Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone.

Nathan F · Post by **Nathan F** » 2003-03-17 09:07am

Hehe, today is also my mom's birthday, and, yes, my grandmother on her side's maiden name was O'Guin.

Yay, lets all go drink green beer and get wasted off our butts!

No, not really...

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2003-03-17 09:14am

Nathan F wrote:Hehe, today is also my mom's birthday, and, yes, my grandmother on her side's maiden name was O'Guin.

Yay, lets all go drink green beer and get wasted off our butts!

No, not really...

what the hell? you changed your name? how the hell did you do that?

Nathan F · Post by **Nathan F** » 2003-03-17 09:20am

Col. Crackpot wrote:
Nathan F wrote:Hehe, today is also my mom's birthday, and, yes, my grandmother on her side's maiden name was O'Guin.

Yay, lets all go drink green beer and get wasted off our butts!

No, not really...
what the hell? you changed your name? how the hell did you do that?

Heh, Mike did that for me. Too much confusion with the NF_UTVol, as I was becoming known as Utvol.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-03-17 09:52am

Col. Crackpot wrote:
Admiral Valdemar wrote:
Col. Crackpot wrote:wanna have some fun today? find a nice Irish-Catholic pub in South Boston, and convince someone you don't really like to wear an orange t-shirt with the Union Jack emblazened upon it and enter the door exclaiming 'long live william the orange!" heh heh heh heh......
You should see the Orange Marches that occur in Southport, a town not 15 minutes from my home. It passes by an O'Neil's bar every year and every year they always hasten their pace at that point.
see, i never understood that. Why do the Orange groups insist on marching through certain places when they absoutely know it will end in a bloody riot with flaming upturned cars and flying rocks and bullets? i really cant see the logic in rubbing a 900 year old victory in someone's face. That would be like me burning down the British Consulate building on the 4th of July....i just don't get it.

Because they were all born with more thumbs than brain cells?

The Duchess of Zeon · Post by **The Duchess of Zeon** » 2003-03-17 10:04am

Tsyroc wrote:
It's an environmentalist plot because there aren't any more dragons around while there are still plenty of snakes.

Gee, only a little over 50 days until the next bandwagon boozapalooza holiday, Cinco de Mayo. At least that one's celebrating the Mexican's vicotry over the French.

It is one of those bad spots in French military history you hear about - 4,500 poorly armed Mexican irregulars defeated 6,500 French troops advancing on Mexico City. But the French had already been fought to a standstill by the Mexicans under our old friend General Santa Anna during the "Pastry War"...

...Yes, there was a Pastry War. You see, during a civil disturbance in Vera Cruz a French Pastry Chef had his shop destroyed there, and he complained to the French Consulate, which tried to make the Mexican Government pay him recompense. When they refused, the French government send a naval squadron to bombard the Mexican military forts near Vera Cruz, and then land troops and seize the city.

General Santa Anna gathered an army without authority and attacked the French in Vera Cruz, losing his leg in a skirmish. He had his leg buried with full military honours. The entire thing was resolved when the Mexican government agreed to pay the French government for the original cost of the Pastry Shop. The French then withdrew their military forces. I'll leave everyone to guess at how many tens of times more that expedition cost.

The French, as you can tell, care a great deal about their pastry.

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2003-03-17 11:45am

Admiral Valdemar wrote:
Col. Crackpot wrote:
Admiral Valdemar wrote: You should see the Orange Marches that occur in Southport, a town not 15 minutes from my home. It passes by an O'Neil's bar every year and every year they always hasten their pace at that point.
see, i never understood that. Why do the Orange groups insist on marching through certain places when they absoutely know it will end in a bloody riot with flaming upturned cars and flying rocks and bullets? i really cant see the logic in rubbing a 900 year old victory in someone's face. That would be like me burning down the British Consulate building on the 4th of July....i just don't get it.
Because they were all born with more thumbs than brain cells?

As a former member of the Loyal Orange Order i would like to defend my former bretheren. But i can't because you bring up one of the main reasons i left. The purpose of many matrches now is to be secterian and intimidatory. I loved the order and what it was based on but biggoted morons have destroyed all that was good about it.

On the note of St. Patricks Day i'll just say Slange and raise a pint of black stuff to ya'll later. Notice that BLACK stuff no Irishman in his right mind drinks green beer. Green beer is bad and an insult to Guinness drinkers. Have a happy Guinness day and make sure you all have plenty of bog roll for tomorrow.

