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As an Irish American I'm appalled. I also think it's funny.
Posted by: nursecindy | February 23, 2012 at 09:12 AM
I think we should boycott the sellers. Or dump some of those vomit-shamrocks upon thier businesses...
hopefully legally, if it can be....
Posted by: funny man | February 23, 2012 at 09:42 AM
Technique is EVerything.
BTW, I'll worry about this kind of stereotyping after we get rid of the Boston "Celtics" (who don't even pronounce it right) and the "Fighting Irish" (who tend to be named either Olejnowicz or Ismail these days).
Posted by: 'tis padraig himself, it is | February 23, 2012 at 09:56 AM
You're either for us or a Guinness.
(No, I don't know what that means, either.)
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | February 23, 2012 at 10:25 AM
Stop Harping on this, Meanie.
Posted by: 'tis padraig himself, it is | February 23, 2012 at 10:28 AM
I have another Irish beer pun but it would depend on y'all knowing the proper pronuciation of "Smithwick's."
Posted by: 'tis padraig himself, it is | February 23, 2012 at 10:30 AM
I saw Drunks Vomiting Shamrocks open for The Clancy Brothers.
Just be sayin'.
Posted by: Jeff Meyerson | February 23, 2012 at 10:57 AM
I thought he was praying.
Posted by: Layzeeboy | February 23, 2012 at 11:05 AM
Nah, Lazeeboy, those are the
rag-headsMuslims.Posted by: Coconuts | February 23, 2012 at 11:26 AM
Well, I see my Irish-ancestored cousins have covered most of the tangental (not "tangenital") aspects of the derogatoriness of this phenomena ... WTG, y'all ...
Once we eliminate the team mascot/name for the "Fighting Irish" ... our werk will be closer to bein' finished ... then we can have a Guinness to celebrate ...
(I like "Smitty's", pad' ... when it's available ...)
Posted by: O the Umanity | February 23, 2012 at 01:19 PM
Besides, as a sign in my favorite "Irish Pub" proclaims, "An Irishman is not drunk as long as he can hold onto a blade of grass and not fall off the face of the earth." ... merely sayin' ...
Posted by: O the Umanity | February 23, 2012 at 01:21 PM
Only amateurs vomit after drinking. I think the Irish are pretty much professionals. I'm part Irish and I'm drinking right now. However, I avoid Guinness, it's too fattening.
Posted by: ken in sc | February 23, 2012 at 01:23 PM
Yah, ken in sc ... it has a tendency to bloat a person, so two (or mebbe three, in a longer evening) is about my limit ...
Most stuff that's especially "tasty" is also "fattening" ... why is that? (Rhetorical question)
Posted by: O the Umanity | February 23, 2012 at 02:23 PM
Keep me away from porter and whiskey,
Don't play anything sentimental,
It'll make me cry ...
Got to go back for the healin'
Go on with the dreamin' ...
Posted by: Omniskeptic | February 23, 2012 at 04:48 PM
Oh, good. Urban Outfitters found the one segment of the population they managed to offend yet. (See http://theweek.com/article/index/220370/racist-navajo-attire-and-7-other-urban-outfitters-controversies )
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