St Patricks Day
Feb 11th 2007, 5:04 pm
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Re: St Patricks Day
yeah, they do it around here too...and it was big in maine too....someone explained it was because corned beef and cabbage was cheap and all the immigrants of the time could afford and it just got associated with the Irish...would have thought it would have been spuds if that was the case though, so who knows.
Feb 11th 2007, 5:19 pm
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Re: St Patricks Day
yeah, they do it around here too...and it was big in maine too....someone explained it was because corned beef and cabbage was cheap and all the immigrants of the time could afford and it just got associated with the Irish...would have thought it would have been spuds if that was the case though, so who knows.
Feb 11th 2007, 5:20 pm
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Re: St Patricks Day
Still - as a newbie you should prob check it out - the train will deposit you in the centre of town for $5 so its easy enough to get there. In fact being as you're moving to the 'burbs I recommend heading into the city at every available opportunity - its like a different world.
Feb 11th 2007, 5:24 pm
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Re: St Patricks Day
...don't help that it's a tad more pricier using the commuter rail, or tolls and parking make a drive a mare...
Feb 11th 2007, 5:34 pm
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Re: St Patricks Day
On the plus side they do allow you to drink on the train so if you're heading in at weekends take a carryout.
Feb 11th 2007, 5:39 pm
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Re: St Patricks Day
Is it only me, or does it get up anyone else's nose the way the yanks celebrate St Patricks Day.
Dont get me wrong, Ive nothing against the irish.
I did 6 tours over there, and at one time was even engaged to an irish girl.
But what really pisses me off, are the clowns over here, who will tell you they are ' Irish' and they've never even seen the sky over I.
These are the same wallies, who ride around in a truck with a plate on the front announcing 'God made the Irish # 1"
They seem to have some romantic notion about the irish, that they are a downtrodden nation existing in the shadow of the UK;
Or if its not Ireland, they'll tell you the are a fifth Scottish, a fifth Ukranian, one tenth portugese, need I go on?
Any thoughts anyone, or am i out of order?
Dont get me wrong, Ive nothing against the irish.
I did 6 tours over there, and at one time was even engaged to an irish girl.
But what really pisses me off, are the clowns over here, who will tell you they are ' Irish' and they've never even seen the sky over I.
These are the same wallies, who ride around in a truck with a plate on the front announcing 'God made the Irish # 1"
They seem to have some romantic notion about the irish, that they are a downtrodden nation existing in the shadow of the UK;
Or if its not Ireland, they'll tell you the are a fifth Scottish, a fifth Ukranian, one tenth portugese, need I go on?
Any thoughts anyone, or am i out of order?
- everyone assumes I celebrate it as I'm from the UK and it must be a big thing in England
All about commercialism
Feb 11th 2007, 5:49 pm
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Re: St Patricks Day
I'd start keeping it in the fridge if i were you
What gets me are all the t-shirts in Target proclaiming just how great the irish were. I'd tend to agree but 99.9% of the wearers are from what i can tell not irish at all (dons flameproof undies
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Feb 11th 2007, 5:53 pm
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Re: St Patricks Day
Unless you've lived there, been brought up there, born there, or the same for your folks, you really ain't from there....but maybe I'm just not getting it.
Feb 11th 2007, 5:59 pm
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Re: St Patricks Day
It's the land of the plastic paddy...everyone is American until they talk about heritage and suddenly there actually Scottish, Irish...but not Welsh
Unless you've lived there, been brought up there, born there, or the same for your folks, you really ain't from there....but maybe I'm just not getting it.
Unless you've lived there, been brought up there, born there, or the same for your folks, you really ain't from there....but maybe I'm just not getting it.
"I'm Italian......"
Really? When did you move here then?
"uh, er......well I'm Italian descent......."
Substitute Irish, Scottish, German, Polish........etc
Funny how you never hear "I'm an English American though" ........wonder why
Feb 11th 2007, 6:16 pm
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Re: St Patricks Day
Feb 11th 2007, 8:15 pm
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Feb 11th 2007, 8:47 pm
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Re: St Patricks Day
The people that I used to work with were suprised that we Irish didn't eat corned beef and cabbage back in Ireland. I kept telling them that it's only an Irish American thing. Bob was right when he posted that the Irish immigrants used corned beef instead of bacon when they arrived here, and that's the whole corned beef and cabbage thing started!
The only corned beef I ate once or twice when I lived back in NI was that out of a can and it smelt like cat food
BigDavyG - did you know that St. Patrick was buried in Downpatrick? I did climb Slemish mountain several times on St. Patrick's day to see where it was claimed that St. Patrick banished all the snakes from Ireland. It was always cold and wet on those days
The only corned beef I ate once or twice when I lived back in NI was that out of a can and it smelt like cat food
BigDavyG - did you know that St. Patrick was buried in Downpatrick? I did climb Slemish mountain several times on St. Patrick's day to see where it was claimed that St. Patrick banished all the snakes from Ireland. It was always cold and wet on those days
Feb 11th 2007, 8:48 pm
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Re: St Patricks Day
It's the land of the plastic paddy...everyone is American until they talk about heritage and suddenly there actually Scottish, Irish...but not Welsh
Unless you've lived there, been brought up there, born there, or the same for your folks, you really ain't from there....but maybe I'm just not getting it.
Unless you've lived there, been brought up there, born there, or the same for your folks, you really ain't from there....but maybe I'm just not getting it.
But if I have to listen to one more complete family tree recital I'll go mad
I don't get the "My ancestors are Irish/Scottish" I get the whole nine yards of how far back it goes then at the end the usual "have you heard of them?'The funny thing is I did actually know one!!!
