St Patty: National Holiday or Crime Wave?

[patric]

NEW YORK, Feb. 14 -- In response to overwhelming public sentiment, the makers of Guinness, the world's most famous Irish stout, are
supporting Proposition 3-17, a national effort to make St. Patrick's Day an officially-recognized holiday in the United States.
   "Guinness supports the demands of adults around the U.S. to take a day off from work and celebrate their Irish spirit," said Richard Nichols at Diageo, makers of Guinness stout.  "Thanksgiving, New Year's Day, Labor Day, and Columbus Day are all observed, and now it is time for St. Patrick's Day to have its place among these other important dates."
http://www.proposition317.com/index.html

However, when the question was asked last night on a FOX23 flash poll, it failed (perhaps due to too many "yes" voters out celebrating St Patty's instead of sitting home watching news?)  

TPD was out in force (either in anticipation of the annual crime wave or to meet the enforcement goals of their federal grant), and the big news item this AM was some kid drove the side of his car right into the front of a speeding police car.  Stupid kid.

http://www.newson6.com/Global/story.asp?S=8032030&nav=menu682_2



Ah, night life in Tulsa Oklahoma...

[cannon_fodder]

So the crime wave portion was an under age sober driver without a license getting into an accident?

I guess given the choice I'd have to go with national holiday then.  Since the crash seemed to have nothing to do with St. Patrick's day.  Well, that and my wife is a mix of McAuliffe, McDermitt, McQuillen, & O'Leary.   [^]

[inteller]

quote:Originally posted by patric

NEW YORK, Feb. 14 -- In response to overwhelming public sentiment, the makers of Guinness, the world's most famous Irish stout, are
supporting Proposition 3-17, a national effort to make St. Patrick's Day an officially-recognized holiday in the United States.
   "Guinness supports the demands of adults around the U.S. to take a day off from work and celebrate their Irish spirit," said Richard Nichols at Diageo, makers of Guinness stout.  "Thanksgiving, New Year's Day, Labor Day, and Columbus Day are all observed, and now it is time for St. Patrick's Day to have its place among these other important dates."
http://www.proposition317.com/index.html

However, when the question was asked last night on a FOX23 flash poll, it failed (perhaps due to too many "yes" voters out celebrating St Patty's instead of sitting home watching news?)  

TPD was out in force (either in anticipation of the annual crime wave or to meet the enforcement goals of their federal grant), and the big news item this AM was some kid drove the side of his car right into the front of a speeding police car.  Stupid kid.

http://www.newson6.com/Global/story.asp?S=8032030&nav=menu682_2



Ah, night life in Tulsa Oklahoma...

I prefer making Cinco de Mayo a national drunk holiday since I prefer getting drunk on margaritas versus guinness.  but I like both.

[RecycleMichael]

Inteller makes a good point.

If we are making holidays around drinking, there are other good ones to consider.

I collect glass bottles to recycle all around town and nothing compares to New Year's Eve. More than 20% of the green glass I collect each year comes in during January.

[patric]

quote:Originally posted by RecycleMichael

I collect glass bottles to recycle all around town and nothing compares to New Year's Eve. More than 20% of the green glass I collect each year comes in during January.

I dont know... someone already might have beat you to the punch making that one a holiday[)]
but I dont see a prollem with Guiness...er, Saint Patrick having his own national paid-leave day...

[safetyguy]

The next thing they will want is 3-18 off to recover from all of the drinking on the 17th...

Recycle Michael- Does the Guinness Widget (http://www.guinness.com/us_en/beer/draughtbottle/distraction.aspx) screw up the recycling process? I thought about it as I recycled a few this past weekend.

On another Guinness note, I didn't know this existed, but I found it while perusing their site.The Surger... http://www.guinness.com/us_en/surger/

[Conan71]

My boss is Irish.  It's been tradition in his family for them to knock off at noon on St. Paddy's for years so they can get to the bar and be gone before the pretend Irishmen show up.

[RecycleMichael]

quote:Originally posted by safetyguy
Recycle Michael- Does the Guinness Widget (http://www.guinness.com/us_en/beer/draughtbottle/distraction.aspx) screw up the recycling process? I thought about it as I recycled a few this past weekend.

They are OK. I whined about them when I first saw them years ago because contamination is such a big deal. But because they are plastic they are easily separated during processing.

The real issue is that they weigh as much as the cans and screw up the price of aluminum.

[FOTD]

quote:Originally posted by Conan71

My boss is Irish.  It's been tradition in his family for them to knock off at noon on St. Paddy's for years so they can get to the bar and be gone before the pretend Irishmen show up.

My boss is from the Bay Area and wants a national holiday for his green. He wants it to be 4-20....April 20th every year....

[Conan71]

quote:Originally posted by FOTD

quote:Originally posted by Conan71

My boss is Irish.  It's been tradition in his family for them to knock off at noon on St. Paddy's for years so they can get to the bar and be gone before the pretend Irishmen show up.

My boss is from the Bay Area and wants a national holiday for his green. He wants it to be 4-20....April 20th every year....

He said "4-20", heh, heh, heh.  Lemme guess Haight-Asbury or Berkeley?

There's liberals out there who make you look like a flaming neo-con. [8D]

[cannon_fodder]

Castro district?

[FOTD]

Tenderloin....no, Nob Hill.

[jamesrage]

quote:Originally posted by patric

NEW YORK, Feb. 14 -- In response to overwhelming public sentiment, the makers of Guinness, the world's most famous Irish stout, are
supporting Proposition 3-17, a national effort to make St. Patrick's Day an officially-recognized holiday in the United States.
   

Seeing how people have taken a holiday to celebrate a individual who brought catholicism to Ireland and turned into a national day of excessive drinking thus further perpetuating the myth of the Irish people being drunks. I would think 3-18 should be the officially recognized holiday seeing how a lot of people will be recovering from the excessive drinking they did on the 3-17.

[Ed W]

I was in Abbeyfeale, Ireland on St. Patrick's Day many years ago.  On a normal weekend, there would be 8 or 10 empty half kegs lined up across the front of Sullivan's pub waiting for pickup.  On March 18th, there were 3 times as many.  My co-worker and I had driven back from Dublin that afternoon, and we were careful to be off the roads after sundown.  Still, despite the heavy drinking, there weren't many crashes because most people walked to the pub.