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    Posted: June 27 2006 at 05:38
Originally posted by Ghost Rider Ghost Rider wrote:

Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

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St Jean Baptiste is celebrated a lot in Europe with huge popular bonfire and ending up in orgies
 
 
 
it only has the Saint as an alibi for hiding this huge pagan feast
 
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I don't know about the orgies (should I say unfortunately? Wink), but I've sure seen the bonfires lit on lakeshores in Finland on Midsummer Night. Pity we don't have anything like that anymore here - but my mother used to tell me that they ate snails for St.John's Day in Rome.
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Well this feast is usually done aroungd the summer solstice and was organized by the Church to avoid stopping those pagan druidic feast on the Summer Solstice
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Points: 11746 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 26 2006 at 14:57
Originally posted by AtLossForWords AtLossForWords wrote:

Originally posted by Bern Bern wrote:

Originally posted by AtLossForWords AtLossForWords wrote:

Originally posted by Peter Rideout Peter Rideout wrote:

 
 
and some of this:
Yep, Unibroue makes some great, tasty (and STRONGWacko) bottle-conditioned Belgian-style beers! Salut! Thumbs Up
 
 
 
i thought the Quebecois liked their wine.  That's why they have those accents eh? LOL


We don't drink that much wine. We're more into beer. You're confusing us with our French cousins Wink
 
Not what I heard.  Apparently the Canadian episode of South Park agrees with me too.Wink LOL


I gotta see it then LOL

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Originally posted by Bern Bern wrote:

Originally posted by AtLossForWords AtLossForWords wrote:

Originally posted by Peter Rideout Peter Rideout wrote:

 
 
and some of this:
Yep, Unibroue makes some great, tasty (and STRONGWacko) bottle-conditioned Belgian-style beers! Salut! Thumbs Up
 
 
 
i thought the Quebecois liked their wine.  That's why they have those accents eh? LOL


We don't drink that much wine. We're more into beer. You're confusing us with our French cousins Wink
 
Not what I heard.  Apparently the Canadian episode of South Park agrees with me too.Wink LOL

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Originally posted by AtLossForWords AtLossForWords wrote:

Originally posted by Peter Rideout Peter Rideout wrote:

 
 
and some of this:
Yep, Unibroue makes some great, tasty (and STRONGWacko) bottle-conditioned Belgian-style beers! Salut! Thumbs Up
 
 
 
i thought the Quebecois liked their wine.  That's why they have those accents eh? LOL


We don't drink that much wine. We're more into beer. You're confusing us with our French cousins Wink

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Originally posted by Peter Rideout Peter Rideout wrote:

 
 
 
 
 
 
and some of this:
Yep, Unibroue makes some great, tasty (and STRONGWacko) bottle-conditioned Belgian-style beers! Salut! Thumbs Up
 
 
 
i thought the Quebecois liked their wine.  That's why they have those accents eh? LOL

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Originally posted by Peter Rideout Peter Rideout wrote:

 
Smile If I was in beautiful Quebec, maybe we could agree on some of this:
 
 
and some of this:
Yep, Unibroue makes some great, tasty (and STRONGWacko) bottle-conditioned Belgian-style beers! Salut! Thumbs Up
 


You can bet I will agree with you then! Maneige is a wonderful amazing fantastic band (yet, unknown Unhappy) and Unibroue sure knows how to make good strong beer Thumbs Up

EDIT : Maneige is represented in my signature Wink


Edited by Bern - June 26 2006 at 13:26

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Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

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St Jean Baptiste is celebrated a lot in Europe with huge popular bonfire and ending up in orgies
 
 
 
it only has the Saint as an alibi for hiding this huge pagan feast
 
 
 
 
Cool musical choice of yours PeterClap
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I don't know about the orgies (should I say unfortunately? Wink), but I've sure seen the bonfires lit on lakeshores in Finland on Midsummer Night. Pity we don't have anything like that anymore here - but my mother used to tell me that they ate snails for St.John's Day in Rome.
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Originally posted by Peter Rideout Peter Rideout wrote:

Though I am from a city named St. John's, we don't celebrate that holiday there. (It's a Quebecois thing.)Ermm
 
  
 
Smile If I was in beautiful Quebec, maybe we could agree on some of this:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
St Jean Baptiste is celebrated a lot in Europe with huge popular bonfire and ending up in orgies
 
 
 
it only has the Saint as an alibi for hiding this huge pagan feast
 
 
 
 
Cool musical choice of yours PeterClap


Edited by Sean Trane - June 26 2006 at 12:39
let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
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Though I am from a city named St. John's, we don't celebrate that holiday there. (It's a Quebecois thing.)Ermm
 
Hope you had a good one, Bernaby, but if you try to separate, and isolate my home province with a foreign country between her and the rest of Canada, I will have to shut off the hydro, then come down there and shoot you.Stern Smile
 
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But let's not get into that political-separatist-nationalist-chest-thumping stuff here.... please!
 
 
Unhappy Seriously -- we'll bore everyone else to tears, and just get in a big, endless argument, you young agent provocateur! Wink
 
 
 
Smile If I was in beautiful Quebec, maybe we could agree on some of this:
 
 
and some of this:
Yep, Unibroue makes some great, tasty (and STRONGWacko) bottle-conditioned Belgian-style beers! Salut! Thumbs Up
 
 


Edited by Peter Rideout - June 26 2006 at 10:08
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Bonne fête mon p'tit gars
let's just stay above the moral melee
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Well, it was yesterday here, but I can tell you that it's a public holiday in the beautiful city of Florence. San Giovanni is the town's baptistery and oldest building.
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Originally posted by AtLossForWords AtLossForWords wrote:

Originally posted by Bern Bern wrote:

HAPPY ST-JEAN-BAPTISTE TO ALL!
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For those who don't know, la Saint-Jean-Baptiste is Québec's national day Tongue

Un bonjour tout spécial à tous les Québécois parmis nous! Hug



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Quebec isn't a nation.Wink
 
Friday is the national day (July 1st).LOL
 
Edit: Not only was Canada born on July 1st, I was as well.Tongue
 
So youre Canada?Shocked
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Happy that day for all Quebecy peoples here! TongueHug


Edited by Man With Hat - June 25 2006 at 00:34
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São João / Saint Jean is a saint really loved here in Brazil. Tonight we'll have many parties and feasts with ballons, typical food and beverage, cadrilles, etc. It's just the middle of June Celebrations that started with St. Anthony (13th) and will finish with St. Peter (29th).
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Originally posted by Bern Bern wrote:

HAPPY ST-JEAN-BAPTISTE TO ALL!
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For those who don't know, la Saint-Jean-Baptiste is Québec's national day Tongue

Un bonjour tout spécial à tous les Québécois parmis nous! Hug



 My contribution Tongue


 
Quebec isn't a nation.Wink
 
Friday is the national day (July 1st).LOL
 
Edit: Not only was Canada born on July 1st, I was as well.Tongue


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Bern, I wasn't aware Québec was a "nation".  Stern Smile
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Haha just messing with you, happy Saint-Jean-Baptiste day to you.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Its St. John The Baptist day here in The Philippines. You celebrate the feast when your town is named after St John. Festivities include preparing banquets for every towns people, parades, amateur singing and beauty contests, and soaking/ bombarding people with water.

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Here we go again - those crazy Canadiennes and their strange holidays!  LOL.
 
Happy...whatever-it-is-you-are-celebrating.
 
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HAPPY ST-JEAN-BAPTISTE TO ALL!
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Un bonjour tout spécial à tous les Québécois parmis nous! Hug



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