My sister Mimo sent a message on Skype today. A while back I emailed Mimo asking if I could blog about her engagement to Seamus (See: Who Needs Marriage? Posted February 12, 2010). I told her I was dying to tell her engagement story, but that I wouldn’t do it without her go ahead.

“Of course you have the go ahead. I am beyond caring what people think,” she wrote. “As Podge and Rodge say, ‘If I could care less, I would.'”

“Great!” I responded, “But who are Podge and Rodge?”

Apparently Mimo and Seamus cannot get on the internet that easily from Ireland, where they live, and it took her a while to get back to me. “We still do not have internet and I have to use a dongle to get connected.” I don’t know what a dongle is, but it sounds slightly obscene. She finally got back to me today about Podge and Rodge.

“Podge and Rodge are two v. v. (read: very very)  famous Irish puppets,” wrote Mimo. “They have their own T.V. show and everything. Seamus lives by their philosophy.” Mimo said she and Seamus have books by them as well as coffee mugs and bottle openers. ” Google them and maybe you will convert also. Happy St. Pattys. They are twin brothers.”

So I googled them, and they do in fact have their own television show, The Podge and Rodge Show.

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I can’t really say that I understand their “philosophy” yet, but Podge and Rodge have been good for my relationship with my sisters with their “If I could care less, I would,” approach. Whenever Puchi or Mimo start acting testy, I say, “Remember Podge and Rodge,” and it works wonders. Happy St. Patrick’s Day.