I have not a bit of Irish blood in me (unless you go back to the 7th century, when we may have picked up some imported Irish genes, explaining the tendency to reddish hair in my father’s line), but on the other hand a large number of my cousins are half-Irish and carry an Irish patronymic. Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
While coffee has traditionally been associated (rightly or wrongly) with sobering up someone who is, in Spicy’s term, plastered, the dunking of the drunk’s hands into a bucket of hot coffee is rather unorthodox. Indeed, I’ve never seen or heard of it before now.Today’s strip plays almost like a bit of comic relief, except that for Spicy and Specs the stakes are real and high.
I have not a bit of Irish blood in me (unless you go back to the 7th century, when we may have picked up some imported Irish genes, explaining the tendency to reddish hair in my father’s line), but on the other hand a large number of my cousins are half-Irish and carry an Irish patronymic. Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
While coffee has traditionally been associated (rightly or wrongly) with sobering up someone who is, in Spicy’s term, plastered, the dunking of the drunk’s hands into a bucket of hot coffee is rather unorthodox. Indeed, I’ve never seen or heard of it before now.Today’s strip plays almost like a bit of comic relief, except that for Spicy and Specs the stakes are real and high.