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Downtown 
"Welcome back, Billy Buck"
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 Posted - 03/17/2008 : 14:44:14
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| To our fog breather friends: no hard feelings, right? |
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Sal[Au]pian 
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 03/17/2008 : 16:56:17
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| This presumably means something, but I have no idea what. |
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Downtown
"Welcome back, Billy Buck"
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Posted - 03/17/2008 : 17:03:45
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| Evacuation Day is a holiday observed only in the Cities of Boston, Cambridge, and Somerville, in celebration of chasing the hated Redcoats out of town after an 11-month siege. |
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Sal[Au]pian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 03/17/2008 : 17:16:11
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| Ah, jolly good, not that I know who the redcoats are either. I hope all residents of said cities are having a nice day. |
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lemmycaution 
"Long mired in film"
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Posted - 03/17/2008 : 17:16:19
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| Thanks, you reminded me to take my prunes this morning. |
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Sal[Au]pian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 03/17/2008 : 17:20:14
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Talking of days, I'm surprised that TitanPa hasn't commented on the logo yet. He seems to be quite obsessed with St. Patrick's Day for some reason. 
It was quite awful in Trafalgar Square yesterday. Somehow I suspect that not many of the green, white and orange jester hat- or feather boa-wearing crowd were actually Irish.  |
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Downtown
"Welcome back, Billy Buck"
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Posted - 03/17/2008 : 17:25:23
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Originally posted by Salopian
Ah, jolly good, not that I know who the redcoats are either.
That would be a derogatory term for your little soldier boys, derived from the bright scarlet uniforms they wore. The city had been under martial law for about two years prior to that, with most of the soldiers quartered in people's private homes. Needless to say, we were ready to see them leave. |
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BaftaBaby
"Always entranced by cinema."
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Posted - 03/17/2008 : 17:36:46
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Originally posted by Downtown
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Originally posted by Salopian
Ah, jolly good, not that I know who the redcoats are either.
That would be a derogatory term for your little soldier boys, derived from the bright scarlet uniforms they wore. The city had been under martial law for about two years prior to that, with most of the soldiers quartered in people's private homes. Needless to say, we were ready to see them leave.
Gee, I wonder what they'll call it in Iraq
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GHcool 
"Forever a curious character."
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Posted - 03/17/2008 : 18:54:29
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Originally posted by Downtown
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Originally posted by Salopian
Ah, jolly good, not that I know who the redcoats are either.
That would be a derogatory term for your little soldier boys, derived from the bright scarlet uniforms they wore. The city had been under martial law for about two years prior to that, with most of the soldiers quartered in people's private homes. Needless to say, we were ready to see them leave.
Downtown is referring to events that took place during the American Revolution. The "Redcoats" were the derogatory term given to the British soldiers by the American patriots. |
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Sal[Au]pian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 03/17/2008 : 22:51:10
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Originally posted by GHcool
Downtown is referring to events that took place during the American Revolution. The "Redcoats" were the derogatory term given to the British soldiers by the American patriots.
LOL, they weren't very good at being derogatory, were they? |
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Downtown
"Welcome back, Billy Buck"
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Posted - 03/17/2008 : 23:40:00
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| I'm sure they had plenty of more colorful names for them, too. Ha! Colorful! I crack myself up. |
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GHcool
"Forever a curious character."
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Posted - 03/18/2008 : 00:52:44
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Originally posted by Salopian
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Originally posted by GHcool
Downtown is referring to events that took place during the American Revolution. The "Redcoats" were the derogatory term given to the British soldiers by the American patriots.
LOL, they weren't very good at being derogatory, were they?
The British were evil enough that any name for them would have been derogatory.   |
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ChocolateLady
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 03/18/2008 : 05:54:54
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Originally posted by Salopian
It was quite awful in Trafalgar Square yesterday. Somehow I suspect that not many of the green, white and orange jester hat- or feather boa-wearing crowd were actually Irish.
You have to be Irish to celebrate St. Pats?
I'm originally from Chicago and the whole city would celebrate.
(But I understand they had to stop dyeing the river green.)
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Wheelz 
"FWFR%u2019ing like it%u2019s 1999"
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ChocolateLady
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 03/18/2008 : 12:38:09
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Originally posted by Wheelz
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Originally posted by ChocolateLady
(But I understand they had to stop dyeing the river green.)
Not so. It still happens every year!
http://www.wkrg.com/news/article/chicago_river_turns_green/11531/
Ah, tradition! Thanks for that video - very cool! Brings back memories, it does!
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TitanPa
"Here four more"
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Posted - 03/18/2008 : 19:44:13
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Originally posted by Salopian
Talking of days, I'm surprised that TitanPa hasn't commented on the logo yet. He seems to be quite obsessed with St. Patrick's Day for some reason.
It was quite awful in Trafalgar Square yesterday. Somehow I suspect that not many of the green, white and orange jester hat- or feather boa-wearing crowd were actually Irish.
You mean I missed it? What was it? |
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Happy Evacuation Day!
