And Now My Annual Moratorium on Making Fun of the Irish

Well, Happy St. Patrick's Day, all you Irishers!

Green beer! Corned Beef! Cabbage! Potatoes! Yippee!

What is the expression that you people say today? Is it "pogue mahone?" I can never remember.

Anyway, have a very good pogue mahone and don't overcook the shamrocks!

Sheesh. No one has told them that they are celebrating the feast day of an English-born Italian. Pass them another Guiness and they won't even care.

Tee hee hee. Ducking from flying Irish fists.

Just so long as they don't play that sappy music.

I just heard of a cocktail called an Irish car bomb: Guiness, Jameson's and Bailey's. It sounds so awful it might just be good, but always beware of drinks that have destruction in their names: Hurricanes, Kamikazes, etc. They usually are tasty and sugar-laden, thus giving you the worst hangover you can imagine.

If I indulge tomorrow, it will be with gin. I like Jameson's just fine, but if I get a day to have a real cocktail, I am going to opt for gin. There really isn't much difference between the Irish and the English anyway. Also, I am grilling some grass fed beef, and will want a good red wine with it, so you don't want to overload on cocktails anyway.