bigwheelzip
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Laissez les bon temps rouler! Let the good times roll! 
Happy Fat Tuesday - Mardi Gras
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CAJUNLAWYER
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Covid cancelled Mardi Gras and see what happened????
Hell froze over
Hell froze over
Ivan the Butcher
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It is Tuesday and I am fat!
Ivan
Ivan
As a kid, if your family was part of a Krewe, you had a pass to work on the float instead of doing annoying schoolwork before the parade.
Someone had to make those thousands of crêpe flowers, and tack them onto the Olds 88 that was the underpinning the giant gold throne and dance platform...
Someone had to make those thousands of crêpe flowers, and tack them onto the Olds 88 that was the underpinning the giant gold throne and dance platform...
LDM
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People were lining up in the blizzard this morning outside the bakeries to get their Paczki fix before lent.
Where's the King Cake? I'm ready!!
Happy Shrove Tuesday. In keeping with the English tradition we are having pancakes for dinner.
Race results will be posted later.
Race results will be posted later.
I had to look that up . . .
Pig Hunter
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I'm going to give up self denial for Lent!
Ivan the Butcher
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Back in our college days (which took me 37 years to get my BA, but I mean our early 20's) A snotty sorority girl ask my best friend, "What are you giving up for lent?" His answer was both concise and truthful, he simply said "Sobriety!"
Ivan
Caj; Your comment brought a large belly laugh to this old guy. Thanks.
CAJUNLAWYER
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My mom a devout Catholic quit asking me what I was giving up for lent. Years back when posed that question, I responded "Being Catholic". Been paying for that one ever since
I usually give up self denial, as mentioned earlier. Couple years ago I told everybody I was giving up deep fried catfish, hush puppies, and cole slaw . . .
doublesharp
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Back in 1973 me and 3 of my Kentucky hillbilly buddies from Cumberland College headed to Mardi Gras. The bowels of the Sugar Bowl stadium was open to college kids so we pitched a tent and stayed 3 or 4 days. Loved the festivities and French Qtr, stayed buzzed up on cheap wine, dined on red beans and rice, rode the trolley cars everyplace but the most memorable highlight was the communal showers. None of us had ever seen near enough nekkid women but here you could see all you want just taking a shower. A very clean bunch of guys in body if not in mind.
Went down in a buddies 1967 Dodge Coronet (pre Roadrunner) On the way down the muffler bracket broke and we wired it up with a coathanger. On the way back at the same spot the wire broke so we jury rigged it again and made it home.
Went down in a buddies 1967 Dodge Coronet (pre Roadrunner) On the way down the muffler bracket broke and we wired it up with a coathanger. On the way back at the same spot the wire broke so we jury rigged it again and made it home.
After clearing my too long of a driveway from snow I drove into town and bought two of those cardiologist recommended Polish Paczkis. One prune and one custard with a huge black coffee. Yum Yum.
Ivan the Butcher
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My mom a devout Catholic quit asking me what I was giving up for lent. Years back when posed that question, I responded "Being Catholic". Been paying for that one ever since
Lent isn't just for Catholics any more! When my daughter fell in love with an Italian Lutheran, she started "Fasting" things like cookies and ice cream for 40 days. Some kind of a Jesus cult!
Ivan
Experienced my first and only Mardis Gras a couple years ago while on a Union convention...we were there for the initial stages not full on. My first visit to New Orleans resulted in it being my favorite big city and one of few I would even entertain going back to. I've asked my granddaughter if she would go by train to New Orleans with me and she is up for it, it all up to planning now. I honestly was not ready to leave, the hotel and staff probably had something to do with that because they spoiled me rotten, I wasn't used to that kind of treatment. I still haven't eaten everything that was on the considerable menus of a couple choice places, still haven't gone gator hunting with Troy, still need to spend time on a riverboat...It may yet happen.
