Saturday 9: Charlie Mops

 Saturday 9: Charlie Mops (2007)

On Saturdays I take a break from the heavy stuff and have some fun…

Not familiar with this week's song? Hear it here.

 

1. This week's song is about a legend, Charlie Mops, the man who invented beer. Tell us about something you enjoy so much you could sing about it with the same enthusiasm the Salt Sea Pirates sing of beer.

Oh, oh, you don’t want me to sing. I am tone deaf!

I made my own cassettes and unbeknownst to me it was slow. Well when my niece and nephews heard the tape, they noticed it off key but not me.

2.  The lyrics tell us beer goes well with breakfast, dinner and snacks. Think about what you dined on yesterday. What beverages did you have with your breakfast, your dinner, and your between-meal snack?

I had a beer for lunch.

Four of us seniors when out to lunch at the Westbrook Lobster in Wallinford and I had beer to go with the Tuscan Seafood.

3. "Charlie Mops" was chosen because it's an Irish drinking song and Sunday is St. Patrick's Day. Do you expect to raise a glass in honor of the day?

Nope. But my cousins will, one is even in an Irish band.

4. Beer is not the only beverage often dyed green for St. Patrick's Day. In 1970, McDonald's introduced the Shamrock Shake, a milkshake made with a minty green syrup. If we were to go out for shakes right now, what flavor would you order?

Well there is only one flavor to get and that is Chocolate!

5. Legend has it that wearing green makes you invisible to leprechauns, who can be mischievous pranksters. Is there anyone you would like to avoid today?

Nope.

6. For all our talk of green, it was not the original color of St. Patrick's Day. Through most of the 18th century, blue was worn across England and Ireland to honor St. Patrick. The Irish switched to green to express their independence from the English. Which color do wear more often: blue or green?

Blue, as in blue jeans.

7. Today St. Patrick's Day is observed all over the world. In Tokyo, it's not a single day but a weekend celebration. When you think of Japan, what's the first thing that comes to mind?

Cars.

8. One of the biggest parades each year in Buenos Airies is for St. Patrick's Day. Have you ever participated in a parade?

Yes, when I was a scout, we pretended to be camping on the back of a trailer used to carry bulldozers. We had a tent, logs to sit around a make believe fire, and some potted shrubs.

9. Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, GA, crowns a Miss St. Patrick's Day. Tell us about an event you recall from your college days.

A bunch of us from the dorm went up to Letchworth State Park for a weekend, we rented a cabin in the park. They were all liberal arts major who didn't have a problem missing a class, a friend and me were engineering majors who couldn’t get out of class on Fridays. My friend was a pilot and signed out the college’s student flying club plane.

Here we are trying to find a grass airstrip in the middle of hay country. Every fields was grass! We finally found it and landed safely.

Thanks so much for joining us again at Saturday: 9. As always, feel free to come back, see who has participated and comment on their posts. In fact sometimes, if you want to read & comment on everyone's responses, you might want to check back again tomorrow. But it is not a rule. We haven’t any rules here. Join us on next Saturday for another version of Saturday: 9, "Just A Silly Meme on a Saturday!" Enjoy your weekend!