MARY BRASWELL: Looking Back at the color green | QUIK QUIZ

Each week Albany Herald researcher Mary Braswell looks for interesting events, places and people from the past. You can contact her at (229) 888-9371 or [email protected].

St Patrick is one of Ireland’s patron saints and many Americans with Irish ancestry remember him on March 17. St. Patrick’s Day is fixed on March 17, but may occasionally be moved by Catholic Church authorities. This happened in 1940, so that the celebrations would not fall on Palm Sunday, and in 2008 to avoid Holy Monday, the last Monday before Easter Sunday. The most common St Patrick’s Day symbol is the shamrock, the leaf of the clover plant and a symbol of the Holy Trinity. Other symbols include,well, just about anything green.

In a word

— Without experience… Only someone as green as you would believe a story like that.

— About to be sick…She looks a little green around the gills.

— Permission to begin…The program will start as soon as the speaker is given the green light.

— Not ripe…Those bananas are a bit green yet.

— Jealousy or envy…Her husband was green with jealousy when his wife flirted with that man. The neighbor was green with envy when the fellow next door put in a pool.

— Money…The drug dealer’s pocket was packed with green.

— Easiest level…The hiking trail marked with the green circle will be the easiest to complete.

Green is …

—the color of growth, of renewal, of birth.

— the color of peace and harmony.

— an emotionally positive color, giving us the ability to love and nurture ourselves and others unconditionally.

— the color of prosperity and abundance which gives us a feeling of safety.

If green is your favorite color …

—you are a practical, down-to-earth person with a love of nature.

— you have high moral standards and doing the right thing is important to you.

— you have a great need to love and be loved, often wearing you heart on your sleeve.

— you are intelligent and quick to understand new concepts.

— your greatest needs are for balance, acceptance, love, and peace.

If you dislike green …

— you are not a social joiner nor a community volunteer.

— you do not like to do things the way the majority does.

— you prefer to keep to yourself rather than mixing with crowds.

— you are not a big fan of outdoor activity.

They said it …

— For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver. – Martin Luther

— Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.- Doug Larson

— When you’re green, your growing. When you’re ripe, you rot. – Ray Kroc

— Okra is the closest thing to nylon I’ve ever eaten. It’s like they bred cotton with a green bean. Okra, tastes like snot. The more you cook it, the more it turns into string. – Robin Williams

— Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it’s a green light. – Taylor Swift

— If your knees aren’t green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life. – Bill Watterson

— Green and black go well together, don’t they? – Tiger Woods

Why go green?

— Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run your television for three hours.

— A single quart of motor oil, if disposed of improperly, can contaminate up to two million gallons of fresh water.

— Every ton of paper that is recycled saves about 17 trees.

— In the U.S. alone, if one-fourth of the households replaced one incandescent bulb with a compact fluorescent light bulb, it would save as much carbon dioxide as planting more than 200, 000 acres of forest.

— Plastic bags and other plastic garbage thrown into the ocean kill as many as 1,000,000 sea creatures every year.

— Americans throw away 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour of every day and produce enough Styrofoam cups annually to circle the earth 436 times.

— Increasing steel recycling by 50 percent would save the energy equivalent to that produced by seven nuclear power plants.

‘Green Acres’ (1965-71)

— Oliver Wendell Douglas (Eddie Albert), a New York attorney, and his wife, Lisa (Eva Gabor), try to make it as genteel farmers in the community of Hooterville.

— This was the first TV sitcom in which the theme song was sung by the stars of the show. The Monkees were next in 1966.

— Initially CBS was not in favor of casting Gabor because of her accent and fear that viewers could not understand her. Her manner of speech, however, provided fodder for much laughter, the goal of a comedy series.

— The name of the state Hooterville was located in was never mentioned on the show. Oliver did mention once that the state capital (Springfield) was only a four-hour drive away.

— The Douglas family animals: Mignon (as in filet mignon) was a dog, Bertram was a rooster, Alice was a hen, Eleanor was a cow and Drobney was a duck.

— The name of Hootersville’s newspaper was the “World Guardian”.

— Oliver drove five gold convertibles during the series. The first three were Lincoln Continentals (1965-67). The last two were a 1969 and a 1970 Mercury Marquis. This switch was because Lincoln stopped making convertibles in 1968.

— Arnold the Pig was the only cast member to win an award for performance. He won the “Patsy” in 1967, given to the best performance by an animal.

— Pat Buttram based his portrayal of Mr. Haney on (Col.) Tom Parker, Elvis Presley’s manager. Buttram met him years earlier when Parker was a carnival barker.