Yesterday was Saint David’s day, the annual celebration dedicated to the patron saint of Wales. The day is celebrated by wearing a small onion called a leek on your head.
Granted, I’m not a saint, but I feel a certain obligation due to the name.
So go and take a leak and think of me when you do.
PAD
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As the Bard put it: “why wear you your leek to-day? Saint
Davy’s day is past.”
Henry V is just not going to be the same now that you’ve got me conflating “taking a leak” and wearing a leek. So thanks for that…
Need any recipes? Because (deferring to Mr. Shakespeare again) “if you can mock a leek, you can eat a leek.”
–ATK
After the week you’re having, this is tantamount to puppy-kicking, but..
It’s leek,not leak. Clearly you don’t know your onions…
The leek, Allium ampeloprasum var. porrum (L.), also sometimes known as Allium porrum, is a vegetable which belongs, along with the onion and garlic, to the Alliaceae family. Two related vegetables, the elephant garlic and kurrat, are also variant subspecies of Allium ampeloprasum, although different in their uses as food.
Elephant garlic? The mind boggles…
Cheers.
Peter J Poole: It’s leek,not leak. Clearly you don’t know your onions…
Peter, go reread PAD’s post. He wrote ‘leek’ the first time, then changed it at the end for the joke. So yeah, he knows how to spell it.
Dear PAD
I think you should make the button to subscribe to the RSS feed more noticeable. I had to look for a while until I found it.
Also, for some reason when I click on the entries from Google Reader, it does not direct me to the website, just goes straight to Google for some reason with the this address on the bar “http://75.126.28.154/”
I’m pretty certain it said leak at the top too when I originally read it, which is where I picked up on it before I got to the pun… FWIW, I do grok the concept of humour. Hence the ‘know your onions’ line.
Cheers.
“You ever meet a Welshman?”
“No.”
“Ever eaten a leek?”
“Yes.”
“Same thing.”
Ahhh, Wales, the land that gave us Tom Jones, Doctor Who, and lots and lots of nervous sheep…
(Yes, I know that’s borderline racist. Trust me, it’s an English/Irish/Scottish/Welsh thang…)
Cheers.
Sheep are pretty well known by many ranchers here in the USA, too.
As an American David, I thank you for knowing about such a great Welsh holiday!
Alan Coil Says:
March 2nd, 2009 at 7:56 pm
Sheep are pretty well known by many ranchers here in the USA, too.
Brokebaaaaaack Mountain Syndrome? Or True Love? (Because I know I’ll never find another ewe?)
Cheers.