I would but I don't even live close.
Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
Yeah... what he said.
Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :
YAY!
Happy Saint Patrick's Day!!!
Posted by HollowEarth (Member # 2586) on :
Woo hoo green beer!
Posted by beverly (Member # 6246) on :
We had our traditional corned beef and cabbage dinner tonight. One night early, since we had a guest who totally digs corned beef. But now we can eat leftovers on St. Patty's. (Not that there is much meat left.) Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
In my family, the corned beef is bought while it's on sale, but put in the freezer for later consumption; my dad started that the year he learned to make colcannon. We've never gone back.
We do wear green. My grandmother was from England, but her parents were from Ireland and she lived in the Irish part of Liverpool, so...
Posted by BotaLadyG (Member # 7053) on :
wohoo Happy St. Patty's Day!!!
I just got done baking 42 green cupcakes!! Oh the things we do for our children's happiness! (Now I get to ice all these goofy things *the joys alone )
I think that will wait till morning... Posted by Kama (Member # 3022) on :
St. Patricks = beer night
Posted by St. Yogi (Member # 5974) on :
I'll celebrate by watching The Boondock Saints Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :
Erin go blargh
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
Corned beef and cabbage is one of my most-favorite meals, and I usually only get it this one time a year. Our company cafeteria usually offers it each St. Patrick's day.
So I come into work today, check the intranet for menu-of-the-day and they are having..... tuna noodle casserole! What kind of blasphemy is this!! I'm so disappointed...
FG
Posted by Jenny Gardener (Member # 903) on :
This is the day we snake-people mourn our banishment from Ireland. Posted by Shan (Member # 4550) on :
(((Jenny)))
Pat was a cranky, fussy sort - wasn't he . . .
Posted by Dragon (Member # 3670) on :
Happy St. Patrick's Day!
I made soda bread last night... yummy
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
*listens to a collection of Irish ballads*
*hears "Kilkelly"*
*cries* Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
*listens to "My Own Native Land" and cries some more*
Posted by ctm (Member # 6525) on :
Am I the only person of Irish descent who finds corned beef and cabbage disgusting? Maybe I just had it too many times growing up. Stringy meat, soggy veggies, bleh.
Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
I am wearing all green. Green pants, green shirt, green socks, green shoes. Not like it's all that hard for me, but still. GREEN!!!
Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
Happy St. Patty's Day! <--*wearing green*
Posted by ctm (Member # 6525) on :
By the way, ketchupqueen, your dinner sounds fabulous and if I lived anywhere near you I'd be at your door...I love colcannon! And soda bread..
I grew up in Vermont and every St. Patricks day we'd watch the St. Patrick Day parade in NYC on WPIX. Then we'd watch "The Quiet Man" that evening (after the stringy corned beef and soggy cabbage!)
Happy St. Patrick's Day!
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
ctm, my corned beef is never stringy, and while the veggies do get soft, thet never get overcooked or bitter, and are very flavorful. So there. Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :
I suppose I could have a glass of whisky tonight. I have a bottle that was given to me for the express and sole purpose of solitary consumption...
Posted by Bean Counter (Member # 6001) on :
I am going to miss the big night in Savanna by one day! We have a week of leave starting Friday!
I wonder if our new ACU's count as green?
BC
Posted by Irish Snake (Member # 6336) on :
yep, happy saint patricks day. \
Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :
I wore green
Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
[whisper] psst...did y'all know St. Patric wasn't Irish? [/whisper]
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
But he is the patron saint of Ireland. Which is traditionally a very Catholic country.
Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :
Poem my younger brother and I collaborated on some 27-28 years ago:
The Irish color is green And it is really keen Saint Patrick drove the snakes away That's why we celebrate this day March 17th is Saint Patrick's Day So we all celebrate his way Green is keen The color of a bean Green is seen in lots of spots Once I saw a shamrock on top of a clock
<Takes bow.>
Posted by Shan (Member # 4550) on :
Some good reads on Pat (who was a slave of the Irish before he left, became a priest, and answered the call he heard to return to Ireland and minister to the pagans . . .)
And of course, there are tons more places to find interesting tidbits of info . . .
Slainte!
Posted by Bob the Lawyer (Member # 3278) on :
You know, being a Maritimer you'd think I'd be all about this holiday. But, for the life of me, I can't remember anyone really caring about it back home. Maybe I was just too young to appreciate the festivities.
Now January 25th, that's a holiday worth celebrating
Some hae meat and canna eat, And some wad eat that want it; But we hae meat, and we can eat, Sae let the Lord be thankit.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Hardly anyone around here seems to care, either. But where I grew up, it was big.
Maybe it's 'cause Texans have egos as big as the Irish to begin with.
[ March 18, 2005, 02:50 AM: Message edited by: ketchupqueen ]
Posted by Shan (Member # 4550) on :
*Listens appreciatively to Bob's broad Scots accent and grins.*
Posted by Pat (Member # 879) on :
Some good reads by Pat (The Patron Saint of Galactic Cactus)
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