St. PATRICK'S DAY!

[DELTREE]

A HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY !

I don't know about your country? but in the U.S.A. it is kind of a BIG deal.

[Nick Grana]

Ditto.:happy:
Click Google image today for a lot of info sites about this day.;)

[craisin]

yes Bars seem to hype it up down here:D :D :D green smilies:raphael: can you guess why this fella is septic:rotflmao:

[oracle128]

I don't know about your country? but in the U.S.A. it is kind of a BIG deal.Over here, we're not scared of the Irish. And apparently, we don't need an excuse to drink either.

[Nick Grana]

I still always wear a Bulova Spaceview watch I bought in Saigon over 40 years ago for $75. It has a GREEN circuit board so am always ready for this day.:D Keeps on tick'n (I mean hum'n).;)
http://www.accutron214.com/SpaceviewHistory/SvFront_small1.jpg (http://www.accutron214.com/SpaceviewHistory/SvFront.jpg)Those 2 coils create a 360 cycle tuning fork for accuracy.
Watch has only 12 moving parts. Very new tech for that day and age. :cool:

[DELTREE]

oracle128,"Over here, we're not scared of the Irish. And apparently, we don't need an excuse to drink either."
It has nothing to do with being scared of the Irish.A lot of people just put on GREEN cloths, or some GREEN for GOOD LUCK.You don't see GREEN beer over here only on St.PAT'S day.
MY POINT OF VIEW: it is just a GOOD time day.:D

So to you my Friend ora.128! A special St. Pat's day to you!!!:thumbsup::D:D:D:D:D:rotflmao:

[oracle128]

Wow thanks, I feel special now :D

[Snurfen]

Palstic Paddy alert, Plastic Paddy alert!!!!!!!!!!


Was married to a bog-trotter for 13 years.

Boy, how do the Irish ridicule foriegn displays of Plastic Paddy-ness. Couldn't believe how much they took the micky out of the New York April 17th parade. Every bar I went to in Ireland on Saint Patrick's day (Cahir in Tipperary, or Blackrock, County Dubh)would have the TV on, laughing at the faux-Irishness on display.

Still, you've got to be there for the craic. :thumbsup:

(it's me lokky chorms! :rotflmao: )

[oracle128]

Aye, they're always after me lokky chorms... top o' the mornin' to ye!...diddily dit did dee, etc

You do enjoy a craic now and then don't you Snurfen? :D

[jmtjet]

St.Patrick was supposed to have driven the snakes out of Ireland. My question is; where did they go? You guys from the UK and Wales should know the answer to that. :)

[Pi rules]

Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone, sorry I'm a little late. :wave:

[black mirror]

St.Patrick was supposed to have driven the snakes out of Ireland. My question is; where did they go? You guys from the UK and Wales should know the answer to that. :)


Not many snakes here. in fact only ever seen 1 in my life:D

[The Wizard]

The stories of Saint Patrick and the snakes are likely a metaphor for his bringing Christianity to Ireland and driving out the pagan religions (serpents were a common symbol in many of these religions).

Now .... not alotta people know that ;)

[sho-dan]

St.Patrick was supposed to have driven the snakes out of Ireland. My question is; where did they go? You guys from the UK and Wales should know the answer to that. :)

its one of the requirements to become a member in CTH Brat pack
(quickly ruuuuuuuuuuuuns away,yelling holy cow Batman they're after me ;) )

I thought it was about the green beer :D Happy Paddys day

[Snurfen]

LOL, thats funny.

That's a quite likely thought there The Wizard. Never heard it before, but very likely.
Strange that there are no snakes on the island though. Wonder if there are any similar instances of it round the world.


Sorry if it came over a bit snotty, I really enjoy watching Irish folk celebrate their national day, but it's one of the worst excesses of consumerism for all the nonsense that goes on in the pubs in the rest of the world.

[black mirror]

Snake is a delicacy in China.

Snakes cannot blink

Snakes don't bite in rivers or swamps because they would drown if they did. (not true)

The most poisonous snake in the world is the Tiger Snake in Australia. One milligram of its venom can kill one human being.

The only venomous British snake is the adder.

When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food.

time for some snake facts:D

[oracle128]

St. Patrick's Day is to pubs what Valentine's Day is to florists, Easter is to chocolate makers, and Christmas is to toy stores. Everybody gets a turn. It's a campaign spear-headed by The Greeting Card Companies.

