General Chat

So, how did he get the pox and cold sores office in the first place? Did he have to have them himself?

That's a point. I wonder if the dragon story has anything to do with it? I mean, we don't really have any first hand accounts of this act of derring do. It brings to mind a character from Shrek and possibly an allegorical medieval warning of the dangers of dragon intimacy. Just a thought.

What, like, oh bugger the dragon?

I suppose you could put it that way, depending on where you insert a comma.....

I was thinking that being a lonely soldier far from home........who are we to judge?

He didn't realize they rode the dragon into town where the action was?

Easy mistake to make if there's a language issue.

True. He is probably the patron saint of shopping lists and hair pieces really.

Speaking of hair pieces and syphilis:

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/743/what-is-a-merkin

I had wanted to call our ginger cat Merkin but Fred would not have it so he stayed as Tommy.

An honourable profession, was a merkin maker. I think their patron saint is Saint Louis, who died of dysentery, bless him.

I don't see much benefit in being saintly. They all seem to come to a pretty grim end.

"Saints preserve us!"

Wonder how many of the far right read this in The Independent? :-D

"This St George’s Day, we should remember that the patron saint of England was an immigrant. Saint George was born in Turkey to a Turkish father and Palestinian mother. He lived in the Middle East and died at the hands of the Romans who persecuted him because of his faith."


Busy chap for someone whose life is surrounded in a haze of mystery and uncertainty........he is also patron saint of...

Agricultural workers; archers; armourers; cavalry; chivalry; Crusaders; equestrians; farmers; horsemen; horses; knights; lepers and leprosy;Oder of the Garter; riders; Romani people; saddle makers; Scouts; sheep; shepherds; skin diseases; soldiers; Teutonic Knights.

:-D :-D :-D

An eclectic mix of saintly employments, species, ethnicity and afflictions. I wonder how these saints get selected. Perhaps there is a committee that sits in the depths of the Vatican and randomly sticks pins in an encyclopaedia. Or maybe there is some form of petition that you can fill in. Mysterious ways.

I think it was easier in the old days, but now to be a saint you have to
perform two miracles after death.

They still come to a sticky end though.

No, I meant how do they get to be a patron saint of, say, stamp collectors or something, if we are talking about sticky endings.

St Christopher was demoted.

Mother Theresa is being asked to carry out two miracles ( sort the Irish border and get a red white and blue brexit deal out of stony faced Eurocrats) without the advantages of working from the celestial sphere.

The Pope should give her a break.

I thought she was already a Saint - Saint Teresa of Calcutta.