An Irish-friendly Greek-American buddy to whom I emailed that page from The Onion (original post above) deadpanned the reply, 'I've read & re-read it over and over, and I just can't find the stereotype at all. Whatever do they mean?' :) But yeah, there's a lot more than green-beer-to-excess going on out here in the Diaspora. Why, tonight at the public library in the town next to mine there's a scholarly lecture on "Cu Chulainn: the Hound of Ulster".

So a Happy St. Patrick's Day, in all that it means to each; and "Here's a health to one and all, to the big and to the small, to the rich and poor alike and foe and friend..." (from "Rambles of Spring" by the incomparable Dr. T. Makem:)

-Plastic Pookie