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| Beanmimo |
Posted - 03/17/2007 : 01:20:40
Happy St. Patricks Day to One and All |
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| siobhan_* * |
Posted - 04/01/2007 : 16:39:33
haha ............ok nevermind
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| Shiv |
Posted - 03/19/2007 : 23:56:44
News report from yesterday:
"Ireland and Australia play international soccer in Broome on St Patrick's Day"
Well, local teams anyway. (For those people who haven't picked this up from my posts before, this location is in the Kimberley, remote Western Australia).
My two favourite parts of the report:
"The penalty shootout went on for some time because only Ireland knew the rules"
"Ireland won by some goals to slightly less goals"
Yet another win for Ireland on the green day |
| Shiv |
Posted - 03/19/2007 : 15:15:49
quote:
Originally posted by Downtown
Well first of all, it should be noted that it was the British occupation of Boston more than anything else that probably pulled the other colonies into the war. They didn't really care too much about some farmers' gunpowder being blown up in some little town called Concord, but declaring martial law in one of the most economically important cities in America and closing its port was a direct threat to everyone's economic interests.
Anyway, after barely limping back from the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the redcoats held Boston from April 1775 but were completely surrounded by Revolutionaries on all sides. City residents had little choice but to put up with them, including quartering them in their homes an providing them with provisions, but it wasn't exactly a pleasant stay for the out-of-towners. On March 5 1776, General Howe woke up to find that overnight, the Americans built a makeshift fort on Dorchester Heights with 59 cannons captured from Fort Ticonderoga. The cannons were pointing down directly at the British fortifications and covered the harbor, meaning even in retreat they would be open to attack, making anything but a peaceful evacuation impossible. That's how the Americans liberated Boston from an occupying force of well over 5,000 redcoats without a single loss of life or property.
Howe's men evacuated to Nova Scotia, then moved on to "capture" New York City, where they were made to feel very much at home for the duration of the war.
Thanks for that, it's good to know these things |
| Downtown |
Posted - 03/19/2007 : 14:09:29
quote:
Originally posted by Shiv
quote:
Originally posted by Downtown
quote:
Originally posted by Shiv
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Originally posted by Downtown
Friday was also Evacuation Day in Boston.
In case anyone had to Google this like I did
Evacuation Day is when the Redcoats left the region to go attack other regions. It happened to coincide with St Paddy's Day. Apparently Suffolk County was where a lot of the Irish had emigrated to - so coincidences all round.
Screw that we chased their sorry asses out of town and made them New York's problem.
Fill us in some more
Well first of all, it should be noted that it was the British occupation of Boston more than anything else that probably pulled the other colonies into the war. They didn't really care too much about some farmers' gunpowder being blown up in some little town called Concord, but declaring martial law in one of the most economically important cities in America and closing its port was a direct threat to everyone's economic interests.
Anyway, after barely limping back from the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the redcoats held Boston from April 1775 but were completely surrounded by Revolutionaries on all sides. City residents had little choice but to put up with them, including quartering them in their homes an providing them with provisions, but it wasn't exactly a pleasant stay for the out-of-towners. On March 5 1776, General Howe woke up to find that overnight, the Americans built a makeshift fort on Dorchester Heights with 59 cannons captured from Fort Ticonderoga. The cannons were pointing down directly at the British fortifications and covered the harbor, meaning even in retreat they would be open to attack, making anything but a peaceful evacuation impossible. That's how the Americans liberated Boston from an occupying force of well over 5,000 redcoats without a single loss of life or property.
Howe's men evacuated to Nova Scotia, then moved on to "capture" New York City, where they were made to feel very much at home for the duration of the war. |
| shoon |
Posted - 03/18/2007 : 16:19:46
Ireland trounced Italy in the rugger and beat Pakistan in cricket on Paddy's Day. How romantically fitting.
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| Shiv |
Posted - 03/18/2007 : 01:56:15
Thanks for the 'clovered' four, Benj |
| Shiv |
Posted - 03/18/2007 : 01:52:54
quote:
Originally posted by Downtown
quote:
Originally posted by Shiv
quote:
Originally posted by Downtown
Friday was also Evacuation Day in Boston.
In case anyone had to Google this like I did
Evacuation Day is when the Redcoats left the region to go attack other regions. It happened to coincide with St Paddy's Day. Apparently Suffolk County was where a lot of the Irish had emigrated to - so coincidences all round.
Screw that we chased their sorry asses out of town and made them New York's problem.
Fill us in some more |
| Downtown |
Posted - 03/18/2007 : 00:44:03
quote:
Originally posted by Shiv
quote:
Originally posted by Downtown
Friday was also Evacuation Day in Boston.
In case anyone had to Google this like I did
Evacuation Day is when the Redcoats left the region to go attack other regions. It happened to coincide with St Paddy's Day. Apparently Suffolk County was where a lot of the Irish had emigrated to - so coincidences all round.
Screw that we chased their sorry asses out of town and made them New York's problem. |
| Shiv |
Posted - 03/17/2007 : 22:18:47
quote:
Originally posted by Downtown
Friday was also Evacuation Day in Boston.
In case anyone had to Google this like I did
Evacuation Day is when the Redcoats left the region to go attack other regions. It happened to coincide with St Paddy's Day. Apparently Suffolk County was where a lot of the Irish had emigrated to - so coincidences all round.
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| Downtown |
Posted - 03/17/2007 : 21:24:26
Friday was also Evacuation Day in Boston. |
| rabid kazook |
Posted - 03/17/2007 : 16:35:46
Happy St. Patty's Day, people.
And looksy, I'm all green for the occasion.  |
| w22dheartlivie |
Posted - 03/17/2007 : 08:16:41
I've always just relied on my last name to get me through this day. |
| Shiv |
Posted - 03/17/2007 : 03:58:54
quote:
Originally posted by Downtown
quote:
Originally posted by Shiv
You gotta know - I came to this link thinking the band
Enjoy your Guinness. The one and only pub here only has bottles, rarely drunk, so likely stale. The best they can do for St Paddy's Day is serve anything that's green - so I'll get a nice Thai curry and some cut-price VB 
Better it be in a bottle than poured from a keg by some slob that doesn't know what he's doing.
Tis true |
| Downtown |
Posted - 03/17/2007 : 03:48:35
quote:
Originally posted by Shiv
You gotta know - I came to this link thinking the band
Enjoy your Guinness. The one and only pub here only has bottles, rarely drunk, so likely stale. The best they can do for St Paddy's Day is serve anything that's green - so I'll get a nice Thai curry and some cut-price VB
Better it be in a bottle than poured from a keg by some slob that doesn't know what he's doing. |
| Shiv |
Posted - 03/17/2007 : 03:02:18
You gotta know - I came to this link thinking the band
Enjoy your Guinness. The one and only pub here only has bottles, rarely drunk, so likely stale. The best they can do for St Paddy's Day is serve anything that's green - so I'll get a nice Thai curry and some cut-price VB |
