# Is it true "Everyone's Irish on St. Patrick's Day" ? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 1, 2003, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-true-everyones-irish-on-st-patricks-day/158434 "2003-03-01T19:34:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![irishgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@irishgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irishgirl)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-true-everyones-irish-on-st-patricks-day/158434/61 "2003-03-05T22:49:20Z")
GD, should you be using that sort of language in this forum šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![hyperjes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df705f/32.png) [@hyperjes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hyperjes)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-true-everyones-irish-on-st-patricks-day/158434/62 "2003-03-06T06:12:00Z")
Reallyā€¦please! Does anyone have, or have info on how I can get a ā€œFuck Me, Iā€™m Irishā€ button/pin-back? If you have one, I will gladly purchase it. As stated before, I used to have one, and it got lost. Believe it or not, it actually had a lot of sentimental value. (Which didnā€™t even have anything to do with the slogan.) Iā€™ve been all over the internet, but to no avail. ā˜¹ ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-true-everyones-irish-on-st-patricks-day/158434/63 "2003-03-06T10:55:36Z")
Is there not a store that you can go to that will make a button for you? ---
**Author:** ![hyperjes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df705f/32.png) [@hyperjes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hyperjes)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-true-everyones-irish-on-st-patricks-day/158434/64 "2003-03-06T21:34:53Z")
Unfortunately, no. We have no such store in our area. I have checked the yellow pages, etc. I have found a few companies online that do this, but there is no indication that they are secure sites, so I am hesitant to give any credit card info. What I am hoping, is to buy one from someone who got it at a parade, etc. and isnā€™t too attached to it. Iā€™m willing to pay up to about $10.00 US for one. _Sigh_ I know that sounds pathetic, but **d\_redguy** and I would be most grateful. ---
**Author:** ![Godfrey\_Daniels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Godfrey\_Daniels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Godfrey_Daniels)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-true-everyones-irish-on-st-patricks-day/158434/65 "2003-03-06T23:22:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by irishgirl \* > \*\*GD, should you be using that sort of language in this forum šŸ™‚ \*\* Assuredly not, since I most certainly shanā€™t. (beef hooked, that is) šŸ˜› ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-true-everyones-irish-on-st-patricks-day/158434/66 "2003-03-07T14:08:49Z")
[http://store.yahoo.com/badgeaminit/214butmakmac.html](http://store.yahoo.com/badgeaminit/214butmakmac.html) Well, here is somewhere you can buy a button maker, so that you can make your own buttons for any occasion. It looks like one will top out at about $30. ---
**Author:** ![lovelyluka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f475e1/32.png) [@lovelyluka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lovelyluka)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2003, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-true-everyones-irish-on-st-patricks-day/158434/67 "2003-03-07T14:56:51Z")
**Godfrey Daniels** : thatā€™s awesome. LOL Anyway, my fatherā€™s side was almost exclusively Irish, and my momā€™s momā€™s side was also, making me about three-quarters Irish. I look like it, too - fair skin, freckles, and red hair. So yeah, Iā€™m sort of Irish every day. But what I really think you were asking is do we plan to celebrateā€¦so hereā€™s what Iā€™ve got. On St. Patrickā€™s day I plan to wear a green shirt, my ā€œKiss Me Iā€™m Irishā€ socks, and play my Flogging Molly cd. My mother has invited me over to have a delicious dinner of cabbage and potatoes šŸ˜› I will not pinch others for not wearing green but I will scold those who wear orange (and I live in Tennessee). But as for the real celebration, I doubt Iā€™ll get drunk because St. Paddyā€™s day falls on a Monday (and I am a dork). I might do it the weekend before, but I refuse to drink Guinness because 'merkin Guinness tastes like motor oil. However, I tried Guinness lite in a pub at Killarney, and found it the best beer Iā€™ve ever had. If they sold it here Iā€™d drink that. It just doesnā€™t seem right to celebrate without an Irish drink, though, and green Budweiser doesnā€™t count. ---
**Author:** ![hyperjes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df705f/32.png) [@hyperjes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hyperjes)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2003, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-true-everyones-irish-on-st-patricks-day/158434/68 "2003-03-08T00:03:38Z")
Thanks, **TwistofFate**. It may come to that. Still willing to purchase a professional-looking, pre-owned one though. On the original topic, **d\_redguy** and I are having a small party on St. Paddyā€™s Day. We have lots of standard decorations, several Irish music cds, and will be serving corned beef and cabbage stew with potatoes and two kinds of soda bread. I am making it all myself. Ironically, we ate all this stuff, when I was growing up, on a pretty much weekly basis. So itā€™s actually easier for me to make than most everyday meals. Itā€™s a BYOB party, so I dunno if Guinness will show up. ---
**Author:** ![transdermal\_thinker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7cd45c/32.png) [@transdermal\_thinker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/transdermal_thinker)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2003, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-true-everyones-irish-on-st-patricks-day/158434/69 "2003-03-18T03:54:55Z")
I was Irish today. Itā€™s no different than pretending to be a ghost on Halloween(All Saintā€™s Eve). Itā€™s all really about having fun, not honoring saints. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-true-everyones-irish-on-st-patricks-day/158434.md?page=3)