The ***OFFICIAL*** Friday/Saturday Night Singles' Thread St Pats Day (March 17th and 18th)

all we WONDERFUL singles folk! | 17 March 2006 | DollyCali

[DollyCali]

Find a partner or grab your favorite beverage & listen to some Irish tunes .A couple of wave files - full-length, lilting, Irish melodies - they are so beautiful! I hope you can open them, or "save target as" to your hard drive and listen to them later.

"My Wild Irish Rose" ~ John Gary
"I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen" ~ John Gary

MIDIS
"Irish Lullabye"
"The Last Rose of Summer"
"When Irish Eyes are Smiling"
"I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen"
"Danny Boy"

Why Saint Patrick's Day?

Saint Patrick's Day has come to be associated with everything Irish: anything green and gold, shamrocks and luck. Most importantly, to those who celebrate its intended meaning, St. Patrick's Day is a traditional day for spiritual renewal and offering prayers for missionaries worldwide.

So, why is it celebrated on March 17th? One theory is that that is the day that St. Patrick died. Since the holiday began in Ireland, it is believed that as the Irish spread out around the world, they took with them their history and celebrations. The biggest observance of all is, of course, in Ireland. With the exception of restaurants and pubs, almost all businesses close on March 17th. Being a religious holiday as well, many Irish attend mass, where March 17th is the traditional day for offering prayers for missionaries worldwide before the serious celebrating begins.

In American cities with a large Irish population, St. Patrick's Day is a very big deal. Big cities and small towns alike celebrate with parades, "wearing of the green," music and songs, Irish food and drink, and activities for kids such as crafts, coloring and games. Some communities even go so far as to dye rivers or streams green!



Do you have a favorite :

St. Pat Day Memory
St. Pat Day Movie
St Pat Day Song/music
St,. Pat Day Drink(recipe sharing please)
St. Pat Day Food (recipe sharing please)

[Supernatural]

Car 54 was a comedy about a NY City cop and his partner.

Joe E. Ross (Toody) and Fred Gwynn (Muldoon) were the partners. Everyone referred to them as "Toody and Muldoon".

Capt. Block was their boss.

Fred Gwynn was, of course, Herman Munster in a later series.

Al Lewis (Grandpa Munster) was also in Car 54.

[Supernatural]

You're making my mouth water and I just had a nice meatball sandwich.

You seem pretty darn handy!

[pcottraux]

I knew I recognized the name "Al Lewis." THAT'S it.

[Supernatural]

See if you remember any of these old TV series.

The Life of Reilly starring William Bendix

Ozzie and Harriet starring Ozzie and Harriet and their sons, Ricky Nelson and his brother David

Father Knows Best starring Robert Young and his son Bud and his daughter Cathy

[Maximus_Ridiculousness]

Lots of things happening this season, and there's only been two episodes.

[pcottraux]

I've heard of them all but I've never seen them.

[Paul_Denton]

LOL the only old series I ever saw was Get Smart and classic Star Trek.

[Supernatural]

I'm reaching way back here...you have to be old like me to remember this stuff. LOL

[Paul_Denton]

Cool :)

[Maximus_Ridiculousness]

I LOVE Get Smart. I watched the reruns over and over and over.

[Paul_Denton]

I saw on IMDB that Mel Brooks is making a Get Smart movie. Dunno if it is true or not though.

[Supernatural]

THE LIFE OF RILEY

The Life of Riley, an early U.S. television sitcom filmed in Hollywood, was broadcast on NBC from 1949-50 and from 1953-58. Although the program had a loyal audience from its years on network radio (1943-1951), its first season on television, in which Jackie Gleason was cast in the title role, failed to generate high ratings. William Bendix portrayed Riley in the second version and the series was much more successful, among the top twenty-five most watched programs from 1953-55. Syndicated in 1977, the series was telecast on many cable systems.

THE ADVENTURES OF OZZIE AND HARRIET

The Adventures Of Ozzie And Harriet was one of the most enduring family-based situation comedies in American television. Ozzie and Harriet Nelson and their sons David and Ricky (16 and 13 respectively at the time of the program's debut) portrayed fictional versions of themselves on the program. The Nelsons embodied wholesome, "normal" American existence so conscientiously (if blandly) that their name epitomized upright, happy family life for decades.

FATHER KNOWS BEST

Father Knows Best, a family comedy of the 1950s, is perhaps more important for what it has come to represent than for what it actually was. In essence, the series was one of a slew of middle-class family sitcoms in which moms were moms, kids were kids, and fathers knew best. Today, many critics view it, at best, as high camp fun, and, at worst, as part of what critic David Marc once labeled the "Aryan melodramas" of the 1950s and 1960s.

Shows like this would never make it on TV nowadays. Too wholesome (and corny).

[Supernatural]

Don Adams was the voice of the cartoon character "Tennessee Tuxedo". The penguin's sidekick was "Chumly" the walrus.

[Maximus_Ridiculousness]

Really? Wonder who he would cast for it. I don't think it would be the same without Don Adams.

[Maximus_Ridiculousness]

Would you believe they have the Get Smart props on display at the Ronald Reagan Library? I got to see it last summer while hubby and I were passing through Simi Valley on our way to Vegas.

[pcottraux]

Steve Carell will be playing Maxwell Smart:

[Hoodlum91]

Don't know if anyone is around, but had to check in before I went to bed.

Looks like I missed a lot. Hope everyone had a good weekend!

[Paul_Denton]

Good question. Well actully looks like pcottraux knows who is playing Maxwell Smart. Steve Carell.

[Supernatural]

Best thread for about a month or so.

You were gone but not forgotten.

[Maximus_Ridiculousness]

Hi!

I need a new tagline too. Any ideas?