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To: Pharmboy

Celts? Aren't those the guys who's idea of battle was to strip down naked, paint themselves blue, and then proceed to kill everyone to their front? I guess that was after they had a good sampling of the grape.


12 posted on 04/22/2006 8:32:53 PM PDT by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: DJ Taylor

True, however if the Lord hadn't invented whiskey the Irish would rule the earth.

And before any PC voices chime in my Grandfather only spoke Gaelic, and he was a strapping man who finally died at 92.

I remember visitng him in Lincolnshire when I was very young. "love ya boy" is all I ever caught.


21 posted on 04/22/2006 8:40:29 PM PDT by JNL
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To: DJ Taylor
Celts? Aren't those the guys who's idea of battle was to strip down naked, paint themselves blue,

No they were called "woads". (It was in King Arthur - The Untold True Story That Inspired The Legend so it must be true)

Celts had proper clothing

They didn't go naked or just wrap themselves in a sheet like the savages to south.

30 posted on 04/22/2006 8:52:51 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain)
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To: DJ Taylor
The painted bodies may have more to do with the Picts than the Celts (their name comes from the same latin root as picture:


55 posted on 04/23/2006 4:31:58 AM PDT by Pharmboy (Democrats lie because they must)
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