X-Entertainment's Christmas Season & Advent Calendar, 2008.

03/16/2004: X-E’s Tribute to St. Patrick’s Day!

Well hello there. Long time no chat. How are the kidddss??? Today’s article focuses on the finer points of Saint Patrick’s Day, written from the non-Irish perspective because I am absolutely not Irish. We’ll take a look at such holiday staples as green beer, McDonald’s Shamrock Shakes, Cookie O’Puss and beyond. There’s even a wild, woolly relative of Grimace hidden inside. I think the Chia Plot is on hold till next week, so I hope rambling about green beer can compensate. No? Aw come on. Back with more tomorrow!

Posted by Matt. E-mail me!

Discussion Thread: 90 comments

yeah! first comment. and yet, i have nothing to say except XE rules and so do the irish.

Chestnuts roasted by dan @ 03/16/2004 6:18 PM EST

GO SHAMROCK SHAKES!

Chestnuts roasted by wack0 @ 03/16/2004 6:19 PM EST

I love days that are just big excuses to drink heavily. I’m Irish too, got the pasty skin to prove it. Yay.

Chestnuts roasted by Lauren @ 03/16/2004 6:29 PM EST

Wow, America really goes overboard on the Paddy’s Day celebrations. We don’t even have Lucky Charms cereal in Ireland.

Chestnuts roasted by F-13 @ 03/16/2004 6:35 PM EST

Unfortunately, No one even remembers who the real St. Patrick is or what he did….

And I haven’t "celebrated" St. Patrick’s day in years…

Chestnuts roasted by Cameron @ 03/16/2004 6:36 PM EST

Let’s see: I’m underage, there’s no Cookie Puss in Las Vegas (As far as I know), and I’ve no clue where the blender is (Wouldn’t matter much, I can’t find a single ice cream brand around here even remotely worthy of being Texas’ own Bluebell Ice Cream’s rival). At least I still have some Irish blood and a few good green shirts (And pants!).

Chestnuts roasted by Teirusu @ 03/16/2004 6:37 PM EST

"We don’t even have Lucky Charms cereal in Ireland."

They’re probably worried about Lucky being a stereotype.

Chestnuts roasted by Teirusu @ 03/16/2004 6:38 PM EST

I’m a Lanigan, so I’m irish, but to be honest I’ve never been there or bothered to learn anything about them. I do have a piece of a blarney stone somewhere though. It just looks like an ordinary rock to me. What’s the deal with blarney stones?

Chestnuts roasted by Kristen @ 03/16/2004 7:10 PM EST

Must…have…Cookie O’ Puss…. MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATT!

Chestnuts roasted by Kev @ 03/16/2004 7:14 PM EST

I think I’m half Irish… or some level around that, somewhere… Point being, green beer doesn’t interest me, but that Cookie O’ Puss would be great fun to slaughter in the name of ol’ Pat.

Chestnuts roasted by Orin @ 03/16/2004 7:19 PM EST

Boston goes overboard on the holiday with letting public employees and students get "Evacuation Day" off: http://www-tech.mit.edu/V118/N14/ring.14c.html

Chestnuts roasted by ME @ 03/16/2004 7:21 PM EST

Great blog entry thingie, Matt.
I too am not Irish at all, and really don’t understand the hype of Saint Patrick’s day, but whatev.
I love Cookie Puss!
(Carvel = My Holy Land because of two-for Wednesdays.)

Chestnuts roasted by Denise @ 03/16/2004 7:21 PM EST

I’m going to celebrate st. pattie’s day by eating a green sno ball with my green sprite Lucky. Only 9 more months until I turn 21.

Chestnuts roasted by pikachulover @ 03/16/2004 7:28 PM EST

I have no idea what to do this St Patrick’s day- never have, never will. Oh, except I always wear the token green item so I’m not pinched mercilessly. As much.

I guess I’ll stay in and eat green things.

On another note, http://www.2005boards.com is still down, and Homestar Runner hasn’t done its weekly update yet. I could use that stereotypical Irish luck about now.

Chestnuts roasted by Alt-Tab @ 03/16/2004 7:38 PM EST

You’ve got to love any day that’s just a big excuse to drink, like New Years Eve, or Thursday. Yipee for green beer.

Chestnuts roasted by Tyler @ 03/16/2004 7:40 PM EST

Matt, do you know what you just did? You made me crave Shamrock Shakes! Now I’m going to have to go down to McDonald’s tomorrow and celebrate St. Patty’s Day by buying one! It’ll be a nice replacement for green beer, since liquor of any color does not agree with me.

I am a quarter Irish (but I’m also a quarter of most of Western Europe), so I at least have a tentative reason for celebrating the holiday. It’ll mostly just be an excuse to buy myself a Shamrock Shake and gorge on Irish Potatoes.

You say you’ve never heard of the wee Irish Potatoes? Why, they are the most heavenly confections since that edible icing snowman that came with Matt’s Winter Kid Cuisine frozen dinner. They are merely powdered sugar, butter, vanilla, and coconut covered with cinnamon, and they’re only avalible from after Valentine’s Day to mid-March. Like other seasonal candies, the grocery stores always have lots of leftovers. I must have bought at least five or six boxes of the things from after-the-holiday sales last year.

Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 03/16/2004 7:56 PM EST

I’ve also decided to celebrate St. Patrick’s day by drinking a Shamrock Shake. Assuming the McDonald’s down the street has them. If not, I will comprimise and pour green food coloring into a vanilla shake from Sonic.

Chestnuts roasted by marril159 @ 03/16/2004 8:30 PM EST

While the article itself was great as usual, the thing that really made it for me was the baboochi cameo.

Chestnuts roasted by Diabetic Dinosaur @ 03/16/2004 8:47 PM EST

I hate Saint Patrick’s Day. Why you ask? I work at a catering that specializes in holiday parties. The weekend that had just passed was an early tribute to Saint Patrick’s Day. I had six tables (ten people each table) on Friday Saturday and Sunday of drunkard fools.
The buffet was Coors light with some white Russians topped with a sweet tall whiskey. Drinking Irish coffee and forty 6-packs of dyed green beer was the main course. While all the customers of mine were beet red throwing soda bread at me yelling orders into my ear
I was trying my best to carry the heavy trays that were stacked to its maximum balance point of empty beer bottles through a gauntlet of standing Irish men. Not to say I hate Irish people, but I sure hate to wait on the ones that get drunk and lay on the table. HAPPY ST. PATRICK’S DAY!

Chestnuts roasted by nelson @ 03/16/2004 9:29 PM EST

Yay I love St Patricks Day. Just because my favorite color is Green. It’s a celebration of all things green. Yeah I know it’s a pretty lame reason to like a holiday but whatta ya gonna do?

Chestnuts roasted by Meatwad @ 03/16/2004 9:37 PM EST

http://slashdot.org/articles/04/02/24/1916222.shtml

Re:Huh… (Score:5, Informative)
by glk572 (599902) on Tuesday February 24, @06:35PM (#8379686)(http://www.wwu.edu/~krausegLast Journal: Wednesday January 21, @08:13PM)

"The Baboochi is an attempt to indoctronate children in the cult of scientology. Do a little research about Laura C. Byrnes the creator, just a second on google and you can see how screwed up this really is.

http://home.scientologist.org/laurab/

I for one do not like the idea of children playing with a toy created by a long time cult member, especially when it includes a pamphlet to introduce them to the relegion."

Chestnuts roasted by ME @ 03/16/2004 9:45 PM EST

Okay, sure, Uncle O’Grimacey is obscure, but does anyone remember that alien guy with the loads of arms? I think his name was CosMc or something along those lines. I seem to be the only one who remembers this short lived character. When I was a kid I had the whole set of Remco McDonaldLand toys and the McDonaldland playest which I inherited from my cousins, and when CosMc hit the scene I was so enamoured with the idea of a CosMc action figure to join the rest of the McD’s crew. Alas, the toys had been discontinued shortly before my birth, so my wait was fruitless. To this very day it tears me up inside.

Chestnuts roasted by Pagz @ 03/16/2004 10:05 PM EST

What does he do with that leftover cake…?

BTW, the Roger Rabbit line was classic.

