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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Roy1961" data-source="post: 122360" data-attributes="member: 12541"><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="color: #000000">Paddy, had long heard the stories of an amazing family tradition.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="color: #000000">It seems that his father, grandfather and great-grandfather had all been able to walk on water on their 18th birthday.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="color: #000000">On that special day, they'd each walked across the lake to the pub on the far side for their first legal drink. </span></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="color: #000000">So when Paddy's, 18th birthday came 'round, he and his pal Mick, took a boat out to the middle of the lake, </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="color: #000000">Paddy, stepped out of the boat ...and nearly drowned!  Mick just barely managed to pull him to safety.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="color: #000000">Furious and confused, Paddy, went to see his grandmother. </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="color: #000000">'Grandma,' he asked, "It's my 18th birthday, so why can't I walk 'cross the lake like my father,</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="color: #000000">his father, and his father before him?"  Granny looked deeply into Paddy's, troubled blue eyes and said, </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="color: #000000">"Because your father, your grandfather and your great grandfather were all born in December, when </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="color: #000000">the lake is frozen, and you were born in August, ya nutter. </span></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>

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