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HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY!
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Tank God for Guinness.

Faith and Begorra!

** hick **

Did you ever wonder what "faith and begorra" meant? I looked it up and thought this was a pretty good explanation ...

"This is a kind of amalgam of two phrases originating in this transition period.
The first one was used to precede some strong assertion and would have translated as something like 'By my Faith..' (meaning, by my Christian religion).

The second part ('Begorrah') probably originated as follows: being reluctant to say 'By God..' , the common people said something like 'by Gor', pronouncing it 'Be Gor' , which in time became 'Begorrah'."

Shut up and pass the Guinness. Oi've dehydrated waiting for the jug to re-appear.

Sorry DB, St Pat priorities.