Happy St Patrick's Day

by **doodoo** on Mon Mar 17, 2014 2:38 pm

hello all my fellow dd members and friends. Long time no see. I have been very busy with term limits for congress movement. It is really picking up steam across the country.

My uncle Johnny O'doodoo wants wish all of you the luck of the Irish on your dinar investment. May the RV come before the next St Patrick's Day Celebration (actually before Memorial Day) would suit me just fine. I'm accompanying Wpsmit to Vegas for the pool tournament. While he is winning the National Championship I may dress up like a Whale and go see if I can cash in in Reno. HAHAHA....here's JOHNNY

by dinarling77 on Mon Mar 17, 2014 2:49 pm

Well Senator Doodoo, so nice of you to drop in. You like the way I decorated you for St Patty's?

by **wpsmit** on Mon Mar 17, 2014 3:04 pm

You 2 are crazy....but not Demented and certainly not schizo...

Some Beer Facts

About 4000 years ago, it was the accepted practice in Babylonia that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer, and because their calender was lunar based, this period was called the "honey month" or what we know to day as the "Honeymoon."

Before the invention of the thermometer, brewers used to check the temperature by dipping their thumb, to find whether appropriate for adding Yeast. Too hot, the yeast would die. This is where we get the phrase " The Rule of the Thumb."

In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender used to yell at them to mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. From there we get "mind your own P's and Q's."

After consuming a vibrant brew called Aul or Ale, the Vikings would go fearlessly to the battlefield, without their armour, or even their shirts. The word "Berserk" means "bear shirt" in norse, and eventually led to the meaning of waging wild battles.

Way down in 1740, the Admiral Veron of the British fleet decided to water down the navy's rum, which naturally, the sailors weren't pleased with. They nicknamed the Admiral Old Grog, after the still stiff grogram coats he used to wear. The term grog soon began to mean the watered down drink itself. When you are drunk on this grog, you are "groggy", a word still in use.

Long ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim of their beer mugs or ceramic/glass cups. The whistle was used to order services. Thus we get the phrase, "wet your whistle."

Well before I go and take my mid-mornin' nap so's I can rest up for my afternoon nap, here's some Irish toasts and blessin's I found. They's purty gooduns too.

Here's to a long life and a merry one,
A quick death and an easy one,
A pretty girl and an honest one,
A cold beer and another one!

There are many good reasons for drinking,
One has just entered my head.
If a man doesn't drink when he's living,
How in the hell can he drink when he's dead?

May the best day of your past
Be the worst day of your future.

HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY TO ALL