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From: "Cliff. Johnston" <>
Subject: Re: [S-I] symbol for group
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 11:43:09 -0600
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LOL...we're bad ;-)

Enjoy, life is too short...

Cliff.
"May the best you've ever seen,
Be the worst you'll ever see;"
from A Scots Toast by Allan Ramsay
----- Original Message -----
From: <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, March 08, 2010 9:48 AM
Subject: Re: [S-I] symbol for group


> How embarrassing....I posted this to the whole group? Well there goes my
> diplomatic appointment.
>
> I guess the idiots are not just on the streets drinking green beer this
> time of year. Some of us are
> inside self-destructing or exposing ourselves to be sectarian
> jokesters.......
>
> Someone's going to show up at my door and revoke my Irish genes now. And
> so much for
> that mascarade of being a 'peace and love' kind of person, not that too
> many were fooled.
>
> Mea culpa....
>
> Linda Merle
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cliff. Johnston" <>
> To:
> Sent: Monday, March 8, 2010 10:04:20 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: Re: [S-I] symbol for group
>
> Linda,
>
> See, good things do happen ;-)
>
> I have an artist friend in Canada who could probably do a great job with
> this poster idea...lol... I should copy this thread and send it to her to
> see if she has any interest...lol...
>
> Cliff.
> "May the best you've ever seen,
> Be the worst you'll ever see;"
> from A Scots Toast by Allan Ramsay
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Monday, March 08, 2010 8:55 AM
> Subject: Re: [S-I] symbol for group
>
>
>>I think you can sell this idea to the Loyalists for a huge wall mural
>><grin>! They won't have a problem deciding where the thistle goes <grin>.
>>Wow, I'm cheered up now. I don't even mind my newdog ran away (but came
>>back) and my computer went south (but now works again) or that it is a
>>week
>>till St. Patricks Day when all the idiots hit the streets!!
>>
>> Linda
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Cliff. Johnston" <>
>> To:
>> Sent: Monday, March 8, 2010 9:50:13 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
>> Subject: Re: [S-I] symbol for group
>>
>> Thank you :-)
>>
>> Now we just have to decide where the thistle hits his bare bottom ;-)
>>
>> Cliff.
>> "May the best you've ever seen,
>> Be the worst you'll ever see;"
>> from A Scots Toast by Allan Ramsay
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: <>
>> To: <>
>> Sent: Monday, March 08, 2010 8:14 AM
>> Subject: Re: [S-I] symbol for group
>>
>>
>>>I LOVE it!!!
>>>
>>> Linda Merle
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Cliff. Johnston" <>
>>> To:
>>> Sent: Monday, March 8, 2010 8:59:25 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
>>> Subject: Re: [S-I] symbol for group
>>>
>>> Hmmm, or a leprachan with a surprised look sitting on a thistle ;-)
>>>
>>> Cliff. Johnston
>>> "May the best you've ever seen,
>>> Be the worst you'll ever see;"
>>> from A Scots Toast by Allan Ramsay
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: <>
>>> To: <>
>>> Sent: Monday, March 08, 2010 7:32 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [S-I] symbol for group
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi Boyd, your symbol works for you, but in Tennessee, I am not sure
>>>> anyone
>>>> would understand it.
>>>> We'd have to spend lots of Euros/dollars doing market research to be
>>>> sure
>>>> of course. The first
>>>> time I ran into the Red Hand was in a book. It makes no sense here.
>>>> You'd
>>>> have to explain it.
>>>>
>>>> That's one of this ethnic group's problems: we became different in the
>>>> various places we went to.
>>>> One person suggested to me a symbol with the Union flag ....well now,
>>>> that
>>>> won't work in Tennessee
>>>> either. It makes the bearer seem like a Tory (in the American sense :
>>>> ie
>>>> a
>>>> Loyalist in the American
>>>> Revolution, descendents now in Canada).
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps a shamrock impaled on a thistle kind of gets the point across
>>>> in
>>>> a
>>>> universal fashion?
>>>> (just joking!)
>>>>
>>>> Linda Merle
>>>>
>>>
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