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Happy St.Patrick’s day to all! Have a meryy and safe evening.
Was talking with a contractor today about bloodlines, with me 25% green, its getting hard to find kids with solid percentages of anything.
What’s everybody carrying? New Everts owner Lange? I believe that has some roots if my Grandmas old teachings don’t fail me, Olangion or close to…. 
Grandpa- Majerus + Grandma- O’rourke=
DT
Brannigan
Mothers maiden name Crimminns, Or if you go across the pond you’ll find my cousins under MCcrimmins
Matt and I are Polish. We don’t know what day it is but we’ll drink to it.
Matt and I are Polish. We don’t know what day it is but we’ll drink to it.
Me b-day, silly.
Anyone enjoy a Greenie today? NE reference…..
<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>mplspug wrote:</div>
Me b-day, silly.
If you were you a biggill on your bday, you’d be 10″, around, think about it…
Happy Bday buddy
Nothing worse than a Polak with poor memory. Happy Birthday!
Anyone enjoy a Greenie today? NE reference…..
I did not, but I have before. 
Happy Birthday Gill! Potatos and Jameson to ya!
I’m a redhead, but I’m not Irish. I get tons of people asking me if I’m Irish and what I’m doing to celebrate St. Patty’s Day… I wore green socks with clovers. That’s about it. 
Ma and I hit up a couple pubs where the local pipe band played. They do a circuit thru the city all day and visit a couple of the places two times so as to give everyone a chance to join in the fun. This year they did an up-ticked AC-DC tune…unreal. Amazing Grace is always my favorite.
Ma’s fun German but she had her green beer. I’m part Irish and had my usual diet-pepsi.
Greenies are for little girls from the suburbs. NE boys drink James Page. Real NE boys drink what ever your buying. 
love the greenie Ref.
Was talking with a contractor today about bloodlines, with me 25% green, its getting hard to find kids with solid percentages of anything.
What’s everybody carrying?
This concept of ethnicity is interesting to me. Having lived in Europe for a while, I got a firsthand view of different takes on the question of ethnicity:
– At what point do we all SEE ourselves as Americans? Europeans and others are constantly befuddled by the fact that almost nobody in American identifies “American” as their ethnicity.
No matter how “diluted” our ethnic origins become, it seems to be a uniquely American trait to keep up the “percentage pretense”. Will this ever end? I’m .13% Irish, .04% Scottish, .006….
– On the other hand, Americans tend to reference only the “big picture” ethnicity. i.e. I’m Irish, Polish, etc.
In Europe and Asia, this big picture is seldom mentioned at all. You’re not Irish, you’re a Dubliner or you’re from Shannon, or at the biggest something like from Co. Cork.
Personally, my family always referenced the “micro”. Until my father entered into a mixed union by marrying someone of German origins, my family was 100% Bohemian. From my Grandparents to my Great Grandparents and all the way back as far as we know.
In the mind of my Grandpa and Great Grandpa, a Bohemian was a specific breed of cat and NOT to be confused or though of as being the LEAST bit like a Moravian, Silesian, or (gasp!) God forbid a Slovak. And do NOT call them “Czechs”. Which was, in their mind, a monkeybuttized union created by the Commies.
Grouse
– At what point do we all SEE ourselves as Americans?
Once your grandparents no longer speak with an accent from their native land.
But then again, when you need an excuse to get drunk, you are always welcome to claim your ancestry.
We’re of predominantly German lineage; but in the late 1960s, my sister was known as Erin Go Bra-less
Look Grouse, I am 100% Polish. Throw me a bone here, I need something to hang my hat on!
I’m not Irish,
I’m IO’Wish
So if I’m 25% irish (grandmother was a Fitzpatrick) is that why I like beer???
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Matt and I are Polish. We don’t know what day it is but we’ll drink to it.
