March 17, 2013

Pyramids lit up in green for St. Patrick's Day.

Ireland seeks to be "front and center in the world’s consciousness" today... and Egypt plays along.

11 comments:

David said...

Just so the Muslims don't take up drinking to honor the Irish.

Eric the Fruit Bat said...

Andy Richter Controls the Foot in His Mouth.

edutcher said...

Why does this make me feel as if I'm walking up a gangplank and there isn't any ship?

Mary Beth said...

It's like Belfast in the '70s.

Cedarford said...

David said...
Just so the Muslims don't take up drinking to honor the Irish.

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Do the Muslims a world of good to take up drinking on one day...maybe not in honor of a Catholic Saint that drove out the snakes that never existed there in the 1st place (except in the minds of inebriated Micks). But one day where they could indulge in the "sin" of the wines and other - forbidden to modern Muslims -delicacies tmentioned in the Qu'ran that are in Paradise..and were extant in the time of the Prophet.

Egypt as we speak is just turning off the green lights on the pyramids done in honor of the holiday to much pissy talk by the Islamists..who face bigger problems in Egypt now than ranting about dismantling green pyramids.

BTW - When I was in Saudi Arabia back in 1991, they had a full scale Christmas holiday going on in two malls I went to. Lacking the ACLU and angry Jewish litigators and militant atheists to threaten mall owners with lawsuits - they had angels on mall Christmas trees, Santa Claus, and classic christian songs like Silent Night and Hark the Herald Angels Sing piped over loudspeakers (sans lyrics).
And merchants wishing us stray infidels roaming around the place, a "Merry Christmas".
And pushing the goods on the Saudis just like merchants here do - 'if you love your spouse and kids - you must buy stuff to show it - because that is what the al-Shakbirs next door (Saudi version of the Joneses) are doing.'

Geoff Matthews said...

Why should I celebrate a loser nation/ethnicity that constantly fought (and lost to) my ancestors? Ireland is an overrated country, and we'd be no poorer if England had successfully integrated them.

SGT Ted said...

Maybe the Irish built the pyramids when they got drunk one weekend and when they sobered up, they couldn't remember how the pyramids got there.

SGT Ted said...

Maybe I just solved the pyramid mystery.

Lydia said...

How very fitting that Egypt honors a country that declared neutrality in WWII, whose president sent condolences to the Germans on the death of Hitler, and who today is the most ardent supporter of boycotts against Israel.

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Methadras said...

Al Qaeda and the IRA are all up in this piece!!!