If you get pinched today, check to see if you are wearing green for today is Saint Patrick’s Day! Also known as the Feast of Saint Patrick, it’s both a a religious and cultural holiday held on 17 March, commemorating the traditional death date of Saint Patrick (c. 385 – c. 461), the foremost patron saint of Ireland.
People wear green this day because shamrocks (a/k/a clover) are commonly associated with this holiday. According to folklore, you get pinched on St. Patrick’s Day for not wearing green because green makes you invisible to leprechauns. Apparently leprechauns like to pinch 🙂
Thank you for reading today's post. Have an InterStellar Day! ~PrP
Today, while speaking with my Mom, she mentioned that she remembers growing up and some people wearing orange on St. Pat’s day. I looked it up. TIL:
To understand why some people wear orange, you first have to understand why people wear green. St. Patrick’s Day is a Roman Catholic holiday that was first celebrated in Ireland starting in 1631. As the name implies, the holiday celebrates St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland.
However, Time’s Ashley Ross notes that the color associated with the holiday was actually blue until the Irish Rebellion in 1798. “[Blue] was featured both in the royal court and on ancient Irish flags. But as the British wore red, the Irish chose to wear green, and they sang the song ‘The Wearing of the Green’ during the rebellion, cementing the color’s relevance in Irish history,” Ross wrote. The change from blue to green also better reflected the country’s nickname of being the Emerald Isle, as well as the clover that St. Patrick used in his teachings about Catholicism.
However, not everyone in Ireland is Roman Catholic, and the Irish flag highlights the differences. While Catholics were associated with the color green, Protestants were associated with the color orange due to William of Orange – the Protestant king of England, Scotland and Ireland who in 1690 defeated the deposed Roman Catholic King James II. Therefore, on St. Patrick’s Day, Protestants protest by wearing orange instead of green.
Ironically, no one wears white; the placement of the white stripe between the green and orange stripes on the Irish flag is supposed to symbolize the peace between the Roman Catholic majority and the Protestant minority.
https://www.mic.com/articles/138159/on-st-patrick-s-day-why-do-some-people-wear-orange-instead-of-green
JOKE: Three people were approaching the gates of heaven, but only one place was left. 😇😶🌫️🔱
There were three people approaching the gates of heaven, but there was only one place left.
The gatekeeper asked the first man what happened to him because the one with the worst death would go in.
The first man said:
“Well, imagine this. I expected my wife was having an affair, so I got home early to surprise her.
I found her in the bathroom with a towel around her so I knew she wasn’t having a shower I searched the apartment and found 10 fingers hanging from the window sill. So I started bashing away at them. When he fell, God must have loved him, because he lived. So I threw a refrigerator at him. After all the excitement I died of a heart attack.”
That’s horrific said the gatekeeper, he asked the second man how he died and he said.
“Well, imagine this. I was riding one of those stationary bikes on the top of our apartment building but it went wrong I fell down and grabbed someone’s window sill. Then some idiot started bashing at my fingers then I fell, but God must have loved me because I lived. Then -SHANNOOOWWWW- a refrigerator plunged down at me”
That is too horrific.
He asked the third man how he died and he said.
“Well imagine that. I was naked in a refrigerator…”
An Irishman was in the ocean just off the shore getting attacked by a shark.
A boat full of Englishmen saw the Irishman getting attacked, so they immediately sailed over to him and lifted him onboard while the shark still had its teeth sunk into him. Then the Englishmen started punching, kicking, and stabbing the shark until it finally released its grip on the Irishman and lay motionless on the deck. The Englishmen then started looking at the Irishman’s wounds.
Meanwhile, a priest was standing nearby on a jetty and saw everything that happened. He said to the Englishmen, “Wow, I’m very impressed with what I just saw! You just rescued this Irishman from a shark! Even though you’re all Englishmen and this Irishman is your bitter enemy, you put aside that hostility to help your fellow man! God bless you!”
Then the priest walked away. One Englishman said the others, “What did he mean by that?”
Another Englishman said, “I have no idea. But that’s a nice big trophy shark we just reeled in. Our best catch of the day! Is the bait still good or do we need another one?”
May those who love us, love us
And for those that don’t love us
May God turn their hearts
And if He cannot turn their hearts,
May He turn their ankles
So we may know them by their limping
Nader says:
03/09/2023 at 12:28 pm
Aliens, my vision getting weaker, how can I improve it?
This question for the one who don’t eat humans 😬
L[4 says:
03/11/2023 at 10:05 pm
Depends on the reason your vision is getting weaker. If it is because of some physical error on your part, that has to be corrected, before assistance is given.
Nader says:
03/12/2023 at 2:32 pm
The only physical thing I can think of is watching videos on my tiny phone. I think it’s because of age.
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti