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And now, back to our irregularly scheduled on-topic
posts ...


Mike (a.k.a. the group moderator, who has been known
to chastise people in the past for posting too far off
topic and doesn't want to appear lax on the matter)



--- drmabuce <drmabuce@yahoo.com> wrote:

> well, lad.....I'LL give you OT!!!!!!
> 8] 
> (manic grin bordering on a grimace)
> 
> (for reference among those among you who don't know
> me personally, my
> given name is Michael E. Murphy)
> 
> 
> I'm sorry to report that the Holy See in Rome is
> STILL considering the
> removal of the feast of the legendary Bishop of
> Armagh (St. P.) from
> the canonical calendar.
> It gives me some comfort and more than a bit of smug
> gratification
> that the image of:
> A horde of  enraged, chapel-veiled,
> shillelagh-wielding, crones
> swarming across the Irish sea and the channel ,
> stepping on the
> petrified skeletons of drowned snakes, using
> one-another's bodies as a
> living bridge like army ants on a relentless march
> to Rome, where they
> would pummel that sinister Kraut in St. Peter's
> chair into a small
> greasy spot on the bloodstained Medici carpets….
> ...still gives them cause for caution in the
> Vatican.
> =)
> It seems that they didn't keep very good records in
> 500ad and there's
> some question as to whether Patrick was ever
> processed through the
> whole beatification rigmarole or not. If nothing
> else it's testament
> to the Irish contempt and disdain for formal
> procedure!
> ;)
> As for the patronage of engineers, that ascription
> wasn't recorded
> until the first millennium, 500 years after Patrick
> died. He has been
> ascribed to the plight of `excluded people' for much
> longer. Maybe
> they decided to designate engineers in particular
> when they got a look
> at the hapless members of this new profession trying
> to pick up chicks
> at the jousting matches!
> 
> eire go brach
> 
> -`doc'
> 
> PS:
> hey Dave! 'pbr' is pabst blue ribbon
> just one of the beers that made Milwaukee famous!
> 
> 
> 
> 


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