Technically the McCreights (rhymes with “right”) are Scotch-Irish, but feel free to send kisses and green beer my way anyway. …Even though I’m actually more Greek than I am Irish or Scottish. Whatever, let me embrace my Irish-sounding surname!
Anyone celebrating today?
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Joe T
March 17, 2011 at 6:37 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
It’s St. Patties day? Let me get my scotch….
Nigel Casantini
March 17, 2011 at 6:51 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
I’m wearing my kilt, my Guinness t-shirt and finishing off the last of my Irish Breakfast tea in my green Boston mug. And I’m not even Irish.
Andrew Hall
March 17, 2011 at 7:22 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
My father-in-law is Scottish and from the Highlands. When he hears the term Scotch-Irish his face turns red and blurts out, “Scotch is a drink!”I’m in Boston and the whole city experiences an Irish orgasm on St Pattie;s Day
VeritasTruthseeker
March 17, 2011 at 7:56 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
I’m wearing orange.
K.W. Ramesy
March 17, 2011 at 8:23 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
May you have all the kisses and green beer you can stand and not a smack or drop more.
BeamStalk
March 17, 2011 at 8:38 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Ha, I am pretty much all Irish, Scottish, and English, with a little German and Algonquin (my family is weird). So I can rightfully take all the green beer and kisses instead!
JM
March 17, 2011 at 8:43 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
I don’t know when kilts became Irish, but I’m not complaining!
the_Siliconopolitan
March 17, 2011 at 9:53 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Do you have any Dane in you*?Just been to a lovely talk on stem cells by someone who looked a bit like you. And was just as enthusiastic (and I got her to call anti-vaxxers imbeciles).(No, I don’t mean to put a little Dane in you.)
Kris
March 18, 2011 at 12:50 AM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
I probably would be but finals are next week and I have lab reports to write. sadface.
Lo
March 18, 2011 at 1:22 AM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
*PaddyAlways drive my mom crazy when she sees Patrick shortened incorrectly. The Irish form of Patrick is Padraic, thus Paddy. Patty is short for Patricia (my mother’s name).My mom’s side is completely Irish; her mother came from Ireland as a nanny when she was 16. We’ve never really celebrated it majorly, though. My grandma thinks that it’s ridiculous that there’s a day where people wear green and get massively drunk and call it Irish. She feels it’s a bit disrespectful. PLUS, she was excommunicated from the church for divorcing and remarrying. ;)
SuperHappyJen
March 18, 2011 at 1:49 AM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
I’m wearing a green atheist T-shirt. It says “I believe in Cookies”
Erzole
March 18, 2011 at 3:52 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
Scots-Irish is the correct term. I’m Scottish so should know *sniffs*Oh, and its pronounced McCrate Jen, not McRight.
Jen
March 18, 2011 at 6:11 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
All the American McCreights pronounce it McRight!
Rollingforest
March 18, 2011 at 6:44 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
I hope everyone else wore more green to balance it out.
Katherine Isham
March 19, 2011 at 2:18 PM (UTC -7) Link to this comment
:-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I…