AMATEUR HOUR

My whole life I have conducted a decades long informal poll about which holiday was a bigger amateur drunk fest, New Year's Eve or St. Paddy's Day.  The overall winner by a narrow margin is St. Paddy's Day, and I have to agree.  The drinking starts way earlier in the day, and is usually more excessive.  St. Paddy's Day almost comes with an expectation of chaos and mayhem, and it usually does ensue.  The thing that puts it over the top though?  Green puke.  I will say that on New Year's Eve, more people get drunk that normally don't drink, adding to it's amateur ranking, but it cannot compete with the classless abandon of St. Paddy's.
Spotted at the parade today in Southie: the Lexington Minutemen (some of whom looked like they may have actually witnessed the shot heard 'round the world in 1775) followed immediately by a Star Wars characters club (imagine 20 Comic Book Guys dressed as Jedis). 
And now to commemorate the holiday, a brief history of the Irish people:    potatoes, potatoes, potatoes, whiskey, potatoes, James Joyce, potatoes, NO POTATOES, move to South Boston, potatoes, more whiskey, potatoes, potatoes, Bono.
Don't let any Leprechauns steal your pot 'o gold!
Happy Amateur Day!