st patty's day 2005!

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ok i'm two days early still but i'm making a lamb stew with potatoes and thick cut bacon. i've got some soda bread too!

anyone doing corned beef and cabbage?

― lychee mello (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

Num. Now I'm hungry. (But I had good Italian food when I was actually in Dublin! And good French food too!)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

i'm prolly celebrating by going to daddy's. tho i think i can get some soda bread at the good bakery here at ch3ls3a mark3t.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

Going to my parents house downtown. Apparently my stepdad bought too much salmon at the food wholesaler last weekend, so that's what we're having...

― 57 7th (calstars), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

It's the aniiversary of my gf and I meeting. We're going to the crime scene w/some friends to celebrate.

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

http://homepage.mac.com/dymaxia/.Pictures/personal/st.%20pat

― Shatterproof Glass (dymaxia), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 23:53 (twenty years ago)

happy st patrick's day!

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 00:14 (twenty years ago)

cameraphone pic of my stew:

http://southsidecallbox.com/ilx/stew.jpg

― lychee mello (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 00:17 (twenty years ago)

anyone doing corned beef and cabbage?

Since childhood, this has been a tradition in my family. I shall follow in those footsteps once again on 3/17.

― Aimless (Aimless), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 00:56 (twenty years ago)

st patty's day? please tell me you haven't turned my national holiday into a mcdonald's event over there?

― darragh.mac (darragh.mac), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 11:35 (twenty years ago)

patty?

― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 11:57 (twenty years ago)

It's "Paddy's Day", you guys.

Unless saying Paddys is considered offensive. I just don't know any more.

Like all proper Irish people actually living in Ireland, I will be wondering why we can't turn Paddy's Day into a Bank Holiday Monday instead of having a day off on Thursday and then still having to go into work on Friday. Then I will be having a lie in.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 11:58 (twenty years ago)

i have a job interview. thats about it.

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 11:58 (twenty years ago)

mcdonald's used to have pale green "shamrock shakes" when i was a kid. they tasted kind of like mint-flavored antacid.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 11:59 (twenty years ago)

I have already started drinking my carton of beer.

― kate/thank you friendly cloud (papa november), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 12:06 (twenty years ago)

mmm...shamrock shakes.

we stopped at the mcdonalds in shamrock, texas (along route 66) hoping that they'd have shamrock shakes year round. wouldn't you, if you were that manager? they didn't, and the only unique feature was that the sinks in the bathroom were shaped like texas. which i think i took a picture of, but it didn't turn out great, so i guess i didn't save it. boo.

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 12:25 (twenty years ago)

i vividly remember the disappointment i experienced when my mother gave in and let me have a shamrock shake. she said over and over again that i would like it, that they were gross, blah blah. but i didn't listen - i thought it would taste like enchanted clover or something. the shake's actual flavor - maalox - nearly made me cry. said mother: "if i were a sadist, i'd make you finish that."

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 12:28 (twenty years ago)

i loved shamrock shakes. they don't make them anymore around here.

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 12:55 (twenty years ago)

they still have shamrock shakes here I think!

I mentioned one in AIM and people didn't know what the fuck I was talking about.

I remember them being nice but I haven't had one since Kevin R*hill's birthday party, aged about 6 or 7 I'd say.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 12:57 (twenty years ago)

Presumably for the same reason that you have a St Stephen's Day bank holiday instead of Boxing Day.

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 12:58 (twenty years ago)

as for what I'm doing, today I intend to play records all day, tonight I go see Black Strobe and play in the bar at that, so actual St Patricks Day will probably be spent in bed. Just as well too, it's a disgusting day in Dublin city.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 13:01 (twenty years ago)

I'll just check my diary.. oh, it says "GET BACK TO WORK YOU SLACKER"

I hate my diary.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 13:56 (twenty years ago)

Presumably for the same reason that you have a St Stephen's Day bank holiday instead of Boxing Day.

Oh, no, I didn't mean the name. Jesus, obviously we have to keep the name, otherwise we're no better than Protestants*. I meant that it just seems bloody stupid to have a single day off the in the middle of the week when you could have the St. Patrick's Weekend and make it a three-day weekend instead. Because I hate going to work.

*Everyone gets that this is a joke, right?

Paddy's Day only reminds me of Dara O'Briain's great bit about it. How Jesus went into the desert and fasted for forty days and forty nights. Except for Paddy's Day, when he ate a Twix.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 14:08 (twenty years ago)

http://www.doheth.co.uk/profiles/patty.gif

― lock robster (robster), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 14:12 (twenty years ago)

Ben and Jerry's looked like they had a really awesome St. Patrick's Day shake, but I was in the mood for an ice cream cone so I passed it up.

― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

is it true that the luas lines have rendered many of the floats obselete in dublin this year?

ha ha skangers.

― d.arraghmac, Wednesday, 16 March 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

It is true that the Luas refused to take the lines down because it would take three days to take them down and put them back up again.

Maybe that's why they're finishing the parade at St. Patrick's Cathedral instead of outside the GPO.

Anyway, beannachtai na la feile Padraig.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 17 March 2005 10:16 (twenty years ago)

I hate St Patrick's day with a passion. I am so, so glad I no longer live on the same road as an O'Neills and therefore won't be woken up by drunken wankers who are about as Irish as Rudi Voller parading up and down the road bellowing in their stupid big Guinness hats. Not that they drink Guinness the other 364 nights of the year, of course.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 17 March 2005 10:20 (twenty years ago)

Matt DC OTM.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 17 March 2005 10:40 (twenty years ago)

I'm going to head out to find some drunken teenagers.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 17 March 2005 12:12 (twenty years ago)

I am a legitimate Guinness drinker, and am a bit miffed that I am ill the one day they give free pints of it away.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 17 March 2005 12:16 (twenty years ago)

It is true that the Luas refused to take the lines down because it would take three days to take them down and put them back up again.

This by itself would make the LUAS worthwhile, quite apart from the excellent getting-me-to-my-work service it provides.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 17 March 2005 12:38 (twenty years ago)

I agree with Matt DC. Although the Irish pub in Muswell Hill is pleasant enough most of the time, on Paddy's Day it is a nightmare place.
If you want to avoid Patrick's Day, come to our house. We've had a lovely day so far. Walked the dog, made french toast with bacon and maple syrup for breakfast, watched Anchorman, arsed about. Winner.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 17 March 2005 17:39 (twenty years ago)

Maybe I should poke my head out the window to see how the Irish Embassy's doing already.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 17 March 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

jesus took me hours to get a bus home, just got in, I intend to sleep for the rest of Paddy's Day. Black Strobe were very good, Arnaud is the scariest looking DJ of all time.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 17 March 2005 17:55 (twenty years ago)

I went to the South Side (Chicago) Irish parade for the first time this year, and it amazed me how orderly they kept things. They closed the bars! It was BYOB, and they kicked all of the, erm, 'guests' out after the parade. If you wanted to stick around the neighborhood, you had to have an invite to someone's house. Good for them.

― Shatterproof Glass (dymaxia), Thursday, 17 March 2005 17:56 (twenty years ago)

Corned beef + cabbage = ultimate in yukkko to me

I think instead we shall eat BURGERS

― Allyzay Dallas Multi-Pass (allyzay), Thursday, 17 March 2005 17:59 (twenty years ago)

It is, it's disgusting. My Irish grandma made spaghetti and chicken most of the time.

― Shatterproof Glass (dymaxia), Thursday, 17 March 2005 18:04 (twenty years ago)

you have defiled a special day, a thousand leprechauns curse you now.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 17 March 2005 18:05 (twenty years ago)

My friends and I have been defiling St. Patrick's Day for years, I think the leprechauns have given up.

― Allyzay Dallas Multi-Pass (allyzay), Thursday, 17 March 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

All I can say is, "It's not easy peeing green."

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 18 March 2005 03:38 (twenty years ago)

stuck at work. : (

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 18 March 2005 03:40 (twenty years ago)

there is only one bar in the small town that has guiness, i drank it. it was warm and in a can--i had to explain one was ok and one was sickness.

― anthony easton (anthony), Friday, 18 March 2005 03:52 (twenty years ago)

Fuck the Irish. What have they ever contributed to the world? They need to stop acting like they're fucking holocaust survivors and get a grip. The Potato famine was your own fault assholes.

Besides, who need to actually designate a day to go get drunk?

― DD, Friday, 18 March 2005 05:10 (twenty years ago)

on the plus side, they contributed van morrison, shane mcgowan, james joyce, brendan behan, etc., etc.

on the minus side, they contributed bono.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 18 March 2005 06:49 (twenty years ago)

and ronan keating

― Ed (dali), Friday, 18 March 2005 11:27 (twenty years ago)

my current bottom 3 on the shit list of "holidays" I'd just rather not fucking have or hear about, ever again, with 1 representing the lowest of the low:

1. St. Patrick's
2. St. Valentine's
3. New Years' Eve

prior to this year:

1. Christmas
2. Thanksgiving
3. St. Valentine's

I am beginning to wonder if there's something there about all of this I just don't understand (something I do not understand = other people, most likely).

― TOMBOT, Friday, 18 March 2005 13:00 (twenty years ago)

I just don't like any holiday where I'm supposed to do a certain thing or feel a certain way or behave in a certain way, or socialise with large groups of people and feel, you know, festive.

I like holidays like St. Stephen's Day, where you have the day off work but there's no set formula for it, so you can kind of do what you want or make up your own family traditions. I also like just plain old Bank Holidays Mondays.

But my favourite holidays are the random days I take off during the year. That way I can arse about and still do my banking.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Friday, 18 March 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

xpost - Did they all fall, or did Christmas and Thanksgiving rise in your estimation?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 18 March 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

xmas and thanksgiving got better. I will second accentmonkey's sentiments re: unstructured holidays. I like a friendly Independence Day or Memorial Day, summertime time-off where everybody sits in their backyard and throws food on fire in between drinks and that sort of thing.

― TOMBOT, Friday, 18 March 2005 14:19 (twenty years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v384/lucyald/pic19264.jpg

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 18 March 2005 15:12 (twenty years ago)

MY EYES! MY EYES!

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Friday, 18 March 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

The only way St. Patrick's Day is good is if you're a cab driver.

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Friday, 18 March 2005 16:06 (twenty years ago)

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