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FReeper Canteen ~ Happy St Patrick's Day! ~ 17 March 2016
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Posted on 03/16/2016 5:58:36 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska
The FReeper Canteen Presents... Happy St Patrick's Day
Canteen Mission Statement
Showing support and boosting the morale of our military and our allies military and the family members of the above. Honoring those who have served before.
St. Patrick's Day is celebrated on March 17, his religious feast day and the anniversary of his death in the fifth century. The Irish have observed this day as a religious holiday for over a thousand years. On St. Patrick's Day, which falls during the Christian season of Lent, Irish families would traditionally attend church in the morning and celebrate in the afternoon. Lenten prohibitions against the consumption of meat were waived and people would dance, drink, and feaston the traditional meal of Irish bacon and cabbage.
Irish Rovers ~ When Irish Eyes Are Smiling
Dominic Behan ~ Erin Go Bragh
Lisa Kelly ~ Carrickfergus
Clancy Brother & Tommy Makem ~ Johnnie I Hardly Knew You
The Dubliners ~ The Rocky Road To Dublin
Today, St. Patrick's Day is celebrated by people of all backgrounds in the United States, Canada, and Australia. Although North America is home to the largest productions, St. Patrick's Day has been celebrated in other locations far from Ireland, including Japan, Singapore, and Russia.
Loreena McKennitt ~ She Moved Through The Fair
El McMeen ~ Danny Boy
Bill Douglas ~ Irish Lullaby
The Wolfe Tones ~ The Wearing Of The Green
The Chieftains ~ An Gaoth Aneas
In modern-day Ireland, St. Patrick's Day has traditionally been a religious occasion. In fact, up until the 1970s, Irish laws mandated that pubs be closed on March 17. Beginning in 1995, however, the Irish government began a national campaign to use St. Patrick's Day as an opportunity to drive tourism and showcase Ireland to the rest of the world.
Last year, close to one million people took part in Ireland 's St. Patrick's Festival in Dublin, a multi-day celebration featuring parades, concerts, outdoor theater productions, and fireworks shows.
Please remember that The Canteen is here to support and entertain our troops and their families, and is family friendly.
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To: Kathy in Alaska
Hillary says ‘Vote for me, I’m Irish (on my great, great grandmothers’ ex-husband’s side, twice removed!).
To: DoughtyOne
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posted on
03/16/2016 6:16:33 PM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
To: The Bat Ladys Husband
#18 ~ excellent post ~ tell them how it was!
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posted on
03/16/2016 6:17:13 PM PDT
by
heterosupremacist
("Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." Thomas Jefferson)
To: left that other site
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posted on
03/16/2016 6:17:16 PM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
To: Kathy in Alaska
Getting ready to listen on my iPad to U2’s “In God’s Country.”
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posted on
03/16/2016 6:17:19 PM PDT
by
Biggirl
("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
To: Kathy in Alaska
They are predicting snow here too. But I hope it melts fast. I want to ride my Bike really bad!
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posted on
03/16/2016 6:17:46 PM PDT
by
left that other site
(You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
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posted on
03/16/2016 6:19:07 PM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
To: The Bat Ladys Husband
If you’ve ever been in N. Ireland during “Marching Season”, you’d know this well!
To: heterosupremacist
BHO goes into a tavern in Boston every Patrick’s day and claims to be an Irishman! Son Of A Slutty Bitch! Grrr!
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posted on
03/16/2016 6:20:51 PM PDT
by
heterosupremacist
("Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." Thomas Jefferson)
To: Kathy in Alaska; LUV W; AZamericonnie; beachn4fun
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posted on
03/16/2016 6:23:20 PM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
To: Kathy in Alaska
~ Good Evening ~
~ Welcome To My World ~
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posted on
03/16/2016 6:24:31 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
To: left that other site
What do I do NOW?LOL! Good one.
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posted on
03/16/2016 6:24:31 PM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
To: Kathy in Alaska
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posted on
03/16/2016 6:25:00 PM PDT
by
mylife
(The roar of the masses could be farts)
To: Kathy in Alaska
Hai - And Happy Patties Day to you and yours. Just as an aside I thought that ~ Danny Boy ~ was a Scottish song. AmIright?
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posted on
03/16/2016 6:26:34 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
To: The Bat Ladys Husband
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posted on
03/16/2016 6:28:29 PM PDT
by
jjotto
("Ya could look it up!")
To: Kathy in Alaska
The reason the Irish celebrate St. Patrick’s Day is because this is when St. Patrick drove the Norwegians out of Ireland.
It seems that some centuries ago, many Norwegians came to Ireland to escape the bitterness of the Norwegian winter. Ireland was having a famine at the time, and food was scarce. The Norwegians were eating almost all the fish caught in the area, leaving the Irish with nothing to eat but potatoes. St. Patrick, taking matters into his own hands, as most Irishmen do, decided the Norwegians had to go.
Secretly, he organized the Irish IRATRION (Irish Republican Army to Rid Ireland of Norwegians). Irish members of IRATRION passed a law in Ireland that prohibited merchants from selling ice boxes or ice to the Norwegians, in hopes that their fish would spoil. This would force the Norwegians to flee to a colder climate where their fish would keep.
Well, the fish spoiled, all right, but the Norwegians, as everyone knows today, thrive on spoiled fish. So, faced with failure, the desperate Irishmen sneaked into the Norwegian fish storage caves in the dead of night and sprinkled the rotten fish with lye, hoping to poison the Norwegian invaders.
But, as everyone knows, the Norwegians thought this only added to the flavor of the fish, and they liked it so much they decided to call it “lutefisk”, which is Norwegian for “luscious fish”.
Matters became even worse for the Irishmen when the Norwegians started taking over the Irish potato crop and making something called “lefse”.
Poor St. Patrick was at his wit’s end, and finally on March 17th, he blew his top and told all the Norwegians to “GO TO HELL”. So they all got in their boats and emigrated to Minnesota—— the only other paradise on earth where smelly fish, old potatoes and plenty of cold weather can be found in abundance. UFF DA!
To: Kathy in Alaska
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posted on
03/16/2016 6:30:13 PM PDT
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left that other site
(You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
To: Publius
Well, good evening, Mr O'Publius.
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posted on
03/16/2016 6:31:12 PM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
To: DoughtyOne
Good evening, D1.
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posted on
03/16/2016 6:33:09 PM PDT
by
Kathy in Alaska
((~RIP Brian...the Coast Guard lost a good one.~))
To: mylife
Into a Belfast pub comes Paddy Murphy, looking like he’d just been
run over by a train. His arm is in a sling, his nose is broken, his
face is cut and bruised and he’s walking with a limp.
“What happened to you?” asks Sean, the bartender.
“Jamie O’Conner and me had a fight,” says Paddy.
“That little shit, O’Conner,” says Sean, “He couldn’t do that to you,
he must have had something in his hand.”
“That he did,” says Paddy, “a shovel is what he had, and a terrible
lickin’ he gave me with it.”
“Well,” says Sean, “you should have defended yourself, didn’t you
have something in your hand?”
“That I did,” said Paddy. “Mrs. O’Conner’s breast, and a thing of
beauty it was, but useless in a fight.”
Lord, I apologize...
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