Happy Mardis Gras

Strangler Lewis · 02-05-2008, 06:41 PM

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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.

Snowflake · 02-06-2008, 08:20 AM

It was not king cake, but I stopped and picked up a tuxedo cake and that was awesome and filled the bill for our Mardis Gras dinner of jambalaya.

Oh, and when I got home last night, the line out the door of my polling place was a great sight to see.

Drince88 · 02-09-2008, 07:57 AM

Late to the party, yet again! But at least I have a good excuse (since I WAS at the party!)

King cake is more bready than cakey, and the baby isn't actually baked into the cake any more, since it's plastic and that wouldn't do well in an oven. A lot of the stores anymore don't even put it in the cake, 'choking hazard/nonedible/suit happy world BS reasons'

After 3 years at St. Charles and Jackson (as far away from the Quarter that you can catch Zulu on St. Charles) , then walking up St. Charles Avenue to my friends house, I'm thinking it might be time for a change of venue next year. Maybe even venturing into the Quarter for the morning and seeing some better costumes. I do have to say I think I had one of the better ones where we were. I was a crane, because we need more (construction) cranes on the skyline, but I was a 'whopping crane' (though not ornithologically correct!) and had a sign on my back "Where are the Cranes, Mr. Blakely" (Ed Blakely being the 'rebuilding czar' who promised cranes on the skyline). The President of the City Council was riding in Zulu ended up stopping RIGHT in front of me, and he 'got it' almost immediately, which made me happy.

But it was a flipping hot costume - and I could have been in shorts and a Tshirt and been ok, so it was a fairly warm day for early February. And I"m too old for pulling all nighters like I had to to get it finished. But my "inner Martha" would NOT shut up!

02-06-2008, 08:20 AM	#2
Snowflake lost in the fog Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: San Francisco Posts: 7,831	It was not king cake, but I stopped and picked up a tuxedo cake and that was awesome and filled the bill for our Mardis Gras dinner of jambalaya. Oh, and when I got home last night, the line out the door of my polling place was a great sight to see. __________________ Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. - Oscar Wilde
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02-09-2008, 07:57 AM	#3
Drince88 Senior Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 481	Late to the party, yet again! But at least I have a good excuse (since I WAS at the party!) King cake is more bready than cakey, and the baby isn't actually baked into the cake any more, since it's plastic and that wouldn't do well in an oven. A lot of the stores anymore don't even put it in the cake, 'choking hazard/nonedible/suit happy world BS reasons' After 3 years at St. Charles and Jackson (as far away from the Quarter that you can catch Zulu on St. Charles) , then walking up St. Charles Avenue to my friends house, I'm thinking it might be time for a change of venue next year. Maybe even venturing into the Quarter for the morning and seeing some better costumes. I do have to say I think I had one of the better ones where we were. I was a crane, because we need more (construction) cranes on the skyline, but I was a 'whopping crane' (though not ornithologically correct!) and had a sign on my back "Where are the Cranes, Mr. Blakely" (Ed Blakely being the 'rebuilding czar' who promised cranes on the skyline). The President of the City Council was riding in Zulu ended up stopping RIGHT in front of me, and he 'got it' almost immediately, which made me happy. But it was a flipping hot costume - and I could have been in shorts and a Tshirt and been ok, so it was a fairly warm day for early February. And I"m too old for pulling all nighters like I had to to get it finished. But my "inner Martha" would NOT shut up!
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