Frazz by Jef Mallett for March 17, 2022

The are confusing to the confusable. And kids are certainly confusable, since they’re trying to make sense of EVERYthing!

Not to take away from his accomplishments, but St Patrick isn’t even a Saint.

just asking, but would non-Jews think what Judah Maccabee was when Chanukah was first introduced?

And Jesus was a bunny rabbit?

There weren’t any federal fireworks laws until 1966. Before that, full-power M-80s and cherry bombs were perfectly legal, depending on which state you were in. PA outlawed most fireworks long before that, but recently legalized all federally legal fireworks.

Why did she bring up fireworks? Is there a connection?

More importantly Happy St. Gertrude of Nivelles Day! Patron Saint of cats and travelers.

“The Night Before Christmas” calls him a “jolly old elf.” One source probably isn’t enough for established fact, though…

The Founding Fathers may not have blown off their fingers, but they did speculate that Independence Day would be celebrated with fireworks.

In July of 1866, the entire city of Portland, Maine, burned down due to poor judgement with private fireworks. A lot of the old buildings on the Portland Peninsula have 2 dates carved over the main entrance or on the cornerstone: the date of the original construction (typically after the first great fire, when the British burned everything down in the War of 1812) and the date of the rebuild in the late 1860s-1880s.

St. Patrick and Santa Claus were both bishops.

Patrick was a Christian Evangelist, which probably makes him a saint, according to the New Testament “BIBLE”

On another tack that doesn’t include inapplicable data, I guess the point is that one of the kid’s relatives now has fewer fingerprints than he/she was born with. Happens certain times of the year.

According to the Christmas classic “Santa Claus is Coming to Town”, Kris Kringle was adopted by elves, and was probably Glen Campbell.

In 1776, the festive fireworks were locally made. Of course, the British and American forces were busy lobbing lethal bombs at each other most of the time that year.

I think the Founding Fathers were too busy keeping ahead of the British troops who wanted to hang them all

If you go by the Bible (which the Catholics don’t, apparently), ALL Christians are “saints,” since it simply means “set apart” (as God’s own people). There is no such thing as canonization.