[Nick Grana]

Snakes don't bite in rivers or swamps because they would drown if they did.
The Cottonmouth Water Moccasin
can bite underwater, on top of the water, and out of the water.
It's the only snake that can do this.:happy:
I got one yesterday and colored it green just for the day. He chased me all the way home.:D Many species of snakes in U.S. both venomous and not.;)

[jmtjet]

I was born in Indiana, USA. Lived there till I was about ten. Every creek had Moccasins. We used to swim in a creek behind our house. We had to be careful not to get caught-not by the Moccasins, but by my mother. :) We had somebody stand guard keeping a eye out for snakes-and my mother. :) If the snake has a choice he'll swim away from you, it's when you jump on one that you'll get bitten. We also had fields of sunflowers. we would play in the fields and get bit by the darn Black and Yellow spiders that lived in the flowers. They weren't poisonous, but there bit would leave a welt for days.

End of ramble. :)

[Snurfen]

We don't realise how lucky we are in the UK, seems like you have to be much more alert in other countries.
We've got adders (our only venomous snake) in the local sand dunes, but apart from that, our biggest worries are bees,wasps and weaver fish. All of whom have had a chunk of me, and I'm PERFECTLY normal :rotflmao:

Sting from a mother's tongue - one of the worst wounds a kid can suffer. Still run if my mum's voice goes forebodingly quite and measured :eek:

[black mirror]

We don't realise how lucky we are in the UK, seems like you have to be much more alert in other countries.
We've got adders (our only venomous snake) in the local sand dunes, but apart from that, our biggest worries are bees,wasps and weaver fish. All of whom have had a chunk of me, and I'm PERFECTLY normal :rotflmao:

Sting from a mother's tongue - one of the worst wounds a kid can suffer. Still run if my mum's voice goes forebodingly quite and measured :eek:



Weve only got your word for that..That you're normal. i beg to differ Snurfen.. after all you did write that book:D

[Snurfen]

Write it? I LIVE it, moi luverrrrrrrrrr.

[black mirror]

Write it? I LIVE it, moi luverrrrrrrrrr.



:D :D

[DELTREE]

Snakes are GOOD to eat! taste like chicken!! if the bird flu hits around here
I will be eating snake!!! and there is lot of them around here!!!!
St. Patty may have done a wrong think by running the snakes out of Ireland??????:D

[black mirror]

Snakes are GOOD to eat! taste like chicken!! if the bird flu hits around here
I will be eating snake!!! and there is lot of them around here!!!!
St. Patty may have done a wrong think by running the snakes out of Ireland??????:D


They will get stuck in your teeth Deltree:D

[oracle128]

Strange that there are no snakes on the island though. Wonder if there are any similar instances of it round the world.Sorry for reviving an old thread, but this (http://ask.yahoo.com/20060327.html) has just recently come to my attention...

[Snurfen]

That explains it. Not "stuffed and used as leprechaun's walking sticks" like some daft old beggar once told me.

[Nick Grana]

This was cool...cold?....Freezing?
They can't knit cozy sweaters to survive in Ireland's chill. The country was covered by glaciers for ages, and it only thawed about 15,000 years ago. By then, no land bridges existed between England and Ireland, so any snakes pining for a Guinness were trapped in the land of fish and chips.
Must be mostly the cold for most snakes, bugs, animals, mostly enter a country through their shipping/receiving ports which could be ship or plane.
Good read though.:cool:

[oracle128]

Don't forget that snakes, being cold-blooded creatures, are only active during warm weather (time that they use to hunt and breed); thus in an environment with consistent cool/cold weather (not necessarily freezing), they wouldn't be able to survive.

[DELTREE]

Researchers believe that snakes evolved about 100 million years ago on the super-continent Gondwanaland, which slowly broke into Antarctica, South America, Africa, India, and Australia. That helped snakes get around the world, although at that time, Ireland was still under the sea. As the waters receded, snakes found new and exciting homes, but not in Ireland.
How would anyone know about things 100 million years ago? Do we know ANYONE that was there?? GIVE ME A BREAK "PLEASE"!!

[black mirror]

The only snake i like is the one from Disneys Robin Hood film.." OOh stop hissing in my ear":D