christmas in the drunk tank

Well, that's where some of these Irish immigrants were spending it in this Pogues masterpiece:

Wikipedia has some great trivia about the song:

• Despite the lyrics "The boys of the NYPD choir were singing 'Galway Bay'", the New York Police Department does not have a choir.
• The song's music video features actor Matt Dillon playing a policeman. Dillon claims that the part was the best moment of his career.[1]
• MacGowan cannot play the piano, but in the video (at the urging of record company executives) James Fearnley reluctantly wore MacGowan's jacket and rings [2].
• The song was referenced in the song "Chicago Seemed Tired Last Night" on the album Separation Sunday by the Hold Steady. (They faked their way through "Fairytale of New York"/When the band stopped playing we howled out for more).
• The first Christmas strip of the popular webcomic Megatokyo featured two of the characters singing the song at a karaoke bar, while the other characters looked on drunkenly.

And to follow up on yesterday's party...

I get there, and although I RSVP'd, they didn't have record of my RSVP and were going to turn me away! What a grinchy HR group we have, huh? I was shocked. They pretty much acted as though I was lying about RSVP and (oh sorry, etc). Finally after I put up enough of a fuss they said, "well, maybe you can wait and see if someone doesn't show up." Which of course ALWAYS happens. When you have 200+ people coming in the middle of a workday, you are bound to have a few that don't show. So of course I got in but only after having HR be totally scroogelike with me and making me wait till most people were seated before finally bringing me a placecard with a chicken selection on it. Didn't even bother to give me a raffle ticket. Couldn't they have purchased a few extra plates JUST IN CASE? I mean really. So the whole time I was there I felt like I shouldn't be there and that I wasn't wanted there. It was ridiculous.

The entertainment was Improv...which, well, doesn't go over very well when it's the middle of the day and your entire audience is sober. You can't have improv without an audience with a few drinks in them willing to laugh at the dumbest jokes ever. Plus I think they snagged a few college kids to do it...definitely weren't honed professionals. People were leaving and the ones that weren't were just dying to get out of there.

Was just a disappointment over all. I should have just left when they turned me away and gone home and played video games!