Aye, lads and lassies! Saint Paddy's Day!
But let none call him "Patty", as ye heathen do. "Patty" is Charlie Brown's girlfriend. Paddy is our man. Yes he can. Yes he can!
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wrenchwench Wed, Mar 17, 2010 9:47:41am |
I'm one fourth Irish. I'm wearing green socks, and nothing else that's green.
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darthstar Wed, Mar 17, 2010 9:48:32am |
re: #13 Cato the Elder
Aye, lads and lassies! Saint Paddy's Day!
But let none call him "Patty", as ye heathen do. "Patty" is Charlie Brown's girlfriend. Paddy is our man. Yes he can. Yes he can!
Oh, I did type Patty when I meant Paddy...and me with so many Padrics in my family.
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The Sanity Inspector Wed, Mar 17, 2010 9:48:54am |
But cooperation was still very slow in coming. "This investigation has hit a rock," General Naji admitted. "We Arabs are very stubborn."
Ali Soufan teased him, saying, "You're dealing with another Arab, and I'm also stubborn."
When Soufan translated this exchange, [FBI agent Paul] O'Neill contended that the Arabs were not the equal of the Irish in that department. He told a story about the O'Neill clan in Ireland, who he said had the reputation of being the strongest men in their country. Every year there was a boat race to a giant stone in the middle of a lake, and the O'Neills always won. But one year, another clan was rowing faster and pulling ahead, and it appeared that they would touch the stone first. "But then my great-grandfather took his sword," said O'Neill, "and he cut off his hand and threw it at the rock. You got anything can match that?"
Soufan and the general looked at each other. "We're stubborn," said Soufan, "but we're not crazy."
--Lawrence Wright, The Looming Tower, 2006
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Mad Al-Jaffee Wed, Mar 17, 2010 9:48:55am |
re: #4 Alouette
I have relatives in Belfast. Does that count?
I used Irish Spring soap this morning. Does that count?
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Cato the Elder Wed, Mar 17, 2010 9:49:21am |
re: #7 The Sanity Inspector
[Ireland] was a marginal threat, a marginal problem, and a marginal asset.
Not to the fookin' Irish!
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Mad Al-Jaffee Wed, Mar 17, 2010 9:50:47am |
re: #13 Cato the Elder
Aye, lads and lassies! Saint Paddy's Day!
But let none call him "Patty", as ye heathen do. "Patty" is Charlie Brown's girlfriend. Paddy is our man. Yes he can. Yes he can!
I thought Patty was Marcie's girlfriend.
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MandyManners Wed, Mar 17, 2010 9:51:38am |
Some Guiness was spilt on the barroom floor
When the pub was shut for the night
Out of his hole crept a wee brown mouse
And stood in the pale moonlight
He lapped up the frothy brew from the floor
Then back on his haunches he sat
And all the night you could hear him roar
"Bring on the fookin' cat!"
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darthstar Wed, Mar 17, 2010 9:52:16am |
re: #21 Mad Al-Jaffee
I thought Patty was Marcie's girlfriend.
Don't try to distract us with images of hot Peanuts lesbian love.
/
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Mad Al-Jaffee Wed, Mar 17, 2010 9:52:51am |
One day an Englishman, a Scotsman, and an Irishman walked into a pub together. They each bought a pint of Guinness. Just as they were about to enjoy their creamy beverage, three flies landed in each of their pints, and were stuck in the thick head. The Englishman pushed his beer away in disgust. The Scotsman fished the fly out of his beer, and continued drinking it, as if nothing had happened. The Irishman, too, picked the fly out of his drink, held it out over the beer, and started yelling, "SPIT IT OUT, SPIT IT OUT YOU BASTARD!!!!"
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Aceofwhat? Wed, Mar 17, 2010 9:53:04am |
re: #23 darthstar
Don't try to distract us with images of hot Peanuts lesbian love.
/
speak for yourself/
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Cato the Elder Wed, Mar 17, 2010 9:54:33am |
re: #21 Mad Al-Jaffee
I thought Patty was Marcie's girlfriend.
That used to be inside information. See how the world has changed?
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abbyadams Wed, Mar 17, 2010 9:54:43am |
re: #5 The Sanity Inspector
100% of Scottish history ends with the first statement.
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Mad Al-Jaffee Wed, Mar 17, 2010 9:54:51am |
When I was a kid my family used to eat at a restaurant in my hometown that employed leprechauns. As an adult, I played there many times in a couple of different bands.
[Link: www.bassharp.com...]
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Slap Wed, Mar 17, 2010 9:56:43am |
Posted upthread, but belongs here. A little Irish tour:
Taste (Early Rory, damn he was young!)
Rory Gallagher solo I still miss the guy.
Thin Lizzy, of course! Missing him, too...
Horslips!
The Waterboys
Sir Bob and the Rats
Clannad
The Corrs AND the Chieftains
And, demonstrating once and for all that Irish Music can embrace all forms,
The Chieftains and Ziggy Marley
No U2, 'cause they don't need the exposure; and no Van Morrison, 'cause his people have done a fine job of keeping him off YouTube. But they do add to the tapestry. Others have included the Pogues and Dubliners earlier, ad them to your playlists as well.....
(I come from a family who have named several sons after Robert Emmet over the generations. Testy bunch, we.)
Happy St Patrick to all!
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Feline Emperor of the Conservative Tears Wed, Mar 17, 2010 9:56:54am |
re: #27 abbyadams
100% of Scottish history ends with the first statement.
