Whole rivers get dyed green, for heaven's sakes!
Crazy Americans!
I do feel better, I guess I was feeling undervalued. I'll pass on your regards to Scotland in general.
Am I supposed to be changing my clothes a lot? Is that the helpful thing to do?
Anya ,'Storyteller'
All Ogle, No Cash -- It's Not Just Annoying, It's Un-American
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Zoe Finch - Feb 02, 2003 6:48:11 pm PST #1497 of 9843
Gradh tu fhein
billytea - Feb 02, 2003 6:48:54 pm PST #1498 of 9843
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Actually, Zoe, there is a TON of Celtic pride in the US, some ersatz and some not. All up and down the east coast, especially, from Boston to the Appalachians. America is not lacking in acknowledgement of Celtic cultural heritage, even if some of that acknowledgement would probably scare the modern Irish and Scots.
Agreed. As I understand it, for instance, the IRA gets more funding from Irish-Americans than from Irish-Irish (even if adjusted for per capita or per income or such like), and St Patrick's Day is a much bigger event in NYC or Bostin than in Dublin.
Betsy HP - Feb 02, 2003 6:49:04 pm PST #1499 of 9843
If I only had a brain...
This created problems for the rest of us on St. Patrick's Day, because if we didn't wear green, it was, "Hey! You're dissing our heritage."
I tended to wear orange and blue and point out that my family was from Ulster. (True). This being the Midwest, nobody either (A) got the joke or (B) beat me up.
Sophia Brooks - Feb 02, 2003 6:49:48 pm PST #1500 of 9843
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Burrell Pepsi would be an interesting name. and to be completely off topic, I went to school with a Laotian immigrant who had taken Pepsi as his American name. He is a sculptor now, though and not a soft-drink manufacturer.
scrappy - Feb 02, 2003 6:50:21 pm PST #1501 of 9843
Nobody
But I don't think that's an American ting so much as it's a corporate name thing. I am sure if a Scot named Guinness wanted to open a brewery, he would be sued.
Zoe Finch - Feb 02, 2003 6:50:39 pm PST #1502 of 9843
Gradh tu fhein
But if my name was Pepsi & I created a new soft drink and wanted to market it under my own name, I'd be SOL.
Fine, but if Pepsi was the cherished name of one of the most powerful families in the world you'd be up for a fight.
Betsy HP - Feb 02, 2003 6:51:04 pm PST #1503 of 9843
If I only had a brain...
And you can't brew a beer in the Czech city of Budwar and call it Budweiser. The Czechs are quite annoyed by that.
Burrell - Feb 02, 2003 6:51:23 pm PST #1504 of 9843
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Nice numbah, Sophia. Plus I'm tickled pink to find out that there really is someone named Pepsi.
P.M. Marc - Feb 02, 2003 6:51:25 pm PST #1505 of 9843
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I tended to wear orange and blue and point out that my family was from Ulster. (True). This being the Midwest, nobody either (A) got the joke or (B) beat me up.
SNERK!
My eyes are green. I feel no especial urge to make any specific adjustments in my wardrobe based on the day of the year. Being, you know, fairly non-Irish and all.
Fay - Feb 02, 2003 6:51:45 pm PST #1506 of 9843
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
But I don't think that's an Amemrican ting so much as it's a corporate name thing. I am sure if a Scot named Guinness wanted to open a brewery, he would be sued.
Yes.