St. Paddy's ideas

[Xylob the Destroyer]

I've been tasked with putting together a St. Patrick's basket to raffle off within the office as a fund raiser for our booster club organization.
Any ideas? I'm stuck....

I figured a copy of "Boondock Saints", a sixer (make that a fourer) of Guinness and some Jamesons....

need help!

TIA!!!

[BJ_M]

couple of snakes

[AlecWest]

couple of snakes

Hehe, I'm actually trying to promote my own "urban legend" about St. Patrick's Day to see how many people might buy it. Here's the scenario and (grin) feel free to "spread it around," hehehe:

Everyone knows that St. Patrick is famous in Irish history for banishing all snakes from Ireland sometime prior to his death on March 17, 460 A.D. Even today, everyone celebrates the St. Patrick's Day holiday in deference to Irish culture. However, a lesser known holiday, St. Hamish's Day, goes largely uncelebrated.

St. Hamish was a Scottish priest who banished all snakes from Scotland. Unfortunately, he did this only a few years before St. Patrick performed his own feat. The interesting thing to note is that, originally, St. Patrick did not intend to banish snakes from Ireland. He intended to banish British people from Ireland. Unfortunately, the night before his planned banishing activity, St. Patrick became intoxicated on Irish whiskey ... and when he rose in the morning, he continued his drinking binge. When it came time to banish the British, he referred to them as "snakes" ... and his chantings invoked the banishment, leaving British residents in Ireland unfettered. Sadly, these banished snakes fleeing Ireland swam across the channel to Scotland, re-populating the country to St. Hamish's chagrin. And celebrating his namesake's holiday was short-lived.

Though Scottish historians tell the story of St. Patrick's drunken mistake, the Irish refuse to accept the embarrassing truth ... that St. Patrick really planned on banishing the British, not snakes.

[Epicurus8a]

Irish Rovers (or other Celtic Music) CD

[AlecWest]

Irish Rovers (or other Celtic Music) CD

That's a good idea. Music by Clannad (Enya's extended family) is another good idea. I have Clannad's 1990 "PastPresent" VHS music video somewhere. 40 minutes of great music and Irish scenery. A few people are selling it on Amazon (as low as $5.76):

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/6302864380/

It includes their hit song "Harry's Game" made popular in the movie, "Patriot Games." Not a word of English in the song, either - all Gaelic.

They did release one music DVD (Gael Force) ... but it must be very rare since it's selling for $99.94 (shudder). Still, the VHS version can be had for as little as $6.32.