I was told that the Scottish nobility had a "lemming" complex. Their numbers would build up to a point, and then they'd invade England to get killed in a battle there.
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_RememberTonyC Wed, Mar 17, 2010 9:56:56am |
Q: Do you know the difference between an Irish wake and an Irish wedding?
A: One less drunk
~ducks and then runs for cover~
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Summer Seale Wed, Mar 17, 2010 9:58:06am |
I'll be the curmudgeon and say bah humbug to St. Patrick!
I celebrate interesting Irish history and culture, yea totally. Heck, I love Enya! =)
But celebrate the conversion of all of Ireland from their ancient culture to being Catholic? No way. Though, I suppose, I'd probably care more if the Druids weren't practicing human sacrifice too.
Maybe it's a good thing after all. =)
anyway, rivverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation...
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darthstar Wed, Mar 17, 2010 9:58:08am |
Roses are red,
Violets are bluish,
A Leprechaun told me,
St. Patrick was jewish.
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Donna Ballard Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:00:17am |
re: #11 rwdflynavy
Happy Maewyn Succat Day!!!
Thats interesting! You are good at ferreting out obscure facts, aren't you?
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The Sanity Inspector Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:00:38am |
On the occasion of a dinner given in Paris, Emile Zola was to propose the toast of "The Arts", and Oscar Wilde was to reply. Zola spoke, of course, in French, and in coupling the toast with Wilde's name, said "Malheureusement, Mr. Wilde sera oblige' de re'pondre dans sa langue barbare." Wilde began his reply in French, too. He said, "Je suis irlandais de naissance, anglais du race, et comme le dit M. Zola, condamne' 'a parler la langue de Shakespeare!"
-- Alfred Edward Woodley Mason, Sir George Alexander & the St. James' Theatre
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SanFranciscoZionist Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:01:03am |
re: #32 Summer
I'll be the curmudgeon and say bah humbug to St. Patrick!
I celebrate interesting Irish history and culture, yea totally. Heck, I love Enya! =)
But celebrate the conversion of all of Ireland from their ancient culture to being Catholic? No way. Though, I suppose, I'd probably care more if the Druids weren't practicing human sacrifice too.
Maybe it's a good thing after all. =)
anyway, rivverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation...
The story goes that St. Patrick was once called to baptize a tribal chieftain. Patrick was an elderly man by this time, and he walked with a stick with a sharp, metal-tipped point.
Patrick, while leaning in to baptize the man, accidentally drove the point of his walking stick into the chieftain's foot. No coward, and accustomed to the mysterious ways of holy men, the man assumed this to be part of the ritual, gritted his teeth and remained silent, as Patrick completed the ceremony.
He didn't find out until later that the stabbing wasn't necessary.
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Aceofwhat? Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:01:12am |
re: #32 Summer
I'll be the curmudgeon and say bah humbug to St. Patrick!
I celebrate interesting Irish history and culture, yea totally. Heck, I love Enya! =)
But celebrate the conversion of all of Ireland from their ancient culture to being Catholic? No way. Though, I suppose, I'd probably care more if the Druids weren't practicing human sacrifice too.
Maybe it's a good thing after all. =)
anyway, rivverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation...
heh. the german half of me is just happy we're not talking about german history...at least the Irish are only responsible for kicking themselves...
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Donna Ballard Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:02:00am |
Good Morning to you all and Happy St. Paddy's day! I hope you are all well this fine day?
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The Sanity Inspector Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:02:46am |
re: #24 Mad Al-Jaffee
One day an Englishman, a Scotsman, and an Irishman walked into a pub together. They each bought a pint of Guinness. Just as they were about to enjoy their creamy beverage, three flies landed in each of their pints, and were stuck in the thick head. The Englishman pushed his beer away in disgust. The Scotsman fished the fly out of his beer, and continued drinking it, as if nothing had happened. The Irishman, too, picked the fly out of his drink, held it out over the beer, and started yelling, "SPIT IT OUT, SPIT IT OUT YOU BASTARD!!!"
19th Century Punch cartoon:
A traveller in an Irish inn: "I say, don't you have any Scotch whiskey here?"
Innkeeper: "Naw sair, we dawn't kape it, bar to water down air awn."
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Cato the Elder Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:02:52am |
re: #32 Summer
...rivverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation...
...away, alone, alast, aloved, along the...
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MandyManners Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:03:13am |
re: #39 Dragon_Lady
Good Morning to you all and Happy St. Paddy's day! I hope you are all well this fine day?
Recovered from the flu yet?
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Summer Seale Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:03:37am |
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The Sanity Inspector Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:03:55am |
re: #39 Dragon_Lady
Good Morning to you all and Happy St. Paddy's day! I hope you are all well this fine day?
Schwell! *hic*
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Donna Ballard Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:04:43am |
I know a joke about the difference between St. Paddy's day and Martin Luther Kings day but if I tell it you all might think I have racist intentions, which I don't. If I tell it will you all promise not to think badly of me?
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The Sanity Inspector Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:04:54am |
Celtic hopscotch
-- Joe Queenan, on Riverdance
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Cato the Elder Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:05:00am |
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Summer Seale Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:05:48am |
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Donna Ballard Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:06:15am |
re: #42 MandyManners
Recovered from the flu yet?
Working on it, RWC got it worse than I did, he got the classic symptoms, I got the severe cold symptoms. It's going to take some more time, but I do feel better this morning. :-)
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The Sanity Inspector Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:06:37am |
Shall I leave the prints of my knees on the sandy beach, a record of my final prayer in my native land?
