St. Patrick’s Day: Snakes be gone! It's a time to drink more beer!

So, today is St. Patrick’s Day, the time of year when lots of people decide to be someone they aren’t, all in the name of:

• Weird music
• Lots of alcohol drinking
• Corned beef and cabbage
• More alcohol drinking,
• Reuben sandwiches
• Beer and other alcoholic drinks
• Parades through neighborhoods of people with pail complexions and red hair
• More drinking
• Forgotten stories of why it’s St. Patrick’s Day
• Did we mention alcoholic drinks such as lots of beer
• Dancing in the streets of New York and Boston more so than in Ireland
• Green beer
• Green rivers (see Chicago)
• Funny hats
• More drinks
• Beaded necklaces made of green beads as if the Irish had taken over Mobile or New Orleans and the continued Mardi Gras celebrations
• Lots of drinking and, after all of that, more drinking!

From History.com, there’s an interactive chart: St. Patrick’s Day by the Numbers which you see at the right. Better yet, for a really good education about St. Patrick’s Day, go to The History of St. Patrick’s Day. There are links to videos, pictures, speeches and the interactive chart! Enjoy your trip; be sure to pour yourself a tall one or two or three to get through it all! Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
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Dictionary.com word of the day

brogue (noun) [brohg]: an Irish accent in the pronunciation of English