Hey everybody....

Innocent Bystander · Post by **Innocent Bystander** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 11:14 am

OnTheMoor wrote:My girlfriend was wearing orange this morning. She was thoroughly pinched.

She should have told them it was Saffron!

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 11:25 am

Innocent Bystander wrote:
OnTheMoor wrote:My girlfriend was wearing orange this morning. She was thoroughly pinched.
She should have told them it was Saffron!

Cynth · Post by **Cynth** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 11:51 am

Here is a lovely Royal Irish Ranger in Regimental Dress.

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 11:53 am

fearfaoin wrote:That kind of crap stops in middle school.

Do you mean pinching people or wearing green? Either way, it's been my experience that neither stops after middle school.

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 12:18 pm

Cranberry wrote:I no longer celebrate holidays due to religious reasons

That's exactly why I DO celebrate St. Patrick's Day

It's also my son's feast day (his name is Seán Patrick), and so it makes it even more special.

Happy St. Patrick's Day to everyone.

fearfaoin · Post by **fearfaoin** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 12:19 pm

Yours truly wrote:The pinching, and you need to move to a less benighted state, methinks.

Forgive me, that was brash. I'm just appalled at the immaturity that
entails. I assure you, that didn't happen in my High School, and in
college we were busy with other things to really remember it was
StPD. Wormdiet, are your students getting pinchy today? I hope not.

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 12:21 pm

izzarina wrote:
Cranberry wrote:I no longer celebrate holidays due to religious reasons
That's exactly why I DO celebrate St. Patrick's Day It's also my son's feast day (his name is Seán Patrick), and so it makes it even more special.

Happy St. Patrick's Day to everyone.

At the root of it, that's why everybody who celebrates it celebrates it with Saint Patrick being, after all, a religious figure.

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 12:23 pm

Cranberry wrote:
izzarina wrote:
Cranberry wrote:I no longer celebrate holidays due to religious reasons
That's exactly why I DO celebrate St. Patrick's Day It's also my son's feast day (his name is Seán Patrick), and so it makes it even more special.

Happy St. Patrick's Day to everyone.
At the root of it, that's why everybody who celebrates it celebrates it with Saint Patrick being, after all, a religious figure.

I tend to think that if you were to ask most people, they wouldn't even know who St. Patrick was at all. But in a sense, you are right, despite their ignorance of who he was.

Cayden · Post by **Cayden** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 12:26 pm

It was fecking cold, the lads got frozen spending two hours or so on the floats.

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 12:26 pm

izzarina wrote:
Cranberry wrote:
izzarina wrote: That's exactly why I DO celebrate St. Patrick's Day It's also my son's feast day (his name is Seán Patrick), and so it makes it even more special.

Happy St. Patrick's Day to everyone.
At the root of it, that's why everybody who celebrates it celebrates it with Saint Patrick being, after all, a religious figure.
I tend to think that if you were to ask most people, they wouldn't even know who St. Patrick was at all. But in a sense, you are right, despite their ignorance of who he was.

Today in class one of the students was from Ghana and had never heard of Saint Patrick's day. It was interesting to hear all the Catholics and Protestants try to explain Saint Patrick and the snakes and Ireland and all that stuff.

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 12:58 pm

izzarina wrote:I tend to think that if you were to ask most people, they wouldn't even know who St. Patrick was at all. But in a sense, you are right, despite their ignorance of who he was.

Apparently some scholars now believe that he wasn't even a leprechaun at all.

Miwokhill · Post by **Miwokhill** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 3:40 pm

Cynth, ............ah never mind...God Bless You.

fearfaoin · Post by **fearfaoin** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 3:42 pm

Peter Laban wrote:It was fecking cold, the lads got frozen spending two hours or so on the floats...

Those pictures look familiar, Peter. Are those from a previous year,
or is it just the same people?

Cayden · Post by **Cayden** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 4:12 pm

They are today's but the last photo has two girls that were in last year's (piper and concertinaplayer). Same sort of setting though (I was thinking myself 'I took this last year as well' in a few cases): Brid O Donohue's whistle classes. My son is on the float every year, not in these pics though.

rebl_rn · Post by **rebl_rn** » Fri Mar 17, 2006 5:53 pm

Joseph E. Smith wrote: Ah, the Chicago River (I think). Funny, I do not know why they dye it every year, its normal color is green.

Of course, that's the (very) old joke in Chicago - "If they can dye it green one day of the year, why can't they dye it blue the other 364?"

And yeah, I was downtown in July and the river was looking pretty greenish.