Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

by Jimmy Johnson

When I was a young man and working for a newspaper in Jackson, Mississippi, my colleagues and I would go to a favorite watering hole on March 18, the day after St. Patrick’s Day. On the actual day of the fete, the house would serve draft beer tinted green, but on the following day the green beer went on clearance for a dime a glass. That’s about the only St. Patrick’s Day memory I have. I think I remember it.

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17 responses to “Happy St. Patrick’s Day!”

  1. Ghost Avatar
    Ghost

    Beer on clearance? Why, I never!

    My first thought is that there must not have been many Irish (actual or wannabes) in Jackson at the time; else there’d have been no green beer left to clear.

    Happy Saint Patrick’s Day to all, actual or wannabe!

  2. Rick in Shermantown, Ohio Avatar
    Rick in Shermantown, Ohio

    Arlo has the gift of glibness. Faith and begorrah, he must have kissed the Blarney Stone.

  3. Rick in Shermantown, Ohio Avatar
    Rick in Shermantown, Ohio

    By the way, Jimmy, I was taken aback by a purple Luddie earlier this morning. I thought he would be kelly green.

  4. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown

    Happy St. Patrick’s Day. Hope your weekend is going better than mine. Thanks for the new page today, Jimmy.

  5. emb Avatar
    emb

    Rick : Thanks for reminding me that I wanted to query JJ about that drawing. Looks like continuous lines of diminishing width were drawn, then cut through to produce hatching. JJ, did you draw Luddie on scratch board, use white-out on standard office board, or what? Betty Burkmeyer[sp?], RIP, ’40-’50s Cornell U. drawing teacher, would want me to ask. Peace,

    1. Rick in Shermantown, Ohio Avatar
      Rick in Shermantown, Ohio

      Glad to.

  6. curmudgeonly ex-professor Avatar
    curmudgeonly ex-professor

    Rick & eMb: Where is this Ludwig to which you referred? I don’t recall seeing him for more than a week.

    1. Rick in Shermantown, Ohio Avatar
      Rick in Shermantown, Ohio

      Sunday morning, Jimmy posted an announcement that the site was temporarily down while he worked on it behind the scenes. The announcement was accompanied by a purple Luddie.

  7. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown

    I think that’s the same Luddie who appeared on Jimmy’s t-shirts.

    1. Rick in Shermantown, Ohio Avatar
      Rick in Shermantown, Ohio

      Indeed it is. I have one of the shirts.

  8. Steve From Royal Oak, MI Avatar

    Auburn’s basketball team won the SEC tournament, automatically putting them in the National Tournament. They also lead the Nation in Assistant Coaches suspended, but LSU has their Head Coach suspended, not to be outdone.

  9. emb Avatar
    emb

    Impala, S Africa. Explore has added SA sites.
    https://explore.org/livecams/african-wildlife/rosies-pan
    Peace,

  10. TruckerRon Avatar

    My back deck isn’t the best place for viewing, but it’s convenient, and I can drag family members out to see what I’ve found. Saturday night I got to lock my NexStar 102SLT (4 inch refractor with goto controls and tracking) onto several things and try out different lenses and filters on them, including the Pleiades, the Orion nebula, and the moon. I’ve no idea which crater was on the edge of the sunlight, but it was amazing to see a central peak poking up out of the crater’s shadow.

    I’d have been out there a third hour, but someone ran over a skunk nearby and my eyes were watering.

  11. emb Avatar
    emb

    Faint skunk odor at a distance is actually pleasant, but only then. Have likely mentioned before that another musky odor, that of Blarina brevicauda [short-tailed shrew], is also pleasant, and rarely overwhelming. It, and two other spp. of Blarina, farther S, are only about the size of your thumb. Blarina sp. are the largest of our shrews. Other genera also taste bad; I’ve followed fox trails in winter on U MI’s E.S.G. Reserve nr Pinckney, MI, and seen where a red fox has heard a shrew under the snow, pounced, and spat it out.

    Bemidji boasts a new fast food place, inside Paul Bunyan Mall, by the entrance to J.C. Penney’s: Mediterranean Gyros and Hummus. Not bad.

    Peace,

  12. curmudgeonly ex-professor Avatar
    curmudgeonly ex-professor

    Skunk odor, traditionally, is said to be n-butyl mercaptan aka butan-1-thiol. C – C – C – C – S – H , omitting the non-important H atoms on the C atoms. I would not be surprised to find a few other sulfur-containing compounds are also involved.

  13. Mark in TTown Avatar
    Mark in TTown

    Spring must be near, the Bradford pear trees are beginning to bloom.

    Skunk is one of those odors that, once smelled, can’t be forgotten. I hope never to make a personal acquaintance with it.