Make My St. Patrick’s Day: Happy St. Paddy’s Day to Ye Lads and Lasses

On a day when it seems virtually everyone seems to lay some claim to Irish ancestry, and others, in typical American fashion, use the day as an excuse to get insanely drunk, St. Patrick’s Day can be many different things to many different people. Cities such as Savannah, Chicago, New York and Norfolk, Va., all … Read more

On St. Patrick’s Day, Everyone’s Irish. Even Glock.

Not sure about this one. I mean, the base material in crayons is, um, WAX, right? And wax melts when it gets warm, right? And when you shoot a gun, the heat generated from the gunpowder’s ignition is absorbed by the barrel, which then conducts it to the slide, right? Which would make this green … Read more

Saturday Evening Post: St. Pat’s Edition

Been a long time since we’ve done one of these. Today, in Dallas, we are celebrating St. Patrick’s Day with the annual Lower Greenville Ave. St. Patrick’s Day parade. Now, of course, the Irish have a long and storied history with guns. So I thought it might be appropriate to pass along a couple of gun-related Irish jokes, in time for St. Paddy’s festivities. So brush up on yer brogue and read on . . .

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