St. Patrick's Day is getting closer. So I've been reading more about this Irish holiday of holidays. It's funny looking at most of the articles about St. Patrick's Day. Most of them are all shamrocks and leprechauns and green beer. It's seen as time to dress green and get drunk.

While I guess I'm not the best judge of such things since I play Irish drinking songs, in fact, I do encourage temperance. Getting totally pissed is both unattractive and not that much fun. To me, I'd rather be in control. Of course if you're gonna drink on St. Patrick's Day, have fun, but be gentle to your body (and others around you). Don't get plastered, drink so you actually might enjoy yourself, not so your vomiting green crap all over your friends.

This has been a public service announcement from Marc Gunn. hehe!

Oh! And if you want to be REALLY smart, stay away from green beer all together. That's just nasty. Guinness all the way!

Okay, here's some nice St. Patrick's Day quotes:

1. "It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody."
   -- Brendan Behan(1923-1964) - Irish dramatist, author
   
   
2. "In order to find his equal, an Irishman is forced to talk to God."
   -- Stephen Braveheart
   
   
3. "St. Patrick's Day is an enchanted time -- a day to begin transforming winter's dreams into summer's magic."
   -- Adrienne Cook
   
   
4. "When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Ireland."
   -- J. P. Dunleavy
   
   
5. "This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever."
   -- Sigmund Freud (about the Irish)
   
   
6. "There is an Irish way of paying compliments as though they were irresistible truths which makes what would otherwise be an impertinence delightful."
   -- Katherine Tynan Hinkson
   
   
7. "You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was."
   -- Irish Proverb
   
   
8. "The most beautiful music of all is the music of what happens."
   -- Irish Proverb
   
   
9. "A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book."
   -- Irish Proverb
   
   
10. "You never miss the water till the well has run dry."
    -- Irish Proverb

More quotes coming soon...

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