# Green is not for St. Patrick
**URL:** https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/green-is-not-for-st-patrick/35913
**Category:** Unrelated Discussion
**Created:** [March 17, 2012, 3:39pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/green-is-not-for-st-patrick/35913 "2012-03-17T15:39:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@LongShot](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/LongShot)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2012, 3:39pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/green-is-not-for-st-patrick/35913/1 "2012-03-17T15:39:54Z")
Blue is the original color. St. Patty when he returned to Ireland after accepting his priesthood, wore blue garments.
Also, St. Patty was not Irish. He was born British but as a young lad, he was kidnapped into slavery to work in Ireland.
Just thought I would share.
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### Author:  [@dcs937](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/dcs937)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2012, 5:47pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/green-is-not-for-st-patrick/35913/2 "2012-03-17T17:47:17Z")
Green represents the Catholics of Ireland. The ones that celebrate Saints…and they probably aren’t prejudice that he’s British. He did banish the snakes from Ireland :-\ Just sayin.
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### Author:  [@LongShot](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/LongShot)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2012, 8:37pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/green-is-not-for-st-patrick/35913/3 "2012-03-17T20:37:05Z")
I thought Green represented the Emerald Isle as Ireland is named?
St. Patty never banished any snakes there. Plain old legend.
St. Pat Morita banished them. Banish all Cobra Kai.
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### Author:  [@jhb8426](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/jhb8426)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2012, 1:00am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/green-is-not-for-st-patrick/35913/4 "2012-03-18T01:00:49Z")
Here ya go. The great wiki speaks.
And BLUE it was. :wink:
> **[Saint Patrick's Day](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Patrick%27s_Day)**
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> This is an accepted version of this page
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> Saint Patrick's Day, or the Feast of Saint Patrick (Irish: Lá Fhéile Pádraig, lit. 'the Day of the Festival of Patrick'), is a religious and cultural holiday held on 17 March, the traditional death date of Saint Patrick (c. 385 – c. 461), the foremost patron saint of Ireland.
> Saint Patrick's Day was made an official Christian feast day in the early 17th century and is observed by the Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion (especially the Church of Ire...
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### Author:  [@skitrz](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/skitrz)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2012, 1:29am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/green-is-not-for-st-patrick/35913/5 "2012-03-18T01:29:48Z")
It’s kind of odd that in America we celebrate St. Patricks day instead of Evacuation Day on March 17.
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### Author:  [@YoYoFactoryFreak](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/YoYoFactoryFreak)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2012, 1:56am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/green-is-not-for-st-patrick/35913/6 "2012-03-18T01:56:38Z")
_Gasp!_
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### Author:  [@anonyo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/anonyo)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2012, 2:23am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/green-is-not-for-st-patrick/35913/7 "2012-03-18T02:23:00Z")
> [@LongShot](#):
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> Blue is the original color. St. Patty when he returned to Ireland after accepting his priesthood, wore blue garments.
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> Also, St. Patty was not Irish. He was born British but as a young lad, he was kidnapped into slavery to work in Ireland.
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> Just thought I would share.
I’m just throwing this in there, but, to use the name St. Patty, you are actually referring to the feminine, Patricia. The “proper” spelling is St. Paddy which is short for Padraig (or Padraic), the Irish version of the masculine, Patrick. I mean, as long as we’re pointing out stuff. :wink:
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### Author:  [@popdada](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/popdada)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2012, 2:29am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/green-is-not-for-st-patrick/35913/8 "2012-03-18T02:29:38Z")
Potato Famine…
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### Author:  [@mls5stokes](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/mls5stokes)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2012, 3:55pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/green-is-not-for-st-patrick/35913/9 "2012-03-20T15:55:05Z")
It doesn’t matter that it was blue. We’ve Americanized it. That along with all the other “cultural” holidays we celebrate.
American Pizza/Chinese food FTW
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### Author:  [@xpathofpurityx](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/xpathofpurityx)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2012, 7:08am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/green-is-not-for-st-patrick/35913/10 "2012-03-21T07:08:27Z")
I’m one of the few people who don’t celebrate this holiday. I refuse to honor a man who was partly responsible for destroying a large portion of celtic culture and tradition. When people talk about “chasing the snakes out of ireland” it refers to the fact that he, along with british soldiers, exiled or killed celtic pagan druids, and basically outlawed druidism and the use of gaelic language.