ok. sorry about that. are the dancing lepremachauns distracting? :)

here is a smarter st. patty's day related posting: go read the legend of oisin and st. patrick, it's pretty awesome. oisin married a girl who lived in one of those villages that apparently used to litter the irish landscape, you know the ones, where everyone's young and happy forever but the village only appears once every century or so. anyway, he'd been in this magical village for centuries, by normal-world standards, and one day he leaves, to find that ireland has completely changed, and been converted to christianity. eventually he runs into st. patrick himself, and they have a long conversation that does a nice job of embodying the conflict between irish paganism and christianity.

in the meantime, when was the last time you went and checked out shortpants? there'll be more gag panel challenges there by monday!