Snakes and drunks are trouble, and Savannah is jiust applying the same logic St Patrick himself did.

Better not mess with Whacking Day

There is no God w/o a Devil.

There can be no St Patty w/o snakes.

'Scuse me, I have to go take my snake bite vaccination whiskey.

Snakes are a very useful animal which keep down plagues of insects, frogs, rats, and mice, not to mention moles, voles, stoles, Gnoles, holes and rabbits. Especially rabbits.

They should be left alone for they are One of God's Creatures.

Just stick to beating up the Irish, like God intended.

The Irish saint, Saint Bridget, turned her bath water into beer for a visiting bishop, filthy slattern that she was. I hope the Bishop didn't know about the miracle, or at least was an old perv.

Saint Patrick (his real name was Patricius, meaning a person of noble birth, the father of a clan, as in Patrician) was a Welsh Man who was captured by Irish raiders and taken to Ireland where he lived as a slave.

As his revenge, he introduced Christianity to Ireland. He may have introduced beer as well, although I doubt it, beer being a pretty ancient and universal technology. He also drove the snakes out of Ireland, which suggests that he had a plague of frogs, rats, mice, insects, moles, voles, and rabbits in mind. Especially rabbits. He was a very vindictive man, although a Saint.

Another fun Saint Patrick fact is that his feast day was celebrated originally on March 16 and on March 18. The dispute over which date was right was eventually settled by another Saintly Bishop, who split the difference and made the holiday March 17. The proximity of Saint Patrick's Day to Spring, and thus to Easter, suggests some sort of ancient British myth may be behind a lot of this stuff, especially the bit about the rabbits, which were probably not really rabbits, but rather hares, as in the legendary March hares that play such a role in Easter and Irish celebrations, usually stewed, not unlike the Irish themselves.

I like snakes. Snakes are cool.

Of course, my native province has no poisonous snakes, which makes it easier to like them.

Ontario has some poisonous animals: rattlers, water moccasins, black widow spiders etc., but I've never seen a snake around here. They do have black widow spiders in the Museum of Nature, along with banana slugs, Madagascar hissing cockroaches, etc. It's a bit of a zoo sometimes.

The real reason Ireland has no native snake species is that it was largely covered by ice and tundra during the last Ice Age, and by the time it warmed up enough for snakes, the Irish Sea had formed, posing an insurmountable obstacle to the slithering classes, except the English and Scots, and a few shady Germans.

Irish gypsies are called Tinkers. A tinker is a mender and peddler of cheap tin pots and pans.

Tin is the metal which originally brought the Phoenicians and others to trade in Spain and then the British Isles. The family of Jesus (Herschell Christ) has traditionally held to be in the tin trade. His rich uncle allegedly brought young Jesus on a business trip to the British Isles as a boy. The uncle was the same Joseph of Aramathea in whose tomb Jesus was laid that time he died and was resurrected three days later.

It's a small world. It was a lot smaller at that time.

HailRobonia: Of course snakes can't march in the parade. They don't have legs.

I may be the only one that laughed at this but I laughed pretty hard.. As I facepalmed of course.

HailRobonia: Of course snakes can't march in the parade. They don't have legs.

They could slither in the parade. They won't be the only ones wiggling around full-length on the ground.