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Happy St. Patrick’s day & Easter

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by ravisunny2, Mar 15, 2008.

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  1. ravisunny2 TS Ambassador Posts: 2,032   +8

    Happy ST. Patrick’s day & EASTER !
  2. poertner_1274 secroF laicepS topShceT Posts: 4,745

    MMMMMMMMMmmmmmm

    Green Beer!
  3. kritius TechSpot Guru Posts: 2,087

    Thats not till tomorrow and ive never drunk green beer, thats just you crazy Americans! lol:grinthumb
  4. ravisunny2 TS Ambassador Posts: 2,032   +8

    Yes, St. Patrick's day is on the 17th.

    And sure, green is the colour.
  5. Wheety Newcomer, in training

    I won't be drinking green beer, but I will most likely be drinking copius amounts of regular beer.

    It's great seeing the whole world celebrate St. Patricks Day as if they were Irish. :D
  6. kritius TechSpot Guru Posts: 2,087

    Regular beer shall be had by the barrelfull!! Green beer definitely no, see my my earlier post as to why.
     
  7. ravisunny2 TS Ambassador Posts: 2,032   +8

    It's a small world indeed.

    I've lost the Irish brouge, though.
  8. hollowreed Newcomer, in training

    Same to you =]
  9. stroveman Newcomer, in training

    I'm a newcomer. But....Happy to you :D
  10. SNGX1275 TS Special Forces Posts: 11,893   +117

    Most of you guys don't know, but Missouri University of Science and Technology (formerly UMR) has the largest St. Pats celebration in the midwest. Students here (I'm a former student and now faculty member) get Thursday and Friday off, and parties are going on every night. There is Beer For Breakfast at some location every morning of the St. Pats Week, and it is quite common for students to show up to class drunk, and some are even drinking during class (not in original containers of course). I've also known a professor or 2 to bring in enhanced coffee.

    The Associated Press came down and did a story about it over the weekend, you can find their article here: http://www.bnd.com/336/story/282100.html

    And a better article on the events at STL Today found here: http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/ne...2AF85D2C7DC3C9508625740C00814EDB?OpenDocument
  11. ravisunny2 TS Ambassador Posts: 2,032   +8

    Happy ST. Patrick’s day, in advance.

    Easter Sunday, is, this year, on 4th April, 2010.

    A very Happy Easter, too.
  12. CAMusing TechSpot Enthusiast Posts: 328

    Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona Duit
  13. ravisunny2 TS Ambassador Posts: 2,032   +8

    An céanna chun tú mo chara.
  14. captaincranky TechSpot Addict Posts: 8,791   +281

    Ravi, don't you have enough of your own pagan holidays to celebrate....?

    Just kidding.
  15. ravisunny2 TS Ambassador Posts: 2,032   +8

    The more the merrier, Captain.

    But haven't you figured out yet, that I was in an boarding school run by Irish Christian Brothers ? ;)
  16. LookinAround TechSpot Chancellor Posts: 7,677   +39

    Then you gotta throw in a "Happy Passover" as well which falls between the two ;)
  17. captaincranky TechSpot Addict Posts: 8,791   +281

    Is there such a greeting as "Happy Passover"? I thought Passover was rather somber, and associated with mostly inedible cuisine.
    So basically what you're saying is, that you were captured in the wild and force fed Catholicism by Irish religious fanatics. You sir, do indeed, have my sympathies. Unless you dropped out of reform school, in which case, "for shame"!

    In the spirit of preventing future occurrences of this nature, I propose a vaccine be invented, to immunize against the possible "spread of Christianity".

    As you may have noticed, some of the best efforts in support of my "socialization", have failed miserably.

    But still, LookinAround may be on to something, a combination holiday. I'm trying to develop an "appropriate" mythology. Something about Jesus, St. Patrick, coming from behind rocks, seeing shadows, six more weeks of winter, going to dinner, "oh no, snake for dinner again". Nah, that'd probably get me canceled, just like it did the Smothers Brothers back in the day.
  18. ravisunny2 TS Ambassador Posts: 2,032   +8

    You certainly, do have a way with words.

    Relax, old man, no lassos were involved, and I'm as "wild" as ever.;)

    Okay, now for passover : which one do you want to go by, the Old Covenant or the New Covenant.

    Back to the "Irish religious fanatics"; some of them were nuts :rolleyes:, but for the most part they were rather moderate, and open minded.:)
  19. ucould2 TechSpot Enthusiast Posts: 318

    Happy hedonism holiday(s) to all with a hortatory cheers from thelandofdownunder
  20. captaincranky TechSpot Addict Posts: 8,791   +281

    The one with the better food, If this is true of neither, I shall "pass over" the holiday altogether. :rolleyes: (A "rolleyes" for the shamelessly bad pun. Admission absolves guilt! Now where have I heard that before...)?

    Given to the fact that you are spouting Gaelic, I'm going to suggest that that were possibly on the "heavy handed" side of true moderate.

    I don't know about the brothers, but the "good Catholic girls", that I met in my youth, were some of the most "liberal" people I've ever met.

    Oh , Happy St. Patricks Day...!

    With that out of the way, might I prevail on you another question..? Do you think it's true that rattlesnake "tastes like chicken"? :wave: :haha:

    Oh, lest I forget, you did manage to confuse me quite comprehensively with the thread about programming. :confused: .Ya gotta give credit where credit is due. Still, don't think you were the first, Atari BASIC confused me thirty years ago. And I'm still >>> confused...!