Hallmark Holiday Hell: St. Patrick's Day

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1. There is no one named "St. Patty".
   
   
2. If you are not an Irish Catholic, don't say "Erin go bragh". It means something political; go look it up.
   
   
3. If you are not Irish or Irish in ancestry why are you celebrating this holiday? Just drink and enjoy it, but please shut up about the leprechauns.
   
   
4. Green also means something political. Go look it up.
   
   
5. The last thousand years of war, religious hatred, more war, domination by the English, yet more war, starvation, terrorism, oppression, and still more war are not an excuse for Biff and Muffy to vomit green beer in the alley behind Humpy O'Farty's Luck o'the Irish Chain Restaurant in Pinch a Log, Texas.
   

I'm going to wait until St. Olaf's day and eat two pounds of herring and drink a barrel of gløgg.

Comments

[sp0rk0.livejournal.com]

I've got a gang that actually gets together on Leif Erikson day near a statue of same in a local park. Someone's mom (an elementary school teacher) makes meatballs (not Norwegian, but wtf) and her lunatic friend (also an elementary school teacher) makes gløgg.

The group gets bigger every year, and there are always random passersby who stop for gløgg and good cheer.

I've been waiting for the year where we get busted by the cops for drinking in the park without a license, but nothin' doin' so far.

[nefas.livejournal.com]

my mom's stepdad was norweigan, and he had a wee record that was an advert for lutefisk. the chorus went "ufda! ufda! lut-e-fisk!" and i would dance to it.

i thought you should know.