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Topic: Mardi Gras! (Read 3604 times)
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Samwise
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Anyone got any plans? I'm crafting jambalaya for dinner but that's about the extent of the festivities around here. * Samwise throws beads into the crowd. |
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Cheddar
I like pink
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Noob Sauce
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No Nerf, but I put a link to this very thread and I said that you all can guarantee for my purity. I even mentioned your case, and see if they can take a look at your lawn from a Michigan perspective.
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WayAbvPar
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Going to bed early so I can be at work early Wednesday so I can leave early so I can go to a season ticket's holder party for the incredibly shitty Seattle Supersonics.
And I think I am having Papa Murphy's for dinner- do they have a Jambalaya special?
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When speaking of the MMOG industry, the glass may be half full, but it's full of urine. HaemishM
Always wear clean underwear because you never know when a Tory Government is going to fuck you.- Ironwood
Libertarians make fun of everyone because they can't see beyond the event horizons of their own assholes Surlyboi
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Kenrick
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* Samwise throws beads into the crowd.  |
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Samwise
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Thank you, Kenrick. I was beginning to despair.
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Strazos
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Kenrick
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"Manboobs" and "moobs" are certainly terms I never want to do a google image search for again. Ever.
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HaemishM
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the Confederate flag underneath the stone in my class ring
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My mom had a king cake for the family last weekend. And I had a beer last night before passing out from exhaustion. Does that count?
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Signe
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He doesn't have any moobs or even nipples, by the look of it. I bet if he turned around, however, he would have that attractive plumbers crack. We girls, we just love that. Oh yes.
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SnakeCharmer
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Mardi Gras, unless celebrated in Mobile, Alabama or New Orleans, Louisiana, just doesn't count.
I always find it somewhat ironic when Mardi Gras parades are held above the Mason/Dixon line, much less anywhere else than Mobile/NOLA.
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HaemishM
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the Confederate flag underneath the stone in my class ring
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Mardi Gras, unless celebrated in Mobile, Alabama or New Orleans, Louisiana, just doesn't count.
I always find it somewhat ironic when Mardi Gras parades are held above the Mason/Dixon line, much less anywhere else than Mobile/NOLA.
Actually, the Mississippi Gulf Coast has had a pretty decent tradition of Mardi Gras parades for years now. Pretty much anywhere up I-10 from New Orleans to Mobile is a Mardi Gras party. |
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SnakeCharmer
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Mobile is where the traditional (parades, etc) Mardi Gras celebration started, just after the Civil War. Mobile was, at the time, occupied by Northern troops. A man by the name of Joe Cain and six of his friends got loaded up (litterally and figuratively) on a wagon, dressed in Indian costume (the name of the tribe they dressed up as escapes me - it was an Indian tribe that had never been defeated in battle...Chickasaw, I think?), and "paraded" down the streets of Mobile in an effort to lift the spirits of the people.
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WayAbvPar
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Mardi Gras, unless celebrated in Mobile, Alabama or New Orleans, Louisiana, just doesn't count.
I always find it somewhat ironic when Mardi Gras parades are held above the Mason/Dixon line, much less anywhere else than Mobile/NOLA.
We are usually just celebrating the fact that we aren't below the Mason/Dixon line. Mardi Gras is incidental. |
When speaking of the MMOG industry, the glass may be half full, but it's full of urine. HaemishM
Always wear clean underwear because you never know when a Tory Government is going to fuck you.- Ironwood
Libertarians make fun of everyone because they can't see beyond the event horizons of their own assholes Surlyboi
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Jimbo
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Mardi Gras, unless celebrated in Mobile, Alabama or New Orleans, Louisiana, just doesn't count.
I always find it somewhat ironic when Mardi Gras parades are held above the Mason/Dixon line, much less anywhere else than Mobile/NOLA.
Wow, step outside of our US borders and you will see some nutty shit going on...and one hell of a shin ding! :-D Panama: I have partied in downtown Panama City and even made the news as we were the only 4 white boys in a see of brown, pretty easy to spot us. But the killer place to go was Las Tablas, a provincial capital way out in the boonies of Panama, that has a one great big fun filled Carnival, where the girls wear bikini's in the daytime and shoot the crowd with water guns, and get all decked out at night. I wonder if they still have drunk gringo's wandering around now that we shut down the bases. God, just thinking about all the rum I drank and puked is making me want to get some beach music jammin! Netherland: Never made it to Amsterdam or Den Hague (hell, I've been to Amsterdam a bunch of times, and usually ended up passing ou..err...sleeping on a park bench or trainstation and never saw the tourist sites), but Maastricht in Zuid Limburg throws a kick ass party...where most people are mellow and into having a good time, that glasses of beer can be served on the street! Germany: Koln or Cologne called it Fasching or Carvinal and had a pretty cool idea that if you were wearing a tie, and a girl came up and clipped it off with some scissors, you were hers for the night. Dang good time and good beer too :) So what goes on now that I'm back home again in Indiana? Work a shitload of hours since everyone is sick with either the stomach flu or pneumonia or their out of money and out of drugs and want a free fix. Bleah!  |
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sigil
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More than you ever wanted to know about Mardi Gras:
From the Pharaohs website, which is absolutely hideous.
