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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 on 03/16/2004. E-mail me!

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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

GO SHAMROCK SHAKES!

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

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

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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