Quote Originally Posted by Nick View Post
Well, anyway, that's the tradition here. It's a Finnish-American thing, there's more Finns here than anywhere else except Finland.
I didn't know about Finnish meaning of this day but we celebrate St. Pat's day. It becomes tradition to celebrate on evening 16th mar. in last year because we didn't had good enough hall in city center for it on 17th mar. 2006.
Anyway exists old russian sentence "Kto prazdniku rad, tot nakanune p'yan" which i can translate as "Men who really enjoys celebration, starts drunk for it in previous day". But keep in mind it's not exact translation. It's hard to me to translate exact meaning of that sentence.