Re: The wearing o' the orange

On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:38:05 -0700 (PDT), Harry Mary Andruschak
<adoptsoldcats@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>On Mar 17, 3:14?pm, Colette Reap <cole...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Harry Mary Andruschak <adoptsoldc...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>> >Every 17 March I make very very sure I am not wearing green anywhere,
>> >and that I am wearing my bright orange T-****rt.
>>
>> Orange? I thought you were Catholic.
>> --
>> Colette
>
>
>Well....as my brother Michel Andruschak will confirm, we were asked by
>our Mother and maternal Grandmother to wear orange on 17 March. The
>Catholic catechism makes a big deal of obediance to our parents. But
>nowhere, in the catechism or elsewhere, does it mention what color to
>wear or not wear on 17 March.
>
>In any case, the result of wearing Orange to work was nill. At the
>Post Office, minorities are in the majority, and most have only a
>vague idea about wearing green on 17 March, and have no idea
>whatsoever what the orange is about. Clueless. This includes Blacks,
>Hispanics, and Asians.
>
>As for the real minority, whites of European descent, they know
>something about wearing green on 17 March, but are also mostly
>ignorant of what wearing orange means.

That you are a graduate of Syracuse, presumably.

;-)
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