After all this hoopla over St. Patrick's celebrations, the March 15th Chicago Tribune had a HISTORY LESSON by Mark Jacob on "The Color Green." These are always interesting and have to do with something current.
These days, you also hear a lot about folks doing the "green thing." Here are ten things you might not know about this color.
1. The GREEN CARD that you hear so much about in regards to immigration, hasn't been green for decades. It now is mostly white and looks like a drivers license.
2. Fenway Park's left field wall is known as the "Green Monster, but until 1947 , it wasn't green and was covered with advertisements. The Wrigley Field scoreboard, that green icon, was actually a reddish-brown until the mid-40s. Then, there's the green ivy along the outfield walls.
3. Dr. Seuss' "Green Eggs and Ham" was originally "Green Ham and Eggs." Said Sam-I-Am.
4. Military helicopter pilots wearing nigh-vision goggles, see a green world and sometimes refer to it as flying through green air.
5. On New Year's Day 1965, Soupy Sales had some extra time at the end of his children's show and asked the little guys to send those "little green pieces of paper" to him from their parents' wallets. The kids didn't have his address, but parents were mad and he got a suspension.
More Green Stuff and Ham to Come. --Da Coot
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