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It is St. Patrick's Day. He chased some snakes out of somewhere, or something.

Question of the Day: Are you wearing green today? Do you normally on St. Pat's?

I'm not wearing green yet BUT I will be. I always do because my wife is part Irish.

Speaking of my wife, it's our 10th wedding anniversary today.

Congratulations Niv! Our 10th wedding anniversary is coming up in a few weeks too!

Yes, I'm wearing green today and I have since I was a kid.

I was in Brownies (Girl Scouts) when I was young, and part of the uniform is an ugly orange tie (or at least it was in the early 80's). I wore my uniform to school because our meeting happened to fall on St. Patrick's Day. My Irish grandma freaked out because I was wearing the lovely brown dress, the orange tie (because it was part of the uniform) and a green sweater (so I wouldn't get pinched). She did not like that I was wearing orange and green at the same time. She didn't like the orange because of the protestants I guess? Crazy! I'm so glad I never got sucked in to the Catholic church - or any church for that matter. Apologies in advance if my comment offends.

I don't wear green on St. Patrick's day because I'm a masochist and enjoy being pinched.
Take that, freak boy >> <<YES! Do it again!


Happy Anny, Niv.

QotD: No. Sometimes. (I might have today if I didn't wake up drunk... but forgot it was St. Patrick's Day... oops!)

QotD: no. We don't have St. Patrick's Day here.

Happy Anniversary Niv! My wife is part Irish also, so she says I'm honorary Irish. Married into it.
I am wearing this St. Patrick's Day t-shirt I bought in 2001 from a bar in Evanston IL. It is green.
-bill

Wearing green, can't wait for corned beef, cabbage and potatoes for dinner.

St. Patrick's day is my favorite food holiday of the year, by far. You can keep your Thanksgiving turkey, your Christmas roast beef, your Easter ham. Just let me have my corned beef and cabbage on St. Pat's day!

Heather. Redmon. wrote:She did not like that I was wearing orange and green at the same time. She didn't like the orange because of the protestants I guess? Crazy!

I was always reminded not to wear orange on St Pat's day. Which I generally ignored. IT'S A COLOR. But now my wife is becoming hip to the gang colors in her high school and it's real. So she's uncharactoristically dressed in lots of black until she decodes it all.

Here.

Yes, I am wearing green, which is easy because it is also school colors wear I work. My wife is also part Irish (Maiden name: Daugherty, Mom's Maiden name: Dooley) and today is her birthday!!! So green is always inperitive. So we'll be going to Benihana.

Ross wrote:Yes, I am wearing green, which is easy because it is also school colors wear I work.

The thing that makes this funny is that where you work is a school.

Happy St. Patrick's day, my friend.

irwin wrote:Wearing green, can't wait for corned beef, cabbage and potatoes for dinner.

St. Patrick's day is my favorite food holiday of the year, by far. You can keep your Thanksgiving turkey, your Christmas roast beef, your Easter ham. Just let me have my corned beef and cabbage on St. Pat's day!

Also, I have to say, hell yes. I'm looking forward to my corned beef and cabbage. I'll be making Colcannon and I made soda bread earlier today to go with it. My witch of a wife is Irish, so the fam will all be here for dinner in about an hour.

qotd: I meant to not wear green today but I forgot. Oops.

drc: Hey Caravan Ray, how much is CDBaby charging you for shipping all the way to NZ? I'm surprised you didn't just go for one of the digital options. Thanks, though! You are exceptionally awesome.

fluffy wrote: drc: Hey Caravan Ray, how much is CDBaby charging you for shipping all the way to NZ? I'm surprised you didn't just go for one of the digital options. Thanks, though! You are exceptionally awesome.

SHIPPING: $9.56 USD (that is about 27 trillion $NZD, or 2 sheep and a small pig.)

That is for 2, I ordered Elaine's too.

There was a cheaper option where you could just get the disc and inserts with no plastic - but I wanted the full sensual experience.

And I am in the process of sussing out packaging options for my own album and wanted to see what you and Elaine are dishing up, as well as seeing how CDBaby are at delivery down here - to see whether I just use them, or whether I need to find a Southern Hemisphere distributor.

I must say - I am very pleased with the nice little email they send out on confirmation. It is a nice touch:
Your CDs have been gently taken from our CD Baby shelves with sterilized contamination-free gloves and placed onto a satin pillow.

A team of 50 employees inspected your CDs and polished them to make sure they were in the best possible condition before mailing.

Our packing specialist from Japan lit a candle and a hush fell over the crowd as he put your CDs into the finest gold-lined box that money can buy.

We all had a wonderful celebration afterwards and the whole party marched down the street to the post office where the entire town of Portland waved "Bon Voyage!" to your package, on its way to you, in our private CD Baby jet on this day, Tuesday, March 17th.

