Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson for March 14, 2021

As a ball python owner, I approve of Cloverface.

Saint Patrick’s Day, or the Feast of Saint Patrick (Irish: Lá Fhéile Pádraig, lit. ‘the Day of the Festival of Patrick’), is a cultural and religious celebration held on 17 March, the traditional death date of Saint Patrick (c. 385 – c. 461), the foremost patron saint of Ireland.

Green is also the color of money. THAT’S why!

I can get behind this. Much better than celebrating some jerk picking on snakes that were probably never even in Ireland in the first place!

Patrick actually brought Christianity to Ireland.

So he was the civilized green being before Professor Hulk made it mainstream:-D.

Translation Snakes = Pagans

If you’ve ever seen a snake drink water, you’ll know why we should be nice to them.

Better him than george… but didn’t Saint Patrick fought against slavery in Ireland?

It was mutually beneficial to both the snakes and the Irish.

“All snakes who wish to remain in Ireland, please raise your right hands.”

It is not st Patrick’s day yet, but it is pi day

St. Patrick’s day is the 17th, not the 14th.

3-14 is, however, Pi Day.

Now Phoebe has to explain Catholicism and feast days to her. And Ireland.

I remember a radio station advertising a St. Patrick’s Day snake race, because Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland. The add involved Patrick giving the snakes a ride in his car.

Be kind to your long scaly friends

Cause a snake may be somebody’s mother…

St. Patrick did not rid the Irish of serpents,

According to all of my sources.

They were noted as absent before he was born,

On account of environment forces.

It’s unlikely they ever existed on Erin,

Which used to be fully submerged.

It appears that the legend has snakes stand for druids,

Whom Patrick had thoroughly scourged.

St. Patrick may not have driven the non-existent snakes from Ireland, but he did do a lot. I just read recently that it was his influence that kept western culture alive and thriving when the rest of Europe was buried in the dark ages. A lot of the music and literature that survives does so because the Irish kept them while European libraries were destroyed. There was a lot more detail in the article I read, but we can give Patrick credit for the fact that we still have a lot of culture and music that would have disappeared if not for him.

0/10 Not Irish enough

Wha- marigold is green. And I forgot today was st Patrick’s day

The trouble with St. Patrick is that he chased them all to Washington D.C….

How did Marigold become green, anyway?

Can’t believe almost nobody mentioned Pi Day.

https://www.gocomics.com/blog/3767/3-14159265359-comics-celebrating-national-pi-day

I’ve been eating hella clover flowers over the past spring. they are soooooo good. they taste like yuzu.

Why does nobody eat clover flowers? oh well, more for me.

I <3 snakes! My mom didnt let me get one

Phoebe…Marigold…you’ve got it all wrong. Observe:

https://youtu.be/THFEXIr2SSE