# Are you wearing green today? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 17, 2000, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-wearing-green-today/14942 "2000-03-17T20:02:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pluto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f08c70/32.png) [@pluto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pluto)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-wearing-green-today/14942/1 "2000-03-17T20:02:00Z")
I have a deep green dress shirt that I can really only wear one day of the year. I forgot to wear it today. I’m wearing a Gap T-shirt with some green in the design so I’m safe from getting pinched. (Not that a whole lot of that goes on around here. The engineers just aren’t that attractive!) How are you dressed to celebrate today? Bonus Mundanity: I received notice today of a financial windfall. I’m gonna buy myself that 12-string guitar I’ve been wanting for a loooong time. Before Mrs. Pluto and the Plutinos can squander the cash on nonessentials like food and clothing. * * * “You have no choice but to be impressed.” Tony Rothman and George Sudarshan _Doubt and Certainty_ ---
**Author:** ![Spliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@Spliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spliffy)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-wearing-green-today/14942/2 "2000-03-17T20:06:00Z")
I have some very green weed and I think I know where I put my green food colouring for my beer,and NO I won’t share my stash with you teeming doper millions…get your own 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![psycat90](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@psycat90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psycat90)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-wearing-green-today/14942/3 "2000-03-17T20:12:00Z")
no. And that’s no way to make friends, Spliffy. I WOULD have shared these Peanut Butter Kandy Kakes with you, but now you can just ferget it. 😛 * * * I like it here-can I stay? And do you have a vacancy for a Back-scrubber? ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-wearing-green-today/14942/4 "2000-03-17T20:13:00Z")
I completely forgot to wear green today, but that’s OK. I drank some Guinness last night, and I plan to drink more this afternoon. Whoohooo! ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-wearing-green-today/14942/5 "2000-03-17T20:13:00Z")
Plutinos. I like. I figure that I’m Irish every day, so I am exempt from wearing green. As my mom is wont to say: You can’t be Irish without knowing the world will break your heart by the time your 30. How’s that for a pick-me-up? ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-wearing-green-today/14942/6 "2000-03-17T20:13:00Z")
I’m green every day. Goshdarnit! ---
**Author:** ![Globe-trotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cab0a1/32.png) [@Globe-trotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Globe-trotter)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-wearing-green-today/14942/7 "2000-03-17T20:17:00Z")
Yep, wearing green today. And I’ll kick anybody who puts dye in my beer. Slainte! * * * “I thought: opera, how hard can it be? Songs. Pretty girls dancing. Nice scenery. Lots of people handing over cash. Got to be better than the cut-throat world of yoghurt, I thought.” - Seldom Bucket ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-wearing-green-today/14942/8 "2000-03-17T20:18:00Z")
Nae, laddie, I’m not wearrrrrrrrrin’ grrrrrrreen today - I’m **Scottish**! I’d be wearrrrrrring orrrrrrrange, as is tha prrrrrrroperrrrrrrr colorrrrrrrrrr ferrrrrrrrr a trrrrrrrrrrue Scotsman ta wearrrrrrrrrrrrr, but I don’t own anything orrrrrrrrrrrange, so I’m a-wearrrrrrrrrrrin’ RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRED! (Sorry, I just wanted you to get the full effect.) Esprix * * * [Ask the Gay Guy!](http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum7/HTML/001376.html) ---
**Author:** ![Mojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Mojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mojo)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-wearing-green-today/14942/9 "2000-03-17T20:18:00Z")
I’m wearing my Green Lantern T-shirt. And eating Lucky Charms. With Guiness. ---
**Author:** ![Crystalguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dbc845/32.png) [@Crystalguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crystalguy)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-wearing-green-today/14942/10 "2000-03-17T20:19:00Z")
I am not wearing green. I am not going to wear green. And you can’t make me. ---
**Author:** ![Jeannie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@Jeannie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeannie)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-wearing-green-today/14942/11 "2000-03-17T20:20:00Z")
I felt like such crap this morning, I just threw on the most comfortable outfit. Like someone else said, I’m Irish every day. I don’t need to wear green today. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-wearing-green-today/14942/12 "2000-03-17T20:43:00Z")