--Prayer of St. Brendan
Should I be worthy, I am prepared to give even my life without hesitation and most gladly for His name, and it is in Ireland that I wish to spend it until I die, if the Lord would grant it to me.
--St. Patrick
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Daniel Ballard Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:06:48am |
As a man with an Irish wife, Happy day indeed!!! The one ring I most enjoyed casting ever was Dragon_Ladys Claddadh ring. Most fun I ever had with gold.
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Donna Ballard Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:07:18am |
re: #44 The Sanity Inspector
Schwell! *hic*
Go easy on the green beer, my dear. Hang overs are never pleasant the next day.
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Cato the Elder Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:07:27am |
"When I die Dublin will be written in my heart."
- James Joyce
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windsword Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:09:28am |
An Irish guy and a gay guy are sitting in a bar. The guy man leans over to the Irish guy and says, "Hey, you want a blow job"?
The Irish guy immediately punches the gay guy in the face, causing him to run to the bathroom with a bleeding nose. As the bartender watches him run, he turns and says, "Wow, Finnegan, what'd that bloke say to you?"
"I don't know", he slurred, "Something about giving me a job."
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The Sanity Inspector Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:09:52am |
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Cato the Elder Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:10:03am |
"Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why."
- James Joyce
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darthstar Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:10:18am |
Just got this one from my brother:
After the first day of a world brewing convention in the states, the CEO's of various brewing organizations retire to the bar.
Bruce, the CEO of Fosters, shouts to the barman: "In 'Straiyla, we make the best beer in the world, so pour me a Fosters mate.
Bob, CEO of Budweiser calls out next: "In the States we brew the finest beer known to mankind and i make the king of them all. Gimme a Bud".
Hans steps up next: "In Germany we invented das beer. Give me ein Becks, der real King of beers."
Paddy, CEO of Guinness steps forward: "Barman give me a diet coke with ice and lemon please."
The others stare at him in stunned silence, amazement written over their faces. Eventually Bruce asks: "Are you not going to have a Guinness Pat?"
To which Paddy replies "Well, if you pussies aren't drinking, then neither am I".
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Donna Ballard Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:11:49am |
re: #55 windsword
An Irish guy and a gay guy are sitting in a bar. The guy man leans over to the Irish guy and says, "Hey, you want a blow job"?
The Irish guy immediately punches the gay guy in the face, causing him to run to the bathroom with a bleeding nose. As the bartender watches him run, he turns and says, "Wow, Finnegan, what'd that bloke say to you?"
"I don't know", he slurred, "Something about giving me a job."
Very, very funny! Upding for you!
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Mad Al-Jaffee Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:12:06am |
re: #58 darthstar
That joke always reminds me of the Dave Chappelle Samuel L. Jackson beer commercial.
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Slap Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:12:07am |
re: #56 The Sanity Inspector
It was a toss-up, which to choose. I'm inclined to agree, mostly -- but the deep Irishness is part of why I linked 'em for today.
Mainly, I posted the thing twice because I really love to take every opportunity to remind folks of Rory Gallagher's work.
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Cato the Elder Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:14:59am |
re: #52 Dragon_Lady
Go easy on the green beer, my dear. Hang overs are never pleasant the next day.
And when they last into the day after the next, you know you've been drinking scotch.
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Walter L. Newton Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:16:17am |
re: #63 Cato the Elder
And when they last into the day after the next, you know you've been drinking scotch.
I have never had a hangover from drinking scotch, and I've downed up to a full liter or more in any given evening.
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Donna Ballard Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:17:50am |
re: #63 Cato the Elder
And when they last into the day after the next, you know you've been drinking scotch.
I'm sorry to say I just can't drink that stuff. I know, I know. And I call myself Irish? I maybe Irish by blood but my poor tummy thinks differently!
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darthstar Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:18:06am |
re: #64 Walter L. Newton
I have never had a hangover from drinking scotch, and I've downed up to a full liter or more in any given evening.
The liter for breakfast is the secret.
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Slap Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:18:19am |
re: #58 darthstar
While living in Germany, was talking with an American expat who had married a German girl. Once, he told his father-in-law about a night of drunken misadventures he and his fellow airmen got into; FIL says, what were you drinking? Guy says Beer. FIL says, OK, but what were you drinking that made you drunk?
Ahm. It's all relative.
(ducks)
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Killgore Trout Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:19:08am |
U.S. stocks extend gains on enthusiasm over Fed move
Dow Jones Industrial Average poised for longest win streak since August 2009
Nice.
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Donna Ballard Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:19:25am |
re: #66 darthstar
The liter for breakfast is the secret.
My tummy's shuttering at the thought! Breakfast? Perish the thought!
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Cato the Elder Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:19:57am |
re: #64 Walter L. Newton
I have never had a hangover from drinking scotch, and I've downed up to a full liter or more in any given evening.
D'ye think that might have had something to do with yer BMI at the time, ye skinny braggart?
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Walter L. Newton Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:20:39am |
re: #70 Cato the Elder
D'ye think that might have had something to do with yer BMI at the time, ye skinny braggart?
So?
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ryannon Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:21:20am |
re: #12 The Sanity Inspector
The English are not happy unless they are miserable, the Irish are not at peace unless they are at war, and the Scots are not at home unless they are abroad.
-- George OrwellPeat is found only in Celtic countries because God realized the Celts were the only people on earth who drank so much that they would try to burn mud.
