St. Patty's Day

“ok is it to early to start Celebrating?”

“Nope. It's never too early to start the celebration.”

“yeah but please keep you cheap whisky at home ok?”

“
DUCK CONTRAPOSITIVE
(D. Swanson)

These two songs are logically equivalent. They use contrapositives, which means that the statement "If A then B" is logically equivalent to the statement "If not B, then not A."


Original song:

If the ocean was whiskey and I was a duck,
I'd swim to the bottom and never come up.
But the ocean ain't whiskey, and I ain't no duck,
So I'll play jack-of-diamonds and trust to my luck.

For it's whiskey, rye whiskey, rye whiskey I cry.
If I don't get rye whiskey I surely will die.


The logical equivalent (the contrapositive):

If I never reach bottom or sometimes come up,
Then the ocean's not whiskey, or I'm not a duck.
But my luck can't be trusted, or the cards I'll not buck,
So the ocean is whiskey or I am a duck.

For it's whiskey, rye whiskey, rye whiskey I cry.
If my death is uncertain, then I get whiskey (rye).

”

“I'm just trying to finish it.”

“methinks you're already celebrating !”

“yes i am. and someone please tell tilt that it is hard to read bigass words when you have double vision...”

“You created two identical threads on two backpacking forums at the same time?”

“By Denis Leary

They come over here
And they take all our land
They chop off our heads
And they boil them in oil
Our children are leaving
And we have no heads
We drink and we sing
And we drink and we die
We have no heads
We have no heads
They come over here
And they chop off our legs
They cut off our hands
And put nails in our eyes
O'Grady is dead
And O'Hanrahan's gone
We drink and we die
And continue to drink
O'Hanrahan
No O'Hanrahan
They buried O'Neil
Down in country Shillhame
The poor children crying
And fe dee din de
Hin fle di dinfle
Di din fle de din de
In hey bibble bibble
Hey bibble bibble
Hey fle bibble de
O'Hanrahan
No O'Hanrahan
We drink and we sing
And we drink and we sing
Hey!
We drink and we drive
And we puke and we drink
Hey!
We drink and we fight
And we bleed and we cry
Hey!
We puke and we smoke
And we drink and we die
Hey!”

“wow your good.

ok Miss thing I will be nice to you tonight cause im in a good mood. so did you have a good day? did you get to slaughter any children today?”

“ah......

a sweet Irish melodie

.......brings tears to me eyes !”

“LOL @ cummins”

“LOL 'Zac!”

“LOL 'Zac!”

“So funny you had to laugh twice.”

“Can't let this thread die.
Nice song, LZ,hmmmmm I've never heard of it.”

“My mouse has been stuttering lately.”

“Drink I tell you!!!!!!!


8P”

“LOL, Zac.

Our village pub offers a bus ride into Montreal and back for the parade, a visit to an Irish pub (Hurley's, Old Dublin?) and dinner at the pub. I think it's partly sponsored by Guiness.

BTW, further to the 'Invade Camnada' thread. We have been invaded twice by the American army, but we were invaded a third time by Irish Americans.

Immigrating to America to take the place of American draughtees during the Civil War was an industry. After the war there was a bunch of unemployed Irishmen who came up with a plan - free Ireland by invading Canada (I am not making this up).

The last battle was the battle of Trout River (I am typing this in Huntingdon where the Trout River runs into the Cateauguay River) about ten miles from here in 1877. The Huntingdon Borderers' regimental flag is on the wall of my parish church (St. John's Anglican) with Trout River as its honour.”

“That was the Fenians, right?

The guy who invented the modern submarine, John Holland, was a Fenian. He came up with the idea of the submarine as a way to terrorize the British into freeing Ireland. He later either changed his mind or fell out with the Fenians, and sold his idea to the U.S. Navy.”

“Hmmmmm... 'free Ireland by invading Canada'....

How's that working out?”

“Canada was (and still is) part of the British Commonwealth, and had only recently (1867?) become nominally independent. No doubt the Fenians believed they would be freeing the Canadians of the British yoke as well, lol...”

“No yoke?”

“I am resisting the urge to post Irish jokes, but it's not easy.”

“My ancestors invaded Nova Scotia from Ireland, and then came down to Massachusetts to work in the shipyards.

I have a picutre of a bunch of Irish Shipyard thugs on the wall of my office. My grandfather and great-grandfather among them. Taken in 1915 at Lawley's shipyard in Neponset MA”

“Just don't mess with the Black Irish!”

“It's like the Irish woman who took the two pills, to be sure, to be sure.”