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]

Yes, that's the problem! LOL!

[rightwingintelligentsia]

No dancing on the table for you tonight!

[TheresaKett]

lol

[Supernatural]

I have learned to pace myself. Only took 20 years to learn that trick.

[RockinRight]

Been a quiet weekend!

[Clemenza]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1598949/posts

[tuliptree76]

Will there be a party tonight?

[Maximus_Ridiculousness]

How are you doing?

[Paul_Denton]

I am doing okay.

[rightwingintelligentsia]

We really need to do something to liven things up. A game of spin the bottle, perhaps?

[Maximus_Ridiculousness]

No dancing on the table for you tonight!

I'll just watch tonight, maybe take some photos of you guys getting wild.

Hey...FREEPERS GONE WILD!!!!!

[WFTR]

We used to feed the mullet with bread from our meal. It was really pretty neat!

Did they jump up to take the bread in the air? Their jumping is amazing.

Bill

[TheresaKett]

pretty quiet around here too.

Just going through my e-mails and found this amusing.

Humans existed as members of small bands of nomadic hunter/gatherers. They lived on deer in the mountains during the summer & would go to the coast and live on fish and lobster in winter.

The two most important events in all of history were the invention of the wheel, and the invention of beer. The wheel was invented to get man to the beer. These were the foundation of modern civilization and together were the catalyst for the splitting of humanity into two distinct subgroups: Liberals and Conservatives.

Once beer was discovered it required grain, and that was the beginning of agriculture. Neither the glass bottle nor aluminum can were invented yet, so while our early human ancestors were sitting around waiting for them to be invented, they just stayed close to the brewery. That's how villages were formed.

Some men spent their days tracking and killing animals to B-B-Q at night while they were drinking beer. This was the beginning of what is known as "the Conservative movement."
Other men who were weaker and less skilled at hunting learned to live off the conservatives by showing up for the nightly B-B-Q's and doing the sewing, fetching and hair dressing. This was the beginning of the Liberal movement. Some of these liberal men eventually evolved into women. The rest became known as 'girliemen.'

Some noteworthy liberal achievements include the domestication of cats, the invention of group therapy and the concept of Democratic voting to decide how to divide the meat and beer that conservatives provided.
Over the years conservatives came to be symbolized by the largest, most powerful land animal on earth, the elephant. Liberals are symbolized by the jackass.

Modern liberals like imported beer (with lime added), but most prefer white wine or imported bottled water. They eat raw fish, but like their beef well done. Sushi, tofu, and French food are standard liberal fare.

Another interesting revolutionary side note: most of their women have higher testosterone levels than their men. Most social workers, personal injury attorneys, journalists, dreamers in Hollywood and group therapists are liberals. Liberals invented the designated hitter rule because it wasn't "fair" to make the pitcher also bat.

Conservatives drink domestic beer. They eat red meat and still provide for their women. Conservatives are big-game hunters, rodeo cowboys, lumberjacks, construction workers, firemen, medical doctors, police officers, corporate executives, Marines, athletes and generally anyone who works productively. Conservatives who own companies hire other conservatives who want to work for a living.

Liberals produce little or nothing. They like to "govern" the producers and decide how to redistribute the production. Liberals believe Europeans are more enlightened than Americans. That is why most of the liberals remained in Europe when conservatives were coming to America. They crept in later, after the Wild West was tamed, and created a business of trying to get MORE for nothing.

[RockinRight]

I've read it before, but it's funny...and true!

[RockinRight]

[ilovew]

Hmmm...that kinda defeats the purpose of getting drunk ;)

[WFTR]

Some of these liberal men eventually evolved into women.

This thought gives me the heebie-geebies.

[RockinRight]

How do you feed these?

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Does that mean that women should be Liberal? I resent that implication. . .

[Nowhere Man]

Very cool. I look forward to hearing what she said.

I'll have to try calling tomorrow since I have to go to bed soon, getting up early to take two cats to the vets, Pansy for her checkup, she's being monitored for her thyroid and Greystone, he wants to eat but for some reason, he won't and we seem to think it is a tooth. His breath could knock over an M1 tank. B-) Same thing happened to one of our other cats, Boo, about 10 years ago, he had to get a molar pulled and then he ate again. He will be 16 this year. Greystone is only 5, about the same age Boo was when that happened to him.