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Granuaile
1206 posts
03-16-2009 5:35pm
Hi Everyone,
I'm getting an an early "Happy St. Patrick's Day!!!" to you all as I'm gonna be too busy tomorrow to remember.
Hope everyone is doing well, the Guinness is flowing and the wenchs are plenty.
- Gran
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If You're Irish...
1) You will never play professional basketball
2) You swear very well.
3) At least one of your cousins is a fireman, cop, bar owner, funeral homeowner or
holds political office. And you have at least one aunt who is a nun, or uncle who's a priest.
4) You think you sing very well.
5) You have no idea how to make a long story short!
6) There isn't a big difference between you losing your temper or killing someone.
7) Much of your childhood meals were boiled. Instant potatoes were a mortal sin!
8) You have never hit your head on a ceiling.
9) You spent a good portion of your childhood kneeling in prayer (thank you catholic guilt).
10) You're strangely poetic after a few beers.
11) You are, therefore, poetic a lot.
12) You will be punched for no good reason. A lot.
13) Some punches directed at you are from legacies of past generations.
14) Many of your sisters and/or cousins are named Mary, Catherine or Eileen ...
and there is at least one member of your family with the full name of Mary Catherine Eileen.
15) Someone in your family is very generous. It is more than likely you.
16) You may not know the words, but that doesn't stop you from singing.
17) You can't wait for the other guy to stop talking before you start talking.
18) You're not nearly as funny as you think you are...but what you lack in talent, you make up for in frequency.
19) There wasn't a huge difference between your last Wake and your last keg party.
20) You are, or know someone, named Murph.
21) If you don't know Murph then you know Mac. If you don't know Murph or Mac then you know Sully. Then you probably know Sully McMurphy.
22) You are genetically incapable of keeping a secret.
23) You have Irish Alzheimer's...you forget everything but your grudges!
24) 'Irish Stew' is a euphemism for 'boiled leftovers.'
25) All of your losses are alcohol-related (loss of virginity, loss of driver's license, loss of money, loss of job, loss of teeth from punch...) but it never stops you from drinking.
26) Your skin's ability to tan...not so much.
27) At this very moment, you have at least two relatives who are not speaking to each other (not fighting, mind you, just not speaking to each other).
28) Childhood remedies for the common cold often included whiskey.
29) There's no leaving a family party without saying good-bye for at leastâ¦45 minutes.
30) You met your husband - wife /significant other / accountant / lawyer / landscaper /etc. in a bar.
I'm getting an an early "Happy St. Patrick's Day!!!" to you all as I'm gonna be too busy tomorrow to remember.
Hope everyone is doing well, the Guinness is flowing and the wenchs are plenty.
- Gran
____________________________________________________________________________
If You're Irish...
1) You will never play professional basketball
2) You swear very well.
3) At least one of your cousins is a fireman, cop, bar owner, funeral homeowner or
holds political office. And you have at least one aunt who is a nun, or uncle who's a priest.
4) You think you sing very well.
5) You have no idea how to make a long story short!
6) There isn't a big difference between you losing your temper or killing someone.
7) Much of your childhood meals were boiled. Instant potatoes were a mortal sin!
8) You have never hit your head on a ceiling.
9) You spent a good portion of your childhood kneeling in prayer (thank you catholic guilt).
10) You're strangely poetic after a few beers.
11) You are, therefore, poetic a lot.
12) You will be punched for no good reason. A lot.
13) Some punches directed at you are from legacies of past generations.
14) Many of your sisters and/or cousins are named Mary, Catherine or Eileen ...
and there is at least one member of your family with the full name of Mary Catherine Eileen.
15) Someone in your family is very generous. It is more than likely you.
16) You may not know the words, but that doesn't stop you from singing.
17) You can't wait for the other guy to stop talking before you start talking.
18) You're not nearly as funny as you think you are...but what you lack in talent, you make up for in frequency.
19) There wasn't a huge difference between your last Wake and your last keg party.
20) You are, or know someone, named Murph.
21) If you don't know Murph then you know Mac. If you don't know Murph or Mac then you know Sully. Then you probably know Sully McMurphy.
22) You are genetically incapable of keeping a secret.
23) You have Irish Alzheimer's...you forget everything but your grudges!
