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Re: The wearing of the green
« Reply #15 on: March 17, 2004, 01:15:11 AM »
Would we complain more or less if it were women who were proclaiming their plans to wear no pants tomorrow?
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Re: The wearing of the green
« Reply #16 on: March 17, 2004, 01:33:20 AM »
Nothing wrong with pantless women.


They can wear skirts.
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Re: The wearing of the green
« Reply #17 on: March 17, 2004, 01:44:24 AM »
Good point.  I have a green skirt.  Perhaps I should wear that and make a point of telling people I'm not wearing pants in celebration of St. Patrick's Day.
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Re: The wearing of the green
« Reply #18 on: March 17, 2004, 03:33:50 AM »
whoooo hooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Re: The wearing of the green
« Reply #19 on: March 17, 2004, 07:18:55 AM »
uhm... with the no pants, aren't you thinking of St. Panty's day? The obscure saint who drove the frat hating university administrators out of Ireland.

I'm just gonna wear my bath robe. No pants for me!
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Re: The wearing of the green
« Reply #20 on: March 17, 2004, 09:27:37 AM »
yayyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Re: The wearing of the green
« Reply #21 on: March 17, 2004, 09:31:01 AM »
Yay, its another day. Oh wait, there's a tad bit of snow on the ground still.
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Re: The wearing of the green
« Reply #22 on: March 17, 2004, 09:34:15 AM »
and green beeeeeeeeeeeeeer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Erm not that I drink that is.....
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Re: The wearing of the green
« Reply #23 on: March 17, 2004, 10:44:08 AM »
Never occurred to me before now, but my husband and I drink a lot of DnL, which is quite green.
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Re: The wearing of the green
« Reply #24 on: March 17, 2004, 03:09:13 PM »
From my local newspaper:

"Many people wear green on St. Patrick's Day, but according to Irish superstition, the color green was thought to bring bad luck because it was the favorite color of the fairy folk. . .
  The Good People were unpredictable, and were known to steal people away - especially children - who enticed fairy folk by wearing too much of their favorite color.  
  Better to wear blue, the original color assigned to St. Patricks.  St. Patrick's blue can be seen on ancient Irish flags and on the uniforms the Irish special forces wear to this day."

Oops.
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Re: The wearing of the green
« Reply #25 on: March 17, 2004, 03:25:08 PM »
Also usually ignored is that Green is for Catholics, while Protestants wear orange. (So what do Mormons wear?)
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Re: The wearing of the green
« Reply #26 on: March 17, 2004, 03:40:26 PM »
Men: White short-sleeved shirts that are slightly the wrong size.

Women: Floral print dresses that are about five years out of style.
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Re: The wearing of the green
« Reply #27 on: March 17, 2004, 03:40:57 PM »
Plain black dress and bonnets...no wait, that's Amish.
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Re: The wearing of the green
« Reply #28 on: March 17, 2004, 05:38:44 PM »
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From my local newspaper:

"Many people wear green on St. Patrick's Day, but according to Irish superstition, the color green was thought to bring bad luck because it was the favorite color of the fairy folk. . .
  The Good People were unpredictable, and were known to steal people away - especially children - who enticed fairy folk by wearing too much of their favorite color.  
  Better to wear blue, the original color assigned to St. Patricks.  St. Patrick's blue can be seen on ancient Irish flags and on the uniforms the Irish special forces wear to this day."

Oops.


Sounds like something American immigrants would start, moving to the New World and saying "Ha!  The fairy folk aint gonna steal our babbies here!  Let's wear lots of green!"

I always figured it was a connection to red hair, because redheads tend to look good in green.
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Re: The wearing of the green
« Reply #29 on: March 17, 2004, 06:36:29 PM »
maybe the red heads looking good in green is WHY it was bad luck.
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