Off the Mark by Mark Parisi for March 16, 2021

What? Being drunk a day early?

Have we cancelled Saint Patrick yet?

Everdrunk.

The Deciduous Trees are expressing their Right to Bare Arms.

The Evergreen Tree has the Right to Bare Seeds.

Evergreens are “Gymnosperms” which means “Bare or Naked Seeds”

Deciduous Trees are “Angiosperms” which means “Covered Seeds”

Worse, he’s a Scotch pine, not even Irish.

Well, if he’d deciduous to stop drinking and spruce up a bit, he’d probably stop pining for his ex.

And you’re all green with envy.

“Evergreen” was also the title of a 1977 Barbra Striesand song.

Is St. Patrick’s Day discriminatory toward Deciduous Plants?

Green Lives Matter! Non-Green Lives Matter, too.

Ever green around the gills.

Believe it or not, Jason

He can’t help himself! He’s with the pine family!

THAT explains why my Christmas tree kept falling over!

Won’t want to do that In Belfast July 12th

St. Patrick’s Day. The day everyone’s Irish… except St. Patrick.

In Ireland the bars are closed and everyone is in church on 17/3. Elsewhere it’s a bit different.

St. Pat’s coming on the heels of Passover. Green matzo, anyone?

Today it’s Happy St. Urho’s Day!