24) 'Irish Stew' is a euphemism for 'boiled leftovers.'
25) All of your losses are alcohol-related (loss of virginity, loss of driver's license, loss of money, loss of job, loss of teeth from punch...) but it never stops you from drinking.
26) Your skin's ability to tan...not so much.
27) At this very moment, you have at least two relatives who are not speaking to each other (not fighting, mind you, just not speaking to each other).
28) Childhood remedies for the common cold often included whiskey.
29) There's no leaving a family party without saying good-bye for at leastâ¦45 minutes.
30) You met your husband - wife /significant other / accountant / lawyer / landscaper /etc. in a bar.
brendar
5729 posts
03-16-2009 7:08pm
THIS IS MY FAVORITE HOLIDAY EVER.
It seems like I have a really good time only every other year... Brendar's St. Patrick's Days:
2005- Newly in Germany, party with soldiers in Frankfurt. Lots of strange, multi-colored shots. Night ended fleeing from enraged prostitutes and the Polizei.
2006: Paris, France. Surprised my girlfriend by flying her to Paris, where we meet my sister and brother-in-law. Got engaged. Surprising amount of Irish in Paris on this day. When asked, they were "escaping all the goddamn tourists overrunning Ireland this weekend".
2007: Transferred to new unit in Germany. Poker night at a house in rural Bavaria. Drowned my broken engagement in an entire bottle of Jameson. I puked on my brand new shoes, but I won the poker game.
2008: Dublin! Kick-ass Irish getaway with the German girlfriend. Ran into a gay Irish-Swiss couple at a bar downtown and partied with them for the rest of the night. Lots of Guinness.
2009: Baghdad. Combat patrol in districts 502 and 505 with the Iraqi National Police, targeting Imam Ali Jaysh Al-Mahdi Special Groups members. Coors NA when we're done.
2010: Maybe I'll finally get to party in Boston?
Slainte mhaiph saoil fada is bas in Eireann!
It seems like I have a really good time only every other year... Brendar's St. Patrick's Days:
2005- Newly in Germany, party with soldiers in Frankfurt. Lots of strange, multi-colored shots. Night ended fleeing from enraged prostitutes and the Polizei.
2006: Paris, France. Surprised my girlfriend by flying her to Paris, where we meet my sister and brother-in-law. Got engaged. Surprising amount of Irish in Paris on this day. When asked, they were "escaping all the goddamn tourists overrunning Ireland this weekend".
2007: Transferred to new unit in Germany. Poker night at a house in rural Bavaria. Drowned my broken engagement in an entire bottle of Jameson. I puked on my brand new shoes, but I won the poker game.
2008: Dublin! Kick-ass Irish getaway with the German girlfriend. Ran into a gay Irish-Swiss couple at a bar downtown and partied with them for the rest of the night. Lots of Guinness.
2009: Baghdad. Combat patrol in districts 502 and 505 with the Iraqi National Police, targeting Imam Ali Jaysh Al-Mahdi Special Groups members. Coors NA when we're done.
2010: Maybe I'll finally get to party in Boston?
Slainte mhaiph saoil fada is bas in Eireann!
Stranger
1533 posts
03-16-2009 7:20pm
God damn that list, Gran. Hahaha.
Lux_Lisbon
11443 posts
And here I am...nowhere near Boston anymore and sober for St. Patrick's Day. So sad! This used to be one of my favorite days!
Abia
262 posts
03-16-2009 9:54pm
...sober for St. Patrick's Day.
Why are you going to be sober? There's no reason for that! Well, a couple of us have a reason...wait a minute...are you going to be sober for the same reason I'm going to be sober?
Why are you going to be sober? There's no reason for that! Well, a couple of us have a reason...wait a minute...are you going to be sober for the same reason I'm going to be sober?
Widget
2088 posts
03-17-2009 3:55am
Andist
176 posts
03-17-2009 12:00pm
Why are you going to be sober? There's no reason for that! Well, a couple of us have a reason...wait a minute...are you going to be sober for the same reason I'm going to be sober?
Hmm.. no comment?
Hmm.. no comment?
Trianna
3615 posts
Happy St. Patrick's Day all. Beer has no calories today...tis true.
Foxfyr
12982 posts
03-17-2009 1:55pm
OH BOY OH DANNY
