Frazz by Jef Mallett for March 18, 2024

Why teal?

And yet, they are wearing magenta.

I once read that one shouldn’t wear orange on St. Patrick’s Day, it’s the Irish Protestant color.

No, you don’t get to look down on people for not wearing green – only stupid people do that. And we have yet another bad assumption by a kid in the first frame.

Just for fun, I was looking into the whole St. Patrick thing and why it evolved into what we have today. In Ireland, it is traditionally a day of prayer and wasn’t (before relativity recently) a day of parades. Also, the color of St. Patrick is traditionally blue. But on this continent, in the 18th century pre-revolution, Irish members of the British army marched to the church together for St. Patrick’s observations, and that grew into a thing that apparently got a little rowdy at times. As more Irish were forced here by British occupation and starvation practices, the Irish banded together to show their strength in numbers (self preservation in the mean streets), and in part to remember the country they were forced out of. The green was the color of protest against the Brits. May not have all the details exactly right, but that’s the gist.

Don’t let St Paddy’s hangover you like that!

If you want to have more fun wear Orange.

I may wear green to show a nod to a country I respect, have only good memories from visits, and am marveled by their corporate memory of the support from the US relating to their famine; but my underwear may reflect my Protestant background.

Some Native American Nations and Ireland have had a long-term mutual relationship. I encourage y’all to read the Wikipedia article “Native American and Irish interactions” and see the photo of the Kindred Spirits sculpture in Cork.

To make up for it, April Fool’s Day is on a Monday.

Everyone wants to celebrate and be like Irish St Patrick, Except for him not being Irish and being catholic.

March 19 is St. Joseph’s Day, wear your best red clothes.

Sparty On, Frazz!

At least the kid is grousing about something harmless. A rare moment in time

Wear not what not.

She could be more judgemental if she had been colored wearing teal.