Erin go Bragh?

[helicopterjim R.I.P.]

I have been a racist since I first watched a movie of Ago and Mike racing at the IOM. Racism is a lovely religion when you really think about it!

[stockport claret]

St. Andrews, Georges and Davids Day tend not to be celebrated in the same way as St.Guinness sorry Patricks is .

Perhaps Scotland, England and Wales should get in touch with one of their countries brewers to see if they could start to promote the national days.

Free over sized hats, streamers, flags......and so on .

[belfastguzzi]

I have been a racist since I first watched a movie of Ago and Mike racing at the IOM. Racism is a lovely religion when you really think about it!

Didn't you used to be a RaceTafarian?

[Skeeve]

... Irish music all night and lot's of ditch water... sorry... Guinness

 

That's not beer... it's used 30wt!

 

How to make beer:

 

Take 4 cans of instant beer [bud, Miller, Pabst, what have you]

pour into pitcher

Add 1 can of Guinness.

 

Voila! Instant beer!

[Guzzirider]

I love Guinness, and yes it does taste better in Ireland than the stuff brewed over here.

 

Does give me terrible wind after a few pints though- more farter than garter.

 

I'm proud to say I cleared a pub in Inchigeelagh at the MGCGB Erin Rally a few years back with the most toxic Guninness fuelled fart you could ever imagine. Everyone except Gerry Duffett ran out of the pub choking and coughing, even the barman had to run out of the back door. If you have ever had NBC training, and been shoved in a chamber full of CS gas with no mask you will have an idea what it was like!

 

Be very afraid when I come to Ulster in May.

 

Guy

[Admin Jaap]

 

Be very afraid when I come to Ulster in May.

 

Guy

Riding all that way just to be forced out of the pub... Guy, if possible, could you give us the gas attack alarm (you know, banging metal on metal and shouting GAS, GAS, GAS) if you feel the gasified Guinnes pushing your backdoor from the inside?

 

Please?

 

On that note (no pun intended) please refrain from curry!

[Guzzi2Go]

That's not beer... it's used 30wt!

 

How to make beer:

 

Take 4 cans of instant beer [bud, Miller, Pabst, what have you]

pour into pitcher

Add 1 can of Guinness.

 

Voila! Instant beer!

A Carlsberg, Becks and Guiness sales rep walk into a pub,

Carlsberg rep orders Carlsberg, Becks rep orders Becks, and the Guiness guy orders a Coke.

They ask him:

- How come you are ordering coke?

- Well, if you are not ordering beer neither am I.

[richard100t]

Should I be the guy to throw cold water on the celebration? St Patrick was a fictional character that never really existed!

[belfastguzzi]

Should I be the guy to throw cold water on the celebration? St Patrick was a fictional character that never really existed!

Now where did you read that?!

[ferguzzi]

I'm amazed I'm the only Irish speaker on the website,(john o sullivan where are you?).

Erin go brath,

get the spelling right, means Ireland forever, or until judgement day. There's a few fadas included in that(little squigles over the e and a), but my heathen computer doesn't have them.

Yes Ireland has had a big influence on the US, about 20% lineage can be traced, and I'm related to about half of them.

Despite belfastguzzi's weird obsession for the obscure ulster scots(admit it Dave -you're Irish!), most of emigrants were from the million or so who left during or just after the famine 1845-49. Nasty time. A lot ended up in the army. For instance the vast majority of us soldiers killed at little big horn were Irish born. go figure.

We"ve always been very good at dieing for other countries though. A third of the soldiers under wellington in the peninsular war were Irish. There has always been a large contingent of Irish in the French foreign legion. There's still a well respected Irish regiment in the uk forces call the royal Irish Regiment, and It's made up of people from north and south of the border, regardless of religion or political background. Several people I served with when I wore an Irish uniform went on to these units, most feeling there wasn't enough chance of real action serving in a small neutral country's army.

Nearly everyone in the republic, about 4 fifths of the island, learn Irish(gaelic) as their first language in school, and most like me forget most of it when they leave due to lack of practice. The only use I've found for it is discussing women's breasts when abroad without being caught. I still do it to my canadian wife. So to speak, ahem.

The only Irish word I can think of that has crossed in to english is smithereen. But I have a pet theory that the american expression "so Long", when saying goodbye, is derived from the Irish "slan" pronounced slawn, meaning the same. I mean, "so long" doesn't really mean anything, does it?

 

Lastly, if you're downing a few tomorrow, why not use a proper Irish way to say cheers. ie

 

"Slainte 's saol!" which is pronounced Slawncha iss sale. Literally "health and good life!".

 

There are ruder versions, but I won't bore you. Too late, I hear you say. Oh well. And St. patricks day is "La feile padraig", pronounced "Law fayla podrig".

Now go off and amaze your friends.

Time for this leprechaun to go to bed.

Slan abhaoile!

[richard100t]

Now where did you read that?!

I think it was on some american radio show from Paul Harvey called the Rest of the Story. I guess when people really looked into it, theres no real proof that such a person ever really existed at all.

Kind of like Mother Shipton maybe?

[helicopterjim R.I.P.]

I'm amazed I'm the only Irish speaker on the website,(john o sullivan where are you?).

 

Well I hope that I can say you've brought some good "Craic"to the forum but I'm only a heathen "Canajun eh" so I hope I have not blown it with some bad spelling or such. I have only spent time in Warrenpoint and vicinity so I am no expert but anywhere I did go the feeling was great - as in GOOD CRAIC! I look forward to returning!

[Guzzirider]

Should I be the guy to throw cold water on the celebration? St Patrick was a fictional character that never really existed!

 

St Patrick

[belfastguzzi]

I think it was on some american radio show from Paul Harvey called the Rest of the Story. I guess when people really looked into it, theres no real proof that such a person ever really existed at all.

Kind of like Mother Shipton maybe?

Not at all!!!!!

[Martin Barrett]

I'm very fond of the Guinness. But I won't be celebrating tonight when I'm back from work as I've a quick change. I also drunk the last of it over the weekend.

 

This time of year there are far more significant dates.

 

22nd March that festival of rampant commercialism - Mothers Day. Though I've got plans this year. I'll put the kids to making daffodils out of egg boxes and crepe paper. Should end up with a nice bunch.

 

But more importantly 21st is the Vernal Equinox. Which poses me with the dilemma to I shear off my winter coat then or do I wait till 29th which is the start of British Summer Time?

 

Back to Ireland, here's hoping that they secure the grand slam in the Six Nations. That way if England beat Scotland and France don't beat Italy by 60pts, England will finish 2nd.