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Happy St. Pat's Day to you all! Here's a link for anyone interested http://www.tartanplace.com/stpat.htmlMeanwhile, I declare you all Irish for the Day ... for celebration purposes. Have a great day and try not to drown the shamrocks!
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Dear Rubrick, thank you for the links!  However, 10 am GMT is 5 am here ... I'd love to see the parade but 5 Ante Meridian! I don't think so. Unless I have miscalculated.
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I love Irish music, everything from Tin Pan Alley ("Peggy O'Neill," "My Wild Irish Rose," "When Irish Eyes Are Smilin'," etc.), to George M. Cohan, "Harrigan," "For It Was Mary,", to Hollywood, "Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ra," to McCartney's "Give Ireland Back to the Irish," to "The Londonderry Air" (Danny Boy), to real Irish folk, "By the Risin' of the Moon," "Ach, Johnny We Hardly Knew Ye," (and more authentic Irish folk that I'm sure Rubrick could point us to), and more commercial Irish folk acts like The Cheiftains and The Clancy Brothers, to the new Irish folk-rock sounds of Blackthorne and Tempest (if you ain't heard Tempest's Surfing to Mecca CD, buy it tonight!.."Take You to the Well" a great song on it that I do). And without getting a chance to put a set or two of Irish tunes out in public or casual company, it just doesn't seem like St. Patrick's Day for me! And, so, I thought a good topic for some common ground Irish discussion from Oz to the Emerald Isle, and all stops beyond and between, would be "The Wild Colonial Boy," and the story behind it. From my own USn perspective...I love the song, I know the basic story behind it (and it's Irish-Australian tradition)...but, here, it's also the theme song for John Ford's brilliant movie, "The Quiet Man," (with John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Victor McLaglen, and Barry Fitzgerald), a movie that is as much a part of the St. Patrick's Day tradition with me as, say, Alistair Sim's "A Christmas Carol" is for Christmas...if we don't watch "The Quiet Man" in early March it just doesn't seem like St. Patrick's Day...the movie always stays fresh, too; never get tired of seeing it! But, again, there's "The Wild Colonial Boy" threading it all together. So maybe we can hear some of the Aussie (and Zildian), Irish, Brit, other Usn, and other takes on the story of the song?...and why not on "The Quiet Man" and Irish Music, too! Tomorrow, my favorite St. Patrick's Day party story (hint: I was living in New York City, and it started at 10:30 am and lasted till 3 the next morning).
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Tomorrow, my favorite St. Patrick's Day party story (hint: I was living in New York City, and it started at 10:30 am and lasted till 3 the next morning).
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bated breathOh, yeah?...what are you baiting it with? 
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Anna-- do you want to tell him the story about ice fishing and baited breath? or shall i?
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You do it, Helen. You've got that je ne sais quoi when it comes to telling a story pmf
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je ne sais quoiI have made 2 major discoveries on AWADtalk today. The first is that I haven't got a clue about many of the codes and acronyms that are passed between experienced posters, such as pmf and WAG. The 2nd is that I can read the white script we are not supposed to read without straining simply by highlighting it. That's 
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Browsing thru some Irish stuff I came upon a link to Celtic Gods and Godesses and found this : Anu - Ireland - goddess of plenty and Mother Earth, Greatest of all Irish goddesses, deity of cattle, health, fertility prosperity and comfort.Well, of course she would be the greatest! Just like our Anu. Happy St. Pat's Day, Anu.
WAG came from my post (I think ) and is techno-military-speak for wild ass guess. You're welcome!
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Bill, I got as far as the author's calling St. Patrick "St.Patty" and gagged. Patty is the female version. If you want to shorten the male name Patrick it's Paddy. Tsk, tsk, tsk.
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wow, you and I have coincidence of timing. Just as you were posting this:
WAG came is techno-military-speak for wild ass guess.
I was sending this PM: "I've never heard WAG used anywhere but on this board. But I'd occasionally heard the term SWAG, standing for Stupid Wild-Ass Guess. With that in mind it didn't take much to figure out what WAG stood for!"
I hadn't known that this originated in the military. But from what little I know of how soldiers talk (for example, SNAFU), my SWAG is that the original military version was SWAG, with WAG being a cleaned-up derivative version.
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Then there is, of course, the sensational Irish step-dance show, Riverdance, and its spinoff, Lord of the Dance, which many purists say Michael Flatley ripped-off and overcommercialized to feature himself. But I liked them both. Is there any special opinion in regard to this particular debate over in Ireland, Rubrick?
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Tomorrow, my favorite St. Patrick's Day party story
the story, Juan, the story......
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the story, Juan, the story......I'm watching the biography of Irish enchantress Maureen O'Hara right now...NOTHING ELSE MATTERS!! You'll just have to wait...And who's Juan?
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Top o' the mornin' to you all! Wanted to be the first with the wearin' o' the green and the lookin' for leprecauns! Don't drink too much green beer today!
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And as an honorary irishman [thanks, wow!] in an Irish town where the Chicago River is dyed green for this glorious day, I raise a glass (or two or three) to you all!
p.s. to max: she's first by the awad calendar, but you're always first with us.
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****A HAPPY SAINT PATRICK"S DAY TO US ALL****(and WOW you have a pleasant St. Patty's day as well) -Milo Washington. (whatsamatta, yall never heard of the Black Irish? or other-handedly, the Washington clan of Irishmen that claims George Washington as one of their descents?)
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A few Irish-isms for ye on this Great Day.
Happy St. Patrick's Day to all.
You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
The older the fiddle, the sweeter the tune.
When the cat is outside, the mouse does be dancing.
A lock is better than suspicion.
Every patient is a doctor after his cure.
The longest road out is the shortest road home.
Everyone is wise til he speaks.
There's no need to fear the wind if your haystacks are tied down.
Firelight will not let you read fine stories
but it is warm and you won't see the dust on the floor.
Marriages are all happy.
It's having breakfast together that causes all the trouble.
The Irish always forgive their great men ... when they are safely buried.
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****A HAPPY SAINT PATRICK"S DAY TO US ALL****
"May the road rise to meet you,
And may the wind be always at your back!..."
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Erin go Braugh!!
(and check out Google's logo for today!)
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George M. Cohan...another great Irish-American! Here's his picture and song list, and also a short bio:
Picture and song list:
http://www.melodylane.net/standards4.html
HARRIGAN
H-A-Double RI-G-A-N spells Harrigan!
Proud of all the Irish blood that's in me.
Divil a man can say a word agin me!
Oh, H-A-Double RI-G-A-N you see!
It's a name that a shame never has been connected with
Harrigan, that's me!
-George M. Cohan
Bio:
http://www.hollywood.com/celebs/bio/celeb/347974
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By way of trumping TEd (in some other thread someplace), today also happens to be the 102nd birth anniversary of my father - Norwegian, not Irish, but a redhead in his youth anyway.
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the 102nd birth anniversary of my father - Norwegian, not Irish, but a redhead in his youth anyway
Norwegian he may have been - but remember all that Viking that went on ? With Norsemen sweeping down on Ireland, pillaging, plundering and taking the women home with them (Those Norsemen knew beautiful women who were great cooks and hellcats in bed when they saw 'em) So I think that red hair may have been come through the geneological line.
The Irish are everywhere, one way and another