-- P.J. O’Rourke
There's nothing so wonderful as the heady perfume of a peat fire.
When I was in Kerry on the Dingle Peninsula, I helped cut peat out of a bog one afternoon. Dirty, backbreaking work, but it's a fascinating substance. Like a black, prehistoric pudding but nothing you'd be tempted to eat.
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Walter L. Newton Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:22:51am |
re: #70 Cato the Elder
D'ye think that might have had something to do with yer BMI at the time, ye skinny braggart?
And that's bigoted. More of that fat stuff huh. Fat people don't feel the cold, fat people don't get drunk as soon, all that crap, that's all bullshit.
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The Curmudgeon Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:23:13am |
re: #32 Summer
I'll be the curmudgeon and say bah humbug to St. Patrick!
You'll be no such thing, not while I'm here. Let the festivities continue!
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ryannon Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:23:55am |
re: #32 Summer
I'll be the curmudgeon and say bah humbug to St. Patrick!
I celebrate interesting Irish history and culture, yea totally. Heck, I love Enya! =)
But celebrate the conversion of all of Ireland from their ancient culture to being Catholic? No way. Though, I suppose, I'd probably care more if the Druids weren't practicing human sacrifice too.
Maybe it's a good thing after all. =)
anyway, rivverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation...
There's a lot of the old Celtic religion just underneath the surface of many of the Irish.
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Mad Al-Jaffee Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:26:36am |
re: #73 Walter L. Newton
And that's bigoted. More of that fat stuff huh. Fat people don't feel the cold, fat people don't get drunk as soon, all that crap, that's all bullshit.
Apparently, they're not all jolly.
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darthstar Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:30:12am |
re: #69 Dragon_Lady
My tummy's shuttering at the thought! Breakfast? Perish the thought!
Whisky...it's not JUST for breakfast anymore.
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:30:16am |
Cato: Reply to something you said on the abuse thread from last night. Sometimes I need time to mull things over.
Everyone else:
In a bar in Boston, an Irishman would come in every Tuesday at 10 and order three beers. Finally, the bartender asked him why.
"I live here in Boston, one of my brothers is still in Dublin, and one moved to Australia. Every Tuesday at 10, we go wherever we are and drink to each other's health. The one's for me, the other two are for my brothers."
This continued for some months, then one day he came in and ordered only two beers. Sadly, the bartender drew them, then soberly and respectfully asked, "May I ask which of your brothers died?"
"Oh, neither. I just joined the Mormon church."
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Spider Mensch Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:31:54am |
being my great great grandmother was Irish Protestant, they never were big fans of Saints and popes and such, but here are some interesting tid bits about Irish Protestants... [Link: prorev.com...]
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Mad Al-Jaffee Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:32:03am |
re: #78 EmmmieG
The punchline in the version I know is, "My brothers are fine, I just quit drinking."
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wee fury Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:32:09am |
And, a fine St. Patrick's Day to all. To those in Kilbeggan . . . Erin Go Bragh!
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mr. hammer Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:34:14am |
re: #56 The Sanity Inspector
Sanity Inspector,
OT, but if you are still online, I wanted to thank you for the book recommendation a couple of days (and several threads) ago. I am working my way through it right now...
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simoom Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:35:17am |
ABC News has some neat video of the White House fountain being dyed emerald green for today. A staffer tosses in a bucket of dye and the water nearly instantly shifts color:
[Link: blogs.abcnews.com...]
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Mad Al-Jaffee Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:36:04am |
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Walter L. Newton Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:36:23am |
re: #83 simoom
ABC News has some neat video of the White House fountain being dyed emerald green for today. A staffer tosses in a bucket of dye and the water nearly instantly shifts color:
[Link: blogs.abcnews.com...]
Isn't green also the color most associated with Islam? Hmmm?
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prairiefire Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:38:15am |
re: #85 Walter L. Newton
You are one step ahead of them, Walter.
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Donna Ballard Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:40:16am |
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darthstar Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:42:27am |
re: #84 Mad Al-Jaffee
Green, like the flag of Libya! What's Obama trying to tell us?!
/
Finally...a conspiracy I can get behind.
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:43:29am |
re: #85 Walter L. Newton
Isn't green also the color most associated with Islam? Hmmm?
You're wrong. It's green for environmentalism.
(Wait, that makes the Irish the first environmentalists. Hmmmm.)
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DemonFish Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:43:59am |
re: #2 ralphieboy
"God invented whiskey to keep the Irish from ruling the world!"
-author unknown
Actually, it was us Scots invented it....but for exactly the same reason.
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wrenchwench Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:44:25am |
I was in Chicago one St. Patrick's Day, only it was to be celebrated the next day because of the weekend or something. I was confused about which day they were going to turn the river green. I walked downtown to look, and it was kind of dark green, and I thought, well, that's the best they can do with dirty river water. The next day I went for the parade, and the river was bright green. I saw more public drunkenness that day than I have in all the rest of my life, including a couple of New Year's Eves on Colorado Blvd. in Pasadena. They don't pee in public in Pasadena like they did in Chicago.
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:45:04am |
Irish cooking--you put food in boiling water, then you take it out.
(Shamelessly stolen from an Irish-American congresscritter.)
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simoom Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:45:29am |
re: #85 Walter L. Newton
Isn't green also the color most associated with Islam? Hmmm?
I think you may be right... let me just check Glenn Beck's chalkboard and then I'll get back to you.
