Happy St George's Day

[Ed Rhombus]

Tis a beautiful sunny day too.

And a Mish gig tonight, we might get the empire back at this rate

[emilystrange]

you can't have it, its mine.

[Thrash Harry]

we might get the empire back at this rate

I hear Ron Atkinson's available if you're looking for Generals.

[hallucienate]

fight! fight!

[emilystrange]

I have Big Si as MY UberGeneral.

[Padstar]

lol.... come the revolution... he he.....

Paddy.

[emilystrange]

AND Sinny AND Paddy.
let the battle commence. blast 'em with riffs, pads!

[emilystrange]

AND Miss Goth is one of my special weapons.

[markfiend]

Saint George? He was instrumental in the extinction of an endangered species. Ecological vandal!

Well, be honest, you don't see any dragons these days do you?

[Big Si]

I have Big Si as MY UberGeneral.

[emilystrange]

DID you get that bloody U boat you wanted?

[RicheyJames]

AND Miss Goth is one of my special weapons.

you really are quite delusional aren't you?

[emilystrange]

but she is.... its secret.

you would be delusional too, if you worked in pensions. It was Black Shuck who crowned me.

[Tuscan Chimaera]

St George was not English, never lived there, and all he did was possibly kill a dragon in what is possibly now Turkey.

Fvcking irrelevant.

[RicheyJames]

and at the risk of dragging this back on-topic...

as well as england, ol' georgey boy is also patron saint of aragon, agricultural workers, archers, armourers, beirut, lebanon, boy scouts, butchers, canada, cappadocia, catalonia, cavalry, chivalry, constantinople, crusaders, equestrians, farmers, ferrara italy, field hands, field workers, genoa, georgia, germany, gozo, greece, herpes, horsemen, horses, husbandmen, istanbul, knights, lepers, leprosy, lithuania, malta, moscow, order of the garter, palestine, palestinian christians, plague, portugal, riders, saddle makers, saddlers, skin diseases, skin rashes, soldiers, syphilis, teutonic knights and venice.

so, something for just about everybody.

and if you're a palestinian christian, farming leper who recently contracted a dose of syphilis in venice to go with the skin rash you picked-up in catalonia earlier in the year it's time to take to your horse and lead a parade of boy scouts through the streets of moscow...

[RicheyJames]

you would be delusional too, if you worked in pensions.

you work? when do you find the time? or is working in pensions a euphemism for pissing about on t'internet at someone else's expense?

[markfiend]

Just as a matter of interest, is anyone sure he ever existed? I know that a lot of the early "Christian Saints" were apocryphal (transfers of local deities into the fold if you will) so does anyone have any idea about ol' Georgie-boy?

[Silver_Owl]

Wasn't he Pallestinian?

[markfiend]

According to Fortean Times:

23 April. St George's Day. 'Green George' was the spirit of spring, and his image was common in old church carvings, a human head surrounded by leaves or looking out of a tree trunk. Some called him the witches' god. George the dragon killer evolved from a mixture of Green George, the Northern hero Sigurd (Siegfied) the dragon-slayer and an Arian bishop of Alexandria who put to death an orthodox Master of the Mint called Dracontius (dragon). St George was adopted as the patron saint of England in 1349 when Edward III founded the Order of the Garter.

[Karst]

and if you're a palestinian christian, farming leper who recently contracted a dose of syphilis in venice to go with the skin rash you picked-up in catalonia earlier in the year it's time to take to your horse and lead a parade of boy scouts through the streets of moscow...

And your point is...?

[Thrash Harry]

or is working in pensions a euphemism for pissing about on t'internet at someone else's expense?

Have you checked the value of your pension fund lately?

[Thrash Harry]

According to Fortean Times:

23 April. St George's Day. 'Green George' was the spirit of spring, and his image was common in old church carvings, a human head surrounded by leaves or looking out of a tree trunk. Some called him the witches' god. George the dragon killer evolved from a mixture of Green George, the Northern hero Sigurd (Siegfied) the dragon-slayer and an Arian bishop of Alexandria who put to death an orthodox Master of the Mint called Dracontius (dragon). St George was adopted as the patron saint of England in 1349 when Edward III founded the Order of the Garter.

I hope you haven't spent the last two hours looking for that, Mr Fiend. I advise you to get out now while you've still got a semblance of sanity left.

[markfiend]

I hope you haven't spent the last two hours looking for that, Mr Fiend. I advise you to get out now while you've still got a semblance of sanity left.

No, don't worry, the FT site is on my favourites anyway; just a coincidence that the St George stuff is there. Apart from the fact they do an "on this day" slot every day.

I've actually been doing some work (shock horror!)

[emilystrange]

you would be delusional too, if you worked in pensions.

you work? when do you find the time? or is working in pensions a euphemism for pissing about on t'internet at someone else's expense?

i work hard. i passed exams for this. and i hate it. so give me a break.. i need to disengage sometimes.

[markfiend]

i passed exams for this. and i hate it. so give me a break.. i need to disengage sometimes.

F*ck me that sounds familiar