It’s not.
There are times when the thread winds up all in bold for me, and everyone else claims it’s not for them. Probably something similar here.
Erin Go Braless!
That’s all I have to say about the day.
When you’re drunk…the whole world’s Irish.
Crack that nasty ole king’s tri-cornered hat open and feast on the goo inside. Repeat as necessary.
Wintergreen for President! He’s the man the people choose. Loves the Irish and the Jews. He’ll bring you beer, wine, and booze. HOORAY!!!1
(Writing in Irish Times Roman in observance of etc., etc.)
Nooner- You Rock the OP.
Our Synagogue does a writer’s cafe for Purim- silly stories, raunchy, spoofs, songs, all written by our members and friends, all aimed for adults. It was yesterday after the kids carnival.
It was a lot of fun and a great way to celebrate, “Hey, they didn’t kill us-- again!!! W00t!!”
That being said, Corned Beef and Cabbage are going in the Crockpot for dinner tonight, and then off to work!
(That was weird- the board just freaked out- hope this works now!)
Happy Back to Work Monday!!!
:mad:
This St. Paddy’s day will find me drinking beer and eating wings because I hate corned beef.
Cool OP!
So, if I’m understanding the dates correctly, Rosie and Noonie, Purim falls during Passover this year? That’s an interesting combination.
I’ve never been to a Purim celebration, but it was explained to me as much like Halloween. Is that correct?
My resident Jew is forgetting that passover does, in fact, start this week. Our current supply of “Jew food” contains two cans of macaroons, some matzo meal (from last year), some matzo ball soup mix (also from last year) and a jar of gefilte fish (which we can’t open). I have no idea what that boy is going to eat for 8 days. We’ll have to go grocery shopping in Brookline (Jewish neighborhood) sometime before Wednesday.
And 'lest I forget, being part Irish and all…
Erin Go Braugh!
It’s a leap year this year in the Hebrew calendar, so Passover doesn’t start until April 19th. We add an entire month (Adar I is added, then we do the usual Adar as Adar II).
Why do I know tehse little factoids? Children. Hebrew School. Keeps me current. 
(I miss the Jewish smilie guy…).
Ok, now I’m really confused. I thought the timing of Easter was based on the timing of Passover on the Hewbrew calendar, and that timing was why Easter changed dates. But, this year Easter is really early, but Passover isn’t? 
I know! It had me confuzzed to- I kept looking for Passover on the calendar around Easter and couldn’t find it. Finally I looked in April and there it was. It’s the leap year thing, I think. I’m no expert (by far!) on the Jewish calendar, but this year is odd.
I wish everyone would just use the same calendar. Back home I swear my relatives used the lunar calendar for their birthdays just so they could act hurt when I got confused about the dates.
Eh, we do use the same calendar for birthdays – well, everybody except the most anal ultra-orthodox does. My birthday is November 30, not 6 Kislev (I think… I don’t even remember anymore!)
Not sure about the Easter thing, either – except I am also sure that it’s an artifact of the Jewish leap-year.
I think **VBob **has covered our preferences for Erin… 
**Skippy **-- thanks for fixing the coding!
Pssst, Mumpers, you’ve missed St. Paddy’s Day by two days this year:
So it’s too late – no more drinking allowed!
(And I say this as someone of whose grandfather it was said, “He had the map of Ireland on his face!”)
Sorry about the chickens, Bobbio. I agree, even for dumb birds there’s gotta be a better way. 
Anyway, happy Monday. We had something amazing happen late yesterday afternoon. Remember how I’d mentioned last week that Papa Tigs had dropped a cashout ticket for a sizeable amount at the casino, and although he’d reported it in the hopes that a staff member had picked it up, they found on the video where another patron had picked it up and cashed it out?
Well, he got a call from the head of security – they “persuaded” the person who’d cashed it out to cough it back up, or, as they put it, to “make restitution”!! :eek: Which is totally amazing, since legally this was genuinely a case of “finder’s keepers”! :eek: And while I feared that some guy named Guido with brass on his knuckles did the “persuading,” when we drove back over there and met Jeff, the security chief, we are now even more puzzled – Jeff weighs about 140 lbs and has an impressive overbite, rendering him anything but terrifying! :dubious: So we don’t know. But we went ahead and had dinner at the lovely steakhouse there at the casino before Papa Tigs turned $20 into ten times that much (I don’t know how he does it, I really don’t!) and we came back home in time to get to bed at our normal bedtime, plus bringing home lovely steak scraps for the Idiots, who promptly forgave us for abandoning them.
But Papa Tigs does it again! How can someone be so lucky? We had written that money off as LONG gone! What power does Jeff hold over that poor patron who found that ticket? Or did he manage to appeal to the person’s better self and guilt them out of the money? We’ll never know. We got no more explanation. But our minds are still boggling! :eek:
I should probably go drink some more coffee and then contemplate doing something constructive. I haven’t decided what yet, but heaven knows I’ve got enough choices.
Skip? Skip?! Goddam crazyman he is!
I refuse to be associated with thread with a man of his integrity!
Or all this green highlighting gosh darnit!
Great OP, Nooner! Very interesting to find out about other cultures’ drunken feasts.
Happy St. Patty’s Day, everyone! We ate the mock corn beef and cabbage last night. By mock, I mean that I cooked a brisket with wine and broth and veggies, and had brussel sprouts on the side. It was sooooo good.
I’m being so lazy! I deserve it though. I plan on doing some reorganizing of my files, and maybe cleaning out my closet. And the house could stand to be dusted. And a couple of loads of clothes need to be folded. Not today though! Well, you never know.
On Wednesday it’s supposed to be awesomely beautiful with a high around 75°F - and I’m gonna take the dogs to the beach.
PS - I’d like to shoot whomever mentioned Jelly Blocks. 
Oh! I forgot to mention our outing on Saturday! We went to Pappas’ Steak House - a very ritzy joint indeed. I used my prize of $125 for winning the slogan contest at work.
We received the best service ever. The food was fabulous. They even had a complimentary valet! I had a petite filet with two giant tiger prawns in a port wine reduction, with garlic mashed potatoes and asparagus cooked to perfection. My appetizer was turtle gumbo! Amazing dinner. The gift card didn’t quite cover the bill, however we did bring Dad. We brought some scraps home for our idiots, too!
Whatever happened to him? I liked him.
Well here is Green Jelly then.
Rock on.
OMG! I -swear- that I previewed that post, honest!! Mea culpa folks. That’s what I get, I suppose, for trying to use code too early in the morning. Sorry!
Purim doesn’t happen until later? I thought it was in March? I know that Passover is in April this year. What’s the story here?
He was voted off the island. “Putz” was sent packing too.
I really miss Jewish smilie guy.
Y’all are such party animals. The highlight of my weekend, other than the chicken BBQ? VunderWife got a solicitation to join the NAACP. For those who don’t know, the Vunder household is of the wrong ethnicity and political fiber for that organization.
Just for grins, I sent their membership stuff back, with a cover letter saying that maybe they need to fire their demographic consultants.
Bizarre! I loved it!