Before there was Steve Martin....

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to make all effort to avoid it. That is until I was able to out run him!

Yup...  It's bad!

Traditionally a Shillelagh is made from Blackthorn which is actually the Root of a common Shrub..  During the harvesting process the larger tendrils are knocked off but the remnants of them are left creating many sharp strong "thorns" in the weapon.

The end is typically bulbous and represents the root-ball of the plant so it is very dense and tough.  Getting hit with it hurts like hell.  But the real meanness comes from getting caught by the main shaft.  The Thorns rip and tear so if you are unlucky enough to get within range the practitioner can Hit and Drag the weapon across you tearing as it goes..

We like to call it Shillelagh Burn... *evil grin*

Here is a little teaser..

Well, actually I was thinking of which bar will you be celebrating with your green beer..

but, do you mean lucky as in you'll give me a four-leaf clover or the other lucky? I'll assume the latter, and definitely keep you in mind. A guy can never get too lucky, can he?

That's easy - Lonesome Dave! C'mon, Mikey, give us something hard...ummm, let me rephrase that...

Buddy of mine, Steve Miller(no, not that one) has 14 years on me and always told me I was born 10 years too late cuz of my taste in music.

We used to go to the smaller venues and saw the 'older' bands and shit.

Savoy Brown and Bo Diddley were soo fucking cool to see.

Used to go this ampitheatre in Santa Fe and saw Santana there twice(before it was COOL to see Santana before he did 'Supernatural') , BB King, Los Lobos, all sorts of shit.

Steely Dan opened up the ampitheatre here, now called the Hard Rock Casino and ampitheatre.

But I swear to God, if I only had to see one more act before I kick, it would be Eric Clapton. No doubt, and no two ways about it.

I would give both your left and right nuts to sit there and watch him do his thing. Oh, fuck yeah!