Saint George's Day

Pierrepoint · **Joined:** Sat Jan 17, 2009 3:04 am **Posts:** 1723

Don't forget to raise a glass and toast this fellow tommorrow

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_George ....

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Wed Apr 22, 2009 2:23 pm

Saint George can bugger off the Turkish git.

Mr Codyakker · **Posted:** Wed Apr 22, 2009 5:48 pm

Pierrepoint wrote:

Don't forget to raise a glass and toast this fellow tommorrow

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_George ....

St Georges DAY, phah, it's St Georges WEEK, all week in the Millhouse !!! clappp

Pierrepoint · **Joined:** Sat Jan 17, 2009 3:04 am **Posts:** 1723

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead.
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility:
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger;
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage

;
Then lend the eye a terrible aspect;
Let pry through the portage of the head
Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it
As fearfully as doth a galled rock
O'erhang and jutty his confounded base,
Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean.
Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide,
Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit
To his full height. On, on, you noblest English.
Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof!
Fathers that, like so many Alexanders,
Have in these parts from morn till even fought
And sheathed their swords for lack of argument:
Dishonour not your mothers; now attest
That those whom you call'd fathers did beget you.
Be copy now to men of grosser blood,
And teach them how to war. And you, good yeoman,
Whose limbs were made in England, show us here
The mettle of your pasture; let us swear
That you are worth your breeding; which I doubt not;
For there is none of you so mean and base,
That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game's afoot:
Follow your spirit, and upon this charge
Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!'

Lord Smythe · **Posted:** Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:10 am

Montpoolier wrote:

Saint George can bugger off the Turkish git.

Oh no...here we go again :roll:

Lord Smythe · **Posted:** Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:18 am

Pierrepoint wrote:

;
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game's afootSaint George!'

Waheyyy good to see Archie getting a mention!

English and proud.... No Surrender! :wink:

Happy St. George's Day!

Poolie of Kent · **Posted:** Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:50 am

Shakespeare is pure class !

Happy Birthday, Will ! clappp

"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, (shot in Kent)
And summer's lease hath all too short a date"

This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
This fortress built by Nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea,
Which serves it in the office of a wall,
Or as a moat defensive to a house,
Against the envy of less happier lands,
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England,
This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings,
Fear'd by their breed and famous by their birth,
Renowned for their deeds as far from home,
For Christian service and true chivalry,
As is the sepulchre in stubborn Jewry,
Of the world's ransom, blessed Mary's Son,
This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land....

Dugoutpaddy · **Joined:** Sat Sep 02, 2006 10:23 am **Posts:** 1772

POK
you are my favourite poster of all time :laugh:

Brilliant stuff

Obafemi Obsession · **Posted:** Thu Apr 23, 2009 10:24 am

Poolie of Kent wrote:

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, (shot in Kent)
And summer's lease hath all too short a date"

Shot in Kent? A blessing in disguise perchance? Perchance to dream. :laugh:

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Thu Apr 23, 2009 10:52 am

I hereby pronounce the English national celebration day to be ATHELSTAN'S day, which if you like can take place on the 23rd April, but for fook's sake let's stop copying the Irish. It's lame and without imagination. We're not a religious country and we don't need a saint.

We'll keep the cross though 'cos it looks really smart. Athelstan's cross. Nice. :wink:

Happy Athelstan's day, everyone. :grin: