St Patricks Day Parade

**GMan** · 26th January 06, 05:30 PM

Hell-o all,

I know it is a bit early, but would like to let everyone know that the St Patrick's Day Parade in Denver will be on Saturday March 11. (It is always the Saturday before or of St. Patrick's Day)

**Manu** · 26th January 06, 06:13 PM

I hope you enjoy it GMan. Unfortunately, duty calls, and I will be deployed onboard an aircraft carrier by then. Maybe next year. St Patty's day here in Savannah is huge, great partying during that weekend.

**Hosehead** · 29th January 06, 11:51 AM

Maybe we should all post our local events and see if we can make them kilt days?

Harrisburg, PA - Saturday March 18 at 13:00 local.

I will either be standing on the street with a beverage or leading the new Emerald Society in the parade...

**flyv65** · 29th January 06, 01:23 PM

I'm instructing an MSF class Friday night, Saturday, and Sunday: but I can guarantee I'll be downtown on the 17th and 18th to hoot and holler. I just love St Patrick's Day and the Irish-it seems that sometimes the Scots get a little bit posessive of their heritage, but all it takes to become Irish is a set of shamrock antenna and a generous helping of green beer.

Bryan...I like that kind of "big tent" approach from time to time...

**Zardoz** · 29th January 06, 01:42 PM

The Houston St.Patrick's Day parade will be Saturday, March 18th, starting at 2 PM, Downtown near the baseball stadium. I'll be driving in it with my car club :mrgreen:

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homep...s/stpatspa.htm

**macwilkin** · 29th January 06, 05:00 PM

I just love St Patrick's Day and the Irish-it seems that sometimes the Scots get a little bit posessive of their heritage, but all it takes to become Irish is a set of shamrock antenna and a generous helping of green beer.

Not to start anything, but my experience has been the reverse. Our local (and now defunct) Celtic Society used to provide the colour party for the front of the local St. Patrick's Day parade, and we usually would get some semi-negative (and anti-Scots) comments from some of the more militant Irish. I remember being asked by one of them why the Scots were part of the Celtic Society, since only the Irish are "Celtic". (They really didn't like it when you would respond that neither was St. Patrick, since he was a Romano-Briton from either Wales or Scotland, take your pick!)

Now, that being said, I now plenty of folks of Irish heritage (many of them here) who are not that way at all. I don't like generalizations, though, and with many different ethnicities, states, provinces, countries, etc. designing their own tartans, I don't think it's fair to paint all Scots with that brush.

Green Beer...to quote Michaeleen Og Flynn in "The Quiet Man", "The Borgias could do better!" :mrgreen:

Cheers,

Todd

**646guy** · 29th January 06, 05:26 PM

Originally Posted by Iñaki

I hope you enjoy it GMan. Unfortunately, duty calls, and I will be deployed onboard an aircraft carrier by then. Maybe next year. St Patty's day here in Savannah is huge, great partying during that weekend.

You've also got a killer rugby tournament there that weekend too....we were thinking of heading down there this year (me carting all of my kilts along the way) but it's looking more like next year for us.....

**kiltimabar** · 29th January 06, 10:34 PM

Originally Posted by cajunscot

Green Beer...to quote Michaeleen Og Flynn in "The Quiet Man", "The Borgias could do better!" :mrgreen:

Cheers,

Todd

Michaeleen was referring to buttermilk in that scene--this being one of my all-time favorite movies I just about have the dialogue by heart. He might have thought the same thing about green beer too, if he had ever encountered it. If I'm not mistaken that is an American custom to adulterate good beer in such a manner.

**bubba** · 29th January 06, 11:03 PM

Originally Posted by kiltimabar

If I'm not mistaken that is an American custom to adulterate good beer in such a manner.

Oh no, they never use good beer for that, just the cheap crap.

**macwilkin** · 30th January 06, 06:00 AM

Originally Posted by kiltimabar

Michaeleen was referring to buttermilk in that scene--this being one of my all-time favorite movies I just about have the dialogue by heart. He might have thought the same thing about green beer too, if he had ever encountered it. If I'm not mistaken that is an American custom to adulterate good beer in such a manner.

Yes, I know...in the scene where Sean and Michaeleen come to speak to Red Will Danaher about Mary Kate and Sean. That should have been a paraphrase, oops -- it was supposed to be an attempt at humour that failed! ;)

I'm a bit of a "Quiet Maniac" myself! :mrgreen: Check out Des McHale's "The Complete Guide to the Quiet Man", btw.

T.