Some St. Patrick's Day Reading

Happy St. Patrick's Day, you Catholic, snake-hating bastards.  Please do not drink more than one green beer today.  Guinness not only tastes better, but is actually better for you.  Anyway, many of you lucky SOBs are probably already drinking at this point (if you live in Chicago, anyway), but if you're not yet pretending to be Irish, here are a couple good pre-St. Patrick's Day articles:

1.  The good people at TopOnlineColleges.com sent me a link to their article called "9 Nutty Irishmen to Celebrate on the 17th."  I particularly enjoy #4 -- Mickey the Pikey from Snatch, perhaps Brad Pitt's greatest role ever.  There is a nice clip too.  #7 is also very solid -- Vivian Campbell, Def Leppard, ex-Dio, ex-Whitesnake, and part-time Thin Lizzy guitarist.  There is a good compilation of his solos.  I also like #9, Oscar Wilde, for his famous quote "Work is the curse of the drinking class."

2.  The second article is from Cracked, entitled "Eight Insulting Ways People Act Irish on St. Patrick's Day," apparently written by a real life Irishman.  Chances are he was drunk when he wrote it.  It's pretty funny and dead-on.  On a related note, one of my great-great-great-great grandpas was Irish, so this is kind of my holiday.