[Ansteorra] Saracen Head Soccer?

[Tim McDaniel]

On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, lrdwayland at aol.com wrote:
[for the game Saracen's Head Soccer]
> We used a cosmotology head. It's a hard foam, covered in latex (with
> a full head of long red hair).

Ah.  Because of all the red-haired Saracens, no doubt.  Must have been
one of those Irish Saracens.  As-salatu khayrun min al-kuhul,
as Muhammedh mac Ghille-allah wrote in the Cuireann.

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From: adolp... at mizar.usc.edu (Arne Adolfsen)
Newsgroups: soc.motss
Subject: Re: Visiting Dublin
Date: 14 Nov 1995 15:00:23 -0800
Message-ID: <48b727$t2j at mizar.usc.edu>

In article <48b682$... at gw.PacBell.COM>

Rod Williams <rjwi... at pacbell.com> writes:
> briansh... at aol.com (BrianShore) wrote:
> >                                    ... contrairy to hollywood
> >movies not all Irishmen are readheads although quite a few
> >are. There's the Black Irish - decendents of the Moorish invaision
> >of the Emerald Isle.

[...]

> To be filed under "Blarney, examples of."
> Rod (*Moorish* invasion???)

Yes.  Right after the Moors defeated the French at Roncesvalles,
they continued on up to Brittany, crossed the Channel and beat
the English, then set off for Ireland, where they kicked out
the Vikings and settled down.  The Caliphate of Eire, which lasted
for several hundred years, can in some ways be considered the high
point of Irish history.

Besides, how else can you explain all those mosques and minarets
that are strewn about Ireland, especially in the west?

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