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Philip Newton ([personal profile] pne) wrote2005-03-17 08:39 am
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St. Patrick's Day!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Also known as the day when a bunch of Americans with not a drop of Irish blood in them dress up in green and get drunk on Guinness... or something like that :)

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[identity profile] pne.livejournal.com 2005-03-17 10:12 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you (http://www.livejournal.com/community/google_art/17389.html)!

That logo doesn't appear when I go to google.com, so thanks even more for the poke, as I wouldn't have seen it even if I had gone to Google this morning.

[identity profile] jordik.livejournal.com 2005-03-17 10:23 am (UTC)(link)
It's on http://www.google.ie/ and http://www.google.co.uk/

[identity profile] jordik.livejournal.com 2005-03-17 10:25 am (UTC)(link)
Last year's one was better:

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[identity profile] robnorth.livejournal.com 2005-03-17 04:52 pm (UTC)(link)
google.ca, too.

I am but one of millions of Canajans with Irish ancestry. My grandfather's grandfather was orphaned in the potato famine and adopted out to Scotland.
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[identity profile] tungol.livejournal.com 2005-03-17 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
But only on google.ca in English, not in French.

[identity profile] webdiva.livejournal.com 2005-03-18 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
no problem :)

[identity profile] kamara.livejournal.com 2005-03-17 12:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Amen.
*puts the spiky barb wire bat away for the time being*

[identity profile] leora.livejournal.com 2005-03-17 01:04 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't. I think it's stupid for me to make a political and religious statement about a country I know almost nothing about and for a religion I don't believe in. I hate the tradition of stating it just as "dress in green" when there are different colors for the different religions.

[identity profile] entirelysonja.livejournal.com 2005-03-17 02:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Same here. Even in elementary school, I always carefully avoided green on St. Patrick's Day. I'm not Catholic, why would I celebrate St.Patrick's Day?

I did sometimes wear orange just to piss people off, even though I'm not Protestant either. I'm a little more mature now. :-)

[identity profile] robnorth.livejournal.com 2005-03-17 04:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Ever hear this song (I heard it mostly by the Irish Rovers, but I'm sure others sang it, too)?

If it ain't the biggest mixup, that you have ever seen,
Me father, he was Orange, and me mother, she was Green.

[identity profile] marikochan.livejournal.com 2005-03-17 09:02 pm (UTC)(link)
I have quite a few drops of Irish blood, and I don't get drunk... But I do wear green. In my family, not wearing green means you get pinched. =)
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