Do you celebrate St Patrick’s Day if you’re not of Irish Descent

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. We also celebrate Groundhog Day even though we are not rodents.

How do you celebrate Groundhog Day? Please be specific.

DP. Dress in a top hat and tails. Use my Pennsylvania accent for the day.

I love this and wish it were a thing. By 2/2 we are all going a little batty.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. We also celebrate Groundhog Day even though we are not rodents.

How do you celebrate Groundhog Day? Please be specific.

We have a book that we read the night before, Groundhog’s Day Off. This was published when some of our now AC’s were teens so it wasn’t part of the original thing, but even though it is for small children whoever is around seems to really enjoy it. We make s’mores and everyone makes a prediction about whether Punxsatwney Phil will see his shadow or not. We watch the Gobbler’s Knob festivities in the morning. Lots of talk about Phil, if he looks tired, fat, whatever. If it’s a weekend I make a special breakfast, otherwise I make a cake for dinner with an old Wilton teddy bear mould on that my mother had. When I had little kids we would go to the zoo and make a special point of visiting capybaras or something else rodenty. I enjoy it because it seems to have everyone in a fun mood and it’s not labor intensive for me.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm so glad the general public hasn't discovered St. Joseph's Day.

Hey, hey- write a book about it and soon all the kids will start celebrating. It's a bit close to St. Patrick's Day though.

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No.

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Anonymous wrote:Growing up, I really hated st. Patrick's day. I never remembered to wear green and always had to endure jokes and threats of being pinched.

Now my kids are in Catholic school and it is even a bigger deal and I still dislike it. My kids are again the only ones who almost always forget to wear green.

Does your family have some sort of memory issue? This is all very bizarre.

Is it? To me, it is just a random day. Would I randomly remember to do something special on say, June 6 every year? No, I would not.

It's not random at Catholic school. Do you miss Valentines Day too?

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Anonymous wrote:Growing up, I really hated st. Patrick's day. I never remembered to wear green and always had to endure jokes and threats of being pinched.

Now my kids are in Catholic school and it is even a bigger deal and I still dislike it. My kids are again the only ones who almost always forget to wear green.

Does your family have some sort of memory issue? This is all very bizarre.

Is it? To me, it is just a random day. Would I randomly remember to do something special on say, June 6 every year? No, I would not.

Choosing the anniversary of D-Day, one do the most significant days in modern history, as “some random day,” is kind of concerning. Maybe you need an evaluation.

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No. I have a very Irish last name because it is the name my father chose when he became a US citizen. He didn't know it was of Irish origin, it just sounded like his former family name. He found it in the phone book. I am 0% Irish and every year when people ask variations of "you're so Irish, what are you doing to celebrate?" No, I'm not, and nothing.

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I wear green undies and shamrock socks.

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I always wear green and we eat Corned Beef and Cabbage. I have always done the leprechaun mess thing as my kids got a kick out of it but work was so stressful this week that I totally forget until I was on the way to the office on Tuesday. They are teens now so it's not like they believe in it anymore but I guess we've unofficially ended that tradition.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. We also celebrate Groundhog Day even though we are not rodents.

Don’t you mean Candlemas? (You’re on a thread read by a bunch of Catholics did you think we’d let that slip by?)

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Anonymous wrote:Growing up, I really hated st. Patrick's day. I never remembered to wear green and always had to endure jokes and threats of being pinched.

Now my kids are in Catholic school and it is even a bigger deal and I still dislike it. My kids are again the only ones who almost always forget to wear green.

Does your family have some sort of memory issue? This is all very bizarre.

Is it? To me, it is just a random day. Would I randomly remember to do something special on say, June 6 every year? No, I would not.

D-day? How soon we forget

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Anonymous wrote:I noticed a lot of Black people celebrating in DC yesterday. Fun crowd.

They’re probably of Irish descent partially

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Anonymous wrote:No. I have a very Irish last name because it is the name my father chose when he became a US citizen. He didn't know it was of Irish origin, it just sounded like his former family name. He found it in the phone book. I am 0% Irish and every year when people ask variations of "you're so Irish, what are you doing to celebrate?" No, I'm not, and nothing.

🤣 pretty much same here. Irish name from grandad who wasn’t at all family oriented but apparently he actually was Irish because my parents DNA is saying 50% and we get all those Irish crest mailings

We do absolutely nothing to keep Irish traditions

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. We also celebrate Groundhog Day even though we are not rodents.

Don’t you mean Candlemas? (You’re on a thread read by a bunch of Catholics did you think we’d let that slip by?)

I got out bb
But I have made crepes on Groundhogs Day, which is a French Candlemas tradition, so twofer?

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Anonymous wrote:Getting my mammo -- erin go braless

Thank you mami