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Turning Green with Literacy - 3/17/2010 10:51:03 AM   
slvemike4u


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Status: offline 		A fascinating op-ed piece in todays N.Y. Times....


http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/17/opinion/17cahill.html?ref=todayspaper


Everyone gets to be Irish today...enjoy the day and please be safe!
Edited because subtee picked on me.....

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RE: Turning Green with Literacy - 3/17/2010 11:11:39 AM   
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A faciinating op-ed piece in todays N.Y. Times....

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/17/opinion/17cahill.html?ref=todayspaper


Everyone gets to be Irish today...enjoy the day and please be safe!


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A fascinating op-ed piece in today's N.Y. Times...[What's wrong with me? I can't help myself... but it's about literacy!]


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RE: Turning Green with Literacy - 3/17/2010 11:34:26 AM   
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( I would like to point out the futility of picking on an Irishman ,on St.Paddy's day for something as trivial as a mispelled wird...that jest sily)

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RE: Turning Green with Literacy - 3/17/2010 11:46:45 AM   
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Status: offline 		It's not you, it's me. I should have some xxxxx beer--manly yes, but I'm Irish too!

I liked the article:

Irish people are cool, Faith and Begorrah

[Edited because VaguelyCurious picked on me. (But that's okay--she's cute!)]

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RE: Turning Green with Literacy - 3/17/2010 11:52:26 AM   
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I should have some green beer--manly yes, but I'm Irish too!


You do know that nobody outside America drinks green beer, right?

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RE: Turning Green with Literacy - 3/17/2010 11:55:48 AM   
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Status: offline 		That's cool too ...just drink beer out of a green bottle...Heineken's works fine.
Of course ,as usual,I will be drinking(okay,am drinking) Jack Daniels...I'm Irish not stupid.....bourbon baby!

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RE: Turning Green with Literacy - 3/17/2010 12:16:09 PM   
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Status: offline 		I'm Irish, too! I refuse to drink green beer! I will have Killian's Red, though! Awesome stuff!

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RE: Turning Green with Literacy - 3/17/2010 1:23:18 PM   
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Yeah, that's mostly true, it was Irish monks that saved and copied by hand all the great literary works of Western Civilization.
It's nothing to see Irish people today who speak three or four languages and many young kids go to "Irish" schools in the summer in Galway, Mayo, Sligo, and Donegal in the "Gaeltacht", Irish speaking areas.
I believe Ireland has one of the highest levels of literacy in the world.

"May the curse of Mary Malone and her nine blind illegitimate children chase you so far over the hills of Damnation that the Lord himself can't find you with a telescope."
Now how's that for an Irish curse!





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RE: Turning Green with Literacy - 3/17/2010 1:40:52 PM   
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Status: offline 		Okay Pops,I have to ask...why were all of her children blind?( I understand the illegitimate part...its just the odds of giving birth to 9 blind children is ,frankly astronomical)

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RE: Turning Green with Literacy - 3/17/2010 2:42:13 PM   
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Okay Pops,I have to ask...why were all of her children blind?( I understand the illegitimate part...its just the odds of giving birth to 9 blind children is ,frankly astronomical)



Mike, they were Democrats.

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RE: Turning Green with Literacy - 3/17/2010 2:53:19 PM   
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Status: offline 		Okay that tears it Pops...Irish or not....fuck you...just not today,its way too nice a day to be Irish.

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RE: Turning Green with Literacy - 3/17/2010 3:34:33 PM   
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Status: offline 		I'll lift my glass of Glenlivet to toast my Irish kin tonight.

BTW Cahill's book "How the Irish Saved Civilization" is a great book for anyone who wants to learn more about the Irish saving classical literature.

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RE: Turning Green with Literacy - 3/17/2010 4:17:14 PM   
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Status: offline 		You know what Ken ,when I was a younger man I marched every year down 5th avenue.....and it was my habit that at some point I stopped into one or another of the many bookstores in Manhattan...always with the same object in mind....a book dealing in some way ,shape or form with the Irish experience...be it as immigrants to a new country or as rebels trying to establish once and for all their own country.
Well I've stopped walking down 5th avenue....and the habit sort of died with the walking(not to say I stopped reading mind you...that would be sheer lunacy...lol)but you just gave me a ready made new version of St.Paddy's at Barnes and Nobles.
Thanks.

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RE: Turning Green with Literacy - 3/17/2010 4:21:40 PM   
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Okay that tears it Pops...Irish or not....fuck you...just not today,its way too nice a day to be Irish.


Mike, Erin go Bragh! And one thing us Irish are "known for" is a sense of humor, right?

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RE: Turning Green with Literacy - 3/17/2010 5:31:13 PM   
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Status: offline 		Sure thing Pops....but seeing as the disability was blindness would that not mean the fathers(no matter how many it took to produce nine children) must have been blind as bats,cold hearted bigoted Republicans?
Its the only logical answer!

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RE: Turning Green with Literacy - 3/17/2010 5:39:31 PM   
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I'll lift my glass of Glenlivet to toast my Irish kin tonight.

BTW Cahill's book "How the Irish Saved Civilization" is a great book for anyone who wants to learn more about the Irish saving classical literature.


Absolutely one of my favorite books.

*raises my glass of JD to all the Irish*

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RE: Turning Green with Literacy - 3/17/2010 5:48:21 PM   
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RE: Turning Green with Literacy - 3/17/2010 6:07:13 PM   
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RE: Turning Green with Literacy - 3/17/2010 6:11:21 PM   
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Status: offline 		Imagine my surprise ,when after years of hearing "how can you mix JD with coke-cola",seeing a Chili's drink menu refer to Jack and Coke as "America's Cocktail.
What the fuck were all of my older uncles talking about when I was young?
( what I was doing eating in a Chili's is a discussion for another time )

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RE: Turning Green with Literacy - 3/17/2010 6:33:37 PM   
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