Chestnuts roasted by God Animagnus @ 03/16/2004 10:05 PM EST

Definitely, the Roger Rabbit line knocked this one out of the park for me.

Chestnuts roasted by Yars @ 03/16/2004 10:09 PM EST

I can’t believe that about Baboochi. He looked so cute so innocent. NOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Oh well Baboochi…YOU’RE FIRED!

Chestnuts roasted by Meatwad @ 03/16/2004 10:09 PM EST

i loved the look in cookie o pusses eyes when you cut him man,thats just art.

Chestnuts roasted by meef @ 03/16/2004 10:31 PM EST

Heh. Cookie o’Puss!

I’m absolutly not Irish either.. It’s ok though because my buddy next door is and all of Wednesday will be spent drinking his pathetic Irish ass under the table..
(not pathetic cuz he’s Irish, pathetic cuz he’s Irish and can’t drink)

Chestnuts roasted by Cyanyde @ 03/16/2004 10:55 PM EST

Dude! I swear I saw a Green Hostess Snoballs in my campus cafeteria. Will have to do recon tomorrow. Plus there is one of those giant green Lucky Charms cereal boxes in my parents’ kitchen cabinet.

Chestnuts roasted by boyzrfun @ 03/16/2004 11:06 PM EST

Just a ting about Cookie O’ Puss: what’s the deal with him, who makes him and what else do they make? Looking at the shape of his head you could easily use the same mould to make a guitar or a woman’s body. Do they do that? Is this really obvious and everyone knows, or have I just pointed out something you hadn’t noticed before?

Chestnuts roasted by rayGunn @ 03/16/2004 11:19 PM EST

I used to work in the floral shop of my local grocery and I have had to dye many a carnation. We spray special floral spray paint on a piece of plastic and smear the flower in it. Its fun when you have a lot of them cause you get a good buzz, even when you try not to inhale.

Chestnuts roasted by allicat @ 03/16/2004 11:26 PM EST

oh, and happy late birthday Lauren!

Chestnuts roasted by allicat @ 03/16/2004 11:28 PM EST

I curse the three research papers I need to do, and the shift at work I have to work tomorrow, which prevent me from celebrating St. Patricks Day with disgusting quantities of liquor. I’m not Irish, I just like to celebrate.

Chestnuts roasted by Gabbylicious @ 03/16/2004 11:34 PM EST

Hey Guys! Long time no post! I’ve suffered from a lack of internet access lately, which is the reason why.

I’m currently taking a bartending class and so for St. Patty’s day we’re going out for a pint of Guinness with our instructor. After that, my buddy and I (who’s also taking the class) are going to a friend’s house for even more Irish beer.

I’m a little drunk right now, so sorry if I sound stranfge in any wy. My typfing is gettig worse. heeeeeeeeeee heeeeeee heeeeeeeee

Anytway keep up the good work Matt. You rule!

Chestnuts roasted by Nate @ 03/17/2004 2:30 AM EST

"And his walking stick looks like a big piece of shit."

Laughed so hard when i read that line…

i want some beef & cabbage!! >:O

Chestnuts roasted by heeloyd @ 03/17/2004 5:03 AM EST

Now that I look at it, yeah it does look like a piece of shit. And yes, Mrs. Freshley is in fact a bitch.

Chestnuts roasted by Nate @ 03/17/2004 5:24 AM EST

Nice Easter Egg Matt, Oh wait.. I’m a bit early huh?

http://www.x-entertainment.com/messages/607.html

Chestnuts roasted by Cyanyde @ 03/17/2004 5:29 AM EST

Kudos on the Roger Rabbit Line.

Does anyone else have a phobia about leaving the house today without green on? In school we were pretty viscious in the pinching department, so I can’t feel comfortable on St. Patties day without a little green. And I am not even Irish!

Chestnuts roasted by Stilewalker @ 03/17/2004 8:14 AM EST

Great article! The description of Uncle O’Grimacey is about the most hilarious thing I have ever read.

