Topper's St Patrick's Day Dance 2014

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Serious Post Dinner Dancing (Page Three)

(March 21st 2014) Last Updated: 09/11/2019 10:38:AM

Toppers Dance Club St Patricks Day 2014

Toppers Dance Club St Patricks Day 2014
Attention! You are about to be announced!

Toppers Dance Club St Patricks Day 2014
Welcome to our St Patrick's Day dance... Just a few days late

Toppers Dance Club St Patricks Day 2014
The audience is captivated

Toppers Dance Club St Patricks Day 2014
The wait staff are all having fun

Toppers Dance Club St Patricks Day 2014
Dessert is on the way...

Toppers Dance Club St Patricks Day 2014
We were in the small room this evening.... It was fine

Toppers Dance Club St Patricks Day 2014
Everyone wearing green gets to sit down....

Did You Know? - On St Patrick's Day it is customary to wear shamrocks and/or green clothing or accessories (the "wearing of the green").

St Patrick is said to have used the shamrock, a three-leaved plant, to explain the Holy Trinity to the pagan Irish. This story first appears in writing in 1726, though it may be older. In pagan Ireland, three was a significant number and the Irish had many triple deities. The triple spiral symbol appears at many ancient megalithic sites in Ireland.

The colour green has been associated with Ireland since at least the 1640s, when the green harp flag was used by the Irish Catholic Confederation. Green ribbons and shamrocks have been worn on St Patrick's Day since at least the 1680s.

Green was adopted as the colour of the Friendly Brothers of St Patrick, an Irish fraternity founded in about 1750.

However, when the Order of St. Patrick—an Anglo-Irish chivalric order—was founded in 1783 it adopted blue as its colour. This led to blue being associated with St Patrick. In the 1790s, green became associated with Irish nationalism when it was used by the United Irishmen. This was a republican organization—led mostly by Protestants but with many Catholic members—who launched a rebellion in 1798 against British rule.

The phrase "wearing of the green" comes from a song of the same name, which laments United Irishmen supporters being persecuted for wearing green. Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, the colour green and its association with Saint Patrick's Day grew.

Toppers Dance Club St Patricks Day 2014
Tan on St. Patricks Day???

Toppers Dance Club St Patricks Day 2014
All the way from England just to attend Toppers!

Toppers Dance Club St Patricks Day 2014
Our guests... We hope they join our merry band of mischief makers

Toppers Dance Club St Patricks Day 2014
Kathy and Tom are their sponsors

Toppers Dance Club St Patricks Day 2014

Toppers Dance Club St Patricks Day 2014
Shirley...

Toppers Dance Club St Patricks Day 2014
Jack.... Celebrating 94 years

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Toppers Dance Club St Patricks Day 2014
Applause

Toppers Dance Club St Patricks Day 2014
Anniversaries???

Toppers Dance Club St Patricks Day 2014

Toppers Dance Club St Patricks Day 2014
The Slaters

Toppers Dance Club St Patricks Day 2014
The Liles....
Paul was busy taking pictures and forgot to mention the anniversary... Oops


The Fronks

Toppers Dance Club St Patricks Day 2014
The Anniversary Waltz

Toppers Dance Club St Patricks Day 2014
Get ready... Get set... Go!

Toppers Dance Club St Patricks Day 2014

Toppers Dance Club St Patricks Day 2014

Toppers Dance Club St Patricks Day 2014
Sneaking out early....

Toppers Dance Club St Patricks Day 2014
Marion and Roy compare notes

Toppers Dance Club St Patricks Day 2014
The green table

Toppers Dance Club St Patricks Day 2014
Love the hat!

Toppers Dance Club St Patricks Day 2014
After dinner digesting is underway

Toppers Dance Club St Patricks Day 2014
Dancing gets underway...

Toppers Dance Club St Patricks Day 2014
Hang on... I think it is a polka

Toppers Dance Club St Patricks Day 2014
The polka is in full swing

Toppers Dance Club St Patricks Day 2014

Toppers Dance Club St Patricks Day 2014
Here come the ten-steppers...

Toppers Dance Club St Patricks Day 2014
"Del.... What comes after the ninth step??"

Toppers Dance Club St Patricks Day 2014
There they go!

Toppers Dance Club St Patricks Day 2014
Someone loves dancing

Toppers Dance Club St Patricks Day 2014
Lucky and Carolyn are moving around the floor with ease

Toppers Dance Club St Patricks Day 2014
Here they come... The green flash...

Toppers Dance Club St Patricks Day 2014
Catching up on news from England

Toppers Dance Club St Patricks Day 2014
Saying good evening

Toppers Dance Club St Patricks Day 2014
Dancing the night away

Irish Sayings....

1. May the luck of the Irish be with you!

2. If you want praise, die. If you want blame, marry.

3. Here's to a long life and a merry one. A quick death and an easy one. A pretty girl and an honest one. A cold pint and another one!

4. If you're enough lucky to be Irish... You're lucky enough!

5. May you have the hindsight to know where you've been, the foresight to know where you are going, and the insight to know when you have gone too far.

6. A man may live after losing his life but not after losing his honour.

7. "All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed." - Sean O'Casey

8. You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your father was.

9. It is often that a person's mouth broke his nose.

10. It is better to spend money like there's no tomorrow than to spend tonight like there's no money!

 

Toppers Dance Club St Patricks Day 2014
What is she up to????

Toppers Dance Club St Patricks Day 2014
Things are winding down.....


Our band played the theme from "The Blob"  by accident.....
We did a mombo to the tune

Did You Know? - The Blob is an independently made 1958 American horror/science-fiction film that depicts a growing amoeba-like alien that came from outer space and terrorizes the small community of Downingtown, Pennsylvania. In the style of American International Pictures, Paramount Pictures released the film as a double feature with I Married a Monster from Outer Space.

The film was Steve McQueen's debut leading role, and also starred Aneta Corsaut. The film's tongue-in-cheek title song was written by Burt Bacharach and Mack David and became a nationwide hit in the U.S.


Toppers Dance Club St Patricks Day 2014
Bye bye

Toppers Dance Club St Patricks Day 2014
See you in a month

Toppers Dance Club St Patricks Day 2014
I will hide from the photographer.....

Toppers Dance Club St Patricks Day 2014
"Dear... I do not think so!:

Toppers Dance Club St Patricks Day 2014
Saying goodnight

Toppers Dance Club St Patricks Day 2014

Toppers Dance Club St Patricks Day 2014

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