St. Patricks Day!

[JimC]

A couple of years old; but just in time for St. Pattys day...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nda_OSWeyn8

[poppie]

Aries - Touche'

[Clevelanddeathfan]

What is everyone doing for St. Patrick's Day? I plan on watching the parade here in Cleveland and staying in a bar in downtown until the cops throw me out early Tuesday morning.

[SomeChick]

I knew we had one of these around here somewhere. Merged.

[cindyt]

Not everyone that drinks is a asshole though. I happen know a lot of clean and sober assholes. Assholes are everywhere.

[disco]

we are irish on st pattys day. isnt everybody. i love corned beef and cabbage. but i always mess it up. so i celebrate at the local clanceys then i eat it.

[Snoopy]

My son when he was real young used to make a trap to catch a leprochan in every night before St. Patty's. My husband and I used to leave a little picture of a leprochan in it and a note from him saying maybe you'll catch me next year! it was too cute.

[BigBootyJudy]

we are irish on st pattys day. isnt everybody. i love corned beef and cabbage. but i always mess it up. so i celebrate at the local clanceys then i eat it.

I am a pretty good cook and I used to always screw it up royally! The best way to do it and you can't screw it up, throw it in a crock pot on low all day with a big bottle of guiness beer as the liquid!!! I promise you will be the talk of your household! If you do the cabbage I would boil that separately though.

[ichabodius]

Heres a good onr for St. Patricks Day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCbuRA_D3KU

[knothere]

wow im irish n sober
there always trying to take my lucky charms

happy pattys to u all

[kelbons]

[WendyK]

Happy St. Patricks Day to everyone! Kelly Em looks so darn cute!

[More Cheese Please]

[kelbons]

Happy St. Patricks Day to everyone! Kelly Em looks so darn cute!

Thanks! Isn't she a booger???

That's Buttercup Baby Bunny Rabbit she's holding (not that you can really see him, other than a foot!). That's his name. She has to say the whole thing every time!!!

[OBX]

Happy St. Patrick's Day to all !

And here is a mandatory song for ya!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Jgma--0WYU

[JimC]

That really is a beautiful song.

Happy St. Patrick's Day to all!

[OBX]

Go JIm!!!! two more posts!!!

[Hidium]

Its coming up. My favorite single day o the year. I will be in SF at the parade then hit a few pubs. Im goin to pretend i'm Oliver Reed. Guinness, corned beef and cabbage all day long. Maybe even down a Irish car bomb or two. Do any of you guys have any plans?

You scare me and I like it.

[Hidium]

Actually, there is a longstanding tradition with me and my friends. We try to be the first one to call and say "Happy (whatever holiday it is) Asshole!" As long as I get called an asshole on a holiday, I know I'm loved. I got it this AM from my best friend, and I got my friend in Oklahoma later in the day. I don't know how this started, but we find it hilarious. Hey, I'm Irish, we aren't rational. I saw a picture of an Irish scarecrow... It was a fence painted with the words: "Fuck Off Crows". Also, in Dublin, the sporting goods shops sell about 5 baseball bats a week. They don't play baseball. The Irish ROCK. Thank you, I know it's a weird tradition, but it's mine.

[ichabodius]

I get called asshole everyday.

[spoiledkitty]

HAPPY ST PAT"S DAY!! AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO SMOOCHIES AND MY MOM!

[Hidium]

I get called asshole everyday.

Muwahahaha!!

[SomeChick]

Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone

[JimC]

Actually, there is a longstanding tradition with me and my friends. We try to be the first one to call and say "Happy (whatever holiday it is) Asshole!" As long as I get called an asshole on a holiday, I know I'm loved. I got it this AM from my best friend, and I got my friend in Oklahoma later in the day. I don't know how this started, but we find it hilarious. Hey, I'm Irish, we aren't rational. I saw a picture of an Irish scarecrow... It was a fence painted with the words: "Fuck Off Crows". Also, in Dublin, the sporting goods shops sell about 5 baseball bats a week. They don't play baseball. The Irish ROCK. Thank you, I know it's a weird tradition, but it's mine.

The Irish must use those bats on crows that can't read!

Or opposing soccer fans.

[Hidium]

The Irish must use those bats on crows that can't read!

Or opposing soccer fans.

Yeah, huh?

[vandal]

Sign the Petition to show support of Proposition 3-17, I know they have done this in the past with little success, so if your Irish or just like green beer, go ahead and sign it.

Story: http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle...s_day_a-2.html
Petition: http://www.proposition317.com/Gateway.aspx

[neilmpenny]

Why should it be a holiday?

[lisalouver]

I signed it, thanks vandal.

I'm Irish and proud of it and we have holidays for every other thing, why not Saint Patricks Day?

Awesome thing, I will pass around thanks!

[AaronVail]

Yes, why? Isn't it shameful enough to celebrate a silly man who, like so many of his 'brothers', spread ridiculousness throughout the land? I'm glad people pay respect for this by getting completely hammered.

[lisalouver]

Why shouldn't it be a holiday?

[AaronVail]

Why should it? You first.

