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Old 03-17-2004, 10:57 PM
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I heard that its unlucky to wear the colour green on St. Patrick's Day.

Anyway, Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone!

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Well there are quite a few people with Irish ancestors here in Canada, so I don't mind them celebrating it.

But I get your point Jim, I was truely pissed at how different companies with big marketing tried to impose Halloween as a tradition in France (some even saying it had French origins ) when no one knew about it 10 years before. It got bigger and bigger for 2 or three years but collapsed last year, to my great satisfaction.

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It really isn't too big of a holiday over here... I guess it depends on what part of the country you live in. And it's mosty about getting drunk... we took a quiz in school today, and only 3 of us could say what St. Patrick did... one kid said he was the creator of beer
It's big in Buffalo but then again it's so friggin' cold out that we'll use any excuse to drink & keep warm - LOL! Tomorrow's excuse will be because it's Thursday!
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My roommate actually came up with something intelligent about St. Patrick's Day. She said the actually holiday should be the 18th of March, since every one goes into work hungover anyway.

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I am ENGLISH ! and proud of it , I live in a town that has a big irish community and today the whole town has turned green , lots of drunk lepricorns all over the place . Yet on St Georges Day , there's nothing , if all the proud English folk went out in to the streets we'd be told we were being racist , or drink football thugs !

I think we should celebrate everything if we want !
I remember going to the zone on St. Patrick's Day once a few years ago and it was great is it still there or is it called something different now?
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We went to an Irish pub yesterday evening, it was really nice, they were happy to have us "non french" there (well my husband and our irish friends)
They put some good music, offered a pint, it was a good occasion for doing something, and the weather was nice, we stayed outside. St Patrick or not, it gave us "a reason" to spend this nice evening
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Any one tried Guinness with port? its pretty powerful
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Any one tried Guinness with port? its pretty powerful
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Why is it that the UK celebrates the patron saint of a country who hate us more than our own patron Saints?

I'm not the most patriotic of Scots and refer to myself as British 1st and foremost but I still think that it's shocking that st paddys day is a bigger deal than St Andrews day and I'm pretty sure it's the same everywhere else int he UK.

where on earth did you get the idea that the irish hate the scots jim?


your nearly right tash.......st patrick brought christianity to ireland...the snakes were a symbol of paganism and it was the pagans who were driven out...he also used the shamrock to explain the trinity....he died on the 17th march....and celebrating st patricks day is not just about drinking.....its also about our culture......besides....we irish dont need an excuse to go and get drunk
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Ahh.. a fellow irish person! i didnt wana rear my head here til now, safety in numbers and all that.
but yeh, the mind boggles over st paddys day... hav u seen the deal sum places in the U.S make out of it?? im sure 99.99999% of americans dont have a clue about the significance.. compared to 'only' about 55% here in ireland lol

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