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Oh, I miss the river of green, And I wish that I'd seen your special brownie topping in time to concoct it for the stupid-ass, contrived brunch the company is having tomorrow.
And woman *how* are you so prolific? I admire you...
When i get drunk, vomit everywhere and becoime abusive....no one joins in....March 17th, cos yer irish, the whole bloody universe does...goddamn favouritism if you ask me
Becky, I have never in my life been able to keep my big trap shut. Eh bien.
Hi, thanks for putting up the river pic. I've always heard of the green river, but never seen it! It looks like pool chlorine gone wrong.
PS - Swedish fish are like gummy bears.
The snakes were a product of the hallucinogenics that reached Ireland before the Guinness did.
Tonight's celebrations will feature a far-from-Irish chicken biriyani, and white rum.
Do you know whether the Australians have yet set a date for Saint Billy's Day?
I'll bet Billy cant handle his Ale....anyone that cant handle black beer is a pussy and should be beaten to death. Only pussies drink brown.
It's a good day to get your drinking done early and get off the streets, if you ask me! But then (sniff) no one ever does.
Wow, they actually dyed the water in the river! I would not have believed it if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes. It's very cool! I had no idea you had a second blog. And to think I have enough trouble keeping up with one... RESPECT.
What a brilliant post! I wasn't going to have a a drink tonight and actually forgot it was St Patrick's day but I think I shall have a drink tonight too, in celebration of life in general!
Oh, and didn't the leprechaun bury the gold at the end of the rainbow? That's what I always though!
I've seen the green river, it is magnificent.
As far as St Billy's day goes down here, we'll be hard pressed to find it a spare day. We have so many bloody holidays at this time of year it's not funny. Well, not for me anyway, this humble fruitologist is paid casual. Easter is surrounded by various parochial state events and then Anzac day (don't ask, it's not all about oat bickies, sadly) so I get a one day work week. Personally, I don't think we're going to fall for the Billy Graham deal, but evangelism is on the rise they say, and I've been wrong before!
well you asked at the tail end what people were up to tonight...
after an encounter of the fun kind at 4:23ish, i'll be heading to kingston, with a friend in tow, to celebrate belatednesses and greenishness with anna and her gib.
bring on the guinness. combined with the mock-penicilin i'm bound to have a head swooning time.
and you with yours?
For St. Patty's day, I always paint my butt green and blazon it with a placard that reads "Kiss me, I'm Irish."
OK, that's a bunch of blarney. Happy St. Pat's Day. Here's toasting a green beer to you.
Wow Jay, you're like a St.Patrick's Expert. I never understood why it was such a big deal here in the states, I know the bit about the snakes and was as impressed as any other American might be - which equals mild interest- The Guinness thing I could get behind, Love the shit... I really just thought it was more an excuse for the grocers to charge $3.99 a pound for corned beef brisket. Who Knew?
Kim, you are a delight.
Ms. Mac, nowadays, and especially in cereal commercials, the pot of gold is at the end of the rainbow. The first legend though, in ye olde Ireland goes roughly like this:
A man captures an leprechaun, demands to know where the gold is hidden. It is actually hidden under a tree in a forrest. Leprechaun points out the right tree, and man ties a red ribbon around the trunk so he can find it when he comes back with a shovel. When he does come back with a shovel, he finds that the leprechaun has cleverly tied a red ribbon around every tree in the forrest.
Great post, and the river is too cool!! I've never seen that either. I also like the leprechaun story,... I never knew the full story for that. Like Ms Mac said, I always thought it was at the end of the rainbow 
As always --- awesome post! I always wondered what the holiday was all about, actually . Now I know...
"A Festivus for the Rest of Us" Indeed! Okay, gather around so I can tell you all what I REALLY think of ya! (Frank Costanza)
That's the normal color of the river, Jay.
And cheers to the Aussie, crit, on ANZAC day.
Almost forgot...I like the way you tinkered with your layout, Jay...nice to include my humble name there, too.
Wow..thanks for posting this. I had no idea that it had such a history! Great post.
Seinfeld was awesome... I've got irish somewhere in me, but native american too, so my irish affinity for holding my alcohol is cancelled out.
They taught us what St. Patty's day was really about in 2nd grade I believe, but noone remembers now.
If anyone tries to pinch me for not wearing green I plan on knocking out a tooth or two. Theirs of course.
