Happy St Patricks Day I'm off to the pub as soon I'm finished with a meeting i have to go to......grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Echoing Smeggy's St. Paddy's Day wishes. Anyone in the Houston area who wants to celebrate it in style, I recommend Brian O'Neill's in Rice Village, and not just because I used to work there. Two tremendous bands are playing there, the Patrick Devlin Band (Irish flavored rock) at 5:00, and the Trey Clark Band whenever Patrick's done. Clark is Texas country, but he's still great so I'll let it slide. Anyway, if you do show up I'll be one of the many in there getting plastered, even though prison guard academy starts up for me in Angleton at 7 AM on Thursday.
Happy St. Patty's day from here in Savannah,GA! This town lights up on this holiday. What a madhouse!
I'm headed to the duck after work to celebrate St Patricks Day... and my 35th Birthday. I can almost wager I've had more green beer and green cake than any man alive.
I'm gonna have a good time tonight. Rock and roll music's gonna play all night. And, no. I'm not telling you where I'm going to be. Look at it as your own "Where's Waldo?" Tonight it's "Where's Fatty?" Find me if you can.
Good question. Back in the 80's people used to do it all the time, but I haven't seen that lately... or was it just a kid thing?
I thought the same after a saw a coworker not wearing green. I could get in a whole heap of trouble if I pinched her for not wearing green. Someone with kids will have to tell us if it's a kid thing or an 80s thing.
Why Guinness bubbles fall By John von Radowitz 17 March 2004 It is more than just a load of old Blarney: the bubbles in a pint of Guinness move down, instead of up, contrary to the laws of physics. And scientists have come up with the proof to mark St Patrick's Day. A team of Scottish and US researchers produced, for the first time, video evidence to show bubbles being dragged to the bottom of the glass. An earlier study concluded that the phenomenon may only have been an optical illusion. But close examination revealed that, as the pint settles, bubbles touching the glass experience drag that prevents them floating up. Bubbles in the centre are free to rise. A circular flow is created, causing bubbles at the edge to be pushed downwards on the glass. The effect occurs in any liquid, the scientists said, but the contrast between the dark stout and its creamy bubbles makes it easier to spot in Guinness.
Eww JV, Yea, I wouldn't try pinching anyone today, especially female unless you are willing to go through the headache of a lawsuit. Someone has got to know what the deal is about pinching on St Patrick's Day. BobFinn* would know; he googles about everything!
Bah Castor she can't do anything. She's back in the hospital...AGAIN. Besides, if I can help organize and put on the St. Patrick's Day parade while nearly falling out of my golf cart, I can listen to a sargeant drone on for a few hours. Orientation meetings aren't that big .
I got 2 sources that agree this is a childhood tradition. Good Luck for St. Patrick's Day Finding a four-leaf clover (that's double the good luck it usually is). Wearing green. (School children have started a little tradition of their own -- they pinch classmates who don't wear green on this holiday). Kissing the blarney stone. http://holidays.lovingyou.com/march/history.shtml ...and according to saint-patricks-day-traditions.com: The most well known tradition on St. Patrick’s Day is probably the practice of wearing green, the color of shamrocks and the national color of the Emerald Isle. Most of us can also remember the school-yard extension of this tradition—those not wearing green on St. Patrick’s Day are likely to receive a painful pinch! So leave those hotties in HR alone!
