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Make St. Patrick's Day an official holiday in the US!

  • 08-03-2008 10:15pm
    #1
    upmeath
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,492 ✭✭✭


    Hey guys, Guinness are running a petition in the States to have St. Patrick's Day made an official national holiday, they need a million signatures to the online petition by St. Patrick's Day and they're still shy of 200,000 so follow the link below and give their campaign a hand! Don't be afraid to link it from your blogs or homepages, every signature counts!

    http://proposition317.com/stpats.html


Comments

  • #2
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,986 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    No online petition ever achieved anything! Apart from voting some unknown Irish footballer as player of the century at AC Milan

    Ok idea, isn't Columbus day already there for the Italian-Americans and Martin Luther King Day for the blacks.
    So, maybe it can be introduced but only if the Native-Americans get a day too, do they have one? :confused:


  • #3
    Sherifu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,727 ✭✭✭✭Sherifu


    Can I have my 5 seconds back? :)


  • #4
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    micmclo wrote: »
    No online petition ever achieved anything! Apart from voting some unknown Irish footballer as player of the century at AC Milan

    Ok idea, isn't Columbus day already there for the Italian-Americans and Martin Luther King Day for the blacks.
    So, maybe it can be introduced but only if the Native-Americans get a day too, do they have one? :confused:
    I'll agree to this, but only if the Choctaw tribe are given a national holiday in Ireland.


  • #5
    justsomebloke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,407 ✭✭✭✭justsomebloke


    Terry wrote: »
    I'll agree to this, but only if the Choctaw tribe are given a national holiday in Ireland.

    once I get a day off work I don't really care who the holiday is for


  • #6
    upmeath
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,492 ✭✭✭upmeath


    micmclo wrote: »
    So, maybe it can be introduced but only if the Native-Americans get a day too, do they have one? :confused:

    The entire month of November is dedicated to Native American history, culture and values.


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  • #7
    OPENROAD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,692 ✭✭✭✭OPENROAD


    Why would I want to make it a national holiday in the US :confused:


  • #8
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    OPENROAD wrote: »
    Why would I want to make it a national holiday in the US :confused:
    You could try London. I hear it's a paradise.


  • #9
    OPENROAD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,692 ✭✭✭✭OPENROAD


    Terry wrote: »
    You could try London. I hear it's a paradise.


    ?


  • #10
    EamonnKeane
    Closed Accounts Posts: 950 ✭✭✭EamonnKeane


    Well then I want a day off on Saint Casimir's day (Polish patron saint)


  • #11
    Jay P
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,944 ✭✭✭Jay P


    No! The americans would wreck it with all their rules and having everything perfect. The Irish way is much better: Drinking as much as possible with absolutely no boundaries. The Americans don't drink enough. And knacker drinking/teenage drinking is absolutely non-existant


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  • #12
    BeerWolf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,122 ✭✭✭BeerWolf


    It's not a Holiday there already? o.O


    They got a holiday for everything but this? I'm surprised :o


  • #13
    wil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,188 ✭✭✭wil


    Terry wrote: »
    I'll agree to this, but only if the Choctaw tribe are given a national holiday in Ireland.
    Can you direct me to the site of their firewater sales company where I can register my vote before the moon has set.

    Let you be honoured with the title of Mosholapubbee.
    (He who puts out and slays pints of stout)
    How!


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