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-03-17 01:30pm

Pah. I'm as Irish as Idi Amin and I dont need an excuse to drink, and today my favorite bar is going to be packed wall to wall with drunken revelers, most of whom aren't Irish. And tey probably raised the price of beer, too. I wore an orange shirt in protest today, but I don't think anybody got the joke.

Next of Kin · Post by **Next of Kin** » 2003-03-17 04:02pm

The Duchess of Zeon wrote:..unlike the Germans, who sold out and started making cheap commercialized stuff.

just can't resist the urge to get on your soapbox, eh?

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2003-03-17 04:13pm

St. Patrick's day=Amateur day.

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2003-03-17 06:05pm

I hate how dumb americans have hi-jacked St Paddies day. I'm not saying that all americnas are dumb here BTW before i get flamed. What i'm saying is that i hate all these wankers who decide they are Irish for the day, drink GREEN beer and learn Danny Boy. Don't get me wrong enjoy the day but don't hijack. I'm of the personaly belief that if your more then 3 generations removed from actually living in Ireland, north or south, then your not Irish.

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-03-17 07:20pm

Darth Pounder wrote:I'm of the personaly belief that if your more then 3 generations removed from actually living in Ireland, north or south, then your not Irish.

I don't suggest you voice those sentiments too loudly in Boston, New York, or Chicago.

Andrew J. · Post by **Andrew J.** » 2003-03-17 08:04pm

Bah! Real Irishmen don't drink on St. Patrick's Day! They drink every single other day of the year, and stay home on March 17th to avoid being vomited on by amateurs.

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2003-03-17 09:48pm

I'm drunk and I'm happy, hooray for beer!! I'm goona be hungover good tomorrrow

Mark S · Post by **Mark S** » 2003-03-17 09:49pm

Hi Cha-Cha Chi Chi!!! Happy St. Paddies! I agree with most here. If the beer ain't black, send it back! If you want green beer I'll blow my nose in it for ya.

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2003-03-17 09:58pm

Guiness is known to us as "nuclear winter" 'cause it's so dark that you can't see through it. good stuff, ubt damn, I'm so wasted of it right now.

ArmorPierce · Post by **ArmorPierce** » 2003-03-17 10:39pm

I don't see why not. I also think that we should get off for black history month

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-03-17 10:41pm

aerius wrote:I'm drunk and I'm happy, hooray for beer!! I'm goona be hungover good tomorrrow

I shall be joining you before the evening's end, I suspect (metaphorically, of course). Hooray for booze! Alcohol: the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.

The Dark · Post by **The Dark** » 2003-03-17 10:46pm

MKSheppard wrote:
Stuart Mackey wrote: Hmm, I have some English, some Irish, a lot of Scots and a smattering of Prussian. As such I must resist the urge to conquor nations when drunk.
Again, to be super technical, I have the following makeup:

Irish, Canadian, German, and Scottish.......

So lets get to gether and conquer some pissant nation

Bah...I'm British, Scottish, Irish, German, and Russian. About 250% of the world has been under my ancestors' control at one time or another, if you count all the overlaps independently

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The Duchess of Zeon · Post by **The Duchess of Zeon** » 2003-03-17 11:53pm

Next of Kin wrote:
The Duchess of Zeon wrote:..unlike the Germans, who sold out and started making cheap commercialized stuff.

just can't resist the urge to get on your soapbox, eh?

Actually, that was intended more as a friendly jest than anything else. There is, after all, O'Doul's in the USA, too.

Sienthal · Post by **Sienthal** » 2003-03-18 12:41am

Ahh, I saw this great shirt today:

"And on the eigth day, God created the Irish and gave them whiskey to keep them from taking over the world."

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-03-18 04:05am

German, Icelander, Irish, Scottish & Welsh +(Plus a smattering of African and Native American (my mom's side of the family is interesting)

Nathan F · Post by **Nathan F** » 2003-03-18 09:49am

I am almost exclusively German, Irish, and English, simply because of my family history in the area and the almost exclusive German, Irish, and English settlement of the area my family hails from.

Zoink · Post by **Zoink** » 2003-03-18 10:16am

I work out to be about 1/2 Scottish, 15/32 French, and 1/32 Native American, and *perhaps* a little German diluting the French as well as perhaps 1 billionth viking ... so no St.Patrick's for me, just maybe my bi-daily glass of scotch.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-03-18 12:19pm

Oh, were GETTING GUINESS after we close down and reopen on April 4th!!!

Now the new question should they trust me with Nitrus Oxide?

(You remember my comments about large collection of Knives, and borderline Pyro tendencies that caused me to become a cook now bartender in the first place

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