For the Irish DUers

[QueenOfCalifornia]

What do you do on St. Patrick's Day?

Is it green? :shrug:

[Warpy]

1. I look like hell in green

but I can wear orange very well.

So I stay home.

[Taverner]

30. You'd think folks with such white complexions would choose a different color

Say "Biscuit" or "Charcoal"

[Warpy]

36. Both of those are bad choices, IMO

Both tend to wash very pale people out.

Color is a very individual thing. I know a lot of Irish who look superb in green. I'm just not one of them.

[Taverner]

38. Hmmm I guess a forest green could work

[Chulanowa]

2. Oh, that's simple.

I make sure there are no snakes in my booze. of course, I have to empty the bottles to be extra-certain.

[QueenOfCalifornia]

3. LoL!

That's exactly the kind of thing I wanted to see in this thread. :rofl:

[Dr.Phool]

24. I'm usually green around the gills the next morning.

Then, the snakes come out!

[liberal N proud]

4. NO!

Sometimes take in the St. Patrick's Day Parade. But that doesn't appear to be too much Irish anymore. Just an excuse for kids to skip school and the drunks to get drunk.

Many go to church.

[Sanity Claws]

5. Check out the parade

I live in NYC and like watching part of the parade. I don't like the parade south of Central Park because there you see all the people who are at the parade to get drunk. I'm so not into that!

[monmouth]

6. A little story for St. Patrick's Day......

> *On vacation in Rome, I noticed a marble column in St.
> Peter's with a
> golden telephone on it. As a young priest passed by, I
> asked who the
> telephone was for. The priest told me it was a direct line
> to Heaven,
> and if I'd like to call, it would be a thousand
> dollars. I was amazed,
> but declined the offer.
>
> Throughout Italy, I kept seeing the same golden telephone
> on a marble
> column. At each, I asked about it and the answer was
> always the same:
> a direct line to Heaven and I could call for a thousand
> dollars.
>
> Then -
>
> I finished my tour in Ireland . I decided to attend Mass at
> a local village
> church.
> When I walked in the door I noticed the golden telephone.
> Underneath it
> there
> was a sign stating: "DIRECT LINE TO HEAVEN 25
> cents." "Father," I said,
> "I have been all over Italy and in all the cathedrals
> I visited, I've seen
> telephones
> exactly like this one. But the price is always a thousand
> dollars.
>
> Why is it that this one is only 25 cents?"
>
> The priest smiled and said, "Darlin', you're
> in Ireland now. It's a local
> call...*

[PetrusMonsFormicarum]

7. I'm having an Irish 7-course dinner!

A six-pack and a boiled potato.

[Dr.Phool]

25. Wrong!!!!!

Six pack and a shot of Jameson's!

[JHB]

8. Who needs green...

...when you've got red hair and freckles?!

:toast:

[QueenOfCalifornia]

11. Opie?

Is that you?

We go to the parade and heckle the Shriner Clowns.

[A-Long-Little-Doggie]

9. I wear the green.

And I stay far, far away from the corned beef and cabbage... :puke:

[ananda]

10. Lol.. puckish grin

Wear green and pinch people who don't.

;-)

[Warpy]

13. You're why I stay home

Well, you and the drunks.

[BuyingThyme]

12. Is what green?

[Midlodemocrat]

14. Corned beef, soda bread.

Not the cabbage though, no one likes cabbage.

[evlbstrd]

20. I do.

More for me.

[DKRC]

27. Ha!

Not as long as I'm around!
:evilgrin:

[bicentennial_baby]

28. That's the only dish I will eat cabbage in

Weird.

[WilliamPitt]

15. We call it Evacuation Day here in Boston.

http://evacuationday.com/

St. Paddy's lasts for two weeks here. By the end of it, I will have seen the Pogues and Flogging Molly in concert about ten blocks from where I live, and will have gotten good and drunk once or thrice.

:)

And no, not green. Sorry.

[Missy Vixen]

16. Guinness

I avoid cabbage like the plague.

[RB TexLa]

17. Remember those who have died for freedom, for one.

[byeya]

18. I wear a little green and since I only have a drink once or

twice a year, I have an Irish coffee with Powers Gold label...here in the southern Apps at 3000 feet, St Paddy's Day is not much recognized....where I grew up it certainly was.

[1gobluedem]

19. I'm going to make boxty

And cook a corned beef for the first time ever. Mr. 1goblue likes Guinness and the girls will do their Irish jig for us. And I'll listen to the Clancy Brothers and Clancy and Makem, especially Four Green Fields.

[Itchinjim]

21. Just beers with my german friends.

I'm their token Irishman.

[monmouth]

22. Let's also remember Michael Collins and the others who fought the grand fight....n/t

[Peregrine Took]

31. My dad was an Irish Freedom fighter. As much as he loved "home" he always

said the U.S. was the greatest country in the world.

I'm not sure all immigrants think that way nowadays although they are glad to come here to make money/ go to school, etc.

[monmouth]

37. My grandmother Mary Collins Murphy and husband Billy were from

Cork and Mayo. They rarely spoke of Ireland, it brought a tear to the eye and a tug o' the heart...

[ourbluenation]

23. Nothing much. It's an american thing, not an irish one really.

But maybe I'll have an extra pint of Harp.

:toast:

[undergroundpanther]

26. my mowhawk is going green...

well right now the lightener is going to be washed out.Then the green manic panic applied.(electric lizard)..Hell I am Irish and Native American both..Gonna wear my green tiger T shirt I made ,and a parrot feather I have too..Go figure.

[life long demo]

29. Going to my local St. Patrick's Day parade in Montgomery Co

PA. And the after parade party. Won't touch the corned beef & cabbage although a lot will. Later try to get into Kildare's, but they will be packed. Have a Bailey's on the rocks. My cousin in Dublin said he will drown the shamrock what ever that means. But as others mentioned will toast the heroes of Ireland, Michael Collins, Wolf Tone, Robert Emmet and pray for the millions who died during the great starvation.

[Joey Liberal]

32. I'll wear a Notre Dame T-Shirt nt

[suede1]

33. Well, when I lived in Chicago it was to the bars. But in So Cal it's just another day.

[H2O Man]

34. It is a religious holiday.

Our family doesn't take part in the nonsense that a lot of the country does. We review Irish and Irish-American history, and discuss how Patrick connected Christianity with the belief system in Ireland at the time he lived. I have a number of good books on his life that we read.

[amandabeech]

35. I'll be wearin' the Green.

It looks okay with pale skin if you have dark reddish-brown hair!

And I'll go out for a shot of Jameson. Or two!

Sometimes I supplement my own activities by watching the parade on WGN, if they show it on Saturday afternoon. They're heavy on the bagpipes and kilts but low on the Irish pipes.

[timtom]

39. I will be playing my harp (Irish harp) and fiddle

and guitar and singing at a senior retirement facility.

Because I love them.

[Earth_First]

40. I build a new stone cairn out in the field n/t

[Jackeens]

41. I pretend it isn't happening!

I was once nearly run over by a deeply unpleasant Molly Malone in the Dublin parade, so I stayed home from then on. Now Patrick's Day is one of my busiest working days - no, I don't sell cockles and mussels - so no green beer for me. :thumbsdown:

But, have to say, I can't stand Patrick's Day, it's GRIM!!!!