Ahhh, to live in NYC on St. Patrick's day....a long parade that ends exactly at my block and then miles of drunk people as far as the eye can see b/c I have tons of Irish pubs in spitting distance from my apartment. It's lovely to see grown men swaying in front of racing taxi cabs. Makes for great people watching
i'll just get drunk because it's thursday. any concurrent irish holiday is a coincidence.
I know people are stupid...V Day doesn't do it for me...but St, Patrick's Day doesn't exactly butter my toast either. It does give me some sense of pride about being Irish (but I feel that way year round)...you're right about the drunks using it as yet another excuse to get Guinness crazy.
Your post is...as they say in Ireland...grande. I love that you included some history here.. St. Patrick was actually born in Scotland, his given name was Patricius...which means noble. (You can tell me to stick it up my ass here...'cause I realize that I'm sounding pretentious).
I'm cooking corned beef in beer tonight & I need a dessert...& ANYTHING chocolate is fine by me...so I'll check Sweet Jay's out.
Hey Jamie, do you have any irish in you?
No, you say?
Want some?
-How has no one made this comment yet? Jay, I appreciate the history lesson, and I look forward to learning about Easter next weekend; you are a fountain of knowledge.
Hi!
I stopped in to thank you for those Birthday wishes and please also pass mine onto your "baby" sister!
Does she get Birthday Cards with St. Patrick's Day motifs every year too?
Have a green beer for me. The beer in Bavaria has the same color year round.
Brilliant post. Happy saint Patricks day to one and all. Love the green river
Ah yes, my drunken Irish husband. You know, ever since we married and hyphenated our names, we have a Scottish-Irish combination. Isn't that treason squared?
No, just makes for a strange last name.
Jason stole my A material before I got here. Damn.
an unusually earnest and serious post from my fave cyber party girl... whats up with that? in oz we jump on the st paddy's day bandwagon, for sure, but the whole pretending to be irish thing is done with a healthy dose of irony if at all. and my irish mates tell me that their experience of the holiday in their homelands was much the same as ours: im sure there are some people for whom the holiday *is* a deeply religious event, but i suspect that most young red blooded irish peeps are just up for a craic on this fine day, rather than a two hour stint in a gloomy church celebrating a man who banished ungodly heathens from his homeland. (but that might just be the recovering catholic in me talking... or the hangover 
)
Saint Paddy's day is a great excuse for getting pissed up on green beer, but for making an excuse to get pissed, I really prefer Saint Swithin's day. Damn few people know what date that is, so you can use it any time. (but it's July 15th)
We have a huge celebration here in Savannah as some of our original settlers were Irish. They have a huge parade, we wear green...I don't drink a drop of anything alcoholic...and we eat corn beef and cabbage for dinner. The Irish are very proud of their heritage here, and we are respectful of their religious holiday, and enjoy the celebrations afterwards.
Having small children means I will be up to no shenanigans tonight, but we had some fun with green dyed milkshakes earlier. (ooh wow! Doesn't that sound so exciting? You want to have a baby RIGHT NOW after reading about my high life!)
OK, this one's a bit gross.
So here's your chance to stop reading now, if you've been out celebrating appropriately.
Plenty of blank space.
For St. Patrick's Day this year? Green poop. Neon green. Evidently, one of the prime symptoms of a Rota infection, which both kids are now sporting.
Happy Me Day. I know all of you love me, but you didn't have to set aside a whole day for me!
I learned a thing or two today, thanks Jay.
My niece lived in Chicago until this past fall and everyone loved heading out to see them dye the river green the week before and going to the St. Patty's parade.
It really is amazing to see...
But you gotta love a holiday where you can head out on the streets and pay $8.00 for some mardi gras beads with giant mugs of plastic bear and suds and $15.00 for a green feather cowboy hat and go get shitfaced at the local pub and be thought of as normal.
Ya gotta love that!
Love the blog btw, just found it tonight.
myself, hot wife, peter, marisa, erik, bonnie, kim and travis got some goodies at a local elementary school that has been converted into a hotel/restaurant/theater/drinky place.
am I Irish? it's a percentage thing. family estimate: 33%. lot's of Irish on the east coast. more here in the west- especially the defunct coal mines of montana, where my pop is from. but how Irish am I really? I'm not wearing one those stupid green plastic hats I'll tell you that. and I doubt I'm related to bono.
Happy St. Paddys Day!!!!
from an American, Hungarian, German, Polish, Austrian, Lithuanian, English MIXed mutt
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