Happy St. Patricks Day

Top that was a good one and the video reminds me of why I quit drinking a few years ago the only Irish joke I can remember is a woman in Ireland go's to her Parrish priest about her husband who gets drunk at Dooley's tavern just about every night and she's at her wits end so she asks the priest "how can I stop him from drinking" the good father tells her "you have to scare him out of his mind so he wont touch another drop,and "how will I do that" she asks he thought a moment and said "there's a cemetery on the way home from Dooley's tavern so put some white makeup on and hide behind one of the gravestones and when he comes by jump up and tell him your the devil he will be so scared he'll never touch another drop" she agrees and the next night hes stumbling home from the bar and passes the cemetery and she jumps up from behind a gravestone and says "I'm the devil,I'm the devil" he almost has a heart attack and looks at her and Say's "wait a minute I know you I married your sister"

Cheers!!!! No more snakes.....wooooo hooooo

I'm going to feel like a real dummy if St. Patrick was not the guy who ran all the snakes out of Ireland .  I'm sure some of the fine folks that live in Ireland will correct me if I'm wrong

And may you all have a very happy Paddy's Day.

"I'm going to feel like a real dummy if St. Patrick was not the guy who ran all the snakes out of Ireland."

Naw - he left all the two legged ones behind.

Today on the oul sod we'll be rising late and the evening will be a mystery. In between we'll be watching the school's cups in GAA and Rugby. This year my old school will be playing my daughter's school ( Inst v Methody ), so the stakes are high.

After that, we'll be feasting on mash, cabbage and bacon ribs which is our family tradition. You have to travel into the older parts of town to get the bacon ribs.

I often wondered if you have bacon ribs anywhere else across the world. They are ordinary pork ribs cured like bacon. We boil them hard until the meat is falling off the bone, then cook the cabbage in the stock until it's dead - and then use the stock again to make lentil soup the next day. A real poor man's dinner in these straightening times.

Ken, Lena, can anyone tell me the whole truth behind this day?

I mean, there's what history teches, and then there's the truth.

So is history that is tought in schools correct or is there a little more than what we're told?

Happy St Patrick's  Day All

Try not to drink too muck green beer

Drink Smart and arrive alive.

Kenny

Wikipedia list this information about ST.Patrick
Saint Patrick (c. 390 - 460)[2] (Latin: Patricius,[3] Irish: Naomh Pádraig) was a Roman Britain-born Christian missionary and is the patron saint of Ireland, along with Brigid of Kildare and Columba. He was educated at a monastery and school of divinity founded by Illtud (now Llantwit Major).

When he was about 16 he was captured by Irish raiders and taken from his native Wales as a slave to Ireland, where he lived for six years before escaping and returning to his family. After entering the Church, he later returned to Ireland as a missionary in the north and west of the island, but little is known about the places where he worked and no link can be made between Patrick and any church.

By the eighth century he had come to be revered as the patron saint of Ireland. The Irish monastery system evolved after the time of Patrick and the Irish church did not develop the diocesan model that Patrick and the other early missionaries had tried to establish.

The available body of evidence does not allow the dates of Patrick's life to be fixed with certainty, but it appears that he was active as a missionary in Ireland during the second half of the fifth century. Two letters from him survive, along with later hagiographies from the seventh century onwards. Many of these works cannot be taken as authentic traditions. Uncritical acceptance of the Annals of Ulster would imply that he lived from 340 to 460, and ministered in what is modern day northern Ireland from 428 onwards.There was no mention of snakes

There is an excellent fictionalization of Patrick called "I am of Irelund" that relates a telling of the old Celt legends (Fionn mac Cumhaill and the Fianna, etc...) through the "ghost" of the poet Oisin.

It's a fantastic work.

doc were these ladies from Ireland?