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February 12, 2007
Tis the season
No, it's not!
Cowboy and Things One and Two watch a lot of sports. This means that I see a lot of beer commercials. Also viagra and hair replacement commercials, but those are not what I want to talk about today. Today it's beer. Specifically, Guinness Stout.
You know the ads, the ones with the funny cartoon guys who keep yelling "Brilliant!" at each other. I had no problem with them until now. But now, they have crossed the line. They have declared a St. Patrick's Day Season.
You may remember (or not) that I am not a big fan of the holiday season. By holiday season, I am referring to the one that begins with Thanksgiving and ends with New Years unless you're a retailer in which case it seems to start at July 4 and end at Valentine's Day. So to have ANOTHER holiday season where I'm forced to be happy and "in the spirit" is just too much especially since this one seems to require drinking a lot of beer. I like beer. Unfortunately, it makes me a tad gassy.
I have no beef with St. Patrick's Day. I can make corned beef and soda bread and I have a rather fetching green sweater. It's more that I can't imagine making an entire season around it. Would we have to wear green every day? For how many days? How much beer would I have to consume? How many days would we have to have corned beef? And, most importantly, where do these guys get off making it an entire season?
Then I started to wonder if I could just up and declare various seasons. I happen to be a big fan of my town's July 4 celebration. Maybe we could make an Independence Day Season and we could spend weeks picnicking at the park and there would be live music, skydivers and fireworks every night.
What holiday would you like to see made into an entire season?
Posted by Eileen at 7:00 AM | Comments (10)
Comments
Halloween. Definitely the Halloween season. I am a crazed Halloween decorator and would love to have a haunted house in my garage for an entire month. And leave my 8-foot-long inflated spider up in the yard for an entire season instead of only one night . . .
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at February 12, 2007 8:56 AM
I'm with you on the Independence Day Season. Parades every day! Fireworks! Barbeques!
Plus, it's in the middle of the year, so we've sufficiently recovered from the OTHER holiday season that's shoved down our throats every year.
Posted by: laurenjharwood at February 12, 2007 9:00 AM
For me, it would be Christmas. I love the smell of pine, the family all around, lots of food, lots of chatter.
And Eileen, I just had to mention the Guiness - I love that, too :-) Yum! (But not good for the waistline.)
Posted by: Michelle C at February 12, 2007 10:29 AM
Michelle,
According to one of the more recent commercials, Guinness has only 125 calories per bottle! Assuming no fiber and no fat, that's just two Weight Watchers points. Brilliant!
Eileen
Posted by: The LC Eileen at February 12, 2007 12:02 PM
I may live on Guinness from now onwards...
(No, not really, but that's interesting, Eileen. I guess it shouldn't be drunk by the pint as it's served in the Irish bar here, though, LOL).
Posted by: Michelle C at February 12, 2007 2:05 PM
I gotta say Easter, I love chocolate eggs
Posted by: Maria Duncan at February 12, 2007 2:16 PM
I say no more, just like you, Eileen! LOL You're right, we've got enough of them. :)
Posted by: Amber at February 12, 2007 2:20 PM
How about if everyone were allowed to have their own birthday season? Wow, a whole month of birthday cake eating and tiara wearing. I don't know if I'd want waiters singing at me for a whole month though.
Posted by: Janina at February 12, 2007 4:07 PM
I'm guessing an English pint is different than an American one. Otherwise, if you figure 125 calories in a bottle of beer and the average bottle is 12 ounches, then 16 ounces (an American pint) is only like 167 calories and three Weight Watchers points. Still pretty freakin' brilliant although it doesn't take care of the gassy issue.
Posted by: The LC Eileen at February 12, 2007 6:01 PM
Eileen said: I'm guessing an English pint is different than an American one.
Eileen, I am such a sad creature that I had to go look this up. Can you believe they actually are different? Here it is (from Wiki):
1 UK = 20 UK fluid ounces = 568 mL
1 US pint = 16 U.S. fluid ounces = 473 mL
Posted by: Michelle C at February 13, 2007 11:10 AM
