St. Patrick and green day

[northernsky]

Tomorrow at my school--Killarney Secondary-- we celebrate St. Patrick's Day by wearing green. (We will be on spring break on the 17th) I will wear my Hunting Mackinnon with my forest Jacobite shirt and hose. What will you all be doing to celebrate with our cousins across the water?

[beloitpiper]

Pub session. Good music is the best way. Oh, and avoiding green beer at all costs. The march of the Plastic Paddys will be an obstacle.

[pipesndrumsnun]

St. Patrick's Day Mass!

[Clockwork John]

St. Patrick's Day Mass!

I wish my church was celebrating the liturgy that day, but since we're not, and since our priest, who is of Irish ancestry, has given us permission to break the Lenten fast for St. Patrick's, I'll be wearing my Irish Rugby track jacket and green braces, and I'll be heading out to a bar where my brother's band is playing.

Now, the only decision I have to make is... Guinness or Irish whiskey? Or perhaps Car Bombs?

One thing is certain... NO GREEN BEER

[JS Sanders]

Gratefully, the only places in Memphis you can order green beer, are the beer joints that have a very limited selection. They don't even qualify as pubs.

The pubs that hire us to perform openly promote their sales of Guinness, Harp, Murphy's, Smithwick's, etc and have plenty of patrons. Pub owners have told me multiple times that green beer stains wooden floors and is difficult to remove.

Besides, only certified numpties wanna drink Bud Lite containing FD&C Green No. 3. Bleecchh!

Slainte yall,
steve

[emolas]

Besides, only certified numpties wanna drink Bud Lite containing FD&C Green No. 3. Bleecchh!

Right there you hit on the biggest problem with green beer: Only the nasty ones get dyed. The good beer (stout,lager, etc.) doesn't need a gimmick.

I will definately be going out this weekend in my saffron kilt and knocking back a few Guinness (Guinnesses, Guinness', Guinni, whatever). I'm not a big fan of trendy drinks but an Irish Car Bomb or two might go down well since I haven't abused my liver in well over a year and I don't have to drive. There's a place up here with an all you can eat corned beef and cabbage buffet that I am most certainly not going to miss.

[ccga3359]

In my 27 years of professional drinking I've never had a green beer perhaps this year... Having being raised in England at the start of the "Troubles" I think this year I will raise a glass to the advances made a continued hope for peace and dialogue.

[Ozman1944]

Yay! Happy St. Patrick's Day! A bit early-thanks to Holy Week, but here nonethless.
St. Patrick's Day Mass!!
Lenten Abstinence from meat is suspended today! (Corned Beef & Cabbage is already in the crock-pot. We boil it - for hours-none of that American oven nonsense!) .
Then, tonight, off to the pub in my Irish National Stillwater Kilt and Saffron Stillwater Fly plaid, Green hose, Green jacket, green bow tie; Yippee!
(Actually, I'm only allowed three Beers once a week by my Cardiologist, but I still have a great time-it's all in the mind, right?)
:beer:int:

[Clockwork John]

Yay! Happy St. Patrick's Day! A bit early-thanks to Holy Week, but here nonethless...

Since I'm Eastern Orthodox, this is barely the beginning of Lent. Cheesefare Sunday was this last week.

[Finn]

In all likelihood, it will be a quiet night at home with some good beer & "The Quiet Man" & "Boondock Saints". Going to try to find out if the local pipe band will be playing anywhere.