Happy Mardis Gras

[Strangler Lewis]

Originally Posted by Bornieo: Fully Loaded

It wouldn't be Mardis Gras without Girls Gone Wild!

There's no reason to assume that these girls don't participate in Ash Wednesday. They just don't necessarily get the ashes daubed on their foreheads.

There is something to be said about participating in the feast/fast cycle. At the Eastern Orthodox church we used to go to in San Francisco, lots of fasts to keep track of. Pain in the ass if it's your turn to serve lunch. Lent especially. The payoff was that after the midnight Easter service, which lasts about three and a half hours, just when you're about to cut your throat, there's a big feast with mounds of sausage, potatoes, these horribly rich "Pascha" desserts that the ladies compete over, and bottomless vodka. Lots of dancing as well, though primarily by the bachelors in the congregation who took pains to see that I, as a spiritual guest, had enough vodka.