| codesmith | Hello | 07:25 |
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| zmoylan | hi | 08:00 |
| codesmith | How are you zmoylan? | 08:02 |
| zmoylan | grand, yourself? | 08:03 |
| codesmith | Fabulous. | 08:04 |
| codesmith | Do you live in Ireland where the policeman are called Gards? | 08:05 |
| zmoylan | gardai, yes | 08:05 |
| codesmith | Yeah, the the Garda, exactly. | 08:05 |
| codesmith | Did you hear about the Irish policeman who tried to arrest a Polish driving licence? | 08:06 |
| codesmith | You know this story? | 08:06 |
| codesmith | You might... | 08:06 |
| zmoylan | yeah, made the news a few years back. the layout and lack of exposure to polish driving licences caused the muck up | 08:06 |
| codesmith | He had fifty offences against him, he was fast becoming the most wanted motorist in Ireland | 08:07 |
| codesmith | Prawo Jazdy | 08:07 |
| zmoylan | no worse than all the american software that mucks up when there's a ' in the name like o'brien :-) | 08:09 |
| codesmith | Can you name a saint who comes from Ireland? | 08:12 |
| codesmith | without looking it up :D | 08:12 |
| zmoylan | colm cille also known as columba | 08:12 |
| zmoylan | brendan who discovered america | 08:12 |
| zmoylan | if i were to stop and think about it i could probably dig up about 10 names with some bios | 08:13 |
| codesmith | very good. | 08:14 |
| codesmith | Cunningly avoided the St Patrick trap | 08:14 |
| codesmith | he didnt come from Ireland | 08:14 |
| codesmith | St George is Palestinian | 08:15 |
| zmoylan | well, no one is sure where he came from. welsh, french have all been suggested | 08:15 |
| codesmith | British, certainly. He came from around the River Severn area, apparently | 08:15 |
| zmoylan | the information is not 100% sure. the pirates and slave raiders of the time got about | 08:16 |
| codesmith | Theres been St Bridget | 08:16 |
| codesmith | Do you know what her great miracle was? | 08:16 |
| zmoylan | her cross of reeds and explaing the trinity by using a shamrock | 08:16 |
| zmoylan | the bar for sainthood was lower back then | 08:17 |
| codesmith | she had proper miracles. | 08:17 |
| zmoylan | so had the druids | 08:18 |
| codesmith | She wanted to build a convent so they said you cant have whatever land your cape covers and she laid it down and her cape grew like ginger beer! | 08:18 |
| codesmith | until it take over an entire field. | 08:18 |
| codesmith | Thats one of her great miracles. | 08:18 |
| codesmith | The other one, was that she could transform her used bath water into beer. | 08:18 |
| codesmith | A very Irish sort of miracle. | 08:18 |
| codesmith | St Kevin | 08:19 |
| codesmith | What did they teach you in primary school in Ireland about him? | 08:19 |
| zmoylan | a hermit who lived in glendalough | 08:22 |
| codesmith | It is astonishing to imagine an education like that | 08:23 |
| zmoylan | why? | 08:23 |
| codesmith | sounds like a recipe for childhood scars. | 08:25 |
| zmoylan | well it's hard to cover the history of ireland known as the 'land of saints and scholars' without covering the early history of the christian church. | 08:26 |
| zmoylan | the profusion of monasteries brought the vikings initially on raids and then settlement | 08:27 |
| zmoylan | as the lights went out in the dark ages. irelands remoteness and monasteries kept information alive as books were created and ended up all over europe. | 08:28 |
| zmoylan | it'd be like learning the history of europe but trying to ignore the reformation | 08:28 |
| czajkowski | aloha | 17:37 |
| slashbel | hello czajkowski, have you arrived? | 17:50 |
| czajkowski | narp not till tomorrow | 18:04 |
| czajkowski | bene out looking at pugs :) | 18:04 |
| codesmith | Have you guys heard of the durable Mike Malloy? | 19:44 |
| codesmith | he is a man who really wouldn't die. | 19:45 |
| codesmith | This is a very extraordinary story. | 19:45 |
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