:p
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MandyManners Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:45:48am |
re: #91 wrenchwench
I was in Chicago one St. Patrick's Day, only it was to be celebrated the next day because of the weekend or something. I was confused about which day they were going to turn the river green. I walked downtown to look, and it was kind of dark green, and I thought, well, that's the best they can do with dirty river water. The next day I went for the parade, and the river was bright green. I saw more public drunkenness that day than I have in all the rest of my life, including a couple of New Year's Eves on Colorado Blvd. in Pasadena. They don't pee in public in Pasadena like they did in Chicago.
Hearty endorsement.
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darthstar Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:47:12am |
re: #91 wrenchwench
Peeing in public...ha...interesting law here in California. You can get fined for peeing in public(including getting charged with indecent exposure), but not for taking a dump. Apparently, the latter is considered a medical necessity.
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Girth Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:47:32am |
Happy St. Patty's Day!!
Especially for me, because starting tomorrow I am once again gainfully employed!
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wrenchwench Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:48:18am |
re: #95 darthstar
Peeing in public...ha...interesting law here in California. You can get fined for peeing in public(including getting charged with indecent exposure), but not for taking a dump. Apparently, the latter is considered a medical necessity.
And you came upon that knowledge in a perfectly reasonable manner...?
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Killgore Trout Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:48:28am |
re: #96 Girth
Happy St. Patty's Day!!
Especially for me, because starting tomorrow I am once again gainfully employed!
Congratulations!
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darthstar Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:49:02am |
re: #97 wrenchwench
And you came upon that knowledge in a perfectly reasonable manner...?
One of my friends got busted for peeing in public once. Me, I've always managed to avoid getting caught.
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Cato the Elder Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:49:09am |
re: #73 Walter L. Newton
And that's bigoted. More of that fat stuff huh. Fat people don't feel the cold, fat people don't get drunk as soon, all that crap, that's all bullshit.
Wasn't meant that way, Walter. I'm sorry.
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Cato the Elder Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:49:39am |
re: #100 Cato the Elder
Wasn't meant that way, Walter. I'm sorry.
And I say that as a skinny-faced fat man.
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Donna Ballard Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:49:52am |
re: #95 darthstar
Peeing in public...ha...interesting law here in California. You can get fined for peeing in public(including getting charged with indecent exposure), but not for taking a dump. Apparently, the latter is considered a medical necessity.
I just wish they'd enforce it more! In downtown L.A. the alleys smell like Andy Gump's (or blue rooms as I've always called em) and there are always guys pissing when ever they want. Disgusting!
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:50:15am |
re: #95 darthstar
Peeing in public...ha...interesting law here in California. You can get fined for peeing in public(including getting charged with indecent exposure), but not for taking a dump. Apparently, the latter is considered a medical necessity.
We could ask Tycho Brahe about it.
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Aceofwhat? Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:50:23am |
re: #93 simoom
I think you may be right... let me just check Glenn Beck's chalkboard and then I'll get back to you.
:p
make sure to ride the toy train!!
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Walter L. Newton Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:50:27am |
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Aceofwhat? Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:51:21am |
re: #89 EmmmieG
You're wrong. It's green for environmentalism.
(Wait, that makes the Irish the first environmentalists. Hmmm.)
One word: Druids.
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Donna Ballard Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:51:36am |
re: #96 Girth
Happy St. Patty's Day!!
Especially for me, because starting tomorrow I am once again gainfully employed!
Congratulations! I'll drink a toast to you as soon as my tummy will allow it! What kind of job did you get?
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DemonFish Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:52:34am |
Awful nice of the Irish to throw a parade for my birthday each year
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:54:09am |
re: #106 Aceofwhat?
One word: Druids.
Thank heavens for Druids and runes, or makers of video games and goths who feel like ticking off their parents would have had to make them up.
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Killgore Trout Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:54:38am |
The Wingnuts at PJM hire Pharm Industry front group to conduct a poll. Guess what happens?
New Poll Finds Americans Really, Really Do Not Want ObamaCare (PJM Exclusive)
A national poll, conducted by the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest Advance with PJM, shows massive opposition to the bill during its final week.
Center for Medicine in the Public Interest
The Center for Medicine in the Public Interest (CMPI) is a pharmaceutical industry front group that describes itself on its Website as existing "to discuss, debate, and demonstrate how exponential and accelerating technological progress coupled with smart public policy will enhance and advance 21st century health care by predicting, preventing, diagnosing, treating and disease with greater speed, more precision, and less cost."[1]
Surprise!
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Donna Ballard Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:55:05am |
re: #108 DemonFish
Awful nice of the Irish to throw a parade for my birthday each year
And here I though fish spawned, not gave birth. Just joking!
Happy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday dear DemonFish, Happy Birthday to you! And many more! :-)
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Killgore Trout Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:56:23am |
re: #110 Killgore Trout
The Center for Medicine in the Public Interest has been identified as a corporate front group engaged in orchestrating a public misinformation campaign about health reform. According to Think Progress, CMPI "was originally a project of the Pacific Research Institute, an older corporate front established in conjunction with Philip Morris to fabricate academic support for the tobacco industry.
Always trust the tobacco companies for the best information on healthcare!
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Mad Al-Jaffee Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:56:55am |
re: #96 Girth
Happy St. Patty's Day!!
Especially for me, because starting tomorrow I am once again gainfully employed!
Try not to go to your first day too hungover. :)
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Aceofwhat? Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:57:19am |
re: #109 EmmmieG
Thank heavens for Druids and runes, or makers of video games and goths who feel like ticking off their parents would have had to make them up.
