Being Irish

Ya sure ya betcha.

An "all American" breakfast buffet includes French toast, Danish pastries, Swedish pancakes, Canadian bacon, English muffins, German/Polish sausage, an Italian frittata, Dutch babies, Mexican huevos rancheros, and other such home-grown goodies concocted in someone else's home.

Sometime around 1935, there was an article in H.L. Mencken's American Mercury magazine about the "All-American Man," which mentioned things like these, along with shaving being adopted from ancient Egypt. (Alas, I haven't found it yet in a Web search.)

Could this be the essay? (from 1937)

Bingo!--that's exactly the one. I had forgotten the author's name. Nice find.

Of course that really belongs on one of those "They are stealing all of our innovations" threads.

This occurred to me whilst reading;

"Samuel Holt of England succeeded in making the first cotton terry-cloth, in 1848. He patented the process both in England and the United States. In 1864 Holt left London and came to Paterson, New Jersey, where he formed a company and erected a plant for the manufacture of terry-cloth. Two years afterward the company disposed of Holt's patents for $250,000. This, according to Holt's claim, violated their contract and caused a lawsuit, in which Holt lost a large amount of money."

Source

I heard about the Irish' way of tying their shoelace, they put one foot up the stool, bend down to tie the shoe lace on the other foot !

dont knock it , thats free yoga

adopted from scotland though i hear . being scottish they didnt want to pay money going to workout in a gym so they invented the extra stretch as a form of free Mini-Pilates.

New Chairman of Tata Sons (India) owners of Tata Group of companies, including Tata Motors, mfrs of "NANO" cheapest car in the world, is Mr.Cyrus Mistry who is half Irish, his mother is Irish lady.

ROL! GA for humor.

good one !

Being Irish is about driving a German car to an Irish pub for a Belgian beer, and then on your way home grabbing an Indian curry or Turkish kebab to sit on a Swedish sofa and watch American shows on a Japanese TV.

And here I thought it was just taking advantage of the best things in life!

Interesting. Perhaps you did not realise the goodness of Irish Whiskey from Bushmill and also the wonderful smooth and creamy Guiness Stout created from local spring water. A tenpe coin always stay afloat even when you finish the drink.

cheers.

Perhaps, you can explain why you need three Irish man to change a light bulb ? My good Irish buddy cheer me up with this joke years ago when studied in Armagh Royal School.

Ancient Irish flute