Luck of the Irish?/OT

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St Patricks day is just around the corner and to celebrate, both my best

friend and I are going to Reno to cash in on said luck and make a million.

We're both Irish and we figure it would be a good day for us.

 

Then I started thinking about it. Where did this idea that the Irish are

lucky come from anyway? Quite frankly the idea of " Lucky Irish " is a

staggering notion.

 

The Irish are lucky enough to have more rainy days than just about anyone.

Their country is so waterlogged that instead of trees they have peat bogs.

Imagine being lucky enough to have to burn muck (dried muck, but muck all

the same) instead of nasty old wood.

 

Course with the bogs, they are lucky enough to have really rich earth and

were getting along well enough to grow tons of potatoes... course in the

typical " Lucky Irish " fashion comes along the Potato famine. Can't grow

potatoes anymore, people are dying off in droves because they can't feed

themselves anymore.

 

But luckily, there is America. Streets are paved with gold and all a dumb

Mick has to do is walk down the street, find their fortune and alls well.

Typical Irish Luck, first they have to indenture themselves and come to find

out... No gold, no money, just virtual slavery... The luck of Typhoid Mary

rather than the much proclaimed " Irish Luck! "

 

True, the Irish have their Leprechauns... but how many of them have turned

up to save a good old Irishman from poverty? It's not like they're running

around in droves with their cauldrons of gold in their pockets and wearing

signs " Here I am! Catch me! "

 

I get a huge giggle out " Fitzgeralds " in Reno. They have a couple of pieces

of Stone from Blarney Castle in Ireland. Touch it for good luck. However,

the Blarney stone is said to give the " Gift of Gab " , not good luck. Do you

KNOW how many folk have been killed for running off at the mouth. Not the

luckiest gift one could receive. Even Ireland's best authors die poor from

alcoholism, syphilis, gonorrhea, mental illness, suicide. Once again, more

like Typhoid Mary than the great good luck the Irish are supposedly blessed

with.

 

Take the Kennedys. Very famous Irish folk... You wanna be a Kennedy? Sure'n

they have money, but they too have the luck of a Typhoid Mary. How many of

them have survived to old age without having cancer, alcohol problems,

assassination, plane crashes, mental illness etc.

 

So where does this notion that the Irish are lucky come from. Maybe instead

of going to Reno, I'd be just as well off staying home and flushing my money

down the toilet. No, I really don't want the " Luck of the Irish " , life is

tough enough as it is.

 

By the by... Typhoid Mary, she was Irish.

 

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Cheers!

Kathleen Petrides

The Woobey Queen

Http://www.woobeyworld.com