Yeah, as a Proddy I was gonna wear orange today but I figured it might get me beat up.
Snakes are cool. They taste like chicken. (Actually I have no idea what they taste like as I have never eaten one. Good Proddy girls don’t eat snakes. Unless money changes hands first. 
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[QUOTE=Terrifel]
Oh nonsense. Everybody knows that the ancient Irelandic people worshipped leprechauns.
If it weren’t for St. Patrick and his holy shillelagh of peace, the pagan tribes of Ireland would still be ritually slaughtering each other over the theft of pink hearts, orange stars, yellow moons, green clovers, and blue diamonds.
The current bad blood between Catholics and Protestants is frankly nothing compared to the untold centuries of savage hatred between the Pink Heart and Blue Diamond clans.
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<SLAPS Terrifel with Pink Salmon, Orange Tuna, Yellow Eels, Blue Gills, and WET TROUT>
[QUOTE=Cluricaun]
I’m quite sorry to hear of your predicament. You have my deepest sympathies. 
I’d have figured that you all would wear Paisley…….
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You laugh, but I went to high school when ugly Qiana shirts were the rage. I used to wear a flowered Quiana (no idea how to spell that word) collared shirt, dark green background with small orange and cream flowers all over it. It was a compromise of sorts.
yojimbo–love the “flag”!
I’m glad to hear the religious holiday was separate from the drunken fest this year. No festivus here–I worked and now am doing homework…
[QUOTE=DocCathode]
So Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland? What was so bad about the snakes? “I love the sexy slither of a lady snake.” says Barry White. But, let me be serious.
Before Patrick brought Christianity to the Emerald Isle, there were old gods. Why did the Irish turn away from them? And why shouldn’t they turn back?
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I always wondered why the Irish didn’t just toss old Padraig off the nearest cliff when he started spouting his gibberish.
… because there’s nothing the Irish love more than a mad poet?
The Orange, of course, comes from the mighty Netherlands, along with William of Orange, who ascended to the English throne after the Glorious Revolution of 1688, along with his wife, Mary.
If ya ain’t Dutch, ya ain’t much. 
[QUOTE=eleanorigby]
You laugh, but I went to high school when ugly Qiana shirts were the rage. I used to wear a flowered Quiana (no idea how to spell that word) collared shirt, dark green background with small orange and cream flowers all over it. It was a compromise of sorts.
yojimbo–love the “flag”!
I’m glad to hear the religious holiday was separate from the drunken fest this year. No festivus here–I worked and now am doing homework…
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Oh dear, Eleanor, I love you despite your burnt umberage of a heritage, but I was being extra snarky with the Paisley comment. Ian Paisley is the Phred Phelps of Orangemen.
[QUOTE=Clothahump]
I always wondered why the Irish didn’t just toss old Padraig off the nearest cliff when he started spouting his gibberish.
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Because Christianity was popular with certain segments of the Irish population, especially women, slaves, and the chieftains of minor clans. He was apparently beaten and arrested on several occasions, though.
[QUOTE=Captain Amazing]
[St. Patrick] was apparently beaten and arrested on several occasions, though.
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Was it in that order?
Thank you! I loathe St. Pat’s day–honoring a man who converted a nation by the sword? I’ve started to ask people who try to pinch me (which never works out well for them) what they’re doing for Idi Amin day next month…or Torquemada’s birthday in September.
[QUOTE=Swampwolf]
…or Torquemada’s birthday in September.
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Torquemada’s birthday every year always catches me by surprise, I never expect it.
[QUOTE=wolfman]
Torquemada’s birthday every year always catches me by surprise, I never expect it.
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[QUOTE=DocCathode]
One Ireland under the rule of the King Who Is Twelve. No more brother against brother. No more bombings. No more arguments. One peaceful island under the rule of a wise king.
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You realize that Ireland wasn’t united until the rule of the Tudors and the Stuarts, and that Ireland before the coming of Patrick (as well as for a long time after it) was divided into a lot of petty kingdoms that were pretty constantly warring against each other. They might not have fought over religion (and there weren’t that many fights in Ireland over religion until the Reformation, btw), but that doesn’t mean they didn’t fight.
[QUOTE=Cluricaun]
Oh dear, Eleanor, I love you despite your burnt umberage of a heritage, but I was being extra snarky with the Paisley comment. Ian Paisley is the Phred Phelps of Orangemen.
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Oh.
<slinks away in profound and utter embarassment> :o
Hey! Even the embarassed emoticon is orange. It MUST mean something!
[QUOTE=wolfman]
Torquemada’s birthday every year always catches me by surprise, I never expect it.
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Does it involve a comfy chair, I hope?
[QUOTE=Swampwolf]
Thank you! I loathe St. Pat’s day–honoring a man who converted a nation by the sword?
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And, for the record, Patrick didn’t convert Ireland “by the sword”. Patrick was a peaceful person, and he didn’t forceably convert anyone.
A common error. Turns out he converted them “by the sward” --you know, that big grassy meadow over yonder.
[QUOTE=wolfman]
Torquemada’s birthday every year always catches me by surprise, I never expect it.
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<SMALL APPLAUSE> Oh, very nice! </SMALL APPLAUSE>
Captain Amazing Lies! Lies spread by Christian historians! Under the Tuatha, Ireland was united and peaceful.
WhyNot Could it be you don’t correct my op because it’s not wrong? Could it be deep down you know I couldn’t be more right?
[QUOTE=DocCathode]
Captain Amazing Lies! Lies spread by Christian historians! Under the Tuatha, Ireland was united and peaceful.
WhyNot Could it be you don’t correct my op because it’s not wrong? Could it be deep down you know I couldn’t be more right?
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Oh, that could be it.
Or, you know, the other thing.