It's getting close to...the (2nd- or 3rd-) MOST wonderful TIME...of the year...

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Your Leprechaun Name Is:

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I'd have to rank St. Patrick's Day behind Halloween and Mardi Gras or Christmas, but nonetheless SPD is still a completely awesome holiday here in New York City! Because it's a sign of spring! And beer and Irish whiskey and flirtable cops on parade duty and Tim's roooftop party!

I love this holiday...and I have (as far as I know*) no Irish blood in me.



*I am very Scottish and have been told by Scots that there's a lot of crossover. As far as I know I have no Irish blood, but would be thrilled to find out I did. But my Scottish ancestry is from the Eastern part of Scotland...

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[dry-2olives.livejournal.com]

..and I have (as far as I know*) no Irish blood in me.

Have you considered the Show Boat solution?

"Now I'm telling you... me... Windy McClain... that Scottish girl has Irish blood in her."

[smithy161.livejournal.com]

Well, the group knows as the 'Scots' originally came from Ireland and settled in what is now Scotland. So you could feasibly have Irish blood if your family are Scottish. It's also worth taking into account, though, that there's also heaps of Scandinavian blood in the Scottish, not to mention English (because English lords often forced themselves on Scottish women), which means there's the European ancestry of the English mingled in there, plus the fact that the clans inter-married a lot back in ye olde days so most Scots are related to most other Scots, especially in the Highlands and Western Isles... So really there's no way to tell.

As a half-English, half-Scottish person, I generally get rather bitter around this time of year, because surely St Andrew and St George deserve to be celebrated just as much. But no one even knows when St Andrew's day is.
And then I remember Guinness, and just get drunk like everyone else.