"Everyone's Irish on St. Patrick's day" I believe is the saying. At least that's the gist and we curmudgeons agree wholeheartedly with any opportunity to a) celebrate excessively and b) consume mass quantities of various elixirs.
I kid you not. We're curmudgeons, we're not dead. St. Patty's is a delightful tradition both for the ecclesiastical types and the secular folk. And a powerful one - why the church that INVENTED Lent gives everybody a one-day reprieve for celebrating happily on St. Patty's day. That Patrick must have been some guy. He campaigned on a snake-free society platform or some such, according to curmudgeonly lore.
Nonetheless, it has evolved into an astonishingly popular holiday. Parades galore and countries from Russia to Japan and even tiny Montserrat join in.
Not too shabby. The Irish know how to inspire us all.
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