04-22-2003, 10:46 AM | #1 |
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St George's Day
There was a St Patrick's Day thread, so I thought there should be one for this as well...
Happy St George's Day to all English people, and all non-English people too (it's on the 23rd April, btw)
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04-22-2003, 06:57 PM | #2 |
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Pardon me for my ignorance, but who is St George? What did he do?
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04-22-2003, 07:19 PM | #3 |
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St George is the patron saint of England
You want me to fight a what??? <--- let link provides a lot of info on him. I have a morbid fear of St G's day..........it comes from when I was about 12 yrs old, in the boy scouts.... Every year we had to do a St George's day parade in a big old church, it was packed with people......I had to carry the flag and while I was carrying the flag through the packed church towards the altar (slow march and everything) I accidently let my concentration slip and the flag pole fell sideways......stright onto a whole row of parishiners it took ages to get the flag, pole and people untangled (and one poor woman got the metal crest at the tip of the pole right on her head)..........all this time there are about forty other flag bearers, from different scout troops, waiting behind me I was never allowed to carry the flag again after that little episode Last edited by Coney : 04-22-2003 at 07:22 PM. |
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Happy St Georges Day to everyone though.
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04-23-2004, 05:16 AM | #7 |
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And a year later...
Happy St George's Day
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04-23-2004, 05:25 AM | #8 |
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Happy St. George's Day to all English people!
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04-23-2004, 05:31 AM | #9 |
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Happy St George's Day. They just had about it on CNN - otherwise without them or this thread I would not have known. So what is everyone doing for St George's Day?
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04-23-2004, 06:05 AM | #10 |
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Oh Coney!
Happy St George's Day (I've already said it elsewhere as well ) St George's Day is great for me - associated with lots of nice things, like Morris celebrations and mummers' plays. Tomorrow I'm going to a St George's parade and festival (And I fly my St George's flag all the time .... got asked by a fellow English person if I was flying it because I was a football supporter ... ) |
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*is happy he didn't do that while carrying flag on may the 17th* Happy St. George's Day!
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04-23-2004, 07:33 AM | #12 |
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St. George is also the patron saint of Catalonia, so...
happy St. George's Day to all the English and Catalan people! [footbal]and may St. George lead the forces of Barcelona against Real Madrid next Sunday[/football]
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Happy St. George's Day to all the Catalan and English people.
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Being also today Shakespeare anyversary, I'm quoting one of his most patriotic texts (From Richard II):
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04-23-2004, 03:14 PM | #16 |
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Very good! Aww... I thought I was going to make the first reference to Shakespeare. Nevermind.
Does Catalunya have the white flag with red cross also then?
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04-23-2004, 03:19 PM | #17 |
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Wow.....a year gone already
How time fly's Happy dragon stompin' day |
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Happy St. George's day to everyone that celebrates it!
Hi, Coney!
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04-23-2004, 05:49 PM | #19 |
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Just come back from the town, and there're a lot of cars out with flags on, and people celebrating. Mind you, it's also Friday ... so that may have something to do with it
I see google search have a George and Dragon over the google word today Last edited by Hemel : 04-23-2004 at 05:53 PM. |
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Oh yeah....(lightbulb goes off)...St. George and the Dragon. When my brother was little he was in a boys choir that sang/acted that legend once. We also have a book about it. Very spiffy.
And I realize he isn't just a legend with a dragon.
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