St Paddy's day and I'm so confused

[madokie]

You know, I trace my heritage to england, germany, ireland and to the american indian, cherokee, so does that make me anything except american, my granddad was a union soldier in the us civil war for crying out loud.

[htuttle]

1. It's simple

On St. Patrick's Day, everyone is Irish.

[MadMaddie]

3. Except Gays.....

:sarcasm:

[htuttle]

5. Indeed

Though it does matter where you are and where you celebrate it.

[sui generis]

10. and after a few beers half of them are gay

:evilgrin:

[John Q. Citizen]

2. Everybody's Irish on St. Patty's Day! So relax...and enjoy! n/t

[insane_cratic_gal]

4. makes you a mutt

Like myself, Irish, german, swedish and native american indian.

don't be so concerned with a label, st. patties if your only an .8 irish will still embrace you.

[madokie]

6. I have learned that the 'mutts' were always the best dogs so I will wear

that distinction with pride.

[BlueEyedSon]

7. Aren't you glad your have AN OUT from your obligation to drink green beer?

[htuttle]

8. Green Beer? Oh, Jesus, Mary and Joseph and the Donkey they rode in on!

Drink the black stuff today, not the green stuff!

[madokie]

9. my memory of green beer of years ago was I woke with a head

on me like a bastard rat.

[BlueEyedSon]

12. You say that like it's a BAD thing....

:)

[madokie]

15. not at all, I just remember the fun I was having and the next day

:-)

[Radical Activist]

11. Why is that something to be confused about?

[Warpy]

13. My family came from Ireland

but had shipping interests in Liverpool and a long history of finding spouses in foreign lands and bringing them home to Wexford. So I'm a mutt, too, even though the family withstood the potato famine and didn't leave for nearly 40 years afterward and considered themselves completely Irish.

I just look like hell in green.

[madokie]

17. Ahh, Green, my favorite color, now I know why

Green, my political leanings, now I know why

[demnan]

14. It doesn't matter

most of us who's ancestors have been here a while are all mixed up anyway. I say go ahead, drink a Stout!

[Carni]

16. Good God are we related?!?

LOL My ancestry reads the same way and my Great Grandfather was a Union soldier who was in Andersonville prison (It was either my great Grandfather or Great great Grandfather/not sure which)

[madokie]

18. Cool, it was my grandfather, we have his discharge papers

he was born in 1840, my dad in 1897 and me in 1948