Indeed. And while we're at it, thank heavens that photography wasn't invented early enough for them all to realize that meaty constructs of unwashed, sweaty hair in dirty robes do not a fairy tale make...
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Bagua Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:57:48am |
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darthstar Wed, Mar 17, 2010 10:58:42am |
re: #110 Killgore Trout
The Wingnuts at PJM hire Pharm Industry front group to conduct a poll. Guess what happens?
New Poll Finds Americans Really, Really Do Not Want ObamaCare (PJM Exclusive)Surprise!
Well, with "American" companies like Glaxo Smith Kline, Bayer, and Novartis supporting them, why should we be surprised?
/
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The Sanity Inspector Wed, Mar 17, 2010 11:00:22am |
re: #82 mr. hammer
Sanity Inspector,
OT, but if you are still online, I wanted to thank you for the book recommendation a couple of days (and several threads) ago. I am working my way through it right now...
Thanks, hope it's informative.
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celticdragon Wed, Mar 17, 2010 11:00:52am |
re: #22 MandyManners
That one is one of my favorites! :)
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Bagua Wed, Mar 17, 2010 11:02:22am |
re: #115 Bagua
Eeek!
Bagua's Topical Music Bread™ Break™
(Too much Guinness makes Bagua illiterate.)
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Cato the Elder Wed, Mar 17, 2010 11:02:44am |
And now, just to honor one of St. Paddy's Island's quondam least-favorite sons, a self-mocking passage from Finnegans Wake, proving not only that it's not unreadable, but that it's indeed one of the punniest thinks ever wrotten in Angstlish:
You see, chaps, it will trickle out, freaksily of course, but the
tom and the shorty of it is: he was in his bardic memory low.
All the time he kept on treasuring with condign satisfaction each
and every crumb of trektalk, covetous of his neighbour's word,
and if ever, during a Munda conversazione commoted in the
nation's interest, delicate tippits were thrown out to him
touching his evil courses by some wellwishers, vainly pleading by
scriptural arguments with the opprobrious papist about trying
to brace up for the kidos of the thing, Scally wag, and be a men
instead of a dem scrounger, dish it all, such as: Pray, what is the meaning, sousy, of that continental expression, if you ever
came acrux it, we think it is a word transpiciously like canaille?:
or: Did you anywhere, kennel, on your gullible's travels or
during your rural troubadouring, happen to stumble upon a
certain gay young nobleman whimpering to the name of Low
Swine who always addresses women out of the one comer of
his mouth, lives on loans and is furtivefree yours of age?
without one sigh of haste like the supreme prig he was, and not a bit
sorry, he would pull a vacant landlubber's face, root with
earwaker's pensile in the outer of his lauscher and then, lisping,
the prattlepate parnella, to kill time, and swatting his deadbest
to think what under the canopies of Jansens Chrest would any
decent son of an Albiogenselman who had bin to an university
think, let a lent hit a hint and begin to tell all the intelligentsia
admitted to that tamileasy samtalaisy conclamazzione (since, still
and before physicians, lawyers merchant, belfry pollititians,
agricolous manufraudurers, sacrestanes of the Pure River Society,
philanthropicks lodging on as many boards round the panesthetic
at the same time as possible) the whole lifelong swrine story of
his entire low cornaille existence, abusing his deceased ancestors
wherever the sods were and one moment tarabooming great
blunderguns (poh!) about his farfamed fine Poppamore, Mr
Humhum, whom history, climate and entertainment made the
first of his sept and always up to debt, though Eavens ears ow
many fines he faces, and another moment
visanvrerssas,cruaching three jeers (pah!) for his rotten little ghost of a Peppybeg,
Mr Himmyshimmy, a blighty, a reeky, a lighty, a scrapy, a
babbly, a ninny, dirty seventh among thieves and always bottom
sawyer, till nowan knowed how howmely howme could be,
giving unsolicited testimony on behalf of the absent, as glib as
eaveswater to those present (who meanwhile, with increasing lack of
interest in his semantics, allowed various subconscious smickers
to drivel slowly across their fichers), unconsciously explaining,
for inkstands, with a meticulosity bordering on the insane, the
various meanings of all the different foreign parts of speech he
misused and cuttlefishing every lie unshrinkable about all the
[cont.]
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Cato the Elder Wed, Mar 17, 2010 11:03:21am |
[cont.]
other people in the story, leaving out, of course, foreconsciously,
the simple worf and plague and poison they had cornered him
about until there was not a snoozer among them but was utterly
undeceived in the heel of the reel by the recital of the rigmarole.
He went without saying that the cull disliked anything anyway
approaching a plain straightforward standup or knockdown row
and, as often as he was called in to umpire any octagonal
argument among slangwhangers, the accomplished washout always
used to rub shoulders with the last speaker and clasp shakers (the
handtouch which is speech without words) and agree to every
word as soon as half uttered, command me!, your servant, good,
I revere you, how, my seer? be drinking that! quite truth,
gratias, I'm yoush, see wha'm hearing?, also goods, please it, me
sure?, be filling this!, quiso, you said it, apasafello, muchas
grassyass, is there firing-on-me?, is their girlic-on-you?, to your
good self, your sulphur, and then at once focuss his whole
unbalanced attention upon the next octagonist who managed to
catch a listener's eye, asking and imploring him out of his
piteous onewinker, (hemoptysia diadumenos) whether there was
anything in the world he could do to please him and to overflow
his tumbletantaliser for him yet once more.
