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2009-03-12 Europe

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Posted by Fred 2009-03-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Tsk, tsk, tsk.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-03-12 04:50|| 2009-03-12 04:50|| Front Page Top

#2 Thirty-odd years ago, a friend took me to Finn MacCool's bar in Chicago for St. Patrick's Day. Supposedly they sent funds to IRA. Yech. It was a lot of drunk people singing, "If you hate the Queen of England, clap your hands." We got out of there in a hurry. The atmosphere poisoned my Harp.

It was mindless ugliness, funding mindless evil.

Posted by mom">mom 2009-03-12 11:44|| 2009-03-12 11:44|| Front Page Top

#3 Thirty-odd years ago, a friend took me to Finn MacCool's bar in Chicago for St. Patrick's Day. Supposedly they sent funds to IRA. Yech. It was a lot of drunk people singing, "If you hate the Queen of England, clap your hands." We got out of there in a hurry. The atmosphere poisoned my Harp.

It was mindless ugliness, funding mindless evil.

Posted by mom">mom 2009-03-12 11:44|| 2009-03-12 11:44|| Front Page Top

#4 Mom,

Thats nothing. In the late early 70's if you went to Gaelic Park in the Upper Bronx for the Sunday football and hurling games you would come across IRA recruiters and fundraisers at every gate. They literally had 55 gallon drums in which anyone attending would drop in whatever change and folding money they believe would keep them from getting knee-capped. More than scary since the guys were beating those drums with crow bars. Outside of being a straight guy in San Francisco, the bar at Gaelic Park still ranks as the best pickup place I have ever known.

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2009-03-12 13:12|| 2009-03-12 13:12|| Front Page Top

#5 NB:

That should have read late 60's early 70's.

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2009-03-12 13:13|| 2009-03-12 13:13|| Front Page Top

#6 Nothing could top the IRA sympatico boyos in Southie bars on Paddy's Day back in the 70's and 80's. They'd give Belfast joints a run for their money...

Posted by tu3031 2009-03-12 13:18|| 2009-03-12 13:18|| Front Page Top

#7 Maybe those thugs would have liked it better if the English hadn't been there to stop Napoleon and Hitler. Or maybe they're just stupid thugs.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2009-03-12 14:58|| 2009-03-12 14:58|| Front Page Top

#8 And all so close to St Patrick's Day. ew!

Posted by Last Breath Farm Resident 2009-03-12 16:18|| 2009-03-12 16:18|| Front Page Top

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