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A customer in a Boston Irish pub goes up to another customer
and says, "Excuse me, but where are you from?"
"Why I'm from Ireland," comes the answer
"No kidding? Why I'm from Ireland, too! Let's have a drink to Ireland."
And so they do.
Then the first customer asks, "And what city are you from?"
"Why, I'm from Dublin."
"You don't say. I'm from Dublin, too! Let's have a drink to Dublin."
And so they do.
Then the first customer asks, "And what school did you go to in Dublin?"
"Why, I went to St Mary's."
"It can't be! I went to St. Mary's, too! Let's have a drink to St. Mary's."
And so they do.
Then the first customer asks, "And what year did you graduate from St. Mary's?"
"Why, I graduated in 1964."
"This is incredible. I graduated in 1964, too. Let's have a drink to the Class of '64."
And so they do.
Another customer walks in to the bar and goes up to the bartender.
"What's up, Mike?" he asks.
"Oh, nothing unusual," says the bartender. "The O'Malley twins are drunk again."
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A bar of steel--- it is only
Smoke at the heart of it, smoke and the blood of man.
A runner of fire in it, ran out, ran somewhere else,
And left------smoke and the blood of man
And the finished steel, chilled and blue.
So fire runs in, runs out, runs somewhere else again,
and the bar of steel is a gun, a wheel, a nail, a shovel,
A rudder under the sea, a steering gear in the sky;
And always dark in the heart and through it,
Smoke and the blood of man
Pittsburgh, Gary, and Burns Harbor---- they make their steel with men.
In the blood of men and the ink of chimneys
The smoke nights write their oaths:
Smoke into steel and blood into steel;
Homestead, Birmingham, and Burns Harbor, they make their steel with
men.
Smoke and blood is the mix of steel
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. - Jerome K. Jerome
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims
he intends to eat until he eats them. -Samuel Butler
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