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Dear Friends,
One year during our monarchist parade in honour of The Queen's Birthday (Victoria Day), the Orangemen were invited to come.
But so were the Knights of Columbus.
The Knights came and unfurled their papal flags.
One look at them and the Orangemen packed up and left . . .
At one time in Toronto, you couldn't get a job if you weren't a member of a Loyal Orange Order Lodge.
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Originally posted by Orthodox Catholic:
Dear Friends,
One year during our monarchist parade in honour of The Queen's Birthday (Victoria Day), the Orangemen were invited to come.
But so were the Knights of Columbus.
The Knights came and unfurled their papal flags.
One look at them and the Orangemen packed up and left . . .At one time in Toronto, you couldn't get a job if you weren't a member of a Loyal Orange Order Lodge.
Alex Hmm - it strikes me it was as bad there as it is here - we still have problems during the 'marching season' The Walks are policed very strictly ,both by the real Police and by the LOL Marshals - and I'm more afraid of the Marshals than the Police and their wonderful horses. Anhelyna
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Hmm, I am 1/4 Irish and 1/4 Scottish, but no Scots-Irish. My Irish ancestors were mid- and southern Ireland; Irish Catholic through and through. And my Scottish ancestors were Scottish Catholics and Presbyterians from the Highlands. No Lowland Scottish here!  And the Irish and Scottish in my family never intermarried. The Irish married the English (imagine that!) and the Scottish married the Sicilians. Logos Teen
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Logos Teen reports that "And the Irish and Scottish in my family never intermarried." Are we to understand that Logos Teen is the result of parthenogenesis? Incognitus
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DFIC:
This story will remain incomplete, perhaps forever, without knowing where the heck "RTO," or "Royal True Orange," comes from!
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Does the Royal True Orange not come from California? Incognitus
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Dear incognitus:
Try again!
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OK; how about Florida? Though I do prefer California oranges. Except one who keeps trying to pass for a human being. Incognitus
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Originally posted by Amado Guerrero:
DFIC:
This story will remain incomplete, perhaps forever, without knowing where the heck "RTO," or "Royal True Orange," comes from!
AmdG Well, if it comes from Healthy Harvest Deli & Filipino Cuisine (1998 Homestead Road, Suite 113, in Santa Clara, CA) it costs $1.50. Alternately, Royal Tru-Orange. It's a soda from the Phillipines. The color of its bottle is actually called "royal true orange blue" and can be viewed at Royal True Orange Blue [ shinceramic.com] Many years, Neil can't believe I checked this out and am posting it 
"One day all our ethnic traits ... will have disappeared. Time itself is seeing to this. And so we can not think of our communities as ethnic parishes, ... unless we wish to assure the death of our community."
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Dear Neil: I can't believe how resourceful you are! (I think I should become a Filipino Melkite?!) Yes, it's "Royal Tru-Orange" and the favorite Orange soda of some 80 million Filipinos, at least to me when I was growing up. It's the Orange soda with the original "real pulp bits!" Bottled by Coca-Cola, it is the other half of the fierce rivalry in the "Orange" wars; Pepsi's "Mirinda" is a far second. The "Orange" wars has gone to China and to the rest of Asia, where about 4 billion are thirsting for anything "Orange!" Let's drink to that!  AmdG
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As long as no one uses "LMAO" on this board!
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Originally posted by Amado Guerrero: Dear Neil:
I can't believe how resourceful you are! (I think I should become a Filipino Melkite?!)
Yes, it's "Royal Tru-Orange" and the favorite Orange soda of some 80 million Filipinos, at least to me when I was growing up. It's the Orange soda with the original "real pulp bits!"
Bottled by Coca-Cola, it is the other half of the fierce rivalry in the "Orange" wars; Pepsi's "Mirinda" is a far second.
The "Orange" wars has gone to China and to the rest of Asia, where about 4 billion are thirsting for anything "Orange!"
Let's drink to that!
AmdG Amado, Actually, the name tweaked a memory and the web-search confirmed it, at least I think it did. As a young medical officer in VietNam 35 yrs ago, I had occasion to interact with some ROP medical units that were deplyed there. In our common misery, we exchanged various "treats" from home - one that they offered was a delicious orange drink, with the pulp in it. Memory tells me that it was Royal Tru-Orange. Many years, Neil
"One day all our ethnic traits ... will have disappeared. Time itself is seeing to this. And so we can not think of our communities as ethnic parishes, ... unless we wish to assure the death of our community."
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When I first started going on the net in the early 90's lol (lower case) meant "laughing out loud" LOL (upper case) meant "Little Old Lady". If a post was somewhat graphic or obscene it was marked "Not for LOL's", "Not for Little Old Ladies" some sites mark these posts "NFBSK"- "not for British school kids".
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Dear Neil:
While you were sweating it out somewhere in the Vietnamese jungles with some volunteer RP Medics, and savoring your "Royal Tru-Orange," I and my "righteous" friends were probably burning Uncle Sam's effigy on the streets of Manila and protesting the visit of LBJ and shouting on top of our lungs: "Yankee(s) go home!"
Never mind that Clark and Subic provided a sobering presence of America's might and both did deter any crazy thoughts of adventures beyond Vietnam the Russkies must have been entertaining!
Now, my ego is further deflated!
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