Is Ireland really devoid of snakes?

ireland does not have snakes. not sure why

new zealand does not either. interestingly australia and southeast asia has some of the most deadly

just another day wrote:http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/03/080313-snakes-ireland_2.html

I love this quote from the article:

"Snake populations are slow to colonize new areas"

Try telling that to the folks in Florida.

Whenever I go there I bring my two Pythons.

Oh really? I bring all three.

I'm Irish and I know it wrote:

Does Ireland have snakes? If not, Why?

The Irish ate them all, in the years before they got potatoes.

Which introduces a more serious question: what DID the Irish eat before they got potatoes?

ytuj6 wrote:

Which introduces a more serious question: what DID the Irish eat before they got potatoes?

May I make a modest proposal?

J. Swift wrote:

ytuj6 wrote:

Which introduces a more serious question: what DID the Irish eat before they got potatoes?

May I make a modest proposal?

No one will get this, but thank you for that reference. I just enjoyed a pleasant "lol" because of it. A good evening to you.

J. Swift wrote:

May I make a modest proposal?

+1

J. Swift wrote:

ytuj6 wrote:

Which introduces a more serious question: what DID the Irish eat before they got potatoes?

May I make a modest proposal?

i don't even care if you set that up for yourself because that was clever.

also, i appreciate the interaction of biceptual and real man above. classy.

good thread overall. a quick real answer followed by awesomeness. this is why letsrun is great.

but seriously, why can't the poor just sell their children to rich people who want to eat babies?

And I usually have a snake charmer and a belly dancer around.

dudewheresmycar wrote:

No one will get this, but thank you for that reference. I just enjoyed a pleasant "lol" because of it. A good evening to you.

Well aren't you pretentious (and possessing a very low image of the rest of the world). I'd imagine that 85-90% of the people on this board will understand the reference to "A Modest Proposal" (after all, every high school student has read it).

dudewheresmycar wrote:

No one will get this, but thank you for that reference. I just enjoyed a pleasant "lol" because of it. A good evening to you.

Everyone will get it.

But it was still funny.

St Patrick was English and thus regarded with suspicion by the Irish.

The story about him driving snakes out of Ireland gave won the locals over.

According to his writings, he pulled together the people of what is now Downpatrick and spoke thus:

"Enough is enough! I have had it with these muthaf****** snakes on this muthaf****** bog"

The fact that there never were any snakes in Ireland made the job a little easier.

He is also said to have invented Guinness, River Dancing and fighting at family gatherings.

Éirinn go brách

St. Patrick was sainted not for driving snakes out of Ireland, but for converting pagans to Christianity. Using the 3 leaf clover to explain the Holy Trinity...

Paddy O'Paddy wrote:

St Patrick was English...

a) I LOLed when reading your (whole) post. Nice job.

b) We can probably say "British" for St. Pat, but let's hold off on the "English." He was more likely Welsh.

dontflushwhileyousit wrote:

I'd imagine that 85-90% of the people on this board will understand the reference to "A Modest Proposal" (after all, every high school student has read it).

I don't recall reading that in high school. I think I only know about it because of an episode of the Simpsons maybe. Also, I'm with the other guy - I'd guess that most of the people I know wouldn't get it. Nothing pretentious about that. It's just trivia.

Twitched wrote:

dontflushwhileyousit wrote:

I'd imagine that 85-90% of the people on this board will understand the reference to "A Modest Proposal" (after all, every high school student has read it).

I don't recall reading that in high school. I think I only know about it because of an episode of the Simpsons maybe. Also, I'm with the other guy - I'd guess that most of the people I know wouldn't get it. Nothing pretentious about that. It's just trivia.

Are you from Mississippi by any chance?