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Posted by Gwil on Thu Mar 1st at 11:40am 2007

I hope you all have a fruitful and enjoyable St David's Day. If you are stuck for something to do to mark the occasion, perhaps try:

  • Digging for coal
  • Entertaining the local sheep
  • Cooking with leeks and potatoes
  • Throwing a rugby ball around the garden
Failing that, learn to pronounce Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch and delight in sharing it with every passer by that you meet. Just be careful not to hock up some spit on their face in the process!

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Posted by Orpheus on Thu Mar 1st at 11:48am 2007

Well, it looks like theres no shortage of oddball holidays in your neck of the woods too.

I swear, if we have but 20 more, the US government workers could take the whole year off.

Then again, whats the downside?





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Posted by Gwil on Thu Mar 1st at 11:53am 2007

There's one for each constituent nation of the United Kingdom, oddly enough, the most widely celebrated is St Patricks Day - despite Irish independence since the 1920's. It's the connection of Guinness and the excuse to get drunk I suppose, as I understand it's a big holiday in the United States too (as well as other parts of the world the Irish have trodden).

St Davids Day/St Georges Day/St Andrews Day all seem to pass without much affair as a rule, although the papers have been trying to make St Georges Day a national holiday for longer than I care to remember now..

There is a downside to all these days, in that despite being "national days" - nobody gets a day off. Sucky sucky.




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Posted by reaper47 on Thu Mar 1st at 12:06pm 2007

I have no idea what's going on, but it sounds like quite a party!

Good thing I can pronounce "Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch" perfectly.

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Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

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Posted by fishy on Thu Mar 1st at 3:18pm 2007

hmm, all i know about the welsh language is that the letter L is sometimes pronounced normally.




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Posted by OtZman on Thu Mar 1st at 4:52pm 2007

Never heard of this holiday before but happy St David's Day everyone nonetheless!!


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Posted by Stadric on Fri Mar 2nd at 4:30am 2007

I've heard that the 'tradition' of wearing green on St. Patty's Day only exists in the US. Is this true?

And you Welsh can just Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch yourselves for all I care.


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Posted by Naklajat on Fri Mar 2nd at 5:10am 2007

Happy saint so on and so forth, etc, etc.


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Posted by FatStrings on Fri Mar 2nd at 2:26pm 2007

St Mary's church in the hollow of the white hazel near to the rapid whirlpool and the church of St Tysilio of the red cave...Yes, Got It!!!

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