Comments on: Saint George’s Day

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 01:02:09 +0000

Well, if you want something done, Jams, you get someone busy to do it 😉

It is amazing, Steve, how supposedly “upright” people assume our ancestors to have been. I’m reminded that Teddy Roosevelt wanted ‘In God We Trust” removed from US money because he knew what it was being used to buy in the West, and thought it was blasphemy to associate ‘God’ with such goings on… This was, of course, after he became a politician and ‘respectable’.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:06:52 +0000

   With such violent Rage,
   Sir John did engage
With the Damsel which he laid his Leg on,
   That his Squire, who stood near,
   Swore it look’d like the Spear
Of St. George in the Mouth of the Dragon.

On a Drinking-Glass.

– From “The Merry Thought“, around 1731…

Now those folks knew how to write doggerel!

By: jams o donnell

jams o donnell — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 10:22:11 +0000

Given all of the things St George is patron saint of,including syphilitics and Herpes sufferers, the guy must be knackered!