you want to pinch me for not wearing green?

[rone]

I'll endure it as long as you remember that July 31 is St. Ignatius of Loyola's Day, patron saint of the Basque Country, and if you're wearing the wrong color, i get to kick you in the crotch.

Comments

[elibalin.livejournal.com]

There isn't actually a right color, is there?

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Very perceptive.

[heliumbreath.livejournal.com]

Sigh. I suppose Wikipedia might tell me what the right colour for that would be.

Oh, and don't let me catch you wearing the wrong colour on April 30th either, eh?

[frosch.livejournal.com]

you can't possibly have been in LA for as long as you were and be so naive about the necessity of dealing with people who wear the wrong color.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

All i know is that when the Rodney King shit hit the fan, my frat bros and i ran away to Orange County. My memory from my three years in L.A. is... iffy.

[thedarkages]

As far as I can tell, given my pitiful knowledge of heraldry, the colors of St. Ignatius' coat of arms are green, black, and silver.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Silver and black? St. Ignatius was a RAIDERS fan!!

[thedarkages]

If so, his love was retrospective; the only raiders in Basque country that I know of were the Visigoths, several centuries before.

[erikred.livejournal.com]

*poke* Mind you, in order for your challenge to hold water, you'd have to make the colors very publicly known. Otherwise, you're just being cranky. *poke*

Not that there's anything wrong with cranky. A Happy St. Patrick's Day to you, and a curse on the tonsured Roman fuckwit. I happen to think snake cults make a place cool.

[eejitalmuppet.livejournal.com]

Stuff wearing green, do it properly. Do a bit of snake-wrangling, drink lots of Guinness, get in a fight and lament the failed potato harvest when there's poteen to be made.

Insensitive, moi?

So, what did St. Ignatius of Loyola get up to that we should know about? I could look at Wikipedia, but i reckon your version of events will be more entertaining.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Dude, he only founded the Jesuits, the Christian supergenius/ninja sect.

[eejitalmuppet.livejournal.com]

And thus is my point proven. I'll bet Wikipedia doesn't call them the Christian supergenius/ninja sect.

"And now we sing Hymn number 469, Onward Christian Ninjas."

Thus proving that the Wiki hates the Guacamole...

[drieuxster.livejournal.com]

and most likely aligned itself with Dick Cheney and his evil Regulators who imposed all of that excess governmental regulation upon the market leading to the current economic down turn, because of the lack of true faith...

[heliumbreath.livejournal.com]

You're just saying that because you committed an edit taking that out of the article a second before hitting the LJ post button, right?

[eejitalmuppet.livejournal.com]

You may well think that. I couldn't possibly comment.

you don't look swedish...

[drieuxster.livejournal.com]

so what is this with a Basque religious festival???

Re: you don't look swedish...

[eejitalmuppet.livejournal.com]

You've never said, "Oh God!" when you saw a hawt chyk in a basque?

Re: you don't look swedish...

[drieuxster.livejournal.com]

uh dude, on the list of organizations who have attempted to kill me for their provincial political poseur posturing, I like list the basque...

and the phrase 'hawt chyk'... dude... like so last century....