St Paddy's Day. Anyone doing anything?

GeneralVaughn · #1 March 14th, 2004, 04:27 AM

I got some Irish in me, big shocker... and one of two things will happen.
1) I get worked too hard and sleep through it
2) I get blitzkreieged

Either way im gonna pass out lol

Fyron · #2 March 14th, 2004, 04:52 AM

I am of Irish decent... well partially.

Cipher7071 · #3 March 14th, 2004, 07:46 PM

I'm not Irish, but I am of Welsh decent, and what the heck, it's only a few miles across strait there ya know. So, I'll be spending a little while with the boys down at the Elks club over a bottle or two of Killian's Red.

Wardad · #4 March 14th, 2004, 10:48 PM

Not doing a blessed thing tonight...

MY CAR WAS STOLEN LAST NIGHT

You can help relieve the boredom... do your PBW turns.

Greybeard · #5 March 15th, 2004, 12:03 AM

Well, you may not know this, but St. Patrick is the patron saint of engineers.

One thing of note that St. Patrick did was drive the snakes out of Ireland. Since snakes and worms both move on their bellies, this could be considered the invention of the worm drive. Worm drives are a very important component of many machines. Therefore, the adoption of himas the patron saint.

oleg · #6 March 15th, 2004, 12:42 AM

Unfortunately, there were no snakes in Ireland in the first place. At least that is what I read. Ireland was cleansed from snakes by the Last Ice Age and snakes did't find a way back. Why it is attributed to St. Patrick - no idea.

TerranC · #7 March 15th, 2004, 02:41 AM

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Originally posted by oleg:
Unfortunately, there were no snakes in Ireland in the first place. At least that is what I read. Ireland was cleansed from snakes by the Last Ice Age and snakes did't find a way back. Why it is attributed to St. Patrick - no idea.

Some people think it's a metaphor of his evangelization of Ireland; some Irish tribes had tattoes of snakes on their arms, and as soon as they were brought into the fold, the tattoo-ing stopped; thus driving out the "snakes".