Stilewalker, did they actually do that in your school? I saw the episode of The Simpsons where they do it to Bart for not wearing green, but I thought it was just made up! We never had the non-green pinchies in my school…

And yes, St. Patty’s day is awesome in Boston because of Evacuation day. I work outside of Boston, but because of the awful traffic to get into the city,it normally takes me an hour to get to work, but since it is Evacuation day, it only took me 20 minutes, even with the 8 inches of snow we got last night! Woo!

Chestnuts roasted by B-Dawg @ 03/17/2004 9:05 AM EST

Photog please!

Chestnuts roasted by Photog's Love Child @ 03/17/2004 9:22 AM EST

Here in Reno, Fitzgerald’s Casino goes all-out on St. Pattie’s Day, and since the world-famous Reno Arch is right outside their front door, the city does its part by changing the light bulbs to green ones (someone’s gettin’ a kickback, I guess).

Personally, though, I think the green glow cast over the street at night makes me feel like I’ve been teleported into the Paris Hilton sex tape. Not good times, unless you count Fitz’s promotions…free stuff is cool.

Chestnuts roasted by Monster Dog @ 03/17/2004 9:38 AM EST

Only about 1/8th Irish, I think, but screw it, I’ve got all of the luck and that’s enough for me. Tonight after coaching, I believe I will stop, pick up a 6-pack of Killian’s, head home for dinner, and quietly drink myself away in my room, stopping at 12:01 to wish Mom happy birthday. Dang… how long till the next time this holiday is on a weekend so I can get properly ripped? (As the massive layoffs that swept my company yesterday sort of dissuade me from showing up for work tomorrow completely hungover and all…)

Chestnuts roasted by The Lucky One @ 03/17/2004 9:49 AM EST

I know that the word ‘Leprechaun’ is taboo on this site today in lieu of Cookie O’Puss, but I couldn’t help but be surprised to find the timeless and epic Leprechaun movies to be absent from the list of the St. Patty’s Day fun. Granted, we’ve heard plenty about them in previous blogs, but on the one day when it is appropriate to give the seminal 4-part series its day in the sun (it mercifully stopped at 4, right, when he went into space?), not to mention a rare and fleeting chance to bring Jennifer Aniston back down to earth, I’m sad to see it sorely neglected. Nevertheless, O’Grimacy and O’Puss are plenty Irish to set the mood. Cheers, ye ol’ lads and ladies!

"What do I look like, me lad? See the hat? The buckles on me shoes? Why, I’m a Leprechaun!"

Chestnuts roasted by Jefferson @ 03/17/2004 10:14 AM EST

not an ounce of irish in me, and i hate wearing green clothes. if it wasn’t for McD’s shakes, this would have been a waste of a day. why don’t italian’s have a day? like national spaghetti day or dago day or something. whatever.

Chestnuts roasted by ANdrew @ 03/17/2004 10:24 AM EST

Eye top O the marnin to ya. This St. Paddies day, let give a moment of slience for the poor souls who do not have a local establishemnt serving Guiness on draft. Also let us remember thoes areas of the country that are dry, may I never have to live in one.

Chestnuts roasted by Shamus O'Malley @ 03/17/2004 10:39 AM EST

Somewhere, on my Choctaw side, there is a not-really-talked-about Irish ancestor. The only thing that keeps him/her from being totally unknown is the red highlights in our hair. My Granddad was afraid that one of us would be born a complete redhead, so whomever it was had to be a relatively recent addition in the line. Native American with a touch of Irish? Nope, no drinking problems there. Raise a glass of whatever you’re having and toast your favorite Arshmen, like Wendy O’Williams or Shaquille O’Neill. May the wind at your back be not your own.

Chestnuts roasted by kingO'klash @ 03/17/2004 11:58 AM EST

I know I’m late with my comments, but I really enjoyed the new layout of that article Matt.

Chestnuts roasted by chad @ 03/17/2004 12:12 PM EST

Well… I’m half Irish but don’t drink beer or go to McDonald’s… is there something wrong with me? hmm.

And by the way, you can definitely hear the screaming. Oh yes. Yes you can.

Chestnuts roasted by ShamelessIndeed @ 03/17/2004 12:27 PM EST

I’m not irish nor do we celebrate St. Patrick’s at all here in Finland but as my middle name is Patrick I just had to go on a search and rescue mission for green beer. No such luck. Had to opt for beer in green bottles instead. Poor me.

