Happy St-Jean-Baptiste!
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Topic: Happy St-Jean-Baptiste!
Posted By: Bern
Subject: Happy St-Jean-Baptiste!
Date Posted: June 24 2006 at 17:29
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HAPPY ST-JEAN-BAPTISTE TO ALL!  For those who don't know, la Saint-Jean-Baptiste is Québec's national day  Un bonjour tout spécial à tous les Québécois parmis nous!   My contribution -------------  
RIP in bossa nova heaven. |
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Posted By: maani
Date Posted: June 24 2006 at 17:35
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Here we go again - those crazy Canadiennes and their strange holidays! LOL.
Happy...whatever-it-is-you-are-celebrating.
Peace.
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Posted By: JayDee
Date Posted: June 24 2006 at 19:49
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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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Posted By: NetsNJFan
Date Posted: June 24 2006 at 22:37
Bern, I wasn't aware Québec was a "nation". 
Haha just messing with you, happy Saint-Jean-Baptiste day to you.
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Posted By: AtLossForWords
Date Posted: June 24 2006 at 22:55
Quebec isn't a nation.
 Friday is the national day (July 1st).
 Edit: Not only was Canada born on July 1st, I was as well.  -------------  
"Mastodon sucks giant monkey balls." |
Bern wrote:Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: June 24 2006 at 23:53
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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). ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: June 25 2006 at 00:34
So youre Canada?
 Happy that day for all Quebecy peoples here!  ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: June 25 2006 at 00:42
| 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. |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: June 25 2006 at 05:44
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Bonne fête mon p'tit gars ------------- 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 rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: June 26 2006 at 10:07
Though I am from a city named St. John's, we don't celebrate that holiday there. (It's a Quebecois thing.)
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.
 "Blah blah Plains of Abraham, blah blah Wolfe and Montcalm, blah blah we won nyah nyah nyah, blah blah le blah!"
But let's not get into that political-separatist-nationalist-chest-thumping stuff here.... please!
 Seriously -- we'll bore everyone else to tears, and just get in a big, endless argument, you young agent provocateur!   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 STRONG
 ) bottle-conditioned Belgian-style beers! Salut!  ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: June 26 2006 at 12:39
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 Peter  ------------- 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 rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: June 26 2006 at 12:50
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 Peter [/QUOTE]I don't know about the orgies (should I say unfortunately? ), 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. |
Posted By: Bern
Date Posted: June 26 2006 at 13:25
You can bet I will agree with you then! Maneige is a wonderful amazing fantastic band (yet, unknown  ) and Unibroue sure knows how to make good strong beer EDIT : Maneige is represented in my signature -------------
RIP in bossa nova heaven. |
Posted By: AtLossForWords
Date Posted: June 26 2006 at 14:29
i thought the Quebecois liked their wine. That's why they have those accents eh? -------------
"Mastodon sucks giant monkey balls." |
Posted By: Bern
Date Posted: June 26 2006 at 14:32
We don't drink that much wine. We're more into beer. You're confusing us with our French cousins -------------
RIP in bossa nova heaven. |
Posted By: AtLossForWords
Date Posted: June 26 2006 at 14:38
Not what I heard. Apparently the Canadian episode of South Park agrees with me too. -------------
"Mastodon sucks giant monkey balls." |
Posted By: Bern
Date Posted: June 26 2006 at 14:57
I gotta see it then  -------------
RIP in bossa nova heaven. |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: June 27 2006 at 05:38
I don't know about the orgies (should I say unfortunately? ), 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.[/QUOTE] 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 ------------- 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 rather than un-sheath our sword |