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Killgore Trout Wed, Mar 17, 2010 11:03:24am |
re: #116 darthstar
Well, with "American" companies like Glaxo Smith Kline, Bayer, and Novartis supporting them, why should we be surprised?
/
Nice catch. I didn't even think of checking to see which foreign companies are supporting them. I think the influence of foreign companies and governments are going to be more important in the future of the Tea Party Republicans.
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blueraven Wed, Mar 17, 2010 11:03:30am |
re: #110 Killgore Trout
Speaking of polls. Yesterday, this poll was floated around here at LGF, claiming
"45% Of Doctors Would Consider Quitting If Congress Passes Health Care Overhaul"
[Link: www.investors.com...]
I even saw Bill O'Reilly echo the results on his show last night.
Although I looked at that poll and questioned it, I did not notice that it was from Sept '09. So why is this re-surfacing now as something new?
Nate Silver at 538 had this to say about the poll:
My advice would be to completely ignore this poll. There are pollsters out there that have an agenda but are highly competent, and there are pollsters that are nonpartisan but not particularly skilled. Rarely, however, do you find the whole package: that special pollster which is both biased and inept. IBD/TIPP is one of the few exceptions.
[Link: www.fivethirtyeight.com...]
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Bagua Wed, Mar 17, 2010 11:04:43am |
Oh! Mactavish is dead
And his brother don't know it.
His brother is dead
And Mactavish don't know it.
They're both of them dead
And they're in the same bed,
And neither one knows
That the other is dead!
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_RememberTonyC Wed, Mar 17, 2010 11:05:02am |
You may have read this before, but it's a classic:
An ingenious example of speech and politics occurred recently in the
United Nations Assembly which made the world community smile. A
representative from Israel began: "Before beginning my talk I want to
tell you something about Moses. When he struck the rock and it
brought forth water, he thought, 'What a good opportunity to have a
bath!' He removed his clothes, put them aside on the rock and entered the water. When he got out and wanted to dress, his clothes had vanished. A Palestinian had stolen them."
The Palestinian representative jumped up furiously and shouted: "What
are you talking about? The Palestinians weren't there then."
The Israeli representative smiled and said, "And now that we have made that clear, I will begin my speech.."
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Killgore Trout Wed, Mar 17, 2010 11:05:20am |
re: #124 blueraven
Speaking of polls. Yesterday, this poll was floated around here at LGF, claiming
"45% Of Doctors Would Consider Quitting If Congress Passes Health Care Overhaul"[Link: www.investors.com...]
I even saw Bill O'Reilly echo the results on his show last night.
Although I looked at that poll and questioned it, I did not notice that it was from Sept '09. So why is this re-surfacing now as something new?
Nate Silver at 538 had this to say about the poll:
[Link: www.fivethirtyeight.com...]
Ah, thanks for the update. Nate Silver does good work.
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celticdragon Wed, Mar 17, 2010 11:05:38am |
Brilliant, vibrant version of the Brian Boru march here for fans of Irish harp music...
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darthstar Wed, Mar 17, 2010 11:05:38am |
re: #123 Killgore Trout
Not sure if those companies are behind this, but one thing most Americans don't realize is that many of the big pharma companies are not US based.
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Girth Wed, Mar 17, 2010 11:06:19am |
re: #107 Dragon_Lady
Congratulations! I'll drink a toast to you as soon as my tummy will allow it! What kind of job did you get?
Thank you. Nothing great, a local hardware store that I used to work summers at, but good people, and a full-time paycheck is a hell of a lot more than I've had for quite some time. Income while I keep looking.
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Guanxi88 Wed, Mar 17, 2010 11:07:36am |
re: #130 Girth
Thank you. Nothing great, a local hardware store that I used to work summers at, but good people, and a full-time paycheck is a hell of a lot more than I've had for quite some time. Income while I keep looking.
Hell, my friend, a gig's a gig, and you could do a lot worse than to pass the time working for a good buncha folk.
Congrats, and good hunting.
| 132 |
celticdragon Wed, Mar 17, 2010 11:07:46am |
Irish harpist Aini Minogue with a lovely harp solo.
| 133 |
Yankee Division Son Wed, Mar 17, 2010 11:08:37am |
As a Boston area Irishman, I can officially say "Happy Evacuation Day!"
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Guanxi88 Wed, Mar 17, 2010 11:09:03am |
re: #133 Yankee Division Son
As a Boston area Irishman, I can officially say "Happy Evacuation Day!"
Paycheck Patriots' Day, as Howie Carr called it.
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Donna Ballard Wed, Mar 17, 2010 11:10:36am |
re: #130 Girth
Thank you. Nothing great, a local hardware store that I used to work summers at, but good people, and a full-time paycheck is a hell of a lot more than I've had for quite some time. Income while I keep looking.
What ever it takes my friend, what ever it takes. I wish I could get a job, even part time. Too bad that last interview I went on was such a blowout.
| 136 |
celticdragon Wed, Mar 17, 2010 11:11:44am |
Manx harper Charles Guard playing Arrane Ghelbey and a beautiful montage of Irish scenery.
| 137 |
wiffersnapper Wed, Mar 17, 2010 11:12:20am |
I feel Irish because I go to school at Notre Dame :)
| 138 |
Guanxi88 Wed, Mar 17, 2010 11:15:24am |
re: #135 Dragon_Lady
What ever it takes my friend, what ever it takes. I wish I could get a job, even part time. Too bad that last interview I went on was such a blowout.
