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March 24, 2006
St.Paddy's
For the first time in several years, I spent St.Paddy's day drinking, as opposed to slinging the booze. The day started off a little later than usual (12pm as opposed to 8-9am), but only due to a previous night's warmup that got a little out of hand. I may have been away from Bomber for the first St.Paddy's in 6 years but you can never really get away...I partied it up with Haley, Sarge and Paff. A little Bomber staff reunion on the other side of the world.
I headed to an Irish pub called the Muddy Farmer which had an outdoor party set up on a closed street. It wasn't the Bomber but was still a grand ole time. Live music....which I've been depraved of for a while, Guinness and Kilkenny with a healthy steak on a bun. The irish bands (or good impersonators) were lively and despite the fact that between the two of them they played Whiskey in the Jar twice and didn't play Black Velvet Band once.
Note: the two Irish girls I was partying with had never heard this song before. Does anyone if this is solely an east coast Canadian thing or are they just crazy Irish too drunk to recall a great tune.
After entirely too many glasses of Guinness we headed back to Globe bar. This was to take advantage of the glorious happy hour where $3NZD pints abound...that's like $2.40CDN....it's just so good once it hits your lips.
Now, everyone was pretty dressed up for St.Pat's, wearing green, Irish flags and face paint...but Sarge takes the cake. Think Sharky O'Toole....yes, the famed shark suit returned. Shark attacks in Auckland for the time....on land at least. He terrorized several streets before eventually sweating his ass off and running out of batteries. Funniest shit ever.
The last place we ended up at was Fiddlers. A tiny Irish pub where the previous Tuesday night, Paff won the karoake contest with renditions of Eminem and Milli Vanilli. One last Guinness and I called it a night.
And that's the beauty of the Irish...they've got pubs all over the world and for one day a year they don't look like alcoholics...in fact, everybody celebrates it!
Posted by Dr.Unk at March 24, 2006 9:30 PM
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