Who made this Patrick fellow a Saint anyways?
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Posted on Mar 17, 2006 11:15 am
Tadpui
I am not a crook's head
Member Since: Mar 14, 2003
Happy St. Patty's day everyone. I sure hope that all of you are planning on shirking your work responsibilities for our nation's official "play hooky and drink until you puke" day. What a wonderful, family-oriented holiday!
Everybody be sure to take your children out to the bars today so they can see how well-behaved and civilized people are when they drink themselves into oblivion!
Is everybody wearing green today? If I worked in an office of shapely twenty-something females, I'd wear every color but green today in order to coerce as much pinching as I could. But that's not the reality. Plus I'd get pinched where no man wants to get pinched if my wife found out. Youch.
You know, I know nothing of this St. Patrick. I'm sure that 10 minutes alone with Google would teach me all I need to know about him, but I'd just end up forgetting it anyways because I've got a 6-pack of Guiness, a bottle of Jameson, and a bottle of Irish cream waiting at home. Some of you know what these ingredients make. The Irish Car Bomb! A friend of mine found out the hard way not to ask for the drink by that name over in the U.K. It hits a bit closer to home over there. But over here, @#$% political correctness and lets get @#$%ed up!
...er...I mean...have a happy St. Patrick's Day.
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HuePinnipedal Czar (: 3= Member
Since: Apr 11, 2004
Mar 17, 2006 12:54 pm Wow ! How do you mix that, Tad ? It probably tastes good, but just looking at the ingredients, it sounds a little disturbing . : )
Here y'a go... a short video-documentary of Pat:
www.historychannel.com/ex...day/?page=video
I think I'll give that concoction a whirl tonight... all I need is the Guiness, and the Jameson .
Mar 17, 2006 12:57 pm I dunno what the big deal is with this goofy holiday...hell, I am Irish, I am going to the gym and taking a couple classes, coming home, doing some coding for you guys while having a normal brown ale (or 6) and going to bed...
Be careful you guys...roads are dangerous on holidays who's only tradition is getting drunk.
Mar 17, 2006 12:57 pm GUINNESS AND JAMESON!!
haha that's exactly what we're gettin' into tonight, oh and the pitchers of green draught.
OI!
i'll give ya a drunken call around midnightish!
TadpuiI am not a crook's headMember
Since: Mar 14, 2003
Mar 17, 2006 01:05 pm The recipe is:
1/2 pint guiness in a glass/mug
pour 1 oz. Jameson into the glass with the Guiness
pour 1 oz. of Bailey's into a shot glass
Drop the shot glass into the beer mug and chug the whole concoction (boiler-maker style)
It does taste pretty darn good. You get the initial creaminess of the guiness and the kick of the Jameson, but with the sweet finish of the Bailey's. The Bailey's doesn't empty out of the shot glass until you've got the whole thing pretty much parallel to the floor, so your last *gulp* is the nice compliment of Irish cream.
Don't put the Bailey's in the mix until right before you chug it or else it'll curdle due to the whiskey. Ewwww. Mmmmmmm.
I swear it won't take but a couple of these to make you parallel to the floor as well :D
Oh and dB, I'm strictly using this holiday as an excuse to get drunk. I've got some Irish heritage as well, but heritage schmeritage, I'm getting wasted :D
Oh do any of you Family Guy fans remember the episode where Peter takes Chris to the library to find out about their heritage? And they have the "day in the life of an Irish man" and "day in the life of an Irish woman" animatronic displays? The Irish man is programmed to slam a beer then slap his wife over and over...and the Irish woman kneels and prays and then flops on her back and pops out a baby over and over...ROFL that was good. Tasteless but oh so funny :D
HuePinnipedal Czar (: 3= Member
Since: Apr 11, 2004
Mar 17, 2006 01:36 pm Thanks Tad... I'm gon'na do it !
Chris, if you wan'na call Mishkas phone instead, I understand that it's free, and she should be hangin' with us as well . I'll try to be primed by then, but I don't get out of here 'til eightish, and it does take a while to get things rolling . ; ) Oh, and we're tracking tonight, so that should be interesting . heh
Edit : Happy belated B-day !!!
