Happy Vidovdan!

[Zebedeo]

St. Vitus' Day is here. Let there be much feasting and merriment.

[lisby]

1. Par-TAAAY!

Do we get to do the special dance?

:bounce: :toast: :party:

Lisby

[SPKrazy]

3. Don't You Have To Eat Tainted Grain For That? n/t

[Dogmudgeon]

4. It's allowable to eat PURIFIED tained grain

Sometimes known as d-lysergic acid diethylamide, or plain old LSD.

Well, it's "allowable" in the religious sense.

--p!
I think it also requires a Gabriel Reaction.
You know -- aminization.

[SPKrazy]

6. Ergot Alkaloids

like D-lysergic acid diethylamide are found in improperly stored grains

which grow Ergot fungi on them, and the alkaloids of which include LSD

Can you imagine being Alexander Fleming and accidentally ingesting LSD?

Whoa and from what I remember reading he absorbed a large dose

[LiberalEsto]

2. I'll bring the goats-blood cakes nt

[TallahasseeGrannie]

5. Doesn't some wild and crazy

dancing go along with that?

[beam me up scottie]

7. Okay.

Now I'm curious.

WHat are we celebrating?

[Zebedeo]

8. It's a relatively obscure

religious holiday.

Vidovdan

BTW, I'm not Serbian Orthodox. I just wanted to give a shout out to any lurkers or posters who might be, and might be pleased to see a thread about Vidovdan show up on their screen.

[beam me up scottie]

9. Very interesting, thanks.

I never heard of the guy.

From Wikipedia:

Saint Vitus

Martyr

Died: 303, Lucania, Italy

Venerated in: Roman Catholic Church

Feast: June 15

Attributes: in a cauldron, rooster, lion
Patronage: actors; comedians; Czechoslovakia; dancers; dogs; epilepsy; Forio, Ischia; oversleeping; Prague, Czech Republic; rheumatic chorea; Saint Vitus Dance; snake bites; storms; Vacha, Germany; Zeven, Lower Saxony

Vitus was a Christian saint from Sicily, Italy, Roman Empire. He died as a martyr during the persecution of Christians by co-ruling Roman Emperors Diocletian and Maximian in 303. He is counted as one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers of the Roman Catholic Church.

Saint Vitus' Day is celebrated on June 15 according to the Gregorian calendar, and on June 28 according to the Julian calendar.

During the Middle Ages, people from both Central Europe and Northern Europe (Germany, Latvia etc) celebrated the feast of Saint Vitus with the so-called Saint Vitus Dance, though that term also has a meaning of a nervous disorder exhibited by trembling, see Chorea (disease).

St. Vitus is considered the patron saint of actors, comedians, dancers, and finally epileptics. He also protects against lightnings, animal attacks and oversleeping, and is the patron saint of Bohemia (cf. St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague). Vitus is the patron saint of the towns of Forio in Campania, Italy and the town of Winschoten in the Netherlands. Various places in Austria and Bavaria are named Sankt Veit in his honor.