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What is St. Patrick’s Day without some green, whether it is in your skillet (lovely wrinkled cabbage!) or your river (Chicago River, being dyed neon green on Saturday, March 12)!
It’s technically not MY river, since I don’t live there, but I got to watch last weekend, and found it an oddly charming ritual.
Wonder what the fish think!
Boats pour orange and brown dye into the Chicago River, while doing donuts to swirl it around.
Yes, it gets really, really, REALLY green! Kind of a green not found in nature.
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you pee somewhere.. there will be fish next day 🙂 how could it be possible that there are no fish or other living creatures in that river and you are coloring the air they breathe
Such a waste of money. Plus can’t be good for the environment.
Yes, well…I guess many things we collectively do could be considered a waste of money! You might be heartened to know that 2 families privately fund this river-coloring each year, and it is not a government expense. I can’t speak to the environmental issues, though. All of us from California were wondering about that.
I loved this line in the Harrison Ford movie ‘The Fugitive.’ “If they can dye the river green on St. Patrick’s Day, why can’t they dye it blue the rest of the year?”
(An Ex- Chicagoan)
Lorranine,
I love that! I can never recall exact lines from movies. I envy you that skill!
I cannot believe that river of green !! Is there not an outrage about polluting it in this manner – the poor fishies in this pea green soup !
Kate,
It was interesting…all of us many thousands of people from other parts of the country all had the same question — “doesn’t it kill the fish?” And all the Chicagoites had the same answer — “There are no fish in that river!” I dunno. Seems kooky to me, but it sure was a spectacle.