Berry Punch Celebrates St. Patrick's Day Blog +2 more · 12:39pm Mar 17th, 2015
This one's a threefer! One standalone, and two updates.
Berry Punch Celebrates St. Patrick's Day
Today's St. Patrick's Day, and over here in America, we honor him (and Ireland) by wearing green and drinking. I was planning to make some kind of special blog post about it, but why not go whole-hog and actually write a nice little SoL about a pony getting hammered in honor of the holiday?
Naturally, my first choice.
Oddly, I had some difficulty googling a specific Berry Punch/St. Patrick's Day image, and lack the creative skills to make my own. Just Berry Punch drinking was no problem, as you can imagine.
Praise be to my pre-readers, who I dumped this on less than a day before it was due. AShadowOfCygnus, metallusionismagic, and MSPiper went above and beyond (especially since they've all got two other active Biscuit stories on their plates at the moment).
Gerard Parks is the name of the actor who played Doc in Boondock Saints. As it happens, he really is Irish by birth, although that in no way influenced my choice.
While I don't know the exact dollar value of gold on a per-ounce basis, one ounce gold coins sell for about $1,200.
The best part about this coin is it’s legal tender in the US, although it’s only worth $50 if you spend it at the gas station.
A quarter weighs about .2 oz.
About a decade ago, I was supposed to meet my then-girlfriend for a vet school party at what she called "The Irish Pub." There was a bar called that in Lansing, so that's where I went. She meant Clannagh. That's not really related to the story, except for that's how I decided on the name of the bar.
The whole “dog years” thing isn’t actually true--while their first few years are equivalent to a lot of human years, it slows down as they age.
The same would be true of horses. The first year of a horse’s life is probably equal to a decade of a human life, the second maybe five years, and then it would slow down to eventually reach a 2:1 ratio after that.
Richard Petty is a retired NASCAR driver who raced the 43 car. Even if you’re not a fan of NASCAR, you may have seen him in Cars--he voiced the Plymouth Superbird.
Max Brand really did write Westerns. The beauty of the name is that I didn’t even have to ponify it.
One of the horses who will be eligible for the 2015 Kentucky Derby is called “Full Mast.” If he races, and if he wins, you owe me a cut. In the interest of full disclosure, I picked the name because it was funny. I don’t know anything about horse racing.
43: Love In All The Wrong Places
In big cities, I've heard that the locals are masters at not noticing anything which isn't affecting them directly. I don't know if that's true; I've never lived in a big city.
I do know that cities change over the years; even some of the small towns I've lived in have changed noticeably over the years. Roads get paved, old businesses close, new ones are built, and so on.
This story is semi-related to a changeling fic I’ve been thinking of writing since back in One-Shot-Ober.
Written as a response to this thread. I don't particularly like the genre, yet I'd never even considered writing a parody of it, and said so in my comment.
Then I thought, 'Well, why not? But let's make it a pony named Anon, instead of a human, and let's have it come to a bad end after it gives its name.'
Whinnyland is a ponified Disneyland, from the IDW comics.
In case you didn't guess, the 'monster' is a white-tailed deer, and the ivy is poison ivy. Yes, I know deer are canon. Our protagonist has never seen one.
Earlier that day, I'd mentioned at work how funny it would be if an alien assumed that a truck equipped with a pair of truck nutz was a male. This story was the perfect vehicle to use that joke.
I realized, after publishing, that the symbols on a USSR flag were a hammer and sickle, rather than a red star and sickle. I don't think the human would remember, either, especially since he'd been drinking.
Oh, and the title is a parallel to a similar fic in my comedy HiE collection.
Um, hey Admiral, I can't seem to find the Berry Punch story. Got a link?
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It hasn't passed moderation yet. That's always the downside to doing blog posts this way.
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Okay, it's up now!
Berry Punch Celebrates St. Patrick's Day
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Well that explains it. :)
And a good story too.
I like how the Love in all the Wrong Places link is just a link to that Berry Punch pic.
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Oops. The moral, I guess, is that I should test all my links before I publish the blog post. Well, it's fixed now.
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Pilsner Urquel is an excellent beer.
Hmm--I've never tried it.
Interestingly, I've only seen different rates of aging play a noteworthy role in a single story, at least as far as I remember. I'd like to see more people use it - it opens up a fair few interesting possibilities.
It's partly that, partly just not caring. Even in small cities/large towns, you see bizarre stuff often enough that you mostly stop paying attention to it. If you let yourself get distracted every time something strange happened, you'd never get anything done.
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There was one story that had ponies aging as fast as horses on Earth do. Or maybe even faster.
In story's description were (especially) mentioned seasons and that ponies counted them as we are counting years as using years didn't make sense with short lifespans.
I didn't read it then and I can't find it right now...
Does anyone know its title?
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I've got nothing. I searched using a couple of terms I thought might be in the description, but didn't find anything that sounds like what you were describing. Damn, now I'm intrigued.
We got us an Irish pub!
(Rumjacks - Irish Pub)
There's a county map to go on the wall
A hurling stick & a shinty ball
The bric, the brac, the craic & all
Lets call it an Irish pub!
Caffreys, Harp, Kilkenny on tap
The Guinness pie & that cabbage crap
The ideal wannabee Paddy trap
We'll call it an Irish pub!
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The Irish Pub in this story didn’t have a hurling stick, a shinty ball, or a craic. Also, sadly, it’s now out of business.