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Happy ST Patrick's day

#1 Postby cycloneye » Thu Mar 16, 2006 12:51 pm

From San Juan,Puerto Rico I send my congratulations to all in the U.S Mainland that celebrate St Pats day.

:Partytime: :Partytime:
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#2 Postby MiamiensisWx » Thu Mar 16, 2006 1:19 pm

Happy St. Patrick's Day, everyone!

:D :D :D :D

By the way, what do you actually do on St. Patrick's Day? Also, what is it about? I'm curious.
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#3 Postby SouthFloridawx » Thu Mar 16, 2006 1:22 pm

DRINK GREEN BEER AND COOK OUT
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#4 Postby GalvestonDuck » Thu Mar 16, 2006 1:43 pm

CapeVerdeWave wrote:Happy St. Patrick's Day, everyone!

:D :D :D :D

By the way, what do you actually do on St. Patrick's Day? Also, what is it about? I'm curious.


No, it's not about drinking green beer and cooking out. Besides, who grills Irish stew and cabbage anyway? :P

Take it from someone named Shawn -- It's a time for those of Irish descent to celebrate their ancestry. It started in Boston in 1737 by Irish immigrants as a Catholic feast day to celebrate/observe the death of St. Patrick who died on March 17, 461 AD. It became a day to show strength and unity among the Irish immigrants in the northeast after the potato famine hit and many were discriminated against in regards to employment and housing. They banded together and marched through the streets -- a tradition which later became the parades we see today.

If March 17 falls on a Sunday, the Catholic church calendars will mark the observation day as the Monday following 3/17. And if it falls during a Holy Week, they move it to the Monday following that week.

It also happens to be one of the few (if only) days that a Catholic will/might break Lenten abstinence or fasting and eat meat.
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#5 Postby tropicana » Thu Mar 16, 2006 2:08 pm

It's a day of Parades and celebration in Toronto this Sunday as the annual St Patrick's Day Parade is scheduled.
It's fun to be Irish for a day.

-justin-
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#6 Postby bvigal » Thu Mar 16, 2006 2:10 pm

LOL, Shawn!! From an O'Guinn: drink green beer and tell all your friends NOT of Irish descent how truly remarkable, witty, talented, creative, independent, and good fighters we are!! :ggreen:
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#7 Postby arkess7 » Thu Mar 16, 2006 4:51 pm

southfloridawx2005 wrote:DRINK GREEN BEER AND COOK OUT



Sounds good to me!!!!! :lol: 8-)
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#8 Postby SouthFloridawx » Thu Mar 16, 2006 5:18 pm

arkess7 wrote:
southfloridawx2005 wrote:DRINK GREEN BEER AND COOK OUT



Sounds good to me!!!!! :lol: 8-)


Actually i think i'm going out to eat...
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#9 Postby bvigal » Thu Mar 16, 2006 5:34 pm

By the way, thanks Luis! (good thread, for sure!!)
I'm on my way out to a St. Paddy's party right now, have some Guiness!!
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#10 Postby O Town » Thu Mar 16, 2006 5:43 pm

Yep I have a full on Irish name too.......Kelly O'Brien, and my grandpa is full blood Irish. But I have to be honest I don't celebrate it the way I probably should. :oops: It is a night to go out and drink, back in the days before kids. Now its just a night at home to drink.
:irish: <<<< I have been dying to use that. :lol:
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#11 Postby weatherlover427 » Thu Mar 16, 2006 6:33 pm

It's not St. Patrick's Day until tomorrow. This thread is 849 minutes early. :P

I do nothing to celebrate except wear green so I don't get injured by excessive pinching. :)
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#12 Postby cycloneye » Thu Mar 16, 2006 6:43 pm

weatherlover427 wrote:It's not St. Patrick's Day until tomorrow. This thread is 849 minutes early. :P

I do nothing to celebrate except wear green so I don't get injured by excessive pinching. :)


I wanted to post it hours before the actual day to start the celebration early. :)
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#13 Postby cajungal » Thu Mar 16, 2006 8:20 pm

I am almost of pure cajun decent plus a little Spanish on my mothers side. However, my dad's side is not from SE LA and I am of Irish decent of that side of the family. I put a scarf around my yorkie Chloe's neck. It has green clovers all over it. I guess I will just get pinched tomorrow since I have to work. Because at work we have to wear a uniform. It has to be a black or white polo shirt with a collar and either black or khaki dress pants. And I don't even have anything green to pin on my shirt. Maybe my mom might have something I can borrow though.
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#14 Postby brunota2003 » Thu Mar 16, 2006 8:38 pm

:irish: im irish...and im NOT wearing green tomorrow...better keep their little greasy paws off me...:lol:
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#15 Postby Stephanie » Thu Mar 16, 2006 8:44 pm

HAPPY ST. PATTY'S DAY!!

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I'm 1/8 Irish, but everyone's is Irish on St. Patrick's Day! :D
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#16 Postby GalvestonDuck » Thu Mar 16, 2006 9:54 pm

brunota2003 wrote::irish: im irish...and im NOT wearing green tomorrow...better keep their little greasy paws off me...:lol:


Wear orange. Then if they threaten ya, tell 'em to go look at the flag of Ireland! :) :wink:
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#17 Postby brunota2003 » Thu Mar 16, 2006 9:56 pm

GalvestonDuck wrote:
brunota2003 wrote::irish: im irish...and im NOT wearing green tomorrow...better keep their little greasy paws off me...:lol:


Wear orange. Then if they threaten ya, tell 'em to go look at the flag of Ireland! :) :wink:
ok...will do...:lol: :)
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#18 Postby TexasStooge » Thu Mar 16, 2006 10:25 pm

HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY!! :ggreen:
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#19 Postby MiamiensisWx » Thu Mar 16, 2006 10:53 pm

To those in Ireland...

HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY!

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#20 Postby Miss Mary » Fri Mar 17, 2006 8:13 am

Since I work in a middle school cafeteria now, I wanted to wear my green today. So I picked up a Lands' End green and white striped turtleneck from a consignment shop, @ only $2.50. Then a baseball hat with a green bill, green button on top, white elsewhere, @ only $1. Next a lightup shamrock pin from Hallmark, @ $3. All in all my outfit totaled under $7. Not bad! Of course my HS age daughter thinks I'm corny-corny. Spoken from the girl going off to school wearing her Flogging Molly T and her shamrock sox from Target. Sure, I'm the corny one.....LOL

No drinking for me today. Making the long drive down to my oldest daughter's campus, her spring break begins today.

Happy drinking to those that can today!

And Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Mary
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