In 1830, on New Years Eve, a group of young men were celebrating by visiting the steamboats up and down the river front. They would stop and drink with all the Captains of the boats. One night, while going home, they passed a hardware store. They saw rakes, hoes, shovels, a cow bells. The young men went in and grabbed these items and proceeded through town shaking the tools and ringing the bells. This continued every year and after two or three years, they decided to give themselves a name. They came up with the name “Cowbellion de Rakins Society.” Michael Krafft was the founder of what was the first Mardi Gras Society and Parade.
The Cowbellions refused to take in new members and this made the young men of Mobile angry. So, they formed their own Society and called themselves the “Independent Strikers Society.” This name came from the local cotton business. That’s the type work these young men did, “Striking Cotton.”
In 1857, members of the Cowbellions and Strikers went to New Orleans to help them form their first Society and Parade. They took floats and costumes to loan the New Orleanians and called their group the “Comus Society.”
Along came the Civil War and ended all Mardi Gras activities. At the conclusion of the war, the Union occupied Mobile. In 1866, Joseph Stillwool Cain, “Joe Cain”, realized since the South lost the war, and Mobilians were sad and needed something to cheer them up, he would revive Mardi Gras. He dressed as a Chickasaw Indian Chief named Slacabamorinico, or “Old Slac.” The reason this outfit was chosen was because the Chickasaw Indians had never been defeated in battle. He and six buddies paraded through Mobile in a wagon on Mardi Gras Day, taunting the Union Soldiers, bringing Mobilians from their homes into the streets the first time since the beginning of the war. Therefore, starting the tradition of Mardi Gras once again.
The Joe Cain Procession was started by accident. Joe was buried in Bayou La Batre, when Julian Lee Rayford, an Author, petitioned to have Joe’s body brought back to Mobile. They dug him up and brought him back starting a procession. There have been only 3 “Joe Cain’s” since the Joe Cain Procession was started. The day begins with the Merry Widows going to the Church St. Cemetery to wail and “Raise Cain.” He rides in a wagon, dressed as Joe Cain did, with six riders at the beginning of every procession on Joe Cain Day.
Balls, the formal dances of the various societies, are also a big attraction. Attendance is by invite only, fun times to be had there.
As a weird side note, because of the sheer number of events, the Mobile metro area is the second largest market of Tuxedos in the US. Hollywood is first.
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SnakeCharmer
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Mardi Gras, unless celebrated in Mobile, Alabama or New Orleans, Louisiana, just doesn't count.
I always find it somewhat ironic when Mardi Gras parades are held above the Mason/Dixon line, much less anywhere else than Mobile/NOLA.
We are usually just celebrating the fact that we aren't below the Mason/Dixon line. Mardi Gras is incidental. The fact that you are ignorant to the *reason* being that Mardi Gras parades held above the Mason/Dixon lime are ironic is comedy in and of itself. |
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SnakeCharmer
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As a weird side note, because of the sheer number of events, the Mobile metro area is the second largest market of Tuxedos in the US. Hollywood is first.
Lots of formal events in this area, Mardi Gras notwithstanding. Mobile is an extremely old city (just over 300 years), with a rich Southern history that we are quite proud of. Between debutante balls, tons of black/white tie events (social/funraiser/etc) its really no wonder why Mobile is 2nd in the nation. I own 3 tuxedos, personally. To hell with renting them. Two or three balls a year, a couple black/white tie functions, and I've more than gotten my money's worth out of it. Especially with a wife whose family is "old Mobile" and deems it necessary to live the typical "old Mobile" lifestyle. |
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sigil
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Especially with a wife whose family is "old Mobile" and deems it necessary to live the typical "old Mobile" lifestyle.
You have my condolonces. Live there myself, which makes sense as who else would know or be bothered to look up something like Mardi Gras. |
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Samwise
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sentient yeast infection
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Anyone who's ever seen a Girls Gone Wild commercial knows what Mardi Gras is. And anyone who observes Lent has an excellent excuse to celebrate it.
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WayAbvPar
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I prefer to celebrate GGW, actually |
When speaking of the MMOG industry, the glass may be half full, but it's full of urine. HaemishM
Always wear clean underwear because you never know when a Tory Government is going to fuck you.- Ironwood
Libertarians make fun of everyone because they can't see beyond the event horizons of their own assholes Surlyboi
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Ironwood
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The fact that you are ignorant to the *reason* being that Mardi Gras parades held above the Mason/Dixon lime are ironic is comedy in and of itself.
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