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Happy St. Paddy's

My one problem with Saint Patrick's Day is not the fact that it celebrates the repression of Gaelic culture in Ireland, nor that it propagates negative stereotypes of Irishmen as wee bearded jumping leprechauns. It is that in this my 32 year, being 1/16th Green Irish, I can't seem to immitate an Irish accent anymore. I woke up this morning and tried to give a brogue "Top o' th' mornin!" to my wife and it came out sounding like I had a bad head cold. "Top ob duh mordin!" What's wrong with me? I had a good Irish accent at one point! It may be that I've spent too much time imitating pirates, who sound like they might be Irish, or English, or Scottish. And nothing like any of them. I once tried my Pirate accent on for a Scotsman and he told me it was "Shite". I was offended. I do a dead good Pirate even if my other accents are lacking.

But it's not Saint Pegleg Blackblood the Drunkard's day, it's Saint Paddy's so I really need to get back on track. This evening I plan to ingest much Irish whiskey which everyone knows is the best way to get your Irish up. I wish you all a good Saint Patrick's and I hope that wee leprechauns crawl down your chimneys and leave great piles of chewing tobacco in your socks (Which I believe should be the new myth associated with this holy day, rather than just drinking copious amounts of Irish made alchohol).

I leave you with this poetic sounding Irish Gaelic saying: "Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig oraibh! An bhfuil tú ar meisce fós?"

And I will leave it to you to translate it.