I agree with the girls…Irish blood in the veins absolves you from the necessity of any spurious March 17 celebration. I did, however, read Yeats with my daughter on the way to her school this morning. _…Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice? That is Heaven’s part, our part To murmur name upon name, As a mother names her child When sleep at last has come On limbs that had run wild. What is it but nightfall? No, no, not night but death; Was it needless death after all? For England may keep faith For all that is done and said. We know their dream; enough To know they dreamed and are dead; And what if excess of love Bewildered them till they died? I write it out in a verse– MacDonagh and MacBride And Connolly and Pearse Now and in time to be, Wherever green is worn, Are changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born._ – “Easter 1916” * * * Uke ---
**Author:** ![Minxsmom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d07c76/32.png) [@Minxsmom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Minxsmom)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-wearing-green-today/14942/13 "2000-03-17T21:40:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Esprix: > \*\*Nae, laddie, I’m not wearrrrrrrrrin’ grrrrrrreen today - I’m **Scottish**! I’d be wearrrrrrring orrrrrrrange, as is tha prrrrrrroperrrrrrrr colorrrrrrrrrr ferrrrrrrrr a trrrrrrrrrrue Scotsman ta wearrrrrrrrrrrrr, but I don’t own anything orrrrrrrrrrrange, so I’m a-wearrrrrrrrrrrin’ RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRED! > > (Sorry, I just wanted you to get the full effect.) > > Esprix > \*\* Esprix, come a little closer so I can smack the s\*\*t outta you. 🙂 I am Irish every day, as well, but I always wear green on St. Patrick’s Day. In fact, I am wearing a green turtleneck, and a green headband with shamrocks on it, and a green jacket. You can put all the green dye you want in my beer. I drink Guinness, you’d never know the difference. But, please, keep the green bagels away from me. Nothing less appetizing in this world than green bread. * * * Princess of the Time and Space Continuum since 1969 (upgraded to Goddess 01/07/00) _Senior S.S.D.A., SDMB Self-Righteous Clique_ **=^…^=** ---
**Author:** ![neuro-trash\_grrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3ab097/32.png) [@neuro-trash\_grrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neuro-trash_grrrl)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-wearing-green-today/14942/14 "2000-03-17T21:43:00Z")
My green Irish eyes are quite enough for me. Besides, I think there is still a little green in my hair from the last time I dyed it. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-wearing-green-today/14942/15 "2000-03-17T21:47:00Z")
The Irish in me wants to, but the German in me won’t allow it. ---
**Author:** ![crackwise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/22d042/32.png) [@crackwise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crackwise)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-wearing-green-today/14942/16 "2000-03-17T22:56:00Z")
I’m not wearing any green. But I am dressed subtly Irish. Black t-shirt, tan pants. I’m a Black and Tan. * * * ~handcrafted signatures since 1975~ ---
**Author:** ![crackwise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/22d042/32.png) [@crackwise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crackwise)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2000, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-wearing-green-today/14942/17 "2000-03-17T22:57:00Z")
…plus the green eyes. I’m plenty more Irish than the rednecks getting drunk in Savannah drinking green Bud or Killian’s Irish Red. * * * ~handcrafted signatures since 1975~ ---
**Author:** ![PurpleCrackwhore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc348/32.png) [@PurpleCrackwhore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PurpleCrackwhore)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2000, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-wearing-green-today/14942/18 "2000-03-18T02:02:00Z")
Yeah, my fishnets stalkings are lime green and go very nicely with my purple spandex. * * * I really try to be good but it just isn’t in my nature! ---
**Author:** ![mega\_the\_roo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3da27b/32.png) [@mega\_the\_roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mega_the_roo)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2000, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-wearing-green-today/14942/19 "2000-03-18T02:07:00Z")
i wore white socks with little green clovers on them, yes, yes i did. * * * if wishes were fishes, we could walk on the ocean. ---
**Author:** ![Shadowfox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Shadowfox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shadowfox)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2000, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-wearing-green-today/14942/20 "2000-03-18T05:32:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by spooje: > \*\*The Irish in me wants to, but the German in me won’t allow it. \*\* Dammit! You stole my line! Actually, I am wearing green socks. * * * Shadowfox “The dead have risen, and they’re voting Republican!” - Bart Simpson [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-wearing-green-today/14942.md?page=2)