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Feed Your Rescued Guinea Pig Frozen Broccoli but not Coffee

March 3, 2014 Comments Off on Feed Your Rescued Guinea Pig Frozen Broccoli but not Coffee

There’s a month for almost everything.  To prove it, I looked around and found the following intriguing March celebrations.  I’ve given you links to find out more about many of them.

Adopt a Recued Guinea Pig Month (http://www.examiner.com/article/adopt-a-rescued-guinea-pig-month)

Bell Peppers and Broccoli Month (http://www.examiner.com/article/did-you-know-it-s-broccoli-and-bell-pepper-month)

National Caffeine Awareness Month http://mcg.metrocreativeconnection.com/publish/sections/calendar-details.php?National-Caffeine-Awareness-Month-110)

National Craft Month (http://tiffanylanehandmade.wordpress.com/2014/02/25/march-national-craft-month-2014)

National Frozen Food Month (http://www.nfraweb.org/promotions/promotion.aspx?PromotionId=58)

National Week of The Ocean Festival Sea-son (http://www.national-week-of-the-ocean.org)

March is also Humorists Are Artists Month, International Expect Success Month, International Ideas Month, International Listening Awareness Month, International Mirth Month, National Cheerleading Safety Month, National Clean Up Your IRS Act Month, National On-Hold Month, National Peanut Month, Optimism Month, Play The Recorder Month, Sing With Your Child Month,  and—of course!– Irish-American Heritage Month.

Now, don’t try to tell me that you’re bored because there’s nothing to do this month!

 

 

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Remember for next St. Patrick’s Day

March 18, 2013 Comments Off on Remember for next St. Patrick’s Day

People are careful not to use the “N” word for African Americans or the “W” word for Italians or the “S” word for people of Hispanic and Italian backgrounds or the “W-back” term for people of Mexican heritage.  So why do they feel it’s natural and funny to refer to an Irish person with the “P” word?  “Paddy” (also “Patty”) is just as much a racial slur.  It’s a British term used historically to put the Irish in their place.  Thus the “Paddy Wagon,” as though most criminals the British police picked up were Irish.  The word comes from “St. Patrick” or the common Irish name “Padraig” (also spelled “Patty”) but is far more than a simple name on the tongues of a prejudiced person.

The term is often used in fun or as a term of endearment.  And the Irish will often call each other that–just like Blacks call each other “N” among themselves.  But to use it indiscriminately, especially among people you don’t know, is insensitive at best and, at worst, inflammatory.

Next year, remember to wish everyone a Happy ST. PATRICK’SD Day.

 

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