St. Pats

[Rosebud]

I just want to wish everyone a Happy and safe http://www.funnygreetings.com/st%20patrick/stpatsWHT.gif

party and dance
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drink and drive safely and wisely
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and don't forget to think of your friends...because they are truly a pot of gold
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[Juspar Emvan]

Begorah

 

[Beebeeblue]

Its my anniversary..so Turner and I will be partying all right!!!!!!

 

[Lost Soul]

I also wish everyone a Happy St. Patrick's Day as well.

 

[bluntforcemama]

Green Beer! WOOHOO!!!!! I love being Irish... and drunk.

 

[Wizard]

I will be at the bar on sat. listening to a band and having green beer...................Happy Irish day all......

 

[Beebeeblue]

Hey Wizzie..whos pool ya gonna whiz in that nite?

 

[Earthmuffin]

Thanks Rosebud!

Here's a *pinch* for anyone not planning on wearin' the green!

 

[Purple Haze]

Rosebud,

You know who's the first Irishman to come out in the spring-time, don't ya lassie
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Paddy O'Furniture

 

[Rosebud]

*sang to the tune of Angel Baby*

Oh hazey baby.....
that was kind of lamey
i want to live in your world of make believe
ohhh hazey baby


i actually laughed really hard with that one..here are some more Irishmen for you all

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[Purple Haze]

Aye lass, the middle one looks like me, with a mind full of festive glee, with some beer in my belly, and a hand full of jelly, and dreaming of farking with thee.

 

[Deborah]

Hey Purple Haze all in my brain, you impressed me so much with your dissertation on "pluck yew" the other day, why don't you tell us who the first St. Patrick really was?

Oh yes, and I am particularly interested in how and why he drove the snakes out of Ireland.

First one to get this right gets a shamcock (fake dick up the ass).

 

[Wizard]

Lol Beebeeblue ....I don't know all the pools are still dam cold or frozen yet.......Might have to sneak into the bosses spa for the night.......

 

[Purple Haze]

True history and legend are intertwined when it comes to St. Patrick. It is known that he was born in Banwen, Wales and was kidnapped and sold in Ireland as a slave. He became fluent in the Irish language before making his escape to the continent. Eventually he was ordained as a deacon, then priest and finally as a bishop. Pope Celestine then sent him back to Ireland to preach the gospel. Evidently he was a great traveller, especially in Celtic countries, as innumerable places in Brittany, Cornwall, Wales, Scotland and Ireland are named after him.

Here it is where actual history and legend become difficult to seperate.

Patrick is most known the world over for having driven the snakes from Ireland. Different tales tell of his standing upon a hill, using a wooden staff to drive the serpents into the sea, banishing them forever from the shores of Ireland. One legend says that one old serpent resisted, but the saint overcame it by cunning. He is said to have made a box and invited the reptile to enter. The snake insisted the box was too small and the discussion became very heated. Finally the snake entered the box to prove he was right, whereupon St Patrick slammed the lid and cast the box into the sea. While it is true there are no snakes in Ireland, chances are that there never have been since the time the island was seperated from the rest of the continent at the end of the ice age. As in many old pagan religions serpent symbols were common, and possibly even worshipped. Driving the snakes from Ireland was probably symbolic of putting an end to that pagan practice. While not the first to bring Christianity to Ireland, it was Patrick who encountered the Druids at Tara and abolished their pagan rights. He converted the warrior chiefs and princes, baptizing them and thousands of their subjects in the Holy Wells which still bear that name. According to tradition St. Patrick died in A.D. 493 and was buried in the same grave as St. Bridget and St. Columba, at Downpatrick, County Down. The jawbone of St. Patrick was preserved in a silver shrine and was often requested in times of childbirth, epileptic fits and as a preservative against the evil eye. Another legend says St. Patrick ended his days at Glastonbury and was buried there. The Chapel of St. Patrick still exists as part of Galstonbury Abbey. There is evidence of an Irish pilgrimage to his tomb during the reign of the Saxon King Ine in A.D. 688, when a group of pilgrims headed by St. Indractus were murdered.

The great anxiety displayed in the middle ages to possess the bodies, or at least the relics of saints, accounts for the many discrepant traditions as to the burial places of St. Patrick and others. And St. Patrick and the shamrock?

 

[FeatherLight]

*hums* happy birthday to me, happy birthday to me, happy birthday dear feather light.. happy birthday to me.. *g*

Don't mean to rub it in. I just love being born on St. Patty's Day.

'Tis a noble birthday, lads and lassies, so don' ye be fergittin' that. *W*

Okay, so I suck at typing the accent. I can speak it though. lol

 

[bluntforcemama]

Happy Birthday Feather!!!!

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[bluntforcemama]

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[FeatherLight]

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Thank you, sweetie!

*blows kiss*

 

[BrainyBeauty]

Erin Go Bra-less!

Irish Day Care:

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And some quickie jokes:

Q. Why do people wear shamrocks on St. Patrick's Day?
A. Regular rocks are too heavy

Q. Why can't you borrow money from a leprechaun?
A. Because they're always a little short

Q. Why do leprechauns have pots o'gold?
A. They like to "go" first class!

Q. How can you tell if an Irishman is having a good time?
A. He's Dublin over with laughter!

Q. Why did St. Patrick drive the snakes out of Ireland?
A. He couldn't afford plane fare

Q. What's Irish and stays out all night?
A. Patty O'furniture!

Q. How did the Irish Jig get started?
A. Too much to drink and not enough restrooms!


Happy St Pat's Day, all!

 

[Purple Haze]

The Shamrock, at one time called the "Seamroy", symbolises the cross and blessed trinity. Before the Christian era it was a sacred plant of the Druids of Ireland because its leaves formed a triad. The well known legend of the Shamrock connects it definitely to St. Patrick and his teaching. Preaching in the open air on the doctrine of the trinity, he is said to have illustrated the existence of the Three in One by plucking a shamrock from the grass growing at his feet and showing it to his congregation. The legend of the shamrock is also connected with that of the banishment of the serpent tribe from Ireland by a tradition that snakes are never seen on trefoil and that it is a remedy against the stings of snakes and scorpions. The trefoil in Arabia is called shamrakh and was sacred in Iran as an emblem of the Persian triads. The trefoil, as noted above, being a sacred plant among the Druids, and three being a mystical number in the Celtic religion as well as all others, it is probable that St. Patrick must have been aware of the significance of his illustration.

 

[Mistress]

Wow! lol


Hey everyone kiss me I'm half Irish!!!! Puckers up!

 

[Purple Haze]

Which half should we kiss?

I'm one sixteenth,

Pucker up, Lass.

 

[Mistress]

Kisses Purple Haze tenderly! Which half doesnt matter!

 

[Purple Haze]

Aye, felt that one right down to my Blarney Stones.

 

[Rosebud]

Hey Hazey...bring those Blarney stones on over here...I need to kiss them for luck...