Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Here is the obligatory holiday post to “celebrate” a holiday that’s really nothing more than an excuse to drink a lot, wear green, and make being Irish “cool” for a day.

I’m not huge into St. Patrick’s Day, if you couldn’t tell. I’m not a big drinker, I’m not Irish, and I don’t like cabbage (so the corned beef and cabbage dinner is out). I probably won’t wear green today, and I won’t be drinking green beer either. I also probably won’t be listening to any U2. Jacksonville’s not really big into St. Pattie’s Day, unlike Boston, which is about an hour away from my family in Massachusetts. And in any case, my family’s Portugese, not Irish, and so could really care less. (Give us some linguica or chourico, though, and we’re there!) In Jacksonville, you’ll get the typical people dressed in green drinking green beer at pubs and bars (Lynch’s Irish Pub will be packed to capacity — their annual St. Pattie’s celebration is local legend), but there aren’t really a whole lot of parades or anything. We certainly don’t dye the St. John’s River green.

Anyways, I collected some little known St. Patrick’s Day facts to honor the holiday: