Monday, March 17, 2008

Rush to Croagh Patrick

A minute ago, Tetrapilotomos sent following photo and comment.

Seems your early afternoon post caused a spontaneous exodus. Bars and pubs empty. Traffic jam on all major roads to Mayo. The first topers ... err ... pilgrims arrived at 13:20. In five-minute-intervals RTE's repeating following message, sponsored by the Guinness Brewery and Bushmill's: 'People of Ireland: Return to your pubs. His Holiness will not be serving free Guinness and uisce beatha on top of Croagh Patrick.' Nobody seems to listen ...

11 comments:

  1. Happy St Patrick's Day, Sean, if you are celebrating it, besides a slew of posts that is.

    No green drinks here today. Perhaps green vegetables will qualify instead?

    I must wait until November for St Andrew's day myself.

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  2. Cheers, jmb! Why waiting till November? :)
    I can even promise: No green drinks here!! When it comes to Guinness and Whisk(e)y we are purists.
    Hm, well, Mrs J. and Miss J. do prefer their Guinness with black currant.
    And you? :)

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  3. Hurrah, Ardent put on her blogging hat, again! :)
    Welcome back, Mylady, thanks and Sláinte!

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  4. Thank you Sean. With that kind of lovely reception, I am seriously thinking of making your blogsite my computer homepage.
    :)

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  5. hi sean, i suppose you didn't hear that his popeness moved st paddy's to coincide with the welsh winning the grand slam, and a grand time was had by all celts (even morose scots like me).

    http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/world/st+patricks+day+to+be+moved+in+2008/608847

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  6. Ardent,
    my site is your castle! :)

    Chris,
    :) Really?! Well, I am quite sure the Irish Bishops did what they thought it had to be done, unfallibly - for a change - knowing that not many members of their herd would take their 'move' serious.
    Thus, Saturday I enjoyed the Welsh winning, and yesterday I enjoyed having a bit fun.

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  7. I prefer my Guinness in someone else's glass for I am astemia as they say in Italian, that is teetotal, but the Italian word is so much nicer. Teetotal sounds so..., well almost disapproving of alcohol, which I am not. Can you believe that Italians actually have a word for it?

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  8. jmb,
    :) so it's not you who made the Guinness family rich?
    As for 'astemia': the English 'abstainer' (verb: to abstain) seems to have the same roots, as has the German 'Abstinenzler'.
    As for teetotaler (German: Temperenzler): I looked it up and, indeed, it seems there does not exist an Italian equivalent. :)

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  9. I used to celebrate St P. day while living in the USA. Now in Turkey...completely forget it...
    But I am happy with my Turkish Efes Extra beer, the best beer in the world...is saying a Dutch of the country of Heineken, Amstel and 500 other beers..))

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