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Title: St. Paddy's Day
Post by: sumner7 on March 17, 2004, 01:17:49 PM

Happy St. Patrick's Day everybody! Let's down a few pints of guinness and paint the town green tonight! The first one's on me... :pint:

Title: Re: St. Paddy's Day
Post by: PMC on March 17, 2004, 01:47:06 PM

Four-point-five million Irish in Ireland....

Yet the whole world celebrates St Paddy's!  

Before I'm flamed for saying the above, I should point out that my maternal grandmother was from County Cork, therefore I'm officially allowed to celebrate St Patrick's day legitimately.

:-D

Title: Re: St. Paddy's Day
Post by: cecilia on March 17, 2004, 02:59:11 PM

this is the day when we all become Irish.
 :lol:

Title: Re: St. Paddy's Day
Post by: PMC on March 17, 2004, 04:19:19 PM

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cecilia wrote:
this is the day when we all become Irish.
 :lol:

All sorts of people are walking past my office window drinking Guinness out of cans and wearing Shamrock T Shirts.  And I'm working.....

:-(


I shall make up for it on Friday as our office is all going on a big night out.

:pint:

Title: Re: St. Paddy's Day
Post by: Cyberus on March 17, 2004, 08:41:00 PM

Quote

PMC wrote:
Four-point-five million Irish in Ireland....

Yet the whole world celebrates St Paddy's!  

Before I'm flamed for saying the above, I should point out that my maternal grandmother was from County Cork, therefore I'm officially allowed to celebrate St Patrick's day legitimately.

:-D

I'm all for St Patrick's day, and the Irish celebrating their heritage etc.
But they day that *I* celebrate it, will be the day the Irish and the Scots celebrate St George's day...... That snowball I left in hell seems to be bearing up well....:lol:

Title: Re: St. Paddy's Day
Post by: sumner7 on March 19, 2004, 10:14:33 AM

If you bought 5 pints of Guinness in the pub on St. Paddy's Day, you got a free hat!

(http://www.irelandstreasures.com/web_ima/guinness/g6008.jpg)

It was like this one, only with shamrocks and the like on it.  :-D

Title: Re: St. Paddy's Day
Post by: PMC on March 19, 2004, 12:40:58 PM

What makes St Paddy's day worthy of celebration is that the Irish have a reputation for being friendly and knowing how to have a good time.

As an Englishman, I have to say that we aren't quite as carefree about celebrating our national day as the scots, welsh, irish etc.  

BTW, a few years back our local council granted the bars an extension to opening times on St Paddy's day.  An application to do the same on ST George's was rejected on the same grounds!

Title: Re: St. Paddy's Day
Post by: AccyD on March 19, 2004, 08:16:39 PM

Isn't St Patrick the patron saint of getting pissed?  :-D