* Happy St. Patrick's Day!
@ 2006-03-17 18:22 Dave Korn
2006-03-17 22:07 ` Brian Dessent
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Dave Korn @ 2006-03-17 18:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 'The Cygwin Talk Blarneying List'
Top o' the mornin' to ye!
Yes, for all our Irish readers I'd like to wish a very happy St. Pat's
tonight!
For anyone not familiar with their history books, St. Patrick is the patron
saint of Ireland, famed for having freed the country from a plague of snakes.
But he's not just a peripatetic reptile exterminator; he was also the first
man to bring Christianity to Ireland.
Thus leading directly to centuries of murder, bloodshed and internecine
strife.
... Say, just exactly why /do/ we celebrate this every year?
;)
cheers,
DaveK
--
Can't think of a witty .sigline today....
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread* Re: Happy St. Patrick's Day! 2006-03-17 18:22 Happy St. Patrick's Day! Dave Korn @ 2006-03-17 22:07 ` Brian Dessent 2006-03-20 8:00 ` Danilo Turina 0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: Brian Dessent @ 2006-03-17 22:07 UTC (permalink / raw) To: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List Dave Korn wrote: > For anyone not familiar with their history books, St. Patrick is the patron > saint of Ireland, famed for having freed the country from a plague of snakes. Hmmmm.... St. Cygnus, patron saint of hippos and meanness? ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: Happy St. Patrick's Day! 2006-03-17 22:07 ` Brian Dessent @ 2006-03-20 8:00 ` Danilo Turina 2006-03-20 14:11 ` Igor Peshansky 0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: Danilo Turina @ 2006-03-20 8:00 UTC (permalink / raw) To: cygwin-talk Brian Dessent wrote: > Dave Korn wrote: > >> For anyone not familiar with their history books, St. Patrick is the patron >> saint of Ireland, famed for having freed the country from a plague of snakes. > > Hmmmm.... > > St. Cygnus, patron saint of hippos and meanness? > I vote for St. Cygnus! ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: Happy St. Patrick's Day! 2006-03-20 8:00 ` Danilo Turina @ 2006-03-20 14:11 ` Igor Peshansky 0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread From: Igor Peshansky @ 2006-03-20 14:11 UTC (permalink / raw) To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, Danilo Turina wrote: > Brian Dessent wrote: > > Dave Korn wrote: > > > > > For anyone not familiar with their history books, St. Patrick is > > > the patron saint of Ireland, famed for having freed the country from > > > a plague of snakes. > > > > Hmmmm.... > > St. Cygnus, patron saint of hippos and meanness? > > I vote for St. Cygnus! He's already a part of Cygwin, and thus exempt from voting. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
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