I hope you had a wonderful time shopping at CD Baby. We sure did.
Your picture is on our wall as "Customer of the Year." We're all exhausted but can't wait for you to come back to CDBABY.COM!!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Sigh...

Yeah, they've had a number of funny blurbs over the years.

Unfortunately, I think you'll be pretty disappointed in the "sensual experience" of mine, as I went for the cheapest jewelcase option, with just a traycard, a 2-panel insert, and no shrinkwrap or whatever, and Discmakers' short-run jewelcases feel especially cheap and flimsy (and I'm also a little miffed that they didn't seem to use any sort of color profile on their printer, as the yellows have a slightly greenish cast to them). I could have just sent you PDFs of the insert material instead to be printed at your own leisure, although then you'd have missed out on the on-disc label I guess.

I'm a bit surprised at how international CDBaby's reach is. Apparently they get a lot of business from Japan, since a lot of Japanese distributors see CDBaby as where "the next big thing from America" will come from. It's because of all the Japanese business that they started to specify whether a CD was short-run or pressed, because in Japan there's this odd belief (due to rumors spread by the record labels) that CD-Rs will cause your CD player to somehow fail if you play too many of them (which I guess isn't quite as bizarre as the strange beliefs Koreans have about electric fans, but it's still bad for business in the indie music scene).

Thanks for all the anniversary wishes. The wife and I have had a pretty nice 10th.

I should buy a bunch of Song Fighter albums. I've been pretty remiss in my "member of the community" duties in that regard. I also need to buy another CD rack because all my CD racks are full. I have a hell of a lot of CDs.

So I think I will order a whole bunch tonight and then I will buy a new CD rack when they arrive. Maybe it can be a rack dedicated to Song Fight albums.

Hey, got some better answers for the QotD than I thought I would.

Great story, Heather.

As for me...

I was one of like four people on my team at work who wore green, including the woman who sits next to me who brought cookies only for those who wore green.

I ate too many cookies.

fluffy wrote:I should buy a bunch of Song Fighter albums. I've been pretty remiss in my "member of the community" duties in that regard. I also need to buy another CD rack because all my CD racks are full. I have a hell of a lot of CDs.

So I think I will order a whole bunch tonight and then I will buy a new CD rack when they arrive. Maybe it can be a rack dedicated to Song Fight albums.

To that end I just paid $122.47 to CDBaby, of which $7.95 goes to UPS, $9.59 goes to the government via sales tax, $44 stays with CDBaby, and the rest goes to the constituent artists.

i am definitely going to need a bigger rack

[insert BLT joke here]

No green for me today.

I also ordered both discs by Fluffy and Dimasi. Other recent SF! cds are the fantastic recent Stateshirt disc and Todd McHatton's pop gem. While going there, I also have a couple of 'Thorpes, Jim Tyrrell, Reist, and Rattpoizon. That's all I can recollect right now. I'm thinking about putting something together, but offering in trade for something. Like, send me a postcard from where you live, or a plastic army man or something, and I'll send you a cd with 'custom' art work on the cover. Anyway, great discs form the community.

qotd: no green.

I bought an iPod touch today though. It's awesome.

Heather. Redmon. wrote: I was in Brownies (Girl Scouts) when I was young, and part of the uniform is an ugly orange tie (or at least it was in the early 80's). I wore my uniform to school because our meeting happened to fall on St. Patrick's Day. My Irish grandma freaked out because I was wearing the lovely brown dress, the orange tie (because it was part of the uniform) and a green sweater (so I wouldn't get pinched). She did not like that I was wearing orange and green at the same time. She didn't like the orange because of the protestants I guess? Crazy! I'm so glad I never got sucked in to the Catholic church - or any church for that matter. Apologies in advance if my comment offends.

Reminds me of a story a mate once told me (one of my old school friends, Catholic school friends):

He was in Belfast on Orange Day or whatever it is they have - having a wonderful time at a pub partying on with the locals, pissed as a parrot. At some stage of the proceedings he felt the urge to jump on a table to do some fancy dancing, and drew a few gasps from onlookers when it was revealed he was wearing a pair of green football socks. Somebody pointed out the faux pas to him, to which he replied (or at least the beer in him replied) something witty along the lines of "Go get fucked...it's just a pair of bloody socks - and I am a Catholic after all....Ha ha ha....."

This was about 15 years ago - pre ceasefire days, and apparantly you could suddenly hear a pin drop. My mate - who is a very big unit, a 6 foot 5 rugby second-rower built like a brick shithouse - realised he had said something wrong, and had to quickly leg it out the door and off down the street ASAP to escape the clutches of some very cranky Orangemen who didn't share his sense of humour.

Ahhh gang colours! What fun!