Once upon a time, an astute local owner of several bars, Scott Cochrane, happened upon a brilliant idea. You see, on the biggest drinking day of the year, St. Patricks Day, 10s of thousands of customers, college students, were away on spring break. "So, why not" he thought, "invent an 'Unofficial St. Patricks Day', before spring break?". So he did, and it worked brilliantly.
This started in '96 and eventually became a phenomenon over the years, one unbelievably massive party, so massive, that according to one article, 18000 people will be coming into town. I have been living on campus now for around 2 1/2 years, and have beared witness to the event, but been relatively unaffected by it. This year is different however, I'm am not merely living on campus, but in it, so to speak. I was assuming that it would be on 12th, but have come to find out that it is this Friday! Yikes!
Aside:
I have written a blog post about this before, on a blog that no longer exists, so I have this feeling of repeating myself, even though the tiny amount of readers I had on that blog did not follow my migration to twitter and will not be reading this. It was however, a massive following compared to this one. ;)
While the city and the university have both tried to do things to quell this faux holiday, it has gained so much momentum as to be permanent, a 'tradition', if you will, that will last indefinitely. Makes me wonder just how many 'traditional' things were thought up by people wanting to make a buck...quite possibly all of them.
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