Friday, March 17, 2006

What we did for St. Paddy's Day

We were fortunate enough to be invited over to a real, live Irish family's house for St. Paddy's Day... the O'Brien family. There was green jell-o, shamrock cookies, corned beef and cabbage and a good time was had by all. They had even made cups for us that said, "O'Mikalatos" on them. Fun!

And now a word about the color you wear on this day. First, one of the women who came to the party wore a blue shirt and tried to convince everyone it was green. We all had a good laugh. But since she recently joined the BHR community, I won't say her name. She's pretty funny, though.

I wore orange, because I am a protestant. Catholics wear green. I never knew there were so many Catholics out there!

Anyway, Happy St. Patrick's Day. Kiss an Irishman for luck, and rub a Greek man's belly for good fortune.

Signed,

Matt O'Mikalatos, the happy Irish Greek

4 comments:

  1. I've personally never understood the fuss that the non-Irish make about St. Patrick's Day. Sure, if you're of Irish descent I get it, but the vast majority of St. Patrick's Day celebrators aren't Irish - they're drinkers.

    So, on principle, I've decided to celebrate St. George's Day (April 23rd) instead, and will be wearing red on that day and spreading the good word.

    Please join me!

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  2. Sounds good. Now, the trick is, if you want people who have no reason to celebrate your holiday, you have to associate beer with it somehow. It brings in a lot of people.

    Of course living in Chicago you must have seen a lot of green this week.

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  3. Hey Qwasinaut01, are you talking St. George as in George and the Dragon and the national Scottish day or something else?

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  4. Yeah, I'm talking about St. George and the Dragon. But it's England, not Scotland...

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