Loose Parts by Dave Blazek for March 17, 2023

Paddy O’Possum

Where’s the green beer ?

Usually he just says Pssum.

Every other day I play Possum. Today, I play O’Possum.

I remember my HS chem teacher, Mr Walsh, returning test papers on March 17. He graded them in green ink and put an O’ before everybody’s name.

What’s the name of the Irishman who stays out all night, every night? Paddy O’Furniture.

I have a lot more, but they’re either not nice or way too long.

Took me a while to recognize that it was an opossum ;)

How about O’Rangutan? Or O’Strich? Everyone’s Irish today!

so glad i read the comments- otherwise i was clueless

I once worked with a guy whose name – one day of the year – was O’Strowski.

One of my grad school profs (in the US) named James Reilly went to Ireland to find his roots. He came back with a new name, Seamus O’Reilly, AND an Irish brogue. While he was certainly affected, he was a good teacher.

No worries, fella, I won’t order the McPossum sandwich.

I have a last name I dare not try to make Irish thanks to a certain fast food chain.

While their names are similar and both are marsupials, possums and opossums are different creatures. Opossum typically refers to the Virginia opossum and its cousins in the genus Didelphis, all of which live in North and South America. While possums are a suborder of 70 tree-living marsupial species native to Australia and the Indonesian islands of New Guinea and Sulawesi.

And later he will play dead from drinking so much.

What about the o’ctopus?