I've just been chastised for not wearing green today.

I've probably got more Irish blood running through me than any of my colleagues. I think I just don't get it - but hey, why not, I suppose.

What country is next celebrating a saint, or a beer, or a long-lost fabled creature, and what colour should I wear for them please?

Guinness anyone?

Wipe your nose on your sleeve. Problem solved

i'll take two....not to be greedy... i just love guiness!!

oh I just find this whole St. Patrick's Day such an annoying part of Canadian/American life! Where I come from we have the Cheltenham Gold Cup Festival which would get invaded with the Irish and it always fell on 17th March. Fair enough they celebrate their own holiday and enjoy it but really am I about to go around in green and drinking Guinness and pretending to be Irish. I think not!

<shines all the buttons on his green shirt>

You need to Google "Anger Management" in Ottawa region.

I probably wouldn't normally bother but I did make a point of wearing green this morning for the benefit of all elementary kids on the bus that I drive. All the kids were wearing green and many were sporting temporary tatoos and stickers on their faces. Another driver said several of the kids on his bus were pinching him because he wasn't wearing green so I'm kind of glad I did make the effort!

What?

It's just a such a big thing here.

Michaels have been selling decorations for about 6 weeks now.

Colleagues have decorated offices and are walking around with "Pots of Gold" on their heads on bobbly headbands, and there are shamrocks galore.

I'm just waiting for the boss to let us leave early and invite us to the bar for a couple of whiskeys.

Score one for marketing.

I haven't worked for 12 years now but when I did St. Patrick's Day was a day like any other, nothing special. There was mentions of green beer and the "wearin' o' the green" but it certainly wasn't the hoopla it appears to be today.

In a sense the same thing goes for Halloween.

Nobody seems to care about the patron saint of Wales at the beginning of the month, so why should I care about the Irish patron saint in the middle of the month, .................... even if he is a Welshman!

My dad's Irish and my mum's Iranian so it meant we spent most of our family holidays in Customs.


I'll get my coat now.

I got pinched (quite hard I might add) by a colleague for not wearing any green, but all was redeemed when another colleague brought in mini leprechaun hats for everyone to wear at the team meeting

St Georges day is 23rd April.

I approve of the marketing by Irish beer companies in recent years. Anything that replaces the usual north american puritanism with boozing is ok by me.