Saint Patrick's Day, a brief history.

Saint Patrick's Day or SPD, is a holiday to ironically celebrate a man named Patrick Saint.
Pat's legend is an astounding tale of  how the village idiot of a small Irish township caused the Great Snake Blight of Ireland. Being a drunken fool Patrick had no job and spent most of his days playing panpipes, on one fateful spring day Pat discovered that the snakes of the land would dance to his music and follow him about, his song attracted more and more snakes and this scared poor Pat. The sacred Patrick ran as fast as he could until he reached the very edge of Ireland, afraid that the snakes would overtake him Patrick marched into the ocean where the snakes all drowned. Now this was a sad day, for back in the day snakes were Ireland's chief export, and Pat's escapade doomed all of Ireland to be poor. Saint Patrick's Day is celebrated now by burning Patrick in effigy, and drinking to forget the day that Patrick killed all those poor dancing snakes.