[lisalouver]

Why dont you read the story behind it and that will answer your question.

[AaronVail]

I know the story behind it. Why would we make it a holiday here?

[Karma]

I signed it because St Patrick's Day is a very revered holiday in my husbands family!

[AaronVail]

Is the New York Daily News a respected newspaper? Do people not realize that this is an advertising campaign?

[vandal]

There are plenty of holidays that celebrate peoples nationality or race. Columbus Day, heres a guy who was some 300 years late to the North American party and that has turned into an Italian American Holiday. Here in the states I dont think St. Patricks day is really a celebration of St. Patrick himself, but a celebration of the Irish people who built most of the east coast with their backs. They were discriminated against far into the 1940s, my grandfather as an example had to lose his accent just in order to find someone who would employ him in New York City when he came here in 1938.

[AaronVail]

There are plenty of holidays that celebrate peoples nationality or race. Columbus Day, heres a guy who was some 300 years late to the North American party and that has turned into an Italian American Holiday. Here in the states I dont think St. Patricks day is really a celebration of St. Patrick himself, but a celebration of the Irish people who built most of the east coast with their backs. They were discriminated against far into the 1940s, my grandfather as an example had to lose his accent just in order to find someone who would employ him in New York City when he came here in 1938.

Ok, and I understand that. We should give the Japanese a day as well and, um, our aboriginal peoples.

My point is, it's a stunt by Guinness.

[neilmpenny]

There are plenty of holidays that celebrate peoples nationality or race.

How many EXACTLY?

[Screwtape]

We gave the Japanese a day. December 7th.

Wasn't there an effort to change Columbus Day to 'Discovery Day' or something less politically bothersome? Whatever happened to that?

[vandal]

We do have a holiday that honors the American Indians in away, Thanksgiving. I do also agree with you that the reason that it comes up this time of the year and by Guinness is because it helps them sell beer, but they also have a means to organize such a campaign that the Ancient order of the Hiberians or another Irish group probably couldnt.

[Meli]

There are plenty of holidays that celebrate peoples nationality or race. Columbus Day, heres a guy who was some 300 years late to the North American party and that has turned into an Italian American Holiday. Here in the states I dont think St. Patricks day is really a celebration of St. Patrick himself, but a celebration of the Irish people who built most of the east coast with their backs. They were discriminated against far into the 1940s, my grandfather as an example had to lose his accent just in order to find someone who would employ him in New York City when he came here in 1938.

Exactly! I am Irish, so St Patrick's Day is about celebrating who we are and where we came from. Only stupid people think its a Holiday designed to drink (And most Irish people are NOT amongest those who do)

[Fujicakes]

We gave the Japanese a day. December 7th.

Wasn't there an effort to change Columbus Day to 'Discovery Day' or something less politically bothersome? Whatever happened to that?

In some areas they call it indigenous peoples day.

[Screwtape]

Oh yeah, that really rolls off the tongue. Happy Indigenous Peoples Day.

[Meli]

Who was Saint Patrick - St. Patrick's Day - History.com

[Meli]

Oh yeah, that really rolls off the tongue. Happy Indigenous Peoples Day.

LMAO

[Fujicakes]

Oh yeah, that really rolls off the tongue. Happy Indigenous Peoples Day.

LOL only if you practice hard enough

[vandal]

How many EXACTLY?

Well I teach and just off the top of my head, we get 2 days off for Jewish Holidays, Martin Luther King Day, Columbus Day, and next year we are closing for a day for Ramaden.

[Shano]

Why?

Because how many other "holidays" that are not considered "National Holiday's" have:

1. people lining the streets for parades,
2. every one dressed in the same color,
3. everyone claim to be something even though they are not,
4. most people going out to bars, restaurants etc. for fellowship with friends, family and people that just happen to be out because of the "Holiday".
5. And what other "Holiday" makes a city (Chicago) want to turn all of it's waterways green?

Why? Why not, people all over the country and world celebrate it anyway.

[AaronVail]

Exactly! I am Irish, so St Patrick's Day is about celebrating who we are and where we came from. Only stupid people think its a Holiday designed to drink (And most Irish people are NOT amongest those who do)

I'm of Irish origin, but I'm Canadian. I don't really think about being Irish, other than my ancestors are from some place called County Sligo. I really don't care either way about where I came from. Has nothing to do with me. I've never understood people who were born here (say, North America) but have such strong nationalistic feelings towards a country they've never been to.

I do like holidays and reasons to drink though, but this national holiday business is ridiculous.

[vandal]

I'm of Irish origin, but I'm Canadian. I don't really think about being Irish, other than my ancestors are from some place called County Sligo. I really don't care either way about where I came from. Has nothing to do with me. I've never understood people who were born here (say, North America) but have such strong nationalistic feelings towards a country they've never been to.

I do like holidays and reasons to drink though, but this national holiday business is ridiculous.

Well your welcome to your opinion, but a lot of people enjoy studying the history, the struggles, and the journey of their family from wherever they came from. Maybe if my family came here 200 years ago and not 70 years ago I wouldnt care as much. But I think personally if we look at our past we can find out a lot about ourselves.