Are you seriously telling me that *I* have to start a bloody holiday thread? <_< I'm tellin' ya, the rest of ya are definitely slippin' up. Right, let's get this over with.
Happy St. Patty's Day!!Spoiler
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That's a big one here in Boston and my entire office is green with decorations, outfits and cupcakes. And I'm on some cleanse diet my girlfriend suggested this week, so those cupcakes are playing tricks with my head.
WANNABE'S ALL OF YA, WANNABES
St. Patrick's Day? How dare he lead snakes out of Ireland on MY anniversary?!
Happy SPD ALL!
Oho! A Saint Patrick's Day thread! I hope you all enjoyed yourselves!
Being a progressive sort, and always keen to be one step ahead of the curve, I was celebrating the night before the day itself and as a result the day itself was passed in something of a porter-induced fog.
Okay...I'm late again to the party, but I had to tell somebody my "I'm no longer part Irish" story...
The other night (St Patty's night) I was at work, I just started Googling and doing searches for the names in my family that I had always been told and believed were Irish...I was horrified to discover they weren't Irish at all.
The first was Durgin...Which I discovered was English in origin, apparently coming from the Olde English word for hill (dun).
The second being Colby...Which I learned was really English as well, but coming from old Norse...So now I'm part Viking?
Ignorance is bliss, isn't it?
Other names in my family: Smith (English meaning of course, a metal-worker), Douglas and MacMahon (both are Scottish), Carpenter (English and the meaning is apparent...LOL), Puritan (Duh), Eldridge, Johnson, Lewis (English, but just a Anglicization of the French Louis)...Long story, but I was just really bummed to learn I didn't have Irish in me, after all.
Dana :(