A Little Etymology

Katlyn and I go to Boston College, and if you've ever heard of it, it's probably been bad mouthed for being a rich, snobby, white, Irish, Catholic school (but a damn good one)--all of these things are true, and I'm not denying that. Frankly, my family and I are poor as shit, so the first part doesn't apply to me; I'm also Protestant, not Cathlolic, so neither does the last one. Everything else in the middle?

Probably perhaps partly true. Maybe.

Regardless, our blog got its name from something K and I saw at the last hockey game we went to. I'm an awesome kid and bought my parents tickets to the same game for their Christmas presents (among other things, gosh), not that that's relevant, but I did.

So sitting there between the first and second periods, BC seemingly safely in the lead, the jumbotron-esque screen was showing the "Happy Birthday" shout-outs.

Patrick O'Donnell.

Ryan O'Brian.

Sean Gallagher.

And just as I was thinking to myself (and actually saying it out loud because my filter's only 5% active at any time) "Could this list get any more Irish?"

It did.

Dramatic Reenactment

The next name on that list was "Fitzy Grunbeck," at which point I proceeded to laugh more forcefully than necessary, probably to the glares of the people around us (whose seats we had most likely stolen [and when I say most likely, I really mean definitely {we know this because they told us so |disapprovingly|}]).

Upon Googling the above, there are no results. Even Google thought it was weird and tried to correct it.

No, Google, it's "Fitzy Grunbeck."

And he/she/it is about to rock your world.

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