To: manc
Americans will take anyone's culturally important days (or mere historical footnotes like May 5) and turn them into drunken festivals. Well, except for Oktoberfest which started out that way.
10 posted on
03/17/2011 7:09:24 AM PDT by
KarlInOhio
(Washington is finally rid of the Kennedies. Free at last, thank God almighty we are free at last.)
To: KarlInOhio; manc
Stoughton celebrates Syttende Mai (17th of May), presumably a Norwegian holiday. canoe races, a fund raising run from Madison to Stoughton, etc. Visitors from Norway have said it’s no big holiday in Norway, though.
22 posted on
03/17/2011 7:23:12 AM PDT by
knittnmom
(Save the earth! It's the only planet with chocolate!)
To: KarlInOhio
I am at least half Irish, and let me tell you that Americans of Irish descent do not need a "holiday" to drink and socialize. Traditionally they only drink in days that end in "y".
Slainte,
CC
47 posted on
03/17/2011 8:20:35 AM PDT by
Celtic Conservative
(wisdom comes from experience. experience comes from a lack of wisdom.)
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