Nobody except a 17-year-old with a fake i.d., perhaps . . .
St. Patrick's Day is this Friday and that means all the usual suspects -- beer, bagels -- and several more unusual ones -- this waterfall in North Georgia -- will turn green for at least 24 hours.
Bad idea, barkeep.
Most Americans view green beer like a bad piece of corned beef. That's the rather stunning finding by National Today, a web site that "keeps track of the special moments and quirky occasions on the cultural calendar."
How quirky?
March 13 is National Napping Day.
Zzzz . . .
Oh, sorry. Back to St. Patrick’s Day. Nearly 9 out of 10 of us plan to celebrate it in some way, according to a survey of 1,000 people National Today’s researchers conducted on March 6. While that might basically entail pulling a lime-colored shirt out of the laundry hamper -- “wearing green” was the most popular way of celebrating, mentioned by 30 percent of all respondents -- at least it’s something, right?
Meanwhile, only eight percent said they planned on sampling green beer. That’s one full percentage point less than the nine percent of respondents who said they’d “pinch people who aren’t wearing green.”
Of course, if you drink enough beer -- green or otherwise -- you probably won’t even feel it.
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