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    Quote Originally Posted by Colonel MacNeal View Post
    I told an Irish American that St Patrick was born in Britain, rather than Ireland as he insisted, and he wanted to take my head off!
    It's a good thing you didn't also tell him that the good Saint was also a Viking slave sold into Ireland...
    "Two things are infinite- the universe, and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." Albert Einstein.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nighthawk View Post
    It's a good thing you didn't also tell him that the good Saint was also a Viking slave sold into Ireland...
    St. Patrick wasn't associated with the Vikings...according to tradition, he was the son of a Romano-British deacon who was captured by Irish raiders, not Norsemen.

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