The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky)

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Yes, I thought it would make great wall paper too.

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The lead singer of this band, The Vines, has been diagnosed with Asperger's. His name is Craig Nicholls http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/thevines/articles/story/6639636/vines_man_has_aspergers

The band is Australian. So I'm doubly proud .... an Australian Aspie rock band.

A lot of people think he's stoned when he's being interviewed because of his lack of eye contact, strange speech pattern ... no he's not stoned ... he's Aspie

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Helen

I believe I read a remark about Rita Hayworth from Postie, once upon a time.

Postie, wherever you've gotten to, this video is for you (the picture part anyway) . Don't want to upset Swampblossom. The song can be for whoever wants to listen to it.

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Lauri, I thought you might like this one

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Naturally shy and reclusive, Hayworth was the antithesis of the characters she played. She once complained, "Men fell in love with Gilda, but they wake up with me." With typical modesty she later remarked that the only films she could watch without laughing were the dance musicals she made with Fred Astaire. She was close to her frequent costar and next-door neighbor Glenn Ford. Hayworth was married five times,

After about 1960, Hayworth suffered from extremely early onset of Alzheimer's disease, which was not diagnosed until 1980. Hayworth was removed from a flight during which she had an angry outburst while traveling with her agent, an event which attracted much negative publicity.
One of the major fund raisers for the Alzheimer's Association is the annual Rita Hayworth Gala, which is held in New York City and Chicago.

Happy St. Paddy's Day!! !

Top of the mornin' to ya.

An Irish Prayer

May God give you...
For every storm, a rainbow,
For every tear, a smile,
For every care, a promise,
And a blessing in each trial.
For every problem life sends,
A faithful friend to share,
For every sigh, a sweet song,
And an answer for each prayer.

Interesting, Helen.

I must have missed this article last time. Somewhere else, someone posted a list of "people with Asperger's". Being a stickler for truth, I had to go down the list of about a dozen people, saying why most were untrue (it included fictional and historic figures). The list gave Craig Nicholls of The Vines. At the time, I couldn't find any report that unequivocally said that he had been diagnosed. They all seemed to imply that Asperger's had been a convenient excuse to avoid a prison sentence.

I always cross-check myself ( ), and this time I found that the Wikipedia article on The Vines links out to an article in the Guardian that doesn't sound at all ambiguous.

So... I wasn't too convinced about Craig last time, but you seemed sure, and I'm now convinced that he is, after all, one of the nutters, like us.

And an oft-misquoted Irish Blessing:

May the wind be ever at your back,
May the road rise up to meet you,
And may you be in Heaven half an hour before the Devil knows you're dead.

Maybe I'll put some Irish cream in my coffee later - I have a lovely bottle of St. Brendan's here...

“Let those that love us, love us.
And those that don't,
may God turn their hearts.
And, if He cannot turn their hearts,
may He turn their ankles
so we may know them by their limping!”

Better the devil you know topic

I always think of St. Pat's Day as the harbinger of spring, amd goodness knows, we need some spring in our step after this brutal winter. Thanks to blessedmom, Deaconblues and Cosmiccat for their lighthearted but apt prayers on this 17th of March.

And let us not forget, tis the day for planting peas. Among other traditions:

In Irish Gaelic:

Lá Fhéile Pádraig (LAW AY-luh PAW-rihg) = St. Patrick's Day
Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig oraibh! (BAN-uhkh-tee nuh FAY-luh PAW-rihg O-rihv) = Happy St. Patrick's Day to You All!

Traditional customs for the proper celebration of the day-and Yes we know that Ireland has tried its best to discard its historic culture in favor of progress,industrialization and American commercialism-but customs are important to give meaning to life and joy to the soul so here they are:

1.Wear an emblem in honor of the saint-a custom which dates from as early as 1681-and the account of Thomas Dinely. Generally a green ribbon the shamrock or a saint patricks cross(circle or square of paper decorated with green ribbon and bits of priests vestments by girls and small children-for boys a paper cross in the style of the Celtic illuminations carefully decorated)

This is my favorite:
2. Go to work and demand the "Patrick's Groat" take leave of your capitalistic master and go to town and spend it all.(very few of the zealous should be found sober at night account(Dinely 1681!).

3.Men should make a cross of a twig of wild sallow and pin it to the thatch inside the house or above the door.

4.You may also wear a harp shaped badge

5.Wear the "Trifolium repens"-white clover (Identified as such by Caleb Threlkeld in 1727)

6.After church go to the pub to drink the "pota Pa/draig"-St. Patricks pot. Many acts of devotion should be followed by an equal number of acts of copious libation...

7.Say this quaint line when doing so:

Ordain a Statute to be Drunk
And burn Tobacco free as Spunk
And (fat shall never be forgot"
In Usquebah,St. Patrick's Pot

8.Actually it is doubtful if anyone knows what a shamrock is(Early 20th century-Nathaniel Colgan asked around Ireland and found that it could be-Trifolium repens,(white clover), Folium minus-(leser trefoil),Trifolium pratense(purple clover),Medicagio Lupulina(Black Medick) So take your pick!

9.Give treats and gifts to friends and children.

10.Put shamrock which has been worn on the day into the last glass of drink-then toast to the health of all and pick the wet drowned shamrock out of the glass and toss it over the left shoulder.

11.Using a burnt stick make a cross on the sleeve of each member of the household

12.You have to eat meat and you do not need any special dispensation to do so. Jocelin notes that as early as 1100 AD people ate meat in Lent due to an account of St.Patrick doing so and then being forgiven the meat turning to fish in the boiling water.

17.You must begin your planting soon after St. Patrick's day-(peas are best planted on the day. (Source-Kevin Danaher- The Year in Ireland Mercier Press Cork,1972)

I think that one may be obligatory if you like Guinness.

Good things come to those who wait:
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