The end of a perfect day!I suppose I have to post Boston Gaelic Column Pipe & Drums Corp @ 2009 St. Patrick's Day ParadeReminds me of my grandfather when I was a small kid; he had his own pipe band and was leader of it (Busby and all that stuff) . I still have the band's big drum. On Monserrat they celebrate it for a week[/l]

Happy Paddy's Day! I had corned buffalo and cabbage for lunch. Yum!P.S. Speaking of St Patrick, somewhere in quantdom there must be "a snakes on a complex plane" joke.

QuoteOriginally posted by: Traden4AlphaHappy Paddy's Day! I had corned buffalo and cabbage for lunch. Yum!P.S. Speaking of St Patrick, somewhere in quantdom there must be "a snakes on a complex plane" joke.yummy!I have found an illusion to what you might be referring to?Quotewhile they went doublin their mumper all the time: nor avoice from afire bellowsed mishe mishe to tauftauf thuartpeatrick not yet, though venissoon after, had a kidscad buttended a bland old isaac: [.] The fall (bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk!) of a once wallstrait oldparr is retaled early in bed and later on life down through all christian minstrelsy. AndQuoteSss! See the snake wurrums everyside! Our durlbin is sworming in sneaks. They came to our island from triangular Toucheaterre beyond the wet prairie rared up in the midst of the cargon of prohibitive pomefructs but along landed Paddy Wippingham and the his garbagecans

Joyce has something to say about *everything*. Who needs the Bible with all its tedious old "thou shalts" when we have FW!

Unfortunately, nothing on Leviathan, justQuoteA glass of Danu U'Dunnell's foamous olde Dobbelin ayle. But, lo, as you would quaffoff his fraudstuff and sink teeth through that pyth of a flowerwhite bodey behold of him as behemoth for he is noewhemoe. Finiche! Only a fadograph of a yestern scene

Methinks Leviathan is a relative of the banshee?QuoteArt, literature, politics, economy,chemistry, humanity, &c. Duty, the daughter of discipline, the Great Fire at the South City Markets, Belief in Giants and the Banshee, A Place for Everything and Everything in its Place, Is the Pen Mightier than the Sword?

QuoteWhat clashes here of wills gen wonts, oystrygods gaggin fishygods! Br‚kkek K‚kkek K‚kkek K‚kkek! K¢ax K¢ax K¢ax! Ualu Ualu Ualu! Quaouauh! Where the Baddelaries partisans are still out to mathmaster Malachus Micgranes and the Verdons catapelting the camibalistics out of the Whoyteboyce of Hoodie HeadClearly, quants need to be careful about worshipping the leviathan unless they are prepared for gaggin and catapelting (possibly in the icy parking lots of supermarkets )

I think Chicago takes the award for most bizarre with the tradition of dying the river neon green. It really is that color!

QuoteOriginally posted by: LTrainI think Chicago takes the award for most bizarre with the tradition of dying the river neon green. It really is that color!dyed or polluted?

>> dyed or polluted? Heh.. I suppose I should have said change the color from pond-scum green to neon green!

As migalley might say: it looks like stagnant water

10 points for anyone who can name this traditional Irish dish, (cuch can't play!) - (It doesn't always look this tomatoey, it was the first decent image I found without the name in the link)Don't Google it! It's just for fun kids......Also 5 points for anyone who can name the bear from my previous post.