Priests in Ireland are certainly permitted to play with Irish snakes, but only if no pleasure is taken.
Ha, I didn’t even think about that! (It’s actually to celebrate the Olympics this month. “Do You Believe in Miracles” didn’t fit. :()
All his church members can do now is sing Fangs For The Memories.
I have a small amount of respect that he stayed true to his stated beliefs and didn’t seek medical help.
Ah, there you’re wrong - they have no objection to pleasure when it comes to snake-handling as long as they are authentic Irish ophidians. What’s more, no Irish priest has ever been fatally bitten by an Irish snake, nor even needed medical attention for it. True story.
He didn’t die from the venom. He died of boadom.
And his last meal was corn-on-the-cobra.
That just smacks of a desperate search for justification.
I was thinking the same thing.
Somebody forgot to milk the snakes of their venom.
On the one hand, we have actual evidence of the way language is used by its speakers. On the other we have an opinion about the way it should be used. The latter loses out to the former every time.
This is what comes of believing your own PR.
Ready,Set, go!
But he could have simply taken Viagra. After all, he only had a reptile dysfunction.
The point isn’t “what words did they used to use in the olden days*.” The point is snakes are venomous, and they are not poisonous (unless you eat their venom sac).
*There are some grammar and lexicon situations where that is acceptable, but not when there’s a scientific definition involved.
Like in this thread, for example.
You guys are hissterical.
You guys have a biting wit.
Oh, bite me!
Who rattlered your cage, Sidewinder?