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Young O'Donnell rushed into a church, placed his rifle under a pew and entered the confessional. "Father," he said breathlessly, "I've just shot down two British lieutenants!" Hearing no response he went on: "I also knocked off a British captain!" When there was still no response from the priest, O'Donnell said, "Father, have ye fainted?" "Of course I haven't fainted," replied the confessor. "I'm waitin' for you to stop talkin' politics and commence confessin' your sins!"

This is how my St. Patrick's Day usually ends...

Posted by Bulldog in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 10:18 | Comments (8) | Trackbacks (0)

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Maureen O'Hara was something else. That clip was definitely something else!

#1 for sure on 2016-03-17 10:30 (Reply)

I was last through Cong (the village where they filmed [i]The Quiet Man[i]) in 2001.

They were still eking out tourist dollars from that film 50 years on - though I sensed an element of desperation about it all, a realization that actuarial tables were truly putting an end to the exploitable fan base.

#2 JJM on 2016-03-17 11:09 (Reply)

George MacDonald Fraser's Mr American has a similar theme.

BTW, the Irish lad should refer to English officers.

#3 Donny "The Bear Jew" Donowitz on 2016-03-17 12:35 (Reply)

"BTW, the Irish lad should refer to English officers."

Indeed.

For, as long as Ireland remained a part of the United Kingdom, every Irishman was British.

#3.1 JJM on 2016-03-17 17:52 (Reply)

Further to my last, and since we are observing the centenary of the Great War, over 200,000 Irishmen served in the British Army in that conflict.

That would mean a hell of a lot of British captains and lieutenants were - Irishmen.

#3.1.1 JJM on 2016-03-17 17:59 (Reply)

in the context of that joke, an Irishman would complain about English officers.

one of the best military histories is The Irish Guards in the Great War by Rudyard Kipling, whose son was KIA serving in the Guards.

#3.1.2 Donny "The Bear Jew" Donowitz on 2016-03-17 20:50 (Reply)

PBS had an offering about Kipling and his son (may have come from BBC originally). Theme was that Kipling's patriotic writings inspired his son (who was rather visually impaired) to enlist - Daniel Radford played young Kipling. End was when young Kipling was wounded and lost his glasses; in trying to recover them, he was killed. Irony was, apparently young Kipling - as a junior officer - found his metier in commanding men; had he not enlisted, he would have survived the war but - probably - never have realized his strengths.

#3.1.2.1 Frances on 2016-03-18 01:25 (Reply)

Damn, Bulldog. My St. Paddy's days are never that much fun.

#4 Bird Dog on 2016-03-17 13:00 (Reply)

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Thursday, March 17. 2016

Happy St. Patrick's Day