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#1678457 - 03/16/12 11:23 AM
Happy St. Patrick's Day (1 day early)
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Since most people are clueless and have no idea that this day is about anything but wearing green and drinking...St Patrick lived in the 4th century and is the Patron Saint of Ireland. He is reputed to have driven all the snakes out of Ireland...
Now, get your Irish on. Our bartender today is from the Emerald Isle is a a good lad named Paddy O'Furniture.
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#1678459 - 03/16/12 11:26 AM
Re: Happy St. Patrick's Day (1 day early)
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Trivia: Saint Patrick was not Irish by birth; he was a Romano-Briton Christian missionary born in England
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#1678460 - 03/16/12 11:26 AM
Re: Happy St. Patrick's Day (1 day early)
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St. Patrick's true given name was Maewyn Succat
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#1678461 - 03/16/12 11:27 AM
Re: Happy St. Patrick's Day (1 day early)
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The color originally associated with St. Patrick was blue; green became associated during the 19th century
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#1678466 - 03/16/12 12:12 PM
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Trivia: Saint Patrick was not Irish by birth; he was a Romano-Briton Christian missionary born in England He was actually born in Wales
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#1678468 - 03/16/12 12:15 PM
Re: Happy St. Patrick's Day (1 day early)
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OK you two know it alls, quit with the gabbing and let's start drinking! Guiness Please Paddy! ![grin grin](/forum/images/graemlins/default/grin.gif)
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#1678470 - 03/16/12 12:20 PM
Re: Happy St. Patrick's Day (1 day early)
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Cutie! Cheers! ::clink, clink:: Top o' the mornnin' to you.......... .......and the rest o' the day to meself! ![grin grin](/forum/images/graemlins/default/grin.gif)
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#1678478 - 03/16/12 12:27 PM
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Since most people are clueless and have no idea that this day is about anything but wearing green and drinking... And this is a problem? ![laugh laugh](/forum/images/graemlins/default/laugh.gif)
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#1678479 - 03/16/12 12:29 PM
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Since most people are clueless and have no idea that this day is about anything but wearing green and drinking... And this is a problem? ![laugh laugh](/forum/images/graemlins/default/laugh.gif) I call that "Tuesday". ![smile smile](/forum/images/graemlins/default/smile.gif)
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#1678482 - 03/16/12 12:37 PM
Re: Happy St. Patrick's Day (1 day early)
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Is today pick on AG day?
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#1678486 - 03/16/12 12:40 PM
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::checks calendar::
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#1678490 - 03/16/12 12:44 PM
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What time does the parade start?
Do we have green beer today?
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#1678507 - 03/16/12 01:05 PM
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From Wikipedia:
Saint Patrick was a Romano-Briton and Christian missionary, who is the most generally recognized patron saint of Ireland or the Apostle of Ireland, although Brigid of Kildare and Colmcille are also formally patron saints.
Two authentic letters from him survive, from which come the only universally accepted details of his life.[7] When he was about 16, he was captured from Wales by Irish raiders and taken as a slave to Ireland, where he lived for six years before escaping and returning to his family. After entering the Church, he returned to Ireland as an ordained bishop in the north and west of the island, but little is known about the places where he worked. By the seventh century, he had come to be revered as the patron saint of Ireland.
Patrick was born in Roman Britain at Banna Venta Berniae, a location otherwise unknown,[18][19][20] though identified in one tradition as Glannoventa, modern Ravenglass in Cumbria .[21] Calpornius, his father, was a deacon, his grandfather Potitus, a priest. When he was about sixteen, he was captured and carried off as a slave to Ireland.[22] Patrick worked as a herdsman, remaining a captive for six years. He writes that his faith grew in captivity, and that he prayed daily.[23] After six years he heard a voice telling him that he would soon go home, and then that his ship was ready. Fleeing his master, he travelled to a port, two hundred miles away he says,[24] where he found a ship and, after various adventures, returned home to his family, now in his early twenties.[25]
Patrick's position as a foreigner in Ireland was not an easy one. His refusal to accept gifts from kings placed him outside the normal ties of kinship, fosterage and affinity. Legally he was without protection, and he says that he was on one occasion beaten, robbed of all he had, and put in chains, perhaps awaiting execution.[31] According to the latest reconstruction of the old Irish annals, Patrick died in AD 461 on March 17, a date accepted by some modern historians.[38
Legend (dating to 1726, according to the OED) also credits St. Patrick with teaching the Irish about the doctrine of the Holy Trinity by showing people the shamrock, a three-leafed plant, using it to illustrate the Christian teaching of 'three divine persons in the one God.'[66] For this reason, shamrocks have definitely become a central symbol for St Patrick’s Day.
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#1678510 - 03/16/12 01:10 PM
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I'll have a bowl of Lucky Charms please.
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#1678514 - 03/16/12 01:15 PM
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I'd like a nice cup of Irish coffee, please. Loving your avatar, DD Regs. "The Quiet Man" is my mom's favorite movie.
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#1678518 - 03/16/12 01:25 PM
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I'll have a bowl of Lucky Charms please. YUM! Me too.
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#1678527 - 03/16/12 01:32 PM
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I'd like a nice cup of Irish coffee, please. Loving your avatar, DD Regs. "The Quiet Man" is my mom's favorite movie. Thanks! It's my favorite non-christmas movie. Will be watching it tomorrow as part of my St Patty's day tradition.
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#1678552 - 03/16/12 02:02 PM
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I'm going to vomit on a street corner to keep my tradition alive
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#1678553 - 03/16/12 02:03 PM
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I'll take a Jameson & Jameson, with a splash of Jameson please.
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