Happy St. Patrick's Day:

[The Straight Story]

[Scuba]

1. Have fun, stay safe. n/t

[ixion]

2. *cheers*

:toast:

[Skidmore]

3. Let's get it done with...our local news channel has done nothing

but talk about the weather for the Sapadapaso Parade for 2 weeks now. I was ready to be done with it last week.

[Greybnk48]

4. Happy Saint Pat's to you!

:toast:

[mmonk]

5. And to you.

[pampango]

6. Nice that being Irish is "cool" now. Wasn't always the case.

The cartoon mocks Irish poverty, caricatures irish people as ape like...........................In this next cartoon by Thomas Nast, Irish and African Americans don't look too much alike,
and primitive, and suggests they are little different from Africans,..............................but they are the same in terms of their threat to the nation. The caption reads "the ignorant vote."
who the cartoonists seems to see the same way. This cartoon
irishman has, again, the outhrust mouth, sloping forehead,
and flat wide nose of the standrd Irish caricature