It's Mardi Gras, again! So, you know the drill: drinks LOTS of beer, pee on yourself and run around the neighborhood half or mostly naked! I'm staying at home and plan to do something constructive.
I have my Mother send me up a King Cake every year and I take it to work. People around here are clueless. "Why is there a naked baby in the cake?" Farmall
I'm on my way to set up our Mardi Gras party here at work... The king cake just arrived from Nawlins and I'm unpacking masks and such as I sit here. Stacey
Around here people eat Paczkis today. That isn't a national thing though, is it? They're pretty much just jelly filled donuts. At any rate, stop by my cubicle if you want one.
I don't remember what the baby signifies, but if you get him in your slice, you have to buy the next King Cake!
If you get the baby, your supposed to have good luck for a year... unless you choke on it. Mardi Gras... isn't that the New Orleans version of Gasparilla with less drunks?
Mobile, Alabama is the birthplace of Mardi Gras in case you guys don't know... see? Alabama is good for SOMETHING! NO *** showing in Bama tho'...
My Mom lives about 45 minutes out of Mobile, over by P-Cola. It is the birthplace of Mardi Gras but it is pretty much a family oriented celebration. She did tell me there is talk of opening up a street on the parade routes where if you'd like to "earn" your beads you'll be able to without worrying about the law. Damn, so one else got the baby out of the cake! Plus she's Chinese, and today is Chinese New Year's Eve. She told me she was buying a lotto ticket. Farmall
That story has been going around for years... it will never happen... Bama is too Bible Beltish to legislate ***ties into their celebration. In Bama, they throw more than just beads... they throw MOON PIES!!! My freshman year of college, I sold my college "meal ticket" for beer money, and lived on the Moon Pies that I caught for about 6 months. I still can't eat a Moon Pie... ugh.
I'm sure there will be plenty of drunken high fivery in this wannabe town. I'm just pissed that I went to see Sonny Landreth this past Saturday here in loserville and it was sold out! what kinda **** is that?
My son wore a neckload to school and some smart*** asked him "How many people did you have to show your ****s to to get all those" my son replied- "Not nearly as many as your mom-she sure is greedy!" ah, Jeepers Jr., making Pop proud!
Technically, there is still a policy of no ******, but the New Orleans cops are pretty cool about ****ie showing if it doesn't cause a disturbance. However, there are no "second chances" for fighters and urinating in public. They're whisked off to Central Lock-up in no time! Gracie - Some of the Mardi Gras suppliers in the area still get those humoungous boxes of Moon Pies for the various Krewes! A friend of mine had a box of them left over from a parade one year. Any time you went past his office, he tried to pawn one of those wretched things off on you!
I rode on a float in a parade in New Orleans once, with a friend of mine... I had bought spears to throw then found out that they had been banned. So I sat (drunk of course) on the float and hid below the railing where no one could see me... I would BARELY stick the point of the spear on the top of the railing and VWOOP! it would be zipped out of my hand in less than a 100th of a second... I don't know how they could even see it... Fun times. I miss Mardi Gras I miss the balls too! hahaha There's just something about dressing up in a very expensive ball gown and getting so schnockered you can't stand up and end up face down in a gutter either peeing or puking (or both). Then going for breakfast.
Happy Mardi Gras. Hurricanes all around. (The rum filled kind.) I think I'll go get some cases of Blackened Voodoo from CostPlus too. I'll be in CA while my thoughts are in the Vieux Carre!
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