OKI Dopers, Celebrate the Joy that is the British Isles!

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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(Shibb, you don’t have to read this because you ALWAYS know EVERYTHING about EVERYTHING.) (Yes I AM being needlessly sarcastic. Why?)

Come July 20th and 21st, the World’s First British Isles Fest is going on up in Harveysburg. (That’s where they have the Ren Fest later in the year.) (And they really call it that: The World’s First British Isles Fest) (And they have a website, so you know it’s going to be a big deal.) (And yes, I COULD keep going with these parenthetical asides, but I think I’m done now.)

So beat the heat of late July in Ohio by standing in it. You can also buy Guinness, and maybe drink it too, and buy stuff and play games and Bad Haggis is performing. Did I mention Scottish Meat Pies?

Tell me this doesn’t sound like fun.
-Rue.

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You’re just pining for me, aren’tcha?

[sub]And someone should probably tell whoever’s organising the Guinness that Ireland isn’t part of the British Isles.[/sub]

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Frannie, that depends on who made the map :slight_smile:

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Pining, sprucing and mapling, Puddin’.

And suuuure it (Ireland) is (part of the British Isles). There’s a little map on the back of the brochure I got and it definitely shows it all as one group. (Remember, this is a Meriken thing, geography and political orientation is all at our discretion. Heck, we can say FRANCE is part of the British Isles if we want. It’s just That Way.)
-Rue.

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Ireland is part of the British Isles, cos that’s purely a question of physical geography.

Ooh, toad-in-the-hole! And Sam Smith beer. Unfotunately, the marketplace “shoppes” are billed as “quaint”.

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Well slap my thigh and call me Quentin, I was not aware of that.

Oh dear.

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Where has my wee country gone???

Norn Iron is missing from your links page.

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It’s Part of Ireland!

HURRAH!!! :smiley:

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Sounds like fun. Wish I could make it.

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I would LOVE to go to that fest rue! If its on next year we could make it into a dopefest!

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Kinda funny, OKI stands for “Ohio, Kentucky & Indiana” (even though a lot of people may not know that) and the only people who said anything here are NOT from O, K or I.

Maybe I should have thought about the title harder…

…or maybe no one cares…
-Rue.

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Or, you can have me bump the thread while suggesting you could email a moderator and ask for the thread title to be changed. Aren’t I nice?

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No more bumping, you greedy pervert.

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Oh, I care. And I’m in the K part. But I’m a working stiff and just now saw this.

It does sound like fun but I don’t know if I’m free that weekend or not.

If anyone cares…

:slight_smile:

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Hey Twisty, would you really want it???

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Aro, that is the Million Dollar question :wink: