Celebrate St. Partick's Day, Linux-style

I'm part Scottish, does that count?

;-)

Maybe somewhere?

Patrick was born in England, the son of Romans (so he was 1st generation English). Bill gates is an OBE, but I don't think he's Italian.

He was captured by heathen Irish savages on a pillaging raid and brought back to their land (The land where my parents were born) as a slave.

Patrick escaped his slavery in a very innovative way. He was left to tend the sheep alone and he simply walked away and negotiated passage back to England. He had a vision that a boat would be available to take him to England.

He later returned to drive out the snakes and convert the heathens to Christianity using the three leafed shamrock as a tool to explain the Christian concept of the trinity.

I look at how most people celebrate St. Patrick's feast day and guess it is a celebration of the pillaging. Could be a good connection there for the Redmond policy of Embrace and Extend.

I'm not sure if the Scots went for all the pillaging, Patrick excommunicated some who did pillage. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceretic_of_Alt_Clut

Microsoft's European HQ is in Cork Ireland, maybe that is where they stage their pillaging from?

Quoting: Microsoft's European HQ is in Cork Ireland, maybe that is where they stage their pillaging from?

Oooh........

PILLAGE!!

I LOVE PILLAGING!!!

oh, wait..

There's no St. Scots Day..

:-(

There's Scots Day. Close enough :-)

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Cooool!

I have my own day!!!

Yippie!!

Now where's my skirt, I mean kilt..

LOL!!

Ruecker would appear to be a German name...

Yes, but Randolph, my middle name, is most certainly Scottish.

edit: Randolph, is a Sept of the House of Bruce. My German side goes back to an orphanage in Germany around 1900.

I'm Irish/Polynesian.

I hate St. Patrick's day.

All my python stuff stops working.

I'm a genuine mongrel-american. I want my own day.

Isn't that what the 4th of July is for?

>Isn't that what the 4th of July is for?

You would think so, but the part of me that is Cherokee always feels conflicted.

Quoting:You would think so, but the part of me that is Cherokee always feels conflicted.

I don't get it. What does your Jeep have to do with this? ;-)

Jeeps are from Chrysler...

Chrysler is from Flint Michigan...

Flint is close to Detroit...

Detroit is practically in Canada!

Dino is worried that it might get out he's a Canuck!

number6x: w00t

6x -

I am not Canadian...although,

My father-in-law is from Canada. I used to date a woman who's ex-husband lived in Ottowa and we would drive to Toronto for child handovers.

When in college at Michigan State, I got into the habit of driving up to Lake Simcoe to get blasted on 50 and whatever else locals would ply me with. Given the nature of my smooth relationships with women, I came to know the way well. Grew up in the south, so became of the few people anywhere who might say "How y'all doin', eh?".

> ...so became of the few people anywhere who might say "How y'all doin', eh?

There was a football player (quarterback) from (I believe) Montreal who attended college at Marshall University in Huntington, WV. At the time he started at Marshall he spoke primarily French, not English. So, by the time he went back to Canada he spoke English with a southern WV accent. And yes, that probably includes "you all".

jdixon -

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