Chestnuts roasted by iivuli @ 03/17/2004 12:40 PM EST

I’m really surprised that there wasn’t more of an outcry over the delayed Chia Plot. I think maybe we’re all afraid that if we complain, Matt will never post it. I think I’d die.

Chestnuts roasted by Gabbylicious @ 03/17/2004 12:43 PM EST

MMmmMMMmm Green Pis– I mean Beer!
Um, yeah Happy St. Paddy’s day, I’m going out to drink my Irish buddy under the table tonight..

I watched a St. Patrick’s Day movie late last night, It was called The Van and it was actually pretty funny..
It’s part of The Barrytown Trilogy by Stephen Frears
(The dude who made The commitments and The Snapper)

Aparently it was the worst of the 3 movies but I still liked it anyway.

Chestnuts roasted by Cyanyde @ 03/17/2004 1:09 PM EST

Gabby: I think we’re all just happy to hear that it’s on it’s way..

Matt: http://www.x-entertainment.com/messages/637.html

Niiiiice

Chestnuts roasted by Cya @ 03/17/2004 1:11 PM EST

Matt is probably getting an early start on this year’s advent calendar, so show a little restraint, poster children.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 03/17/2004 1:30 PM EST

Thanks for solving the "cookie o’puss" reference from The Family Guy for me… it’s all so clear now… ; )

Chestnuts roasted by Doc @ 03/17/2004 1:41 PM EST

Ah yes… MY holiday. I’m Scotch-Irish through and through, even if my family has been in this country for almost 200 years. Got the last name to prove it though. Saturday, we went to the St Patty’s Day Parade in the Irish section of my city. Caught nearly two sackfulls of cabbage and potatoes. So tonight, we eat cabbage, potatoes, and corned beef….

and the beer…so much beer!

Chestnuts roasted by Nachokhaki @ 03/17/2004 2:41 PM EST

(Assumes Scrooge McDuck Characterization)Top o’ the aftrrnoon to ye lads and lassies! I’m Shcroooge McDuck! The leppychorn ‘as stolen me money bin! I must get Launchpad and me nephews! It’s time for a grand adventure to the end of ye rainbrow!
Oh, wait, me stars! I be scottish!

Chestnuts roasted by AngeFaitore @ 03/17/2004 3:14 PM EST

Shakes, why did it have to be shakes? (struck by an odd double referential)

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 03/17/2004 3:35 PM EST

Well, its St. Patrick’s Day agian and I am once again here at church celebrating by attending an Advent service. I suggested to the pastor that green wine be used for communion instead of the usual–but no luck.

Nice article. I’m going to watch Conan O’Brien tonight just to catch up on all the Irish action.

Chestnuts roasted by The Return of Long Duck Dong @ 03/17/2004 4:48 PM EST

I’m not into St. Patricks Day, but I do keep note of it for one reason: It’s also my birthday. So I suppose I’ve got two reasons to get shit-faced drunk

Chestnuts roasted by SHANE! @ 03/17/2004 6:40 PM EST

Ever heard Patton Oswalt’s bit on Tom Carvel ice cream stores? It’s fucking hysterical. "And from outer space, it’s Cookie Puss! That’s right, he’s a big chocolate alien from outer space but he’s not going to probe your rectum like the aliens in Whitley Strieber’s ‘Communion’ so come on down and pick up a big ol’ Cookie Puss!"

Chestnuts roasted by Tim Vee @ 03/17/2004 7:56 PM EST

Hey, Photog’s Love Child. You’ll be happy to know about an idea of mine, but I’m not revealing it until it is complete.

Chestnuts roasted by Nate @ 03/17/2004 8:00 PM EST

You are so awesome. I am coming back because of you. !~~!@~@

Chestnuts roasted by Kim @ 03/17/2004 8:44 PM EST

Some of your best work. The Roger Rabbit part was classic.

Chestnuts roasted by Ally @ 03/17/2004 10:55 PM EST

Baboochi looks like he’s loving it on Earth.

