# Ha, the fountains at the White House flowing green! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 17, 2009, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ha-the-fountains-at-the-white-house-flowing-green/489806 "2009-03-17T21:40:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ha-the-fountains-at-the-white-house-flowing-green/489806/21 "2009-03-18T10:23:39Z")
I had my O’Bama (it’s great to be Irish) Tshirt on yesterday as I celebrated the Feast day of St. Patrick by tucking into a feast of pints. To day I am promoting abstinence and remorse, and avowing never to sup the devil’s soup again. ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ha-the-fountains-at-the-white-house-flowing-green/489806/22 "2009-03-18T13:45:05Z")
Bleugh, I’m getting old. I now find St Patrick’s day to be as depressingly tacky as Christmas. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ha-the-fountains-at-the-white-house-flowing-green/489806/23 "2009-03-18T18:15:53Z")
Another sort of “fun” thing from the Obamas… [Barack’s March Madness bracket](http://www.whitehouse.gov/assets/images/brackets2009c.jpg), hosted on [whitehouse.gov](http://whitehouse.gov) noless! ---
**Author:** ![Maui\_Lion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ea666f/32.png) [@Maui\_Lion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maui_Lion)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ha-the-fountains-at-the-white-house-flowing-green/489806/24 "2009-03-18T18:35:24Z")
Hahaha, I love it! Now that’s fun and lighthearted, something the White House needs. Now I’m eager to see what else they do. Easter’s gonna be a blast there, I’m betting. ---
**Author:** ![Wednesday\_Evening](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b2d939/32.png) [@Wednesday\_Evening](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wednesday_Evening)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ha-the-fountains-at-the-white-house-flowing-green/489806/25 "2009-03-18T18:36:18Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > _laugh_ We’ve lived in Chicago for almost 20 years and have never been downtown to see the green river. It’s always perplexed me though because it looks green all the time anyway. I guess it’s a _lighter_ green on St. Paddy’s Day. I harbored a similar sentiment until seeing it in person. My reaction was: “Wow! Now **that’s** a green river!” It was very impressive. I usually describe it as “neon green”. ---
**Author:** ![ryobserver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b2d939/32.png) [@ryobserver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ryobserver)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ha-the-fountains-at-the-white-house-flowing-green/489806/26 "2009-03-18T23:02:00Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > You might be similarly disappointed if you ever see the Danube. My mother was, when she toured Europe back in the fifties. “Brown! And it smelled awful!” Oh, and **Broomstick** , when I had to mix some microscopy stains many years ago I found that lots of the dyes were one color in powder form and quite another in solution. Methylene blue, if my memory serves, is a metallic green powder. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ha-the-fountains-at-the-white-house-flowing-green/489806/27 "2009-03-18T23:12:07Z")
I should go downtown to see the color one of these days. Too late this year. I hope they’ve cleaned up the Danube in recent years! Regarding color-changing things, that always amazed me when I took ceramics as part of art class in school. You’d put the piece in the kiln as one color, and it’d come out a completely different color. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ha-the-fountains-at-the-white-house-flowing-green/489806/28 "2009-03-18T23:56:34Z")
I remember one year I saw the boat dumping the dye into the river. That was cool to watch: the wake was a mix of bright green and mud brown. The boat went up and down the river, in front of the Wrigley building. It was a lot like adding melted chocolate to a white cake mix… I wonder how long the fountain will be green? ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ha-the-fountains-at-the-white-house-flowing-green/489806/29 "2009-03-19T12:03:08Z")
> [@Pushkin](#): > > Bleugh, I’m getting old. I now find St Patrick’s day to be as depressingly tacky as Christmas. Sacrilege! More of that talk and we’ll revoke your card Sonny Jim. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ha-the-fountains-at-the-white-house-flowing-green/489806/30 "2009-03-19T13:19:56Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > It’s good enough to have kayak rentals and such on the river. Unless Dave Matthews is in town, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ha-the-fountains-at-the-white-house-flowing-green/489806/31 "2009-03-19T13:53:02Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Unless Dave Matthews is in town, of course. True - I went on the architectural society’s boat tour and they cautioned against looking up when we went under bridges. 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ha-the-fountains-at-the-white-house-flowing-green/489806.md?page=1)