iMommies St. Patrick’s Day Contest
To celebrate St. Patrick’s Day on March 17th,
iMommies is giving away two green 1GB iPod Shuffles!
Entries will be reviewed in two categories, and one winner selected from each. You may enter one, or both, of the categories below.
Category 1 (Website/Blog Post)
To enter the Category 1 giveaway, write a post about the iMommies St. iPodtrick’s Day giveaway and link back to this post. The article should include an Irish fact from history, Irish tradition, Irish limerick, or anything else related to St. Patrick’s Day!
Category 2 (iMommies Comment)
To enter the Category 2 giveaway, leave a comment to this post. The comment should again include an Irish fact from history, Irish tradition, Irish limerick, or anything else related to St. Patrick’s Day!
To help out with this St. Patrick’s Day giveaway, I’ve sought the guidance of St. Rebecca, my very best friend from Seattle. Rebecca is fabulously witty, candid, creative, unique, the best listener in the world…she’s fair, intelligent, honest, open-minded…AND…she’s Irish!
Rebecca will review all of the entries posted, and will select one winner from each category, based on creativity, originality, Irish authenticity, and overall appeal.
The final day to enter is March 14th, and winning entries will be announced on March 17th.
To get started, here’s my Irish limerick…
There once were two iPods o’green,
They sat lifeless, still, and serene.
In not too many moons
They’ll find their iTunes,
But we must wait ‘til March 17
Best o’ the Irish luck to ye all!
You’ve been blogged - http://threedifferentdirections.blogspot.com/
Thanks for the chance –
It is a biological fact that there are no snakes in Ireland, not even the tiniest grass snake. <____ I just may have to move there!
St. Patrick, who was born in Scottland, was not even named Patrick. His name before he became a saint was Maewyn Succat, but he called himself Patricius, meaning “well-born”.
Ireland enjoys a mild atmosphere due to the Northern Atlantic current. Therefore, Ireland doesn’t have either very hot summers of very cold winters. The temperature during summer rises generally till thirty degrees celcius, while freezes occur only very rarely during winter. Boy, I wish it didn’t having the freezing cold here in Upper Michigan!!
http://www.imommies.com/imommies-promos/imommies-st-patricks-day-contest.htm#more-1562
St. Patrick’s Day has become so popular over the past few years. It takes place just a few days before the first day of spring. One might say it has become the first green of spring. :O)
I went to Ireland for my honeymoon almost 10 years ago. I quickly found out that pudding there doesn’t mean the same as in the US. Theirs is served as a breakfast sausage/meat- not a milk product! I was pregnant for our third child and was not as adventurous as my husband. He tried it and didn’t like it.The country was absolutely beautiful.
My post for entry one is here: http://cpamomva.blogspot.com/2008/03/imommies-st-patricks-day-contest.html
My second entry is my comment here: I looked up the history of Limericks and discovered:
“The form of poetry referred to as Limerick poems have received incredibly bad press and dismissed as not having a rightful place amongst what is seen as ‘cultivated poetry’. The reason for this is three-fold: The content of many limericks is often of a bawdy and humorous nature, A Limerick as a poetry form is by nature simple and short - limericks only have five lines, And finally the somewhat dubious history of limericks have contributed to the critics attitudes.
The limerick form was popularized by Edward Lear in his first Book of Nonsense (1845) and a later work (1872) on the same theme. In all Lear wrote 212 limericks, mostly nonsense verse such as:
There was on Old Man of the Isles,
Whose face was pervaded with smiles;
He sung high dum diddle,
And played on the fiddle,
That amiable Man of the Isles.
Staying at a bed and breakfast in Ireland, there will always be delicious brown bread and/or soda bread. And sometimes the not so delicious blood pudding and baked beans.
I want one !!
Dance as if no one were watching,
Sing as if no one were listening,
and live each day as if
it were your last.
How do you save some great pay?
Thats what all imommies say
from soccer moms to working girls
we all have a road to pave
let’s start today with the iPod giveaway!
P.S. Happy St. iPodrick’s Day!!!
I hope I can be included in the first category. Please check out my blog post at
http://weblog.xanga.com/Hillsfam/646911236/the-imommies-st-ipodtricks-day-giveaway.html
I never did get my music to play on my blog, unfortunately, but hey, maybe if I win an iPod Shuffle, I can always have the music playing. And, if you scroll down a couple posts, you will see that I mentioned that we don’t have any iPods in my family yet, so be assured that this one will be much appreciated.
For my fun Irish fact here…the Celtic harp is the national symbol of Ireland. I had to mention that because one of my daughters would love to learn how to play the harp someday.
Thank you. Kathy
I’m Irish, and I’m very proud of it!
The Irish tricolor flag, created in 1848, was designed to reflect the country’s political realities. Orange stands for Irish Protestants, green for Irish Catholics and the white stripe for the hope that peace might eventually be reached between them. (While I wear both green and orange on St. Patrick’s Day, I should wear orange only as my heritage was Irish Protestant.)
Happy St. Patrick’s Day and THANKS for a great giveaway!
I linked your contest here: http://andallthejonesmen.blogspot.com/2008/03/cad-mle-filte-100-thousand-welcomes.html
The “Oscar” statuette handed out at the Academy Awards was designed by Cedric Gibbons, who was born in Dublin in 1823. Gibbons emigrated to the US, and was considered MGM’s top set designer from the twenties right on through the fifties, working on over 1,500 films. Besides designing the coveted prize, Mr. Gibbons managed to win a dozen of them himself.
One of the most popular radio shows in rural Ireland is still the weekly broadcast of local obituaries.
An old legend says that, while Christ will judge all nations on judgment day, St. Patrick will be the judge of the Irish.
I remember being in kindergarten for St. Patricks day and having green pancakes, and green milkshakes:) FUN!!
If you don’t wear green on St.Patty’s Day….. you’ll get pinched!!!!! So, wear that green for Good Luck!!!!
Love, Luck and God’s Blessings to one and all!
—klqtzzz
So, did I miss who won?
Blessings.
well……….I feel lucky coz I AM one quarter IRISH, as well as Apache, Cherokee, and Portugese…LOL. What a combination, huh??? I’m not sure if it’s the IRISH or all of the Indian in me that makes me love music but whatever it is….it works for me coz I LOVE MUSIC and would be thrilled to own an IPod. thanks for the chance!!!!!
My family is part Irish so we all inherited Irish names (mine being Jamie; my mother’s is Molly, and then there is my uncle Pat and my cousins Gavin and Connor, etc., etc!)
I recall my father many times commenting in jest, “She’s got Irish blood!”, or sometimes my mother would rhetorically come back with, “I’m Irish, what can I say?” as a convenient excuse for whatever behavior she fancied at the moment. So, with that, I shamelessly quote Sigmund Freud statement about the Irish: “This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.”
There once was a Mom from Washington DC
Whose carpool was a jammin’ jamboree,
She would drive her rowdy kids all ’round town,
While singing soooo loud and never gettin’ down
How she loved her iPod that she got for FREE!
Buy a box of instant pistachio pudding. Take it out of the box so it is in the plain white wrapper.
Tape the following poem to the front of the package of pudding:
Magic Leprechaun Powder filled with gold…
Add a little milk (4 cups) icy cold.
Give it a stir and watch the surprise …
Presto! It changes right before your eyes!
Contest ended March 17th, 2008.