Couldn't be worse than this one:
Going for an interview, see the guy hiring has a marble sphinx on one end of his desk, and a black marble obelisk on the other. "He's a Brother," I think.
WE go through the interview, and then he asks if I have any questions.
"Are you a traveling man, by any chance?"
Yes, he was.
"That's very interesting. I wonder, where did you go?"
He'd been East, he said.
"Oh, in that case, I wonder, what did you seek?"
A long pause, then he asks "What do you mean?"
"Well, you're a traveling man, you've been to the East, so I wonder what did you seek there?"
Blank incomprehension on his face. He rises to see me out, and I slip him "the grip" of a Mason. He convulses and pulls his hand away.
Here's a tip - Don't presume that a guy with Masonic stuff on his desk is a Mason, and abort the recognition ritual the minute he looks like he thinks you're crazy.
| 139 |
The Sanity Inspector Wed, Mar 17, 2010 11:16:09am |
A U2 b-side:
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celticdragon Wed, Mar 17, 2010 11:23:52am |
Manx harper Emma Christian plays and sings Little Red Bird in Manx Gaelic.
She is definitely on my must see list (she typically plays in churches late at night to small audiences by candle light. How cool is that?)
Chorus:
Little red bird on lonely moor
Lonely moor, lonely moor
Little red bird on lonely moor
Oh where did you sleep last night?
Verses:
I spent the night on a tossing briar
tossing briar, tossing briar
Moving about as the wind rose higher
Oh hard was my sleep last night
Wrapped in two leaves I fell at ease
Fell at ease, fell at ease
Soft as a babe on its mother's knees
Oh sweet was my sleep last night
| 141 |
Mostly sane, most of the time. Wed, Mar 17, 2010 11:27:53am |
Eating leftover casserole for lunch. Looking forward to boiled things for dinner.
With chives.
| 142 |
Feline Emperor of the Conservative Tears Wed, Mar 17, 2010 12:04:14pm |
Experiment #2 in poisoning co-workers with oatmeal scones... FAILED.
I couldn't find the green food coloring, so both the cinnamon raisin and dried cherry-hazelnut scones went au' natural. Took them into the morning group meeting and even one of the Indian contractors tried one.
I can also note that a side effect of this is that I have to be careful about toasted hazelnuts (which you do in order to skin them.) The recommended procedure works well; toast in 350 oven for 15 minutes and then pour into a clean towel which you ball up and rub so that the hazelnut skins separate from the nut.
The downside is that after I separated out what I needed for the batch of scones I sampled one of the leftover hazelnuts. And then proceeded to eat the rest of them... OM NOM NOM.
| 143 |
_RememberTonyC Wed, Mar 17, 2010 12:06:12pm |
iran protests continue ....... sort of .....
[Link: abcnews.go.com...]
| 144 |
Feline Emperor of the Conservative Tears Wed, Mar 17, 2010 12:26:43pm |
ooo... I see Google went nicely Celtic in their title page today.
| 145 |
jvic Wed, Mar 17, 2010 12:41:59pm |
Remorse For Intemperate Speech
I ranted to the knave and fool,
But outgrew that school,
Would transform the part,
Fit audience found, but cannot rule
My fanatic heart.
I sought my betters: though in each
Fine manners, liberal speech,
Turn hatred into sport,
Nothing said or done can reach
My fanatic heart.
Out of Ireland have we come.
Great hatred, little room,
Maimed us at the start.
I carry from my mother's womb
A fanatic heart.
| 146 |
darthstar Wed, Mar 17, 2010 12:49:09pm |
Some years ago, Paddy married an attractive woman, Maggie, half his age, in a small coastal Irish community.
After several months, Maggie complained that she had never climaxed during sex and according to her Grandmother all Irish women are entitled to a climax once in a while..
So, to resolve the problem, they went to see the Veterinarian since there was no trustworthy doctor anywhere in the village.
The Vet didn't have a clue, but he did recall how, during the hot summer, his mother and father would fan a cow (with a big towel) that was having difficulty breeding. This would cool her down and make her relax.
So the Vet told them to hire a strong, virile young man to wave a big towel over them while they were having sex. This, the Vet said, would cause the young wife to cool down, relax, then climax.
So the couple hired a strong young man from Dublin to wave that big towel over them as the Vet suggested.
After many efforts, Maggie still had not climaxed so they went back to the Vet. The Vet said for her to change partners and let the young man have sex with her while Paddy waved the big towel.
They tried it that night and Maggie went into wild, screaming, ear-splitting climaxes, one right after the other for about two and a half hours.
When it was over, Paddy looked down at the exhausted young man and in a boasting voice said:
"And that, me auld son, is how ya wave a feckin' towel"
| 148 |
Ayeless in Ghazi Wed, Mar 17, 2010 3:47:41pm |
My favourite Irish song will always be :
| 149 |
Nemesis6 Wed, Mar 17, 2010 3:56:38pm |
A great day to give a loved ones an Irish sun-tan!
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Ojoe Wed, Mar 17, 2010 4:06:59pm |
Here's to St. Patrick, the Romanized Briton who dispelled the fear and darkness of the pagan night of Ireland and was the first human being as far as we know to speak out unequivocally against slavery. He died 1,550 years ago on this day, March 17, in the year 460.
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