Mi caru ti

January 25, 2007 5:13 PM

Happy St. Dwynwen's Day! (Not to be confused with this guy or Hallmark's go-to fella, both handy for those of us wanting to be in love.)

Go out and smooch someone Welsh today.
posted by DeepFriedTwinkies (16 comments total)

Go out and smooch someone Welsh today.

Careful, you'll make the sheep jealous. /cellwair
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 5:21 PM on January 25, 2007 [1 favorite]

I once wrote an alexandrine sonnet called The Temptation of Saint Dwynwen. It was as punishment for having missed a day while on a write-one-poem-a-day spree. It took me almost an hour per line to write. Since then I've always thought of Saint Dwynwen as "my saint." Had I known today was her day, and if I didn't have the flu, I probably would've gone to light a candle for her in one of the eight Catholic churches within easy walking distance of me, even though I'm an atheist.
posted by Kattullus at 5:39 PM on January 25, 2007

I can't quite articulate why, but this bit from the second link had me in stitches:

Patronage
          sick animals; lovers (especially Welsh)
posted by Kattullus at 5:46 PM on January 25, 2007

W i'n dy garu di!
posted by gubo at 6:00 PM on January 25, 2007

My favourite love poem is by a Welshman; R.S. Thomas' No Time, on the death of his wife of fifty years:

... There is a tremor
of light, as of a bird crossing
the sun's path, and I look
up in recognition
of a presence in absence.
Not a word, not a sound,
as she goes her way,
but a scent lingering
which is that of time immolating
itself in love's fire.

posted by Abiezer at 6:01 PM on January 25, 2007 [1 favorite]

It's also Australia Day right now.
posted by caddis at 6:19 PM on January 25, 2007

Go out and smooch someone Welsh today.

Dude, my brother-in-law is Welsh. That's gross.

But okay, whatever you say...
posted by LordSludge at 6:48 PM on January 25, 2007

It's also Australia Day right now.

Jan 26th also happens to be Republic (independence) Day here in India.

Might just celebrate with an icy-cold Fosters (gags), which, naturally, is available everywhere in the world *except* Australia.
posted by UbuRoivas at 8:13 PM on January 25, 2007

Just Republic Day, uburoivas, independence day is 15th August.
posted by infini at 9:46 PM on January 25, 2007

I call Catherine Zeta Jones.
posted by Pollomacho at 10:41 PM on January 25, 2007 [1 favorite]

My first kiss was with a Welsh boy. I was four, he was five, and we'd just gotten married on the playground. Fond memories.

Hi Mark. Um, should we maybe get divorced?
posted by honeydew at 10:42 PM on January 25, 2007

So on this day one should present one's beloved with a big leek-shaped box of of of of leeks?
posted by Cranberry at 11:26 PM on January 25, 2007

My lips are puckered and I await my lovespoons with anticipation :-)
posted by ceri richard at 4:25 AM on January 26, 2007

I - an Irishman - was sitting in a bar last night with a Scotsman and an Englishman. We lamented the fact that there was no Welshman present.

Now I know - they're all out organizing the parades down 5th avenue and suchlike.
posted by Sk4n at 5:40 AM on January 26, 2007

Let's not start on the Paddy Englishman, Paddy Irishman and Paddy Scotsman jokes, Sk4n!
posted by Wilder at 9:19 AM on January 26, 2007

Go out and smooch someone Welsh today.

What if your the only gay in the village?
posted by zeraus at 10:24 AM on January 26, 2007