St Paddy\'s Day. Anyone doing anything?
 

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?

Re: St Paddy\'s Day. Anyone doing anything?
 

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.

Re: St Paddy\'s Day. Anyone doing anything?
 

i am irish. from derry northern ireland.

Re: St Paddy\'s Day. Anyone doing anything?
 

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?

Re: St Paddy\'s Day. Anyone doing anything?
 

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

Re: St Paddy\'s Day. Anyone doing anything?
 

I am of Irish decent... well partially. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Re: St Paddy\'s Day. Anyone doing anything?
 

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. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

Re: St Paddy\'s Day. Anyone doing anything?
 

Not doing a blessed thing tonight...

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon8.gif MY CAR WAS STOLEN LAST NIGHT http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon8.gif

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

Re: St Paddy\'s Day. Anyone doing anything?
 

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. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Re: St Paddy\'s Day. Anyone doing anything?
 

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.

Re: St Paddy\'s Day. Anyone doing anything?
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Some people think it's a metaphor of his evangelization of Ireland; some Irish tribes had tattoes of snakes on their arms, and as soon as they were brought into the fold, the tattoo-ing stopped; thus driving out the "snakes".

Re: St Paddy\'s Day. Anyone doing anything?
 

I will probably be shovelling the 3-6" of snow we're expecting to get tomorrow. Fortunately, we had our St. Patrick's Day Parade on Saturday, when the weather was nicer.

[Followup] Luckily, it stayed warm enough in the city that we only got a coating. So I'll be spending the day conquering green Amon'krie planets in my current solo game. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[ March 17, 2004, 17:47: Message edited by: capnq ]

Re: St Paddy\'s Day. Anyone doing anything?
 

I rode my quad at the beach and went really really fast.

Re: St Paddy\'s Day. Anyone doing anything?
 

Here in the new world, many of the Irish are Black Irish, having fled the Black Blight. But with that set aside we then have the Greens and the Orange. For the most part the Orange are not permitted to drink in public, if at all. (Which is why we don’t have a drinking day in honor of the Earl. And many of the Orange try pass as Greens.) And the Greens are allowed to drink all they want, so long as mind a few other “minor” rules. Now the Greens have been fighting the Orange for quite a long time now. Not to mention the little spat with the Crown. But then the Orange have a few very old issues with the Crown too, which is why many of these Scots and Celts have ended up being Irish in the first place. Actually, it seems that almost everyone has some kind of axe to grind with the English. But then that could be because of the Normans and their despotism I guess. Or perhaps it all goes back to the Romans moving in and driving up the property values. If the Romans had not brought beer with them, we would not be getting ready to dye it green so as to celebrate some guy allegedly driving the snakes/Pagans out of Ireland. Personally, I think we need to find some guy to drive the English out of Ireland, and then we can have another “out of Ireland” holiday and more beer. Then after that, some of us Orangies can figure out that we are not really Irish, and find some other guy to free the Scots. That gives us the Scots out of Ireland and the English out of Scotland. Two more beer drinking holidays. After that we can run Normans out and free the English, another beer holiday. Let’s see, that gives us almost a week of holidays, so if we are careful and stick to a tight schedule, we can make a holy-week out of it. Arg, sounds like a lot of work to me. Perhaps we should just meet at the road house (pub) and plan and plot over a few pints.

Re: St Paddy\'s Day. Anyone doing anything?
 

Happy Guinness day everyone! I'm at work this morning, then at lunchtime I'm off home for some food, and fromthere it's stright to the pub!

Hopefully if we get there early enough we'll be able to bag a table and hang on to it all night.

Re: St Paddy\'s Day. Anyone doing anything?
 

The Capital Area Pipe Smokers (CAPS) are having their bi-monthly meeting today. Therefore, as well as sampling fine examples of the halfling's leaf, we will be sampling fine Irish Whiskey as well.

Erin go brach! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon6.gif