The Real March Madness

Sure, sure...March symbolizes the NCAA Basketball Championships every year, commonly called 'March Madness', but as someone who only follows the NFL with much passion (although my alma mater tends to be a heavy hitter on the basketball court), March Madness is marked with increased consumption of the nectar of the Gods; namely Guinness.

Beware of the Ides of March!! Why? That is but 2 days away from perhaps the most fun celebration of beer (especially Guinness, Harp, etc) in the world: St. Patty's!! Yeah, I could go on and on about Saint Patrick and blah...blah...blah, but who cares?

Unfortunately, this blessed month also coincides with a vow I made to myself a while back to abstain from just about anything worthwhile - even giving up my precious VIP tickets (READ: bands galore and all the beer little old me could consume) to a Shamrockfest. This is serious business! We'll see when the willpower winds down.

Having said that, I highly encourage you, my devout fans, to drink, drink, drink to your heart's content. Drink for me! Drink like Ted Kennedy - just don't drive drunk and kill your mistress!!

Afterthought:

News reports today indicated that young men, and most especially women, are starving themselves during the day so that they may be able to drink mass quantities of alcohol at night. The emerging term is 'DRUNKOREXIA'. I always thought that was called being an American college student. I could be wrong...

Afterthought of the Afterthought:

Have you heard of the Guinness Diet?? Though not endorsed by the Guinness folks, it consists of drinking 4-10 pints of Guinness a day - no food - combined with a vitamin C supplement, water and a pint of milk a day for a week. The originator of this diet, UK's own Mike Burt, lost 9 pounds in a week. Now I am not suggesting anything...but it could be interesting to compare outcomes. With my background in science, I find it might be incumbent upon me to conduct this experiment on myself someday...for the sake of furthering the scientific discipline, of course...