St Andrews' Day, the new St Paddy's day?

[BenEsq]

http://www.theherald.co.uk/politics/75253.html

Not being a Scot, and having lived in the cultural void that is the suburban wasteland of the South East of England, I'd not heard of many Scot associated things, like St Andrews' Day or Jack McConnell (which is odd, considering that I see him as being more England that Scottish orientated).

I see St Andrews' Day as a great opportunity for town and gown to come together in St Andrews, and think Lee Kane's doing some stirling work organising the St Andrews' Day Procession, but other than my St Andrean experiences, I can't comment much further.

What do other people think of St Andrews' Day, if they think of it all? Can MacEwans' every seriously rival Guinness?

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[chief_gobbo]

You say suburban wasteland of south east england as if it is a bad thing!

[BenEsq]

Quoting chief_gobbo from 11:43, 26th Nov 2006
You say suburban wasteland of south east england as if it is a bad thing!

Yes.

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Lions and tigers and bears...Oh my!

[Midget]

MacEwans, surely St Andrews Ale, they used sometimes have it on offer on St Andrews day, one time in TPs it was £1 pound a pint, or maybe that was them finishing off a nearly out of date barrel still it was fun.

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[exnihilo]

St Andrew's Day. Not St Andrews' Day. It's for the saint, not the town/university named after him.

[DrAlex]

I'm all for it. Why should we only get sinfully drunk and wear silly hats for the Irish? All the Home Nations should give silly hats in exchange for binge drinking.

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[Midget]

Quoting exnihilo from 12:19, 26th Nov 2006
St Andrew's Day. Not St Andrews' Day. It's for the saint, not the town/university named after him.

Well if its a Scottish National day then following the Irish-Guinness thing, it should be heroin with a vodka & irnbru chaser.

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[DrAlex]

Or standing in a back alley chain smoking B&Hs, necking buckie and yelling at anyone who looks at our Fauxberry scarves the wrong way.

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[jequirity]

Consumption of Asda's own brand whisky on st.andrews day. Or tennants or Best.

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LEEERRRROYYYY!!!!

Andrew W K Day 9th of May

[flarewearer]

{{Tennents}}

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[macgamer]

I suggest a full religious procession with relics, banners, Scottish Catholic Clergy. Starting from the Cathedral around the main streets of St Andrews culminating in a Mass in the Church of Saint James with veneration of the relics of Saint Andrew.

Now that would be a celebration for feast of Saint Andrew.

[Fawksie]

Is there *anything* to be said for saying another Mass? Oh God, I love saying Mass!

[exnihilo]

Quoting macgamer from 15:50, 26th Nov 2006
I suggest a full religious procession with relics, banners, Scottish Catholic Clergy. Starting from the Cathedral around the main streets of St Andrews culminating in a Mass in the Church of Saint James with veneration of the relics of Saint Andrew.

Now that would be a celebration for feast of Saint Andrew.

It would be an odd one. A very, very odd one. A lot of saints are not, in fact, the property of the Catholic Church, especially the early ones.

[flarewearer]

Quoting benesq from 11:32, 26th Nov 2006
{{St Andrews' Day, the new St Paddy's day?}}

Please, for the love of God, no! There's already enough tartan tat in this country, we don't need a nationally sanctioned holiday sponsored by an international brewer.

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[Grandpa]

seriously guys.....

http://www.geocities.com/traditions_uk/andrew.html

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We are gentlemen that neither in our hearts nor outward eyes envy the great nor shall the low despise.

[angel_kohaku]

It's never been a holiday I have "celebrated". When I went to school in England they made a bigger deal about St George's day than anyone up here makes out of St Andrew's day. And I do agree with the point that it is St Andrew's day NOT St Andrews' day.

We were debating in our Spanish reading group as to whether or not we should get the day off since it was "our Patron saint's day".
Then funny part? I think I'm the only Scot in the class.

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I have always depended on the kindness of strangers

[Rufus]

It's an excellent idea.

Scotland needs another excuse - other than Hogmanay and Burns' night - to crack open the malt.

Depressingly (and tellingly), the homesick Expats in exotic locations appear to be the only Scots proud enough (or deluded enough) to celebrate our patron saint.

[October]

I've always celebrated it,
haveing been schooled in Scotland, It was made a big deal of, and I always got the day off from school.
I Loved it! And Still do.

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I'm Telling you.
It was the Ninja Robot Monkeys that did it.

[exnihilo]

I too was schooled in Scotland, and don't recall it ever being made any kind of fuss of. I knew it was St Andrew's Day but it wasn't a holiday or anything of that sort. As my mother happens to be here, I've asked her too, and she agrees. All of the fuss over it seems to have sprung up in the last 10 years or so, and the entirely execrable St Andrews Week in the last 5.

[flarewearer]

St Andrew's day has never been a public holiday in Scotland, were you just skiving, October
? I don't recall ever being educated about anything more than it was "St Andrew's Day" either, I didn't learn about him till I came to the eponymous Royal Burgh many years later.

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