St. Patrick's day has been moved

[Mr. MacDougall]

On St. Patrick's day, every American is Irish.

[sputnik]

quoted from a friends St Pat's tshirt:
"I'm not Irish
but I rish I was"

[Ayin McFye]

On St. Patrick's day, every American is Irish.

Otherwise known as "Rookie Drinking Day" Everyone who thinks they can drink like the Irish on St. Patrick's day. We start our pub crawls every year at 6:00am and continue on until 2:00 am the next day. But it's a marathon not a race. We're not pounding freaking drinks all day long. We are seasoned veterans and know how to moderate. What's funny though is when we get a few new people that follow us around, and at around 8:00am they've been pounding shots to celebrate for the last two hours that they're already done. Anyways, i'm rambling, and all this talk about drinking is making me thirsty.

int:

[oldsoldier]

Otherwise known as "Rookie Drinking Day" Everyone who thinks they can drink like the Irish on St. Patrick's day. We start our pub crawls every year at 6:00am and continue on until 2:00 am the next day. But it's a marathon not a race. We're not pounding freaking drinks all day long. We are seasoned veterans and know how to moderate. What's funny though is when we get a few new people that follow us around, and at around 8:00am they've been pounding shots to celebrate for the last two hours that they're already done. Anyways, i'm rambling, and all this talk about drinking is making me thirsty.

int:

My friend, I must recruit you for our holiday trip down to Savannah this year.
Every year for the past 4 years we get a group of about 15 people together, and head into Boston for the weekend. We usually start the night before, priming the pumps. Then, its up at dawn for a traditional Irish breakfast, and down the rocky road we go for 2 straight days, quitting when we're broke (or, in the case of this past year, thrown out).
2008, we are going to Savannah, as we hear its THE place to be. And, I will be piping (hopefully) by then. So, I am piping the gang into every bar, until my fingers no longer work. Ach, you got me rambling too!!!

[Ayin McFye]

My friend, I must recruit you for our holiday trip down to Savannah this year.
Every year for the past 4 years we get a group of about 15 people together, and head into Boston for the weekend. We usually start the night before, priming the pumps. Then, its up at dawn for a traditional Irish breakfast, and down the rocky road we go for 2 straight days, quitting when we're broke (or, in the case of this past year, thrown out).
2008, we are going to Savannah, as we hear its THE place to be. And, I will be piping (hopefully) by then. So, I am piping the gang into every bar, until my fingers no longer work. Ach, you got me rambling too!!!

You most definitely sound like my kind of people. Here are two pictures from our recent events. What City/State do you live in?

this picture is our crew that we had together at 9:00am on Saint Patrick's day this last year.


And this one is from a kilt night we had in June this year.

[Graham]

Well, I won't be changing it,and I doubt whether our St.pats day committee will change it either.
Since Patrick wasn't Catholic, I don't think he would be bothered either, if he were here today

[Graham]

....no I don't like Guinness Day...the day honours Patrick of Ireland, one of the greatest celtic evangelists of all time.

He didn't even drink Guinness!

[Ozman1944]

Trying to de- Catholicise St. Patrick is like tryiing to "light a penny candle from a star" (what do you think the Irish were talking about?). Some National Enquirer rewriting of 'History'. Every now & then someone tries it.

Patrick wrote his own 'Confessio' , so there is no question as to his Loyalty to pope Celestine I - who financed & staffed his expedtion to Ireland in 421 A.D.. Mess with St. Patrick & your Whiskey will mysteriously turn into water....The Leprechauns take a dim view of it.
Stanley John Patrick Harris

[M. A. C. Newsome]

Well, I won't be changing it,and I doubt whether our St.pats day committee will change it either.
Since Patrick wasn't Catholic, I don't think he would be bothered either, if he were here today!

Graham,

I know bring the discussion into the topic of religion is likely to get this thread closed, but in the interest of historical accuracy, I have to strongly disagree. Patrick was a Catholic bishop!

He even went to Rome in 441 to get approval from Pope Leo the Great for his mission to Ireland. The two of Patrick's writings that survive to this day, his Confessions and Letter to the Soldiers of Corodicus both attest to his Catholic faith, and in his canons that he drew up for the Church in Ireland he demanded that any dispute not settled on a local level be forwarded to Rome for resolultion.

Claiming Patrick wasn't Catholic is like claiming Jerry Falwell wasn't Baptist!

[TimC]

Well, I'm goin' to make the most of it and celebrate Guinness Day..ah, I men St Paddy's Day on both days! Hope my liver holds up.

-Tim