Mar 17 2022 - Irish Green

 

What colour is Irish green?  It is also called Irish flag green, and shamrock green.  I went hunting for the colour codes and find the hex colour codes for Irish Green just like science magic. Web colours came along with colour displays. Wikipedia says that in the mid-1990s displays were capable of 256 colours and that's when web-safe colours were determined and a standard was created.  Since then the standard has moved to 24-bit TrueColor - it  uses 8 bits each of Red, Green and Blue.  How many colour variations are there?  16,777,216 compared to ten million colours that the human eye can discriminate.   I remember the green cathode-ray tube (CRT) displays in the 1970s and when we got colour screens it was like a miracle.  Wouldn't it be amazing to put a current day screen side-by-side with one of the old ones and see the differences? I expect there will be many happy people everywhere celebrating St. Patrick's Day.  My thinking is that it will become known as the 'coming-out' of the Pandemic milestone.  Perhaps a rainbow and pot of gold is needed to make the coming-out permanent.

What kind of bow can’t be tied? A rainbow. Where can you always find gold? In the dictionary. What do you call a fake Irish stone? A sham-rock! Why are leprechauns so good at gardening? They have green thumbs! Here are our pictures today - look at the Irish Green shades above.  It seems there's not that much Irish going in in these images. Read more daily posts here: marilyncornwellblog.com Purchase works here: Fine Art America- marilyncornwellart.com Redbubble - marilyncornwellart.ca

Top o' the Morning

"Top o' the Morning" is considered Irish in origin but is not an expression used there.  It turns out that it is shunned by the Irish.  It is considered a stereotyping phrase  - known as Irishism.  While it occurred in literature in the late 1800's, it was already considered an affection by then.  The expression receded from Irish English and entered the American consciousness.  It is popularly used in the U.S. when imitating Irish people.  Wikipedia has an entry for Hollywood Irish - Irish people and culture as stereotypically portrayed by the movie industry, particularly from the USA. Many people can remember the Lucky Charms ads - full of Irishisms.  The expression's intent is to wish the best part of the morning to the person being greeted.  The traditional response is "And the rest of the day to you". Another idea put forth in forums is that it is a symbolic offering of morning cream that has risen to the top of the milk jug.  Both such quaint ideas and reminding us of simple times. This picture of the Minneapolis Arboretum's Herb Garden was taken from a viewing platform - makes me think of what it would be like to be Gulliver.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Does the Dollar Store still has green things for St. Patrick's Day?  I noticed last year and this year there is a lot of hats and head bands that bring out the silliness of celebrating green.   The  shade of green that represents St. Patrick's Day is 'spring green'.  The actual saint, St. Patrick, was represented by the colour blue.  Green became the official colour of Ireland, so St. Patrick's Day followed.  The official colour is Pantone's green PMS 347.  Green is the largest of the colour families and has the most varieties that are discernible to the human eye. Here are some of St. Patrick's Day jokes: What do you get when you cross poison ivy with a four-leaf clover? A rash of good luck What do you get when you do the Irish jig at McDonalds? A Shamrock Shake Why can't you borrow money from a leprechaun? Because they're always a little short Why don't you iron 4-Leaf clovers? Because you don't want to press your luck I went out drinking on St Patricks Day, so I took a bus home... That may not be a big deal to you, but I've never driven a bus before source: Jokes4us.com