Happy St. Patricks Day

wakechick13 · Posted: Mar 17, 2012 11:44 am Post subject: Happy St. Patricks Day

Happy St. Patricks Day you guys!!! Hope your wearing green! Smile

flixmaster · Site Owner Joined: 30 Oct 2003 Posts: 7488

I am not...

wakechick13 · Posted: Mar 17, 2012 12:43 pm Post subject:

Someone pinch you yet?!

Neognosis · Ladies Man Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 17617 City: Webster

I hate St. Patrick's day. It is the worst holiday ever.

wakechick13 · Posted: Mar 17, 2012 2:07 pm Post subject:

Why so??

LFADAM · Posted: Mar 17, 2012 2:49 pm Post subject:

cameraboy, I hope by worst you mean best...what a fantastic day. A holiday designed to bring in spring/warm weather and get hammered. Noone has any idea what it is actually for, and noone cares! Its not like Christmas..."Well the TRUE meaning of Christmas is to ______." Nope. Noone cares at all, just get hammered and blast Dropkick Murphys. Awesome.

wakechick13 · Posted: Mar 17, 2012 2:52 pm Post subject:

haha

Exactly.

Okie Boarder · Ladies Man Joined: 03 Mar 2008 Posts: 10056 City: Edmond

And Flogging Molly...and...and...

Had a great day with friends. Made corned beef and cabbage, herbed potatoes, soda bread and drank some guiness.

wakechick13 · Posted: Mar 18, 2012 6:06 am Post subject:

Very nice. We went to the parade then had a crawfish boil cajun style.

Nor*Cal · Ladies Man Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 9479 City: Sac

Helped a buddy host a knock down dragout party in Downtown. Blew 2 kegs a case of liquor in 4 hours. Not bad.

chavez · RIP MHL 04/25/1958 - 01/11/2006

Did absolutely nothing. Grabbed a Pizza from Nugget and drank a few of Oregons finest Porters. Had a fun night with my son.

I wore green on Friday, but only to deflect the usual questions I get about not wearing green on St Pats. I'm tired of answering with "I don't wear green cuz I'm not f***** Irish!"

Yeah, I get it, I look like I could be Irish. But I ain't so go away! I'm a beaner! Laughing

scott a · Ladies Man Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 9810

Went to Heavenly on Saturday which got a foot of powder overnight. Made for an awesome day up until the last run of the day when I decided that Gunbarrel would be the best way down to the parking lot. Doh. Then went to Reno to check out a friend's new place and hit the casinos.

Neognosis · Ladies Man Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 17617 City: Webster

wakechick13 · Posted: Mar 19, 2012 4:56 am Post subject:

Haha, at least your passionate against it. I know plenty of Irish people, but they are not truely offended. They understand that sterotypes will be what they are and to just relax and have fun.

Neognosis · Ladies Man Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 17617 City: Webster

Eh, I'm not so much passionate as annoyed.

I'm not really OFFENDED, just rolling my eyes every time some moron with a "kiss me, I'm irish" button and a green tophat on gets in my face babbling something incoherent before pissing in the street.

Do any of you know that the English intentionally tried to starve the Irish to death to reduce their population? SEVERAL times?

probably not. But you know about leprauchans and green beer... FFS....

Ok, now I'm REALLY done.

heh.

wakechick13 · Posted: Mar 19, 2012 5:12 am Post subject:

Its a day that people get drunk and people wear green. Just go with it. There is nothing you can do about it! And yeah I knew that from APWorld History. Smile

b_girl · Posted: Mar 19, 2012 5:18 am Post subject:

There actually is historical significance to St. Patrick's Day - and it's an official holiday in Ireland (as in, they get the day off work). However, we use it as an excuse to go out and get drunk... which is precisely what I did. I don't drink much anymore either, so it was awesome Smile

The English were terrible to both the Irish and the Scottish.

NKCrider · Posted: Mar 19, 2012 5:43 am Post subject:

greatest holiday ever, i too was hammered and played dropkick murpheys all day Laughing

JV · Posted: Mar 19, 2012 7:46 am Post subject:

Saved my binging for yesterday to avoid all the amatuer drunks.

jt09 · Ladies Man Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 22083 City: Austin

shocking that cb can suck the fun out of anything.

also, eagerly awaiting wakebrad's response to this topic, although based on his facebook pics, i don't know if he's sober just yet.

chavez · RIP MHL 04/25/1958 - 01/11/2006

Nor*Cal · Ladies Man Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 9479 City: Sac

Next thing you know he's going to say that Cinco de Mayo is just the celebration of the victory of some small battle that is only meaningful in the one state of Mexico and the liquor companies have conspired to co-opt the event to increase spring alcohol sales... That or a taco street vendor conglomerate needed to increase carnitas sales.

People like to celebrate and if college is any indication LOVE theme parties. It's a fun care-free holiday with a theme. Go with it. We can remember the plight of the Irish on bloody sunday which just had it's 40th anniversary.

Wakebrad · Ladies Man Joined: 11 Dec 2003 Posts: 12257 City: Dallas

haha yeeah. We had quite a day. Dallas St Pattys day parade is one of the best events in town all year. I've never had a bad time. It's the one time every year cops have to get off their high horses and let people act like drunken fools in Dallas city streets, a la Vegas or Bourbon street. That is other than the cops actually riding high horses and arresting people for acting too much like drunken fools. I wanted to see them try to haul off these drunks on their Clydesdales.

My friend has a short school bus, and is also really short so he's affectionately known as "Short Bus." Short Bus also has a Delorien which was towed behind in a trailer along with 30 of our closest friends. It was a 1980s schit show at 10am in the morning.

I made my contribution by shaving my rainforest of a chest except for an over-sized, overgrown bow-tie shaped patch which was painted green in honor of CB's St Patrick.

wakechick13 · Posted: Mar 19, 2012 10:38 am Post subject:

Dude I saw you there...

Wakebrad · Ladies Man Joined: 11 Dec 2003 Posts: 12257 City: Dallas

wakechick13, hahaha no way. Where were you along the route?

wakechick13 · Posted: Mar 19, 2012 10:54 am Post subject:

Yeah we were right in front of Barleys

STPHNSN23 · Guest

i declare you the winner of st. patty's day.

JV · Posted: Mar 19, 2012 11:20 am Post subject:

Did you have to draw straws for who was stuck driving?

Wakebrad · Ladies Man Joined: 11 Dec 2003 Posts: 12257 City: Dallas

STPHNSN23, haha yeah, the prize was a bowtie shaped sunburn line and a weeks worth of stubble itching.

wakechick13, that's crazy. That second photo was probably taken there. Small world when there's 100 floats and 10s of thousands of people!

Wakebrad · Ladies Man Joined: 11 Dec 2003 Posts: 12257 City: Dallas

JV, we arranged for a guy who works vallet to drive for us. Dude had a blast too though and got quite a tip from our drunk asses.

They don't mess around with the drinking though. I take the dart rail every year. They do no refusal breathalyzers and setup check-points.

wakechick13 · Posted: Mar 19, 2012 12:12 pm Post subject:

It is a small world!! thats awesome though!

Alter Ego · Posted: Mar 19, 2012 12:26 pm Post subject:

Went to chicago this weekend. Holy fun time batman....

house party at my buddies place then to lizzie mcniels for day time drunkeness...5-7pm pass out then on to lincoln park and wrigley for some bar action to 2am.

Not sure if others from chicago were out - but your city did it right...