Posts Tagged "Boston"

• Sweet, Sweet Caroline!!

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  Red Sox Nation takes its traditions Very seriously!!  One slip up and we could lose the World Series and we all know how heart crushing that is to Beantown!!

  Chanting “Yankees Suck” at Every single game no matter if we are playing them or not, slurring obscenities over empty bud light cups and singing “Sweet Caroline” during the seventh inning stretch are just a few of what to expect each and every time you hit the stands at Fenway!

  Now really?  Does Neil Diamond have anything to do with Red Sox Nation?? How may you ask did a song about hooking up with a sweet lil lady named Caroline become the anthem of the seventh inning stretch??

  Well we are here to answer this puzzling question for you!!

  Thanks to Miss Amy Tobey, who was the Fenway music director from 1998 -2004, heard the sweet tune at other sporting events and decided to throw it into the lineup.  Tobey thought of “Sweet Caroline” as a good luck charm.  It became a staple in between the sixth and ninth innings but only if the Sox were ahead.  Soon fans expected to hear Mr. Diamond blaring across the park towards the end of the game regardless of the outcome.

  When the Sox were bought in 2002, the new ownership asked for the tune to be played at every game during the 8th inning!  And that my friends is how the union of  “Sweet Caroline” and the Red Sox came to be.

  Sweet Caroline
  Good times never seemed so good
  I’ve been inclined
  To believe they never would
  Oh, no, no

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• St. Patty’s Day Shenanigans

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  Not So Luck O’ the Irish

  
  

  You would think that with one of the biggest populations of Irish outside of Ireland we would have had a little luck on our side this past St. Patty’s Day.

  First came the rain, which wiped out the annul St. Patty’s parade in Southie.  Torrential waves of water beat down upon Beantown for two days straight.  With minimal equipment at our disposal we opted out of trekking to South Boston to stand in the freezing downpour.

  Next came the Big day itself!! Knowing the Irish, we figured there would be two amazing drunk fests raging on in the streets near Broadway, the epicenter of Irish Boston.  As we jigged down the streets to Broadway we realized that it wasn’t an Irish town but in fact a ghost town!!  Apparently, the Irish of Southie only celebrate on the day of the parade!!!  All we could think was, “Oh My Goodness, Oh My Guinness”!!

  Knowing that Faneuil Hall, in downtown Boston, has a cluster of Irish pubs we hit the T to Government Center.  Immediately, there were people decked out in green!! Thousands of partygoers were roaming the area of Faneuil Hall as well as lining up to get into the many said pubs!

  In the end, we got drunk off Guinness that was magically delicious!!  We love the Irish!!

  Lesson Learned: Party in Southie: Day of St. Patty’s Day Parade. Party in Faneuil Hall: Actual day of St. Patty’s Day

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• Lewd Limericks

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  A Limerick is a five-line poem written with one couplet and one triplet.  Limericks are meant to be funny. They often contain hyperbole, idioms and puns. The last line of a good limerick contains the ‘punch line’ or ‘heart’ of the joke.

  There was a young girl from Rabat,

  who had triplets, Nat, Pat and Tat;

  It was fun in the breeding,

  But hell in the feeding,

  When she found she had no tit for Tat.

  by Terry Walsh

  There Once was a Man called Reg

  Who Went with a Girl in a Hedge

  Along came his wife

  With a big Carving Knife

  And cut off his meat and two veg

  by Matt Barton

  There was a young lass from Australia

  Who painted her ass like a Dahlia

  The shape it was fine

  And the color devine

  But the aroma–well, that was a faihlia

  by Maurie Houseman

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• St. Patty’s Day Fun Facts

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  In preparation for St. Patrick’s Day in South Boston and our Shmammered St. Patty’s Day video, we figured we would share some fun facts about Ireland, leprechauns, Guinness and more! Enjoy & Stay Tuned!!!

  Fun Facts:

  1. Legend says that each leaf of the clover means something: the first is for hope, the second for faith, the third for love and the fourth for luck.

  2. On St. Patrick’s Day, 13 million pints of Guinness are served worldwide.

  3. There are more Americans of Irish origin than there are Irish in Ireland.

  4. The name “leprechaun” has several origins. It could be from the Irish Gaelic word “leipreachan,” which means “a kind of aqueous sprite.” Or, it could be from “leath bhrogan,” which means “shoemaker.”

  5.The luck of the Irish was with George Washington in 1776 when the British evacuated Boston on St. Patrick’s Day, leaving the Americans to take over the city.

  

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