This excellent occasion is Sunday March 11th this year and I for one am definitely attending as I have the past few years. All I gotta ask is: "Whos coming with me?"

Wow, how many posters get a parade named after them?

 

 

Is there a Ss2k5 parade scheduled for next week in Michigan City?

Sadly, I'll be 1,200 miles away on the grand day. But after the parade go crash the party on 101st and Bell with all the loud drunk Micks. The Head Drunk Mick will be my kid Bro and that will be his bash.

 

Friends and Family and Random Guests usually come to blows at the Brother Joseph's parties, but the upside is that you'll have the bruises to prove what a good time you had.

I haven't missed one in my life and I will be there once again this year. Erin Go Bragh!

Ill be there as usual.

Look for me, Ill be the one trying to give beer to the police with no avail because they all already have one.

i haven't been there for years but i used to attend every year. growing up in beverly it was a short walk.

 

i'm coming home for it for the first time this year. i'm not irish, but my girlfriend is and she's tired of hearing me talk about how good of a time it is.

 

i'm in!

i haven't been there for years but i used to attend every year. growing up in beverly it was a short walk.

 

i'm in!

 

Ah, but were you a Catholic or were you a "public"?

 

We Beverly Catholics never much cared for those publics growing up. And we St. Barnabas Beverly Catholics didn't much care for those Christ the Kingers either. And don't even get me started on those jerks from Cajetan or Fisher. . .

 

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Ah, but were you a Catholic or were you a "public"?

 

We Beverly Catholics never much cared for those publics growing up. And we St. Barnabas Beverly Catholics didn't much care for those Christ the Kingers either. And don't even get me started on those jerks from Cajetan or Fisher. . .

 

I Kid Because I Care®

 

interesting. a barnabas kid. i still have fond memories of the school brawls that would inevitably break out on 100th street around hurley park.

 

and yes, i was one of those scourge "publics." i went to sutherland, then kellogg, then morgan park. i'm also neither irish nor catholic, which makes me wonder how the heck i ended up in beverly.

i'm also neither irish nor catholic, which makes me wonder how the heck i ended up in beverly.

How do you think Louis Farrakhan felt?

 

 

I grew up 2 blocks away from Sutherland and took a year of Early Enrollment high school Latin at Morgan Park when I was in 8th grade. I did that mostly to get out of morning theology class at Barnabas, so I guess my path toward lapsed Catholocism was sealed early on.

How do you think Louis Farrakhan felt?

 

LOL!

 

i used to walk past his house every day when i went to kellogg. i still remember the guards outside watching me suspiciously when i went on my way. maybe they thought i was there to steal the bean pies.

Brian and I avoid this at all costs. Confuses the hell outta people since we both have Irish heritage.

Brian and I avoid this at all costs. Confuses the hell outta people since we both have Irish heritage.

 

no doubt it is an acquired taste.

Anybody got any good stories from past years. I think one of the better ones I got is when we were trying to get across the street to get to the more lively side of the parade and ended up walking with a plumbers union for like 20-30 minutes a few years back.

Anybody got any good stories from past years. I think one of the better ones I got is when we were trying to get across the street to get to the more lively side of the parade and ended up walking with a plumbers union for like 20-30 minutes a few years back.

 

Did it take them that long to realize you had your pants pulled up all of the way, so you couldn't be one of them, or did you just plumbers crack it in order to fit in?

Did it take them that long to realize you had your pants pulled up all of the way, so you couldn't be one of them, or did you just plumbers crack it in order to fit in?

See, since it was earlier in the day and we werent cross-eyed yet we observed the situation and adjusted our pants accordingly, those idiots were clueless!

My favorite story was going with a group of people to the Cork and Kerry, none of us are Irish, by the way...and we went with a friend of my wife. Who, just happened to have played basketball at Rice and then in Europe. So, we are in the Cork and Kerry with a 6' 6" black guy. The ONLY black guy in the bar and pretty much the only one we saw while we were down there.

 

The joke was, when any of us went to the bathroom, we had to slam our thumbs in the door...that way, we will all stick out like sore thumbs.

 

But it was a blast and I'm sad I'll miss it again this year. Whoever the aldermen are for those Wards need to make the Monday after a city-wide holiday...just for recovery's sake.

My favorite story was going with a group of people to the Cork and Kerry, none of us are Irish, by the way...and we went with a friend of my wife. Who, just happened to have played basketball at Rice and then in Europe. So, we are in the Cork and Kerry with a 6' 6" black guy. The ONLY black guy in the bar and pretty much the only one we saw while we were down there.

 

The joke was, when any of us went to the bathroom, we had to slam our thumbs in the door...that way, we will all stick out like sore thumbs.

 

But it was a blast and I'm sad I'll miss it again this year. Whoever the aldermen are for those Wards need to make the Monday after a city-wide holiday...just for recovery's sake.

If they dont do it for the super bowl theyre not gonna do it for the parade, those communists

But it was a blast and I'm sad I'll miss it again this year. Whoever the aldermen are for those Wards need to make the Monday after a city-wide holiday...just for recovery's sake.

 

Hopefully after 2/27 my alderman is a different person . My vote has already been cast since I will be in CA that day.

Be there again this year, all decked out in green, with my Green Sox hat from "halfway to St. Patrick's Day" promo last Sept.