OK- my mother was Irish...
& on a bad day could make comment on the Moors in Spain...

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> Drews unkind remarks
>  about his "kin" building the Pantheon when the Brits were painted blue and
> hugging trees...I took umbrage with...
>
> The last radio carbon date of Stonehenge was putting its construction  around
> 2500 bc, more or less about the same time of the Great Pyramid;
> when  the area we now call Rome was still trying to figure out how to pick
> grapes.
>
> And as a member of the Pictish Arts society; it was also of great distress to
> hear  reference  to Britons being painted blue ;
> When after all it was the Scottish  Pictii or Picts who tattooed themselves
> blue and fought naked thus creating one of the great marvels of  stone  ;
> Hadrians wall circa 127 ad
> .The Picts as Caesar called them ( see Gaul campaigns ) "held the legions at
> bay for days while bon fires burned day and night and naked  women and men
> created a blood curdling din through horns  screams and the clash of
> spears." (ibid Caesar)
>
> I for one cannot stand a screaming woman ; let alone one that is naked;
> just ask my wife; ....no ... on second thought don't ask my wife.
>
> However All these insults can be settled over beer ;
> Or
>        .....Its horse apples at dawn on the cliffs of Weehawken.
> ....... Il be painted blue so you know its me . Pyrate
>
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