Chestnuts roasted by Goonie4Life @ 03/18/2004 3:08 AM EST

I’m Irish/Welsh/Australian, just look at my frickin’ website!

You are so lucky to get those shamrock shakes.

Never thought I would see Cookie Puss again.

Chestnuts roasted by Rebekah @ 03/18/2004 4:43 AM EST

well where to start.
i’m irish.yea that’s good.
so no one in ireland drinks that Green shit.we ALL drink the black stuff i.e. Guinness. oh yeah.
unless you’re a pussy of course.
we don’t have lucky charms over here. rod. shamrock shakes were originally mint flavoured but some ASSholes don’t like mint. so now it’s just flavoured vAn~Illa. fuuuuuccccckkkkk oooffffffff!!! and what of the parades? every year they get shitter and Shiter. but every year we all go out to watch it/get drunk in town.
anyway.500 years ago st.Patrick invented guinness and every one got drunk.and that is why there’s christmas day.i mean PADDY’S DAY.
not "patties day"??? PADDY. DREAM THEATER RULE

Chestnuts roasted by ta_be_sure @ 03/18/2004 6:18 AM EST

The Shamrock Shake is the actual only proof that I have, that god does exist somewhere. Now I just gotta get to Mickey D’s before they switch the shakes over to egg nog of something like that.

If you can get yourself a shamrock shake, here’s what to do…. dip your fries in it, trust me, it’s good.

Chestnuts roasted by Toxikfoxx @ 03/18/2004 10:36 AM EST

I was always jealous that the Irish get their own day, but us Scots go home empty handed.

There needs to be a Scottish Day!

Chestnuts roasted by Jeff Mack @ 03/18/2004 10:58 AM EST

I was always jealous that the Irish get their own day, but us Scots go home empty handed.

There needs to be a Scottish Day!

Chestnuts roasted by Jeff Mack @ 03/18/2004 11:00 AM EST

I’m Irish/German….my family drinks….a lot. I don’t though. But I DO LOOOOOOOOVE me Lucky Charms!

Chestnuts roasted by faroniousd @ 03/18/2004 12:39 PM EST

McDonalds is evil!

Chestnuts roasted by dsgrsg @ 03/18/2004 2:03 PM EST

Dude, it’s a CATHOLIC holiday that happens to be affiliated with Ireland. We Italians have got as much a right to celebrate it as anybody else. Secondly, WFRR is my favorite movie of all time, so that joke was a total home run, but the one that really made me burst out laughing in the middle of the silent computer lab was "a McDonaldland reject with a walking stick that doesn’t reach the floor". I don’t know why, but that’s comedy gold. Thirdly, I think those are giant stereotypical Irish sideburns on ol’ Cookie O’Puss, although the more I look at it the more it does look like he has stunted, ridiculous T-Rex arms.

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 03/18/2004 3:11 PM EST

You mean all of these years I haven’t been celebrating my God-given Catholic holiday? Fuck.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 03/18/2004 3:15 PM EST

Maybe next year we can get together and have a big Saint Blaise Day Party! Everybody would wear scarves, or else they’d get pinched, and we’d pass out Ricola to the boys and girls who’d been good all year. Somebody call Hallmark, I’ve got a winner here!

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 03/18/2004 6:59 PM EST

i somehow want to much on that icecream cake…was it good??

Chestnuts roasted by DefectiveMeats? @ 03/18/2004 7:28 PM EST

the irish are inbred!

Chestnuts roasted by nelson @ 03/18/2004 9:41 PM EST

about cookie o’puss’s "arms":
I think they’re supposed to be mutton chops. ya know when you see an old irish guy, well, pretend ones anyway, they always have big gnarly mutton chops.

Chestnuts roasted by Jen @ 03/18/2004 11:25 PM EST

Two things:

1) Yes there _were_ Hostess St. Paddy’s day SnoBalls. They where called Lucky Puffs. i had some earlier this week.

2) Someone requested an Italian St. Paddy’s-type holiday? In some major US cities (like San Francisco and New York) Italians use Columbus Day like that, parade and ev’rything. i don’t know why. Didn’t you guys blow him off so that he had to go to Spain for backing?

