St Paddy's Day. Anyone doing anything?

dogscoff · #1 March 13th, 2004, 11:49 PM

This Wednesday is St Patrick's Day, patron Saint of Ireland, and it suddenly occurred to me that I don't ever recall seeing any Irish ppl (from either side of the border) here on the Shrapnel forum. Do we have any Irish here?

Anyway, despite having no Irish family or history at all, I always make a point of celebrating Guinness Day, and this year is no exception. We were planning to fly to Dublin, but that fell through. Instead the wife and I have booked 2 days off work (one for St Patrick's & one for recovery) and will be spending Wednesday at O' Neill's Oirish-ish theme pub in Bournemouth, where there will be much drinkings and Diddly-diddly live musickings and many, many Guinesseseses.

Anyone else making an event of it this year?

Puke · #2 March 14th, 2004, 12:25 AM

pub crawl, what else? Only one of my friends is Irish, but we'll get together a fierce bunch of drinkers none the less.

Amusing anicdote there: my buddy is O'Brien is Black / Irish, and if anyone ever wonders if there really is such a thing, he asks who they think invented the McRib. His joke, not mine.

tesco samoa · #3 March 14th, 2004, 12:29 AM

i am irish. from derry northern ireland.

Grandpa Kim · #4 March 14th, 2004, 04:21 AM

Well, today, I'm celebrating St. Roderic's Day and for next few days St. Matilda, St. Louise de Marillac and St. Julian of Antioch. Think I'll rest on St. Patrick's then back at celebrating for St. Cyril of Jerusalem, St. Joseph and the double wammy on Saturday of both St. Herbert and St. Wulfran. Why limit yourself to one Saints day each year?

GeneralVaughn · #5 March 14th, 2004, 04:27 AM

I got some Irish in me, big shocker... and one of two things will happen.
1) I get worked too hard and sleep through it
2) I get blitzkreieged

Either way im gonna pass out lol

Fyron · #6 March 14th, 2004, 04:52 AM

I am of Irish decent... well partially.

Cipher7071 · #7 March 14th, 2004, 07:46 PM

I'm not Irish, but I am of Welsh decent, and what the heck, it's only a few miles across strait there ya know. So, I'll be spending a little while with the boys down at the Elks club over a bottle or two of Killian's Red.

Wardad · #8 March 14th, 2004, 10:48 PM

Not doing a blessed thing tonight...

MY CAR WAS STOLEN LAST NIGHT

You can help relieve the boredom... do your PBW turns.

Greybeard · #9 March 15th, 2004, 12:03 AM

Well, you may not know this, but St. Patrick is the patron saint of engineers.

One thing of note that St. Patrick did was drive the snakes out of Ireland. Since snakes and worms both move on their bellies, this could be considered the invention of the worm drive. Worm drives are a very important component of many machines. Therefore, the adoption of himas the patron saint.

oleg · #10 March 15th, 2004, 12:42 AM

Unfortunately, there were no snakes in Ireland in the first place. At least that is what I read. Ireland was cleansed from snakes by the Last Ice Age and snakes did't find a way back. Why it is attributed to St. Patrick - no idea.