St George

[Andrew]

Google translation, almost as good as Wiki for information, LMAO.

 

ბედნიერი გიორგობა ყველა ქვეყანაში მას, როგორც მათი მფარველი წმინდანი

[corydoras]

But neither are a substitute for the High School education sytem.

Do you know what Blake's poem is about Andrew? Do you really think that Jesus Christ walked on English soil? Did Blake?

[Steve Walker]

Oi, Blake - probably not.

[Steve Walker]

This is laughable. If St George was alive and living in England today, you would all be telling him to bugger off back to Turkey where he came from.

 

In reality Saint George never set foot upon English soil and his patronage was imposed on England by the Normans after the Norman Conquest. If one were a true Englishman one's patron would be Edmund the Martyr

One should probably also avoid glossing over the slaying of non-existent beasts.

[Andrew]

One should probably also avoid glossing over the slaying of non-existent beasts.

 

 

Good God, are you telling one that Dragons dot exists

 

What about all those mother in law jokes which contain the dragon ?????????

Edited April 23, 2014 by Andrew

[corydoras]

One should probably also avoid glossing over the slaying of non-existent beasts.

A large monotor lizard fits the original descriptions almost perfectly. The fire breathing and wings are a medieval concoction.

[Steve Walker]

Komodo dragon apart, slaying a monitor lizard is more an act of foraging than of heroism!

 

"And this is Saint Tiggywinkle, who slayed a giant ferocious land hog, covered in prickles it were, and turning people to stone with its little beady eyes. He is depicted eating some kind of meat baked in clay"

Edited April 23, 2014 by Steve Walker

[Vagabond]

Mankind needs dragons more than he needs gods - don't you watch "Game of Thrones" ?

 

About the time people began not to believe in dragons, Richard Trevithick obligingly invented a new animal phylum - "the beasts of man ", based upon fire-eating dragons. He even improved them in giving them wheels instead of legs so they could go faster.

 

....and instead of hunting and slaying them, Trevithick instigated the far more exciting activity of training them to carry loads - just like elephants. Dangerous, too, google the history of boiler explosions.

 

I spent several years taming, tending and riding the descendants of Trevithick's dragons. Stirring stuff !

[Steve Walker]

Mankind needs dragons more than he needs gods - don't you watch "Game of Thrones" ?

Do we get Daenerys Targaryen with them?

[Vagabond]

Do we get Daenerys Targaryen with them?

Oh yes, and dragon riders get Irri, Jhiqui and Doreah as a bonus.