Chestnuts roasted by marvel bunny @ 03/19/2004 12:33 PM EST

Once, in San Fran, many years ago, someone tried to reenact Columbus’s landing and a group of Native American protesters ran out and shoved him back into his rowboat.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 03/19/2004 12:47 PM EST

On St. Patrick’s Day/Night/Morning, on the way home from the bar, me and my associates were discussing the possibilites for other coloured beers. Matt and X-E came to mind as I thought of "Spring Coors" (dyed blue) and "Winter Budweiser" (dyed red).

Chestnuts roasted by Jeriko @ 03/19/2004 3:40 PM EST

Actually, even though none of the limited edition stuff Matt mentioned in this piece is available in Ireland, I’m kind of glad.

We have enough of this st. patricks shit in our stores the other 364 days of the year. Tell your old people to stop coming over here and buying it so we can concentrate on our main export: alcahol related public disorder.

Chestnuts roasted by ThunderingMike @ 03/19/2004 7:47 PM EST

1) If I remember correctly, St. Patrick wasn’t Irish. (But on his feast day, he, as well as all of us, can be Irish)

2) I believe St. Patrick’s claim-to-fame was ridding the countryside of a certain snake

3) GMTR doesn’t always work to censor free speech

Chestnuts roasted by ibinsomniac @ 03/19/2004 8:02 PM EST

FACTS
1. There is a fifth leprachaun movie, with a hip-hop theme
2. Northern Ireland is a country (very few Americans have believed me in the past)
3. I’ve lived in belfast my whole life without hearing a bomb go off (not abnormal)
4. We don’t get green beer or st paddy shakes, but sales of guinness-themed keychains, posters, stationary, drums and the liquid itself increase exponentially.
5. Belfast has the lamest St Paddys day celebration in the world (there’s no funding because certain politicians are total dinosaurs who think it’ll offend). This year it featured Girls Aloud (bland spice-girls continuation) and the reanimated corpse of Shane MaGowan from the pogues (how is he still moving?).

Chestnuts roasted by chev happy @ 03/20/2004 7:27 AM EST

Yeah, I’m Irish. And there is a sixth Leprechaun movie.

Leprechaun: Back to Tha Hood.

Chestnuts roasted by Sirkus O'Peanuts @ 03/20/2004 2:13 PM EST

I’m pasty, I’m irish & a bunch of other euro-breeds in one. From what I can tell, the green icing squiggles on cookie o’ puss are sideburns. am i the only one who sees this? oh well, it’s irrelevant by now, although people were still celebrating @ the bars last nite. but alas, no shamrock shakes to be found in Denver….

Chestnuts roasted by grace @ 03/21/2004 5:12 PM EST

"I was always jealous that the Irish get their own day, but us Scots go home empty handed.

There needs to be a Scottish Day!

Posted by Jeff Mack @ 03/18/2004 11:00 AM EST"

What about Scotchtoberfest?

Chestnuts roasted by DJ Maniak @ 03/21/2004 10:03 PM EST

Oh my god! You killed Cookie ‘O Puss. You bastard.

Chestnuts roasted by Brias @ 03/22/2004 3:07 PM EST

Uncle O’Grimacy is the best! On the merch page of the band Rutherford B. Hayes Is Dead, they have a t-shirt that you can buy with O’Grimacy on it! http://www.RBHID.com

Chestnuts roasted by Jason @ 06/16/2004 6:33 AM EDT

hahahahahaha this is soooo funny. Love it. We don’t get any of that shite…

By the way, the Scots get Burns day. I’m from Dublin, live in Edinburgh. On Burns day, I cooked haggis and drank Lagavulin malt whisky… Paddy’s day was spent drinking cans of Guinness, eating coddle and watching Celtic play on telly.

Cool article though!!

Chestnuts roasted by ScaryEire @ 06/21/2004 11:13 AM EDT

hahahahahaha this is soooo funny. Love it. We don’t get any of that shite…

Cool article though!!

Chestnuts roasted by ScaryEire @ 06/21/2004 11:13 AM EDT

Add A New Comment!

This entry was posted on Tuesday, March 16th, 2004 at 6:15 pm and is filed under General. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.