I don't really know how to introduce this

[Jeff Lebowski]

Find the drop, bleed it out.

I have Viking blood (Leif Ericson no less) sharing my veins with Irish blood. How do you like them apples?

[Viking]

I have Viking blood (Leif Ericson no less) sharing my veins with Irish blood. How do you them apples?

Clueless as well. She also has a lot of Cherokee which is why she tans like a Brazilian.

With Norwegian, Irish and Cherokee blood, the resolution to any conflict with her can be had with some alcohol.

[frank ryan]

I have Viking blood (Leif Ericson no less) sharing my veins with Irish blood. How do you them apples?

Bad Ass for sure. You'd make a good soldier. We all know about Vikings and the Irish units in the American Civil War and WW1 were legendary as well. And don't forget the IRA kept the British busy for 80 years with less than 500 men under arms.

[falafel]

I came across this yesterday and wanted to share it but couldn't figure out how to do so without starting a new thread, because clearly, what I'm about to share, does not deserve a new thread.

Yesterday, my cousin posts on Facebook that she's in some sort of Deseret Book contest on telling "funny" - sorry, "pretty darn funny" - stories. Being bored at work, I followed the link, watched my cousin's video, deemed it rather unfunny, then watched several of the top vote getters.

The first thing that jumped out at me is how much these women identify themselves by their blogs. So sad. If their blogs are half as entertaining as their pretty darn funny stories, the internet should go out of business.

I've come to terms with the fact that many in the church lack a quality sense of humor but funny things happen to everyone, all you have to do is tell the story well. Do women in the church just not know what about their lives is funny? In my determination to find one funny story, I had a particular one playing in the background which suddenly stopped playing. I assumed that it was buffering, but when I checked, she had indeed finished her pretty darn funny story. It was just surprisingly more unfunny than the others. They're all awful.

I used to have hope in the future. That hope is gone.

This one sounded like a talk at Women's conference.

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[San Juan Sun]

Bad Ass for sure. You'd make a good soldier. We all know about Vikings and the Irish units in the American Civil War and WW1 were legendary as well. And don't forget the IRA kept the British busy for 80 years with less than 500 men under arms.

What units were those? I thought Civil War units were based upon geography (i.e. Wisconsin 3rd Regiment) and WWI units were thrown together during training.

BTW, I'm another Irish/Norseman. Last name was Fagan, with some Swede and Danish blood mixed into an English base.

[frank ryan]

What units were those? I thought Civil War units were based upon geography (i.e. Wisconsin 3rd Regiment) and WWI units were thrown together during training.

BTW, I'm another Irish/Norseman. Last name was Fagan, with some Swede and Danish blood mixed into an English base.

In the civil war, Irish immigrants were allowed to fight in their own units on both sides of the conflict. Primarily they fought for the Union.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Brigade_(U.S.) Lincoln was so impressed by them and valued them so much, he allowed some of their officers to tour the country and recruit and raise money to attack England after the civil war was finished. When Irish units opposed each other on the battlefields there were some instances of nighttime truces where the opposing generals would meet and discuss strategy for attacking England.
After the civil war was over a group of Irish (American) soldiers crossed the border into Canada and ambushed some militia there. The Brits cried foul, the Irish crossed back into the US and were restrained from attacking again.

During the Mexican-American war a brigade of Irish soldiers deserted the US army over being mistreated due to their religion and fought with the Mexicans. They were called the San Patricios, they basically fought until they ran out of bullets. Supposedly Santa Ana said if his whole army had their bravery the war would have been no contest.

In ww1 they of course fought in great numbers for British. Their units fought with distinction. It was of course during ww1 that the Irish rose up in rebellion, sucker punching the British, inventing modern urban guerilla warefare and establishing an independent nation.

During the Spanish Civil war Irish Nazis fought for Franco, they didn't much and mostly paraded around for show. Frank Ryan headed up a contingent of IRA men, socialists, anti-facsists and others who fought with great distinction.

[UtahDan]

Colbert on McNaughton:

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-col...xrs=share_copy

[Commando]

[Northwestcoug]

A little more subtle than some of his previous work, minus Madison praying fervently. I'm not sure what he's trying to say by covering Calvin Coolidge with the constitution. Lincoln looks drunk. Also, Obama's hands seem huge.

What does it mean? What is he trying to say?

[Indy Coug]

A little more subtle than some of his previous work, minus Madison praying fervently. I'm not sure what he's trying to say by covering Calvin Coolidge with the constitution. Lincoln looks drunk. Also, Obama's hands seem huge.

What does it mean? What is he trying to say?

It's a nice "get thee hence, Constitution" look from Obama there.

[DU Ute]

What's with the handful of cash?

[Indy Coug]

What's with the handful of cash?

The interpretation is up to the viewer. That's the beauty of good art.

[Northwestcoug]

What's with the handful of cash?

McNaughton hasn't left us in the dark with this one. He has done his part to save US currency, by picking up dollars from the ground.

So meaningful...

[myboynoah]

What the hell?

Why is W over there with the bad presidents? And JFK with the good guys?

I'm not buying any more of this guy's stuff.

[Moliere]

This might be technically the worst painting he's done, which is saying something. He should take more time to get the figures and other aspects correct, but I guess he has a deadline to meet (election day).