St. Patrick's Day 2008 - Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona Duit!

It is about time I got to write about how we celebrated St. Patrick's Day at AOL, Mountain View. 

I sent this email out to the team in Mountain View and in Dulles:

Subject: Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona Duit!

Come by my desk to celebrate St. Patrick's Day.

You can taste some yummy homemade Irish bread with either Irish butter, Kerrygold cheese or some smoked salmon.

In order to get to taste the wonderful Irish food you need to answer the following questions:

1. What did St. Patrick banish from Ireland?
   
2. What did St. Patrick use as a symbol to convert the pagan Irish to Christianity?
   
3. Was St. Patrick Irish?
   
4. Translate the heading of the email?
   

So get searching on the Web or make up some creative answers and then drop by to part-take in the goodies!

For the Toolbar team and my fellow PjM's in other locations, you cannot partake in the food but I will have a prize ( you own kit to make Irish bread) for the most creative answers to the questions so please do join the fun!

Leona

PS these are the same questions as last year and there maybe some hints from old PjM for Journals!! :-)

Here are some pictures of the food:

And some of the folks that came by with answers to the questions to sample the food:

And Thanks to those who sent creative answers to the questions as follows:

From Daniel:

1. Green clothing, so everyone else could dress up like frogs on his special day.
2. Himself (as a symbol) - he was quite an arrogant saint.
3. Irish in the sense of his parents walked on the island before he was born, or Irish in the sense that he knew his beer. Yes to both.
4. "It's MY ISLAND" - (taken from the movie Braveheart)

From Chuck:

1. Lucky Charms
2. A big big stick
3. According to James T. he was French
4. Joyeuse Fête de la Saint-Patrick

From Steve:

Responding from Dulles (trying to get the breakmaking kit):

1. What did St. Patrick banish from Ireland?     People that love Ireland. I swear there are more Irish people *outside* of Ireland than there are inside!
2. What did St. Patrick use as a symbol to convert the pagan Irish to Christianity?    Michael Collins. Is this right? I swear I saw a movie about this with Liam Neeson, Colin Farrell, Pete Postlethwaite, and the Corrs!
3. Was St. Patrick Irish?      He was only before he became a saint.
4. Translate the heading of the email?      A hundred thousand pints.

Am I close?

From Seth:

I want my bread too...

What did St. Patrick banish from Ireland?

The pagan snake symbol...even though snakes dont live in Ireland.

What did St. Patrick use as a symbol to convert the pagan Irish to Christianity?

The Sun in the background of Cross

Was St. Patrick Irish?

English?..British?

Translate the heading of the email?

The day when everyone is Irish

Congratulations to Nancy and Sheli who actually had the right answers to all the questions. The  guys in Dulles keep an eye out for a Leprechaun  who maybe delivering a break making kit in the very near future.  Here is Ninoscka with a bread kit she took home and had great fun with her daughters and made real Irish bread on March 17th: