The Mexico?United States border is the international border between Mexico and the United States. It runs from San Diego, California, and Tijuana, Baja California, in the west to Matamoros, Tamaulipas, and Brownsville, Texas, in the east, and traverses a variety of terrains, ranging from major urban areas to inhospitable deserts. From the Gulf of Mexico it follows the course of the Rio Grande (Río Bravo del Norte) to the border crossing at El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua; westward from that binational conurbation it crosses vast tracts of the Sonoran and Chihuahuan Desert, the Colorado River Delta, westward to the binational conurbation of San Diego and Tijuana before reaching the Pacific Ocean.

The border's total length is 3,169 km (1,969 miles), according to figures given by the International Boundary and Water Commission. It is the most frequently crossed international border in the world, with about 250 million legal crossings every year.

Eric Lynch (born March 11, 1975), better known as Eric the Midget, is a member of The Howard Stern Shows Wack Pack. Lynch is tall, weighs , and uses a motorized wheelchair.

Additionally he suffers from Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, a disease of the connective tissue, and claims to have outlived every doctor's prediction for his life expectancy.Howard Stern.com Lynch does not have a stable job in which he receives a regular paycheck; however, because of his condition he receives Supplemental Security Income (SSI).

He is a frequent caller to the show, even by Wack Pack standards. On the air, his voice is low-pitched and scratchy-sounding. He speaks slowly and haltingly. In addition, he makes small grunting noises interspersed with his words. Eric's many imitators will affect a gravel voice, low pitch, and nasal tone. The show sometimes plays sound effects of the voice of "Danny" from the film The Shining, using the catch-phrase "Redrum! Redrum!", as well as the alien "Ack-Ack!" from Mars Attacks, which sound uncannily like Eric's real voice. He is known for being extremely short-tempered and belligerent, frequently addressing members of the show with insulting nicknames, such as referring to Stern as "big nose" or "jackass" and Robin Quivers as "cackling bitch" and Artie Lange as "fat ass." He has a very limited sense of humor and has said he doesn't appreciate the comedy of The Howard Stern Show.

A self-styled "expert" on American Idol, Lynch is known for his fandom of the show, specifically winners Kelly Clarkson, and Carrie Underwood, as well as runners-up Diana DeGarmo and Katharine McPhee. Lynch has repeatedly asked Howard Stern to use his influence to get him dates with Clarkson or Underwood, despite the fact that Stern has only a limited relationship with the show and its cast. Eric also co-hosts his own webcam chat show on American Idol through stickam.

Stern helped Lynch land a guest starring role on one of his favorite television shows, American Dreams. Lynch is frequently prodded on the Stern show for expressing only limited gratitude for the favor at first. Because of the guest role, Lynch is known, by his own request, as "Eric the Actor," although he is rarely referred to as such. This is because he finds the word "midget" offensive to a "little person," equating it to referring to an African American as a "nigger". He was jokingly referred to as "Eric the Astronaut," because he is as much of an astronaut as he is an actor. He has also been on Jimmy Kimmel Live, as Kimmel is a personal friend of Stern's and a huge fan of Eric's; saying that, earlier that week he produced the video Im Fucking Ben Affleck, and he was more excited to meet with Eric than he was with major movie stars Brad Pitt, Harrison Ford, and Robin Williams.

Erics frequent calls, sometimes multiple times during one show, have made him one of the more prominent members of The Wack Pack. He is likely the most polarizing Wack Packer, as Stern fans either hate or love his arrogant attitude and often mundane, uneventful calls. Lynch is known to stay on hold for long periods of time, then complain when Stern finally gets along to putting him on the air, not realizing that he is not a priority for the show. Both staff members and fans have speculated that Eric is in a state of denial as he refers to himself as an actor despite having only one acting appearance, insists on being treated like a celebrity (charging for autographs, having all-expenses-paid, catered personal appearances, etc.) and frequently threatens to boycott the show, oblivious to the fact that it is the primary reason he has achieved his modest level of fame (Artie Lange has called him a "G-List Celebrity"). Stern has said that he, his fans and his staff are probably the only people that are nice to Eric on a regular basis and that most others who give him favors do so because they either take pity on his disability or want to be mentioned on Sirius radio.

In 2007, Lynch was listed at #3 on Something Awful's Big Ten List of Little People, finishing ahead of such notable little persons as Verne Troyer and Jason Acuña.

'Saint Patricks Day' ( or Lá Fhéile Pádraig), colloquially St. Paddy's Day or Paddy's Day, is an annual feast day which celebrates Saint Patrick (circa 385-461 AD), one of the patron saints of Ireland, and is generally celebrated on March 17.

The day is the national holiday of Ireland. It is a bank holiday in Northern Ireland and a public holiday in the Republic of Ireland, Montserrat, and the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. In the rest of Canada, Great Britain, Australia, the United States and New Zealand, it is widely celebrated but is not an official holiday.

It became a feast day in the Roman Catholic Church due to the influence of the Waterford-born Franciscan scholar Luke Wadding in the early part of the 17th century, and is a holy day of obligation for Roman Catholics in Ireland. The date of the feast is occasionally, yet controversially, moved by church authorities when March 17 falls during Holy Week; this happened in 1940 when Saint Patricks Day was observed on April 3 in order to avoid it coinciding with Palm Sunday, and happened again in 2008, having been observed on 15 March. March 17 will not fall during Holy Week again until 2160.