Cinco VS. St. Patty’s
May 6, 2008 by dave
Yes, we’ve just finished with our second drinking holiday of the year.
Cinco de Mayo or as it’s know in LA, Drinko de Mayo affects me only in 2 ways. First, we had a free lunch bufet at work… yummy. Second is the day after you got 10 million hung over people on the damn roads.
Seriously, I think it’s the most dangerous driving day of the year in Los Angeles. I can only imagine that it’s this bad in Boston on March 18th.
That being said though, I think we need more drinking holidays. I know Thanksgiving and Christmas have heavy drinking elements involved but that’s only to drown out the misery of having to be in the same room as your relatives for that long.
So in the comments, be creative today and share with us the new drinking holidays we should come up with.
I think there should be holidays to honor the birthday of all those distillers/brewers. Alexander Keith’s birthday should be a national holiday so that you can drink.
great idea paul!
damn. now a smart ass remark isn’t gonna cut it. i’ll be back. maybe i can startle my brain into forming an original thought.
Too many drinking holidays would dilute the potency of the special days we celebrate excessive libation. Plus the loss of productivity impacts the economy.*
St. Paddy’s is pretty much global. Cinco de Mayo is limited to southern and western states of the US and of course Mexico. We have seen influences pushing north driven by migrant workers and heavy ad campaigns of the Corona brewing company. The May 2-4 weekend is not so named just because of the date and I would propose that this is a Canadian Drinking Holiday. New Year’s Eve is a global drinking holiday that includes a holiday following as a recovery day. The 1st and 4th of July create a booze soaked weekend with elements of family and BBQ or camping. The other (inter)national drinking day is Super Bowl Sunday. Doesn’t matter if you watch the game, the commercials, or stare at the ceiling you’re eating wings and having a cold one.
If you consider these days and all the family/ religious holidays where we are obliged to converge on a relatives house and talk to the crazy uncle, or pay homage to the deity our parents chose for us, there is not much of room in most social calendar’s for an obligatory day of unabashed debauchery.
Having said that, I would like to see an official Bob & Doug McKenzie Day or The Hoser International Take Off Eh, Day.
* See Myth No. 5 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16877331/page/2/
All good ideas…. I could go for Keith’s birthday or a Bob and Doug day.
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