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What did everyone do for St. Patty's Day. Me, being half Irish I woke up at 6 am, went to the bar for kegs and eggs, passed out, went to class, and drank some more  

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Didn't even wear green. Kinda old to be getting all crazy about it, since I'm not Irish. My wife, who is, also doesn't seem to care.

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Whoa...it was St. Patty's Day yesterday?  

I wasn't even aware. Ah well ^-^ Last year I went out drinking with friends for it, but really, in Halifax, you don't need an excuse to go out to the bars.

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I had an old signature. Now I've changed it.

Oh yeah, I'm the big St. Pat's Day maniac. Let's see ... uh... um...
I ate Lucky Charms this morning for breakfast. Muchas Irish there. And... I had a baked potato for dinner tonight... celebrating the awesomely awesome vegetable that the Irish brought over from immigration.. AND, my fleece pullover that I'm wearing right now was, you guessed it, made in IRELAND!

....ok, so i had no idea it was St. Patrick's Day. all that stuff is just attempting to make something out of nothing. I never really got into the holiday anyway. I might, however, when I turn legal

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I wore somewhat olive-green cords

My family had our traditional St. Patty's Day dinner of corn beef and cabbage.  Yum.  Too bad I didn't get to eat with them being at work and all tonight.  

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If I wore green it was by pure chance.  I only celebrate holidays that give me a day off.

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Happy Saint Pattys Day everyone!!!!

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Henery David Thoreau

i didnt do much, my science teacher came in wearing a kilt
and playing a bagpipe really really loud.  

did you guys know St. Patrick was a priest who turned all the
peygans(dunno how to spell) in Ireland into christians? i didnt.  

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a kilt ? I wuv a man in a kilt          hehehehhee

Yes I did know that about him.But I guess being VERY Irish and  Catholic I would



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Henery David Thoreau

I thought St. Patrick was the man who drove all the snakes out of Ireland. I guess I missed it without noticing...I wish I could be in school to celebrate it...all that pinching then they gotta kiss me...yanno, because I'm Irish.

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Quote (AnarchistDream @ 17 Mar 2003, 16:59)

I thought St. Patrick was the man who drove all the snakes out of Ireland.

The snakes are symbolic for the pagans, as I understand.  So it is really about him converting them.

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i used it as an excuse to do what irish people do best:

get angry for no reason.

as an irish person, i have to go around doing this all year and people wonder "what the hell's his problem?", but on this holy day, people just accept my erratic and violent behavior as normal and shrug it off with a smile. god bless the irish.

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Quote (therandyrhoads @ 18 Mar 2003, 13:16)

i used it as an excuse to do what irish people do best: get angry for no reason.

and there was me thining that me and my fellow scots did that best...

i sang 'o flower of scotland' all day long in defiance of so-called scotsmen celebrating the day of an IRISH saint, when St. Andrews day passed unnoticed in november.
However, being an atheist i can see why so many people would celbrate St. Patricks day. after all, it IS sponsored by guiness!  (any excuse to get boozed up over here, eh?)

on another note related to a nation of the british isles, isnt there  this thing called tartan day in america?

and on the Saltire-saluting note....

Monkey-wrench, either you have your countires mixed up, or your dates mixed up! Bagpipes and Kilts are often associated with my nation- Scotland. and yeah, i knew that. i do belive he was welsh in origin too.

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Tartan day?? Never heard of it. We have Sweetest Day though. Biggest Hallmark holiday ever.

And everyone's always confusing the Irish and Scottish. Over here, they're like a blended culture to the general populace.

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I've seen some discussion as to the historical st.Patrick, so I'll try and shed some light on the matter. Patrick was born and raised is Roman Britain, and at the age of sixteen was captured and sold into slavary in Ireland, where he labored for six years as a sheperd. During this time he found solace in religion. He escaped to the continent, and found his way back to Britain.
    He was determined to convert the savage Irish, so he studied and was ordained to the diaconate (the first of three levels of priesthood). On the death of the first bishop of Ireland, Patrick was ordained a bishop (the third and highest level), and appointed the bishop of Ireland. There he was opposed strongly by the Druid priests, but made astounding progress amonge the Irish people. There are many miracles and legends surounding st.Patrick, and I will not try to adress all of them.
    Instead, I would like to say a word about the practice of celebrating St.Patrick's day. The oldest form of celebration, is the special liturgy which the church apoints to each saint; special prayers which are added to the mass and the liturgy of the hours. Also, the wearing of green and a clover (which the saint used in his preaching) quickly developed amonge the lay people.
    When the the English invaded Ireland, the Irish took st.Patrick's day as a chance to show they're defience. The English saw this as dangerouse, and baned the 'wearing of the green'. Later, they also baned dancing, and ordered harpers and pipers to be hung on site.
    This is why the Irish in america, now free to celebrate their culture, made such a big deal out of st.Patricks day. It is a celebration of their history and survival. This is also a large contributing factor as to why Irish music is so steeped in tradition.
    However, many Irish feel insulted by the way in which they are portrayed, and believe that getting drunk is not a fitting way to celebrate one who would have preached against drunkeness.

    As for me, Brennan is my real name, and my family and I celebrated the feast day with tradional music, prayer, food, and the wearing o' the green.        

So why does everyone have to get totally pissed on a holy day? Thats all I want to know.

from what i see, americans are self-made deathtraps if they come to the uk!

why?
They might confuse a scotsman for an irishman- and there are many scots who have a hatred of the irish due to sectarianism caused by Rangers and Celtic (something im not proud of, but the bigots are)
also, not many people can talk about red, white and blue in parkhead, glasgow , and live.
and the english did invade ireland. but bagpuipes were banned after the JACOBITE rebelion, by highlanders. this was more or less the british or scottish civil war, as scots fought on both sides- like the war of indepdence in america(scots fought on both sides there too- but some became 'americans' after the wars end, obviously)

come on, america, i look at your history and pay attention. stop mixing us scots up with the irish please?

Local scotsman ,Del S



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"Only the dead have seen the end of their quotes being misattributed to Plato."
-George Santayana

"The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here..."
-Abraham Lincoln, prior to the discovery of Irony.

amen to that, im irish, not scottish. aint got nothing at all wrong with the scottish, but people have to tell one from the other. i once saw someone mistake an irish guy and think he was english. i dont think i need elaborate on the hell that broke out, or the beating that ensued.

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You watch the world exploding every single night
Dancing in the sun, a newborn in the light
Say goodbye to gravity and say goodbye to death
Hello to eternity and live for every breath

Your time will come...

oh man.. if the english get half as angry as scots and welshmen do when someone calls us english, i think that might have been WW3!

you will of course know the problems caused by peolpe calling thw elsh/scots/irish 'english' by mistake. both those caused to the unfortonuate person and the local surgeons.... four hours to remove a flagpole isnt fun.

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"Only the dead have seen the end of their quotes being misattributed to Plato."
-George Santayana

"The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here..."
-Abraham Lincoln, prior to the discovery of Irony.

...i didn't wear green.  Don't get me wrong, I'm like 1/16 irish or something, and I don't hate the irish culture.  Green is also one of my fav colors.

I was protesting.  Ireland supported war, and so I wasn't supporting Irish american traditions.  I apologize if I offended any Irish peole out there.  I plan to go to Ireland when I graduate from high school and get money.  (Oxymoron, I know, but I'll try.)

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So if you're done reading this, you know I have nothing to say and you've wasted your time. Thank you come again.

Wow, could this thread be any more out of style?

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