2019年10月29日星期二

Top 5 Facts about St Patrick's Day


bonus fact the pot of gold at the end of
the rainbow is traditionally said to
hold 1000 gold coins if they each
weighed announce that pot would be worth
about one and a quarter million u.s.
dollars two and a half male if it's a
double rainbow mmm
welcome to watchmojo.com is installment
we're counting down the five most
surprising facts we could find about st.
Patrick's Day ah
Barney we uh we talked this over and uh
we're not doing st. Patty's Day this
year come on let's use Oh
number five st. Patrick wasn't Irish and
he wasn't called Patrick my whole life
was a lie he was actually British and
was originally named maewyn succat
st. Patrick was only known as Patrick
once he'd become a priest and the only
reason he traveled to Ireland in the
first place was because he'd been
kidnapped
cursed pirates sail these waters at
around 16 years old young maewyn was
taken by pirates from his native home of
either Scotland or more probably Wales
and sold into Irish slavery he spent six
long years herding sheep in the Irish
countryside before escaping back to
Britain and reuniting with his parents
next he trained with the church and
achieved priesthood before a godly
calling summoned him back to the Emerald
Isle where he traveled the countryside
teaching Christianity and converting
thousands prepare to receive the true
Lord and the rest really is history
except for one part number four there
were never any snakes in Ireland snakes
why did it have to be snakes popular st.
Patty's Day legend says that the patron
saint of Ireland is the reason why the
country doesn't have any snakes
single serpent into the sea and banished
them forever after snakes attacked him
during a 40 day fast he was undertaking
on a hilltop
however science says that this myth is
exactly that a myth all fish
all evidence suggests that post-glacial
Ireland never played host to snakes or
any reptiles more likely the story is a
metaphor and Patricks snakes were in
fact some of Ireland's more undesirable
people or his ideological rivals number
three it's not traditional to drink beer
today beer is probably the second most
synonymous thing with Saint Patrick's
Day
behind Ireland itself on average between
11 and 13 million pints of Guinness are
consumed worldwide on March 17th and a
2012 study found the day to be worth
over 245 million dollars to the
International brewing industry but no
matter how many stouts we drink nowadays
getting drunk is not a Patty's Day
tradition dude oh yeah you're right make
it two bottles pubs weren't even allowed
to be opened in Ireland on that day
until 1970 when st. Patrick's Day was
converted from a religious to a national
holiday the date has always been a feast
day however with significance because
st. Patrick's falls during Lent a day of
merriment during a staunch period of
fasting it's the first glimpse of
gluttony on the Christian calendar since
Shrove shoes days pancakes number 2 st.
Paddy's might be more American than
Irish happy st. Patrick's Day everybody
34 million Americans claim Irish
heritage which is about 5 times the
population of Ireland itself first
observed in Boston in 1937 by the 1800s
it had become a regular affair New York
City is famous for its quarter million
strong marching parade which has been
held since 1762 and Chicago is well
known for dying it's River green a
custom also carried out at the White
House fountain since 2009 there's
another particularly peculiar
presidential tradition as well every
year since 1952 the Irish leader
presents the u.s. commander
a crystal bowl of shamrocks and the pair
then posed for photos
though the president can keep the
crystal the shamrocks themselves are
promptly destroyed as per security
procedures number one we should be
wearing blue all right laugh all you
want but this is my lucky st. Patty's
Day suit if you've been watching this
video with your mind's eye firmly tinted
to green then you've been watching it
all wrong historically speaking st.
Patrick's was a very blue day
no no unacceptable that's so not Raven
there's even a shade of colour named
after the saint which is used on
Ireland's presidential standard and as
part of the Irish Guards uniform the
association of st. Paddy's with green
only began in the late 1700s and the
Irish rebellion at that time the clover
became a nationalist symbol and green
emerged as the patriotic color of choice
today a well-read reveler might tip
their hat to tradition but the vast
majority of us go all-out emerald
besides blue beer just seems well about
his weird green beer actually we don't I
know you're gonna love it
you know I got green beer for you
information so what do you think will
you start wearing blue in the sea of
green or would you rather not be that
guy
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let's drink green beer let's do green
jello shots where's your st. Patty's Day
spirits drinking green tea with caffeine
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