Happy St. Patricks!

My best to all of those green-clad celebrants today on St. Patrick's Day! I don't have any Irish blessings for you (maybe I will put a few in the comments section), but I will give you a couple interesting facts. (Photo compliments of J. Trabert, taken last Friday on my way home from work)

Slainte America! Celebrating St. Patrick's Day with parades and drinking green beer is an American invention. The first St. Patrick's Day Parade was in 1762 in New York City when Irish soldiers serving in the Royal Army got a few bag-pipers together to march through the city. Irish laws forbid pubs from being open on March 17th. The "Paddy powers" finally got their act together and decided to use their patron saint to further Irish tourism and ended the ban in 1994.

Talk about a sweet investment! In 1759, Arthur Guinness signed a lease for 9,000 years on the property at St. James Gates for a whopping $70 a year.

Buzz kill: The annual cost for the "Irish Flu" in the U.S. is $148 billion, due to workers missing work and poor job performance, (source: San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center).

The Bushido has been busy at the CofC Sports Fan Desk

If you can't have self-promotion in this world, then what can you have? I have been busy working on my College of Charleston sports-blog, aptly named the CofC Sports Fan. If you get the chance please check it out for updates on College of Charleston Sports-mainly basketball right now, as March Madness is right around the corner. (Photo of the Bushido and Goldfinger at the game courtesy of WB.)

Happy New Year!

Here's the lyrics for the song Auld Lang Syne, just in case you need them. Happy New Year from the Bushido! (Picture of Jet, Craig and Miles compliments of Alexa White)

Should auld acquaintance be forgot,and never brought to mind ?Should auld acquaintance be forgot,and auld lang syne ?
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For auld lang syne, my dear,
for auld lang syne,
we’ll tak a cup o’ kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.
And surely ye’ll be your pint-stowp !And surely I’ll be mine !And we’ll tak a cup o’ kindness yet,for auld lang syne.
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We twa hae run about the braes,and pou’d the gowans fine ;But we’ve wander’d mony a weary fit,sin’ auld lang syne.
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We twa hae paidl’d in the burn,frae morning sun till dine ;But seas between us braid hae roar’dsin’ auld lang syne.
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And there’s a hand, my trusty fiere !And gies a hand o’ thine !And we’ll tak a right gude-willie-waught,for auld lang syne.
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Happy Birthday to my brother Mike and Carol Anne!

The Bushido would like to wish Pit-Stop's special lady, Carol Anne (blonde in photo) and my brother Mike Trabert Happy Birthday!