TadpuiI am not a crook's headMember
Since: Mar 14, 2003
Mar 17, 2006 03:12 pm Hue, its funny that you cited the History Channel for my St. Patty's education. While I was home for lunch, I saw the last bit of a History Channel special on St. Patrick's day.
Turns out, St. Patrick was the man that brought Christianity to Ireland. And the church is pretty dismayed that America celebrates his memory by getting drunk and acting like fools. Disgraceful they say. *hic*
Mar 17, 2006 03:13 pm Yeah, it is disgraceful actually, but then every since Christianity was brought there the catholics and protests have been brawling too, which is also disgraceful.
TadpuiI am not a crook's headMember
Since: Mar 14, 2003
Mar 17, 2006 04:12 pm Yeah that whole Catholic/Protestant feud in Ireland is a real puzzlement to me. Good thing that doesn't carry over as harshly in the U.S...or else my wife and I would constantly be trying to kill each other :)
Oh well. I'm only Protestant by technicality. I'm not a religious fellow, but I was raised Baptist and baptized into the Methodist church. My wife comes from a long line of Irish Catholics. Boy our wedding was fun...we had it on "neutral ground"...in the local Pentecostal church hehehe. Hell all we needed was a Rabbi and a Shaman and we'd have pretty much all of the bases covered.
Mar 17, 2006 04:25 pm this is among my top two least favorite holidays. i never understood what this one was about. i tried to imagine myself irish and caring, and the only thing i can come up with is the idea of a feast, a meal. if irish folks do that on this day, then it starts to become viable. for them. we never did this though (im not irish). so for me this holiday was, as a child, simply about the color green. whoop de doo. and now? hell, i drink every night anyway. so i dont know what im supposed to get excited about here.
the other lousy holiday is valentine's day. theres just not enough history to it for my liking. its not big enough to mean much to me. theres no anticipation. its just suddenly here, and its a dinner and some sentiment and thats it.
i also dont like easter that much and never did.
pjkPrince CZAR-mingMember
Since: Apr 08, 2004
Mar 17, 2006 04:42 pm Easter's a religous holiday, the rabbit stuff doesn't count, unless your under 7 years old =).
Mar 17, 2006 05:03 pm us americans take the holidays that involve gifts and drinking more serious than the ones that don't.....
hell yeah, it's presidents day! heh just don't sound right does it? but Cinco de Mayo (did i spell that right?) is a drinker made famous from bars and resteraunts (gosh my spellin' sucks, and i'm too lazy for dictionary.com, ha! i just typed it!
TadpuiI am not a crook's headMember
Since: Mar 14, 2003
Mar 17, 2006 05:38 pm Yeah I'm more looking forward to drinking because its Friday, not St. Patty's Day :-D
Mar 17, 2006 06:01 pm yeah but president's day isnt hyped like st patty's day is. it doesnt overreach.
as far as easter, i dont like the trappings that come with it basically. theres never been anything fun about easter. including the rabbit. the religious significance of easter? fine. its fine. but it seems like an unbalanced holiday. its just church and dinner. something's missing. and oh yeah, its in the spring, and it just feels like a sedate, starched-up dressy holiday that i always just kind of wanted out of as a kid.
TadpuiI am not a crook's headMember
Since: Mar 14, 2003
Mar 17, 2006 06:05 pm I was watching Eddie Izzard's Dress to Kill the other day and he brought up a good point. There have been spring "festivals" in most cultures going back about as far as we can in history. To celebrate the end of winter, the beginning of the mating season, ready to plant crops, breed livestock, stuff like that.
Its probably no coincidence that Christians celebrate Easter at that time of year...they just kind of took over an existing time of celebration and added their own religious overtones to it.
And the rabbits and chocolate eggs? They most definitely represent shagging and fertility! The natural themes of spring!
