"JimmyMac" <jimmymac_4@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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Oct 6, 6:11 am, "Edward Dolan" <edo...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Jim thinks I never listen to anything he has to say, but that is not
true.
> I
> pick up on all kinds of clues from him the same as I do from Tom
Sherman.
>
> Tom Sherman I learned from day one was a liberal scofflaw of the worst
> sort.
> But even so, I found him to be an interesting character. We will never
> agree about anything except re***bent bicycles, but so what. Much of the
> time I do not even agree with myself.
>
> Jim McNamara once told me he was only half Irish, the other half being
> Polish. This intrigued me since both of these peoples are Catholic to
the
> core even though at opposite ends of Europe. I went on YouTube and got
> tons
> and tons of Polish folklore to view and to save to my hard drive.
>
> My God, this is terrific folklore! I have come to love the Poles based
> strictly on their folklore. Much of Irish folklore has been corrupted by
> modernisms, but that seems not to be the case with Polish folklore. If
any
> of you would like to know what a true folklore is like I suggest you
look
> it
> up on YouTube. In fact, if you want to know anything about a people that
> is
> worth knowing, examine their folklore. That will tell you all you will
> ever
> have to know.
>
> Here are two YouTube members who will enlighten and delight you with
> videos
> of fantastic singing and dancing. Viva Polska!
>
> http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=mahmarun
>
> http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=chcesztomasz
>
> Thanks Jim for telling me that you are half Polish. Witn a last name
like
> McNamara no one would never know.
And you still don't. I told you that I am 1/2 Irish 1/4 English and
1/4 Polish. near as I can sort out with all that when on in Europe
over the centuries. Comprised of a body of history, traditions,
customs, legends, fables, beliefs and myth, folklore is much more that
mere costume and dance.
Of course, folklore is much more than song, dance and costume, but what is
an outsider ever to make of it. I am not going to embark on detailed study
of Poland any more that I am going to embark on a detailed study of
Ireland.
By the way, screw your English heritage. I would keep quite about that if
I
were you. It is nothing to crow about.
> Regards,
>
> Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
> aka
> Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota
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