Plastic Paddies

[sombrefan]

Yes, it's that weird time of year again in Ireland when we wonder why North America pretends to be Irish.

I mean honestly do people really think we say "wearing of the green" and eat corn beef and cabbage here?

Ah well, enough bitching. I had a lovely do bugger all day off work today.

Kudos to President Bush for meeting the McCartney sisters. Is this a major news item in the States?

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Can't speak for the States in general

[sternwieser.livejournal.com]

but the Boston Globe has certainly been following their story. See here for this morning's article.

And for the record, I shall refrain from eating corned beef and cabbage. Though the "Irish" pub down the street is certainly serving them.

I wouldn't say a major story

[kuzibah.livejournal.com]

Certainly not on the level of the Michael Jackson trial... [rolls eyes]

But it is getting play, mostly in areas with a large Irish-American population.

And please, we don't want to emulate the real Ireland of today. We want to remember a romanticized version that probably never existed. And drink. Drinking is really the most important part.

Okay, well that parts the same

[rleyser.livejournal.com]

The drinking thing I mean.

[zeromuchjenn.livejournal.com]

It was the "long" story on NBC national news yesterday. Not so much the "big" story, but the one with the most time devoted to it.

[wondersheep.livejournal.com]

It got a 15 second blurb on the local news last night. I'd heard about it 'cause I've been watching BBC World News every night before the fluffy bunny just shut the hell up and give me a weather report nimrods local news.

SWS

It's just another excuse to drink alcohol.

[ruby2andor.livejournal.com]

Green beer specifically. Several people were astonished when I told them that the custom of green beer probably did not originate in Ireland, especially since, until recently, pubs were closed on this day.

The working slogan for the day is, "Everyone is Irish on St. Patrick's Day!" Translation: "Everyone drink alcohol today!"

Re: It's just another excuse to drink alcohol.

[buffydub.livejournal.com]

I don't know about NI but pubs in the Republic weren't closed on St Patricks Day ,only Good Friday and Christmas Day.

does anyone over there say..

[swersfreakshow.livejournal.com]

top o'the mornin'?

or is that just what we think?

never

[rleyser.livejournal.com]

And there are no leprechauns.

It got a full side column in a recent NYT.

[thecuckoo.livejournal.com]

The article in question was highly critical of the Sinn Fein official who suggested that the sisters were "undermining" their own cause by the agitation.