Guinness St Patrick's Day world record attempt: How you can get involved - plus watch hilarious sheepdog advert

With only 11 days to go until St Patrick's Day, Guinness has received more than 36,000 pledges from people around the world to be friendly on St Patrick's Day - and that means they're edging closer to achieving a Guinness World Records title.

The online pledge closes on St Patrick's Day, Saturday 17 ^th March, and in order to set a new Guinness World Records title Guinness needs to have gained more than 50,000 pledges from friendly folk around the globe.

Currently leading the pledges for friendliness is the United States of America, where more than 14,200 people have pledged to join the St Patrick's Day party which will be taking over the world next weekend. People from Japan, Spain, Great Britain and Germany follow the U.S. in the leading number of pledges.

Now is your chance to get involved and help make St Patrick's Day 2012 the friendliest day of the year.

If you would like to pledge to spread friendliness on St Patrick's Day you should visit: https://secure.guinness.com/en-row/stpatricks/

What's more you can be part of a second record attempt for the Largest global St Patrick's Day celebration by joining a party on Saturday 17 ^th March 2012 and helping Guinness set another Guinness World Records titles.

Keep checking back later this week for details of how to join a Guinness hosted St Patrick's Day party in a city near you.