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Old 03-17-2008, 03:19 PM   #30
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Originally Posted by Bring_Back_Shantz View Post
Okay,
I'm a pretty big proponent of doing up St. Patrick's Day, properly.
Including spending the entire day on Saturday (the right day anway) playing rugby and drinking beer.
Woo Hoo.

However, green beer pisses me off to no end.
Proper Irish beer is Black, and nothing you can do to it will change it green.
St. Patrick's Day without Guiness isn't worth celebrating!
How true. No self respecting Irishman would drink green beer on St. Patrick's Day. Best St. Patrick's Day I ever had was in Mt. Gambier, South Australia in 1999. Can't remember the day of the week, but that part of Australia was largly settled by the Irish. A big group of Canadians and the rest of the staff from our office went to the local Irish Pub. No green beer, one of our Ukrainian Canadian friends asked, they scoffed at him saying Green Beer was for Americans. They did have green ice cubes. If you drank 7 Pints of Guiness you got a tee shirt that gave you free admission to St. James Gate.

After sucking back a bunch of Guinness we switched to Jameson Irish Whisky. At Midnight the pub kicked everybody out. I could not believe it, and was extremely mad. But midnight was their regular closing time and they were not going to stay open late for St. Patricks Day. When the alarm went off at 7 the next morning I was extremely thankfull that the Pub had gave us the boot early. I truly had the luck of the Irish.
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