Mar 17, 2006 06:07 pm Well from your less-than-religious mind set it makes sense there is nothing more, to a religious person, it's the day the makes the Christian faith what it is, the day Christ conquered death and Satan, the single most important holiday in the religious year. Far more than anything church and dinner could cover...
Mar 17, 2006 08:25 pm but the thing is, i was a churchgoer as a kid. went to CCD and everything like that. first communion, confirmation, etc. and easter just didnt have any sense of magic about it to me. i didnt care about easter. i cared about the birth of christ, but i never 'got' the easter side of things till i was much older. then i just kind of went 'oh.'
i saw that izzard show. someone i know recently suggested it might be cool were xmas and easter reversed as far as their seasons. the dates and seasons are arbitrary anyway. they do overlay old festivals.
alls i know is i was never a huge 'spring holiday guy.'
Mar 17, 2006 09:30 pm Well, as a kid people are often (but not always) churchgoers due to being forced, I know I was, plus I went to a religious school, and really disliked it, but, the point I am trying to make is that perhaps even then, when going thru the motions as a child, it just wasn't "in you"...I dunno, either way, Easter is the very epicenter of the Christian faith, without it, there would be no salvation.
Noize2uCzar of MidiAdministrator
Since: Apr 04, 2002
Mar 17, 2006 11:03 pm TAdpui, Iam also going to have to try that one out. I have several friends who like my love the Guiness as well as the whiskey. So that sounds like a realy fun thing to try. Since Guiness is one those almost impossible to chug things it should prove interesting to watch.
Mar 17, 2006 11:38 pm "Well, as a kid people are often (but not always) churchgoers due to being forced, I know I was, plus I went to a religious school, and really disliked it, but, the point I am trying to make is that perhaps even then, when going thru the motions as a child, it just wasn't "in you"...I dunno, either way, Easter is the very epicenter of the Christian faith, without it, there would be no salvation."
--i think the only part of the religion that was ever 'in me' was the christmas story--the birth of christ--which just seemed magical.
there were times i was able to believe in stuff and put aside logical things that sometimes made me think. probably most of my childhood was like that unless i deliberately started exploring conflicting things. but i really dont think easter was ever explained right to the kids in our congregation/ccd. or else i just didnt get it. i didnt understand, as a kid, how jesus coming back to life had anything to do with me. i didnt undertstand--at all--the concept of someone dying for others' sins. i was not willfully resisting it: it literally did not make any sense to me. i didnt understand what people were celebrating. i dont recall ever getting a concise explanation on that, and i guess i was too dumb to get the connection on my own.
Mar 18, 2006 04:53 am Guinness,Yeah, went to gig in band van and supped a few last night. Dropped a couple of clangers on solo's but put in extra effort to regain cred.I blamed it on my gut causing the strat to lean away more than usual.A lot of people were on the Guinness but our band never mentioned St Pats,(a bit odd).Anyway the Mrs went to a good ol Irish knees up, cause shes Irish and it was a good stompin band playing.Ive never been sure what its all about but who cares.Any excuse will do.The Guinness has improved here in uk cause now its imported from the Dublin Factory.Straight from the Liffy river.CHEERS!
Mar 18, 2006 07:31 am Well, in all fairness forty, and having been thru the situation as a parent, talking to a child about Christ, the man you praise, being beaten, nailed to a cross and killed, can be a rather touchy subject and may well have not been handled well by your church for the sake of your feelings.
TadpuiI am not a crook's headMember
Since: Mar 14, 2003
Mar 18, 2006 01:39 pm So is everybody's self respect still intact this morning? How are the headaches? Anybody sleep on the bathroom floor? :-D
Noize2uCzar of MidiAdministrator
Since: Apr 04, 2002
Mar 18, 2006 04:22 pm Nope, had to work early this morning so no headaches here. I do enjoy a good nap on the bathroom floor though now and then.
HuePinnipedal Czar (: 3= Member
Since: Apr 11, 2004
Mar 19, 2006 12:22 pm Couldn't find the Jameson, prolly not quite the same w/o, so substituions were not sought . I did manage to inhale about a dozen green bottles of Heineken, though... at least the bottles were green .
