all the 'Irish' Boston people

What, ridiculously romanticized and inaccurate stereotypes of the home country? Say it aint so! (Signed, "Celtic," as in the basketball team, pronounced SELL-tick, and used as a noun.)

(I have a Boston-suburbs cousin-by-2-degrees-of-marriage named Shaughnessy Keegan. I don't know his middle name, but it might be Blarney.)

The coffee is much harder to duplicate.

Not the drip coffee. That seems to be as easily replicated as the tea.

Doesn't matter though. I still go and get them to make a Green Tea Lemonade for me. Just not this month.

I have a Boston-suburbs cousin-by-2-degrees-of-marriage named Shaughnessy Keegan.

That is wonderful.

Not the drip coffee. That seems to be as easily replicated as the tea.

Except when you seem to suck at making coffee. Like myself.

Going online and clicking through to pay my bill is about the same as writing a check.

It's the mailing of said check that tilts it towards online bill pay for me. Do I have a stamp? An envelope? Do I remember how much the bill's for? Can I pay it from my desk at work?

Okay, all that other stuff tilts it too.

Black and tan always triggers the deliberate Jamaican mispronunciation of Lacatan which is a sort of banana. And when I think of mixing stout and stuff I think of mixing stout and ice cream which is really nummy and I wish people would stop looking at me funny about it.

I have a Boston-suburbs cousin-by-2-degrees-of-marriage named Shaughnessy Keegan.

Said child is actually named Keegan Shaugnessy (sp?). A boy. Keegan is his mother's maiden name. He's 6 or 7 by now.

Stout is a disgusting beverage, see §5409 re: coffee.

Stout is a disgusting beverage, see §5409 re: coffee.

Tom Scola, while extremely loveable, is a freak

ita, I really like eating chocolate with stout, and I can totally see stout and chocolate ice-cream being yummy.

Stout is a disgusting beverage, see §5409 re: coffee.

Oh, but the BEST beverage combines the two: [link]