Happy St. Patrick's Day

[W9JEF]

Truth be told:
March 17th is the day St. Patrick died.
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So you're celebrating his death, you a**hole.


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[WØTKX]

Contrary to myth, potatoes are not nourishing. :irked:

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[N2NH]

Truth be told:
March 17th is the day St. Patrick died.

So you're celebrating his death, you a**hole.

Interestingly, so is Ascension Day, Assumption of the BVM and every feast day of the Catholic Church. They're not big on celebrating birthdays, it's nearly always feast days. The idea is you graduated from earth to the next level.


What Is a Catholic Feast Day?

The Catholic Church assigns one date out of the year for each and every canonized saint — known as the saint’s feast day. The saints are remembered on their individual feast days with special mention, prayers, and possibly a scripture reading.

A saint’s feast day can be the day of their actual death or a day assigned by the Church. Typically, the Church only assigns a day when the day of death is unknown or if several other saints are already assigned to that day. The number of canonized saints, however, is greater than the number of days in a calendar year. So two or more saints often share the same feast day. Because overlap often occurs, and the Church isn’t sure of the date of death of some saints, other calendar dates are sometimes chosen — such as the day that the saint was canonized.

Some saints’ feasts are only celebrated in the particular saint’s town or country. Others are internationally celebrated.

For example, St. Patrick’s Day, March 17, is celebrated in Ireland, because St. Patrick is the patron saint of the entire nation. St. Patrick’s Day is also celebrated in many areas of the United States due to the Irish immigrants who crossed the Atlantic. Many U.S. dioceses have cathedrals dedicated to St. Patrick, or he’s the patron saint of the diocese. Celebrating the Feast of St. Patrick is a big occasion and a solemnity, a full-blown liturgical feast, in such places. In other places, such as Italy, Spain, France, Poland, and Germany, St. Patrick’s feast day isn’t celebrated with the same fanfare.


LINKINATION (http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/what-is-a-catholic-feast-day.html)

Where's that pope dude when ya need 'im?

[N2NH]

To the rest of you who are "celebrating" in one way or another, a very happy St. Patrick's Day.

The wearing of the green. Another sign that spring is just around the corner.

Dook-dook. Drink up, it's the 5th of May before another excuse this good comes up.

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http://www.trilulilu.ro/video-animatie/daffy-porky-the-wearing-of-the-grin<--- A video in keeping with the day.

[KG4CGC]

Sam Adams, Heineken and Guinness beer have pulled out of St. Patrick's Day celebrations because of LGBT discrimination often associated with St. Patrick's Day parades and the sheer level of violence directed at the LGBT community on this day.
Hate knows no boundaries but it can die with the hater.

[N8GAV]

I have a question, is it true the reason there are no good Irish lawyers is none of them can pass a bar???

[W3WN]

I have a question, is it true the reason there are no good Irish lawyers is none of them can pass a bar???
Thanks Hank. I needed a "new one" to send to K3AIR for his collection of lawyer jokes.

[W7XF]

Sam Adams, Heineken and Guinness beer have pulled out of St. Patrick's Day celebrations because of LGBT discrimination often associated with St. Patrick's Day parades and the sheer level of violence directed at the LGBT community on this day.
Hate knows no boundaries but it can die with the hater.

DeBlasio and Boston's mayor could have taken care of that problem with executive orders telling the parade organisers, let the GLBT community fully participate, and display the rainbow flag, or whatever they desire, or the parade permits would be revoked.

[N2NH]

Sam Adams, Heineken and Guinness beer have pulled out of St. Patrick's Day celebrations because of LGBT discrimination often associated with St. Patrick's Day parades and the sheer level of violence directed at the LGBT community on this day.
Hate knows no boundaries but it can die with the hater.


They pulled out of parades that exhibited anti-gay policies. Celebrations are a bit more encompassing. I'm sure I didn't change my priorities based on anything for a day. I'm certain that is true for most people irregardless of the day, feast or what have you. This was a problem that is manifest at times like this by the way bigots behave. Strange world. The Catholic church has plenty of gays in it, and yet if you're not wearing a roman collar, you can't march in some of these parades?

Let's keep the generalizations to a dull roar.

[kb2vxa]

Wear green in celebration of the climate change agenda, happy Freeze Your Ass Off Day as the icy wind whistles down the concrete canyons of the city. I wear orange in celebration of Protestant Reform that freed us from constraints of the oppressive Catholic religion, and orange is a nice warm color on a frigid day. Besides, green beer is near beer (less than 0.5% ABV) and looks yucky. <pop>

Oh, that was the sound I make pulling my tongue out of my cheek. Happy St. Patrick's day, the day when everybody is Irish! Please don't call it St. Paddy's day, that's a different name and often used in a derogatory sense, like the origin of "Paddy wagon".

[W9JEF]

Wear green in celebration of the climate change agenda, happy Freeze Your Ass Off Day as the icy wind whistles down the concrete canyons of the city. I wear orange in celebration of Protestant Reform that freed us from constraints of the oppressive Catholic religion, and orange is a nice warm color on a frigid day. Besides, green beer is near beer (less than 0.5% ABV) and looks yucky. <pop>

Oh, that was the sound I make pulling my tongue out of my cheek. Happy St. Patrick's day, the day when everybody is Irish! Please don't call it St. Paddy's day, that's a different name and often used in a derogatory sense, like the origin of "Paddy wagon".

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