2/11/2005: Dog-tired Mardi Gras celebrant

Undertoad · 02-11-2005, 11:23 AM

Happy Friday. Elspode sends along this guy, who is exhausted by Mardi Gras, and who wouldn't be?

He's actually exhausted because he's part of a parade - he's at the end of the "Krewe of Mutts" pre-Mardi Gras parade. It takes place a few days before actual Mardi Gras. It looks like this might become a tradition, as the biggest parade of dogs anywhere is in St. Louis, where the same "Krewe" parade brought out 6000 parading dogs this year. No info on why it's spelled "Krewe".

I'm in favor. Let's make it a pack. Do you get more beads if you show 8 teats?

404Error · 02-11-2005, 02:33 PM

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No info on why it's spelled "Krewe".

I looked up "krewe" on dictionary.com and this footnote was added to the definition.

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Regional Note: In order to organize and stage the enormous Mardi Gras carnival every year, many New Orleans families have belonged for generations to krewes, groups that create elaborate costumes and floats for the many Mardi Gras parades in the two weeks leading up to “Fat Tuesday.” Not only do the krewes participate in the parades, but, as leaders of New Orleans society, they also hold balls and other elaborate events during the carnival season, which lasts from Christmas up to Mardi Gras itself. The krewes are responsible for electing Rex, the annual king of the carnival, whose parade is the climax of Mardi Gras. While masked paraders had long been a part of Mardi Gras, the first carnival group organized as such was the Mystick Krewe of Comus in 1857. Krewe is only an imitation of an old-fashioned spelling of crew in its standard meaning, but the word, thanks to its association with Mardi Gras and New Orleans high society, has taken on some of the mystique of the carnival.

be-bop · 02-11-2005, 06:38 PM

This is Archie,another tired Dog.

We got him just before Christmas..

capnhowdy · 02-11-2005, 06:42 PM

I love the bulldog.

"Fat Tuesday" can fall on any Tuesday between 2/3 & 3/9, & I think it is always the day before Ash Wednesday. Leave it to us Catholics..... when it comes to a party; we're very flexible.
Immediately after midnite on Fat Tuesday, everyone is forced to leave the street.
I think it is kinda like the last gasp at partytown before we try not to party as much hereafter.........I may have skipped that day at Saint John's.

capnhowdy · 02-11-2005, 06:46 PM

[quote] "This is Archie,another tired Dog." [quote] bebop

Does he let Meathead sit in his chair?

xoxoxoBruce · 02-11-2005, 08:46 PM

Excellent, UT.

Karenv · 02-13-2005, 08:07 PM

btw, does anyone know which days between Mardi Gras and Easter AREN"T counted in Lent? I know Sundays are off, but there are still more than 40 days.

wolf · 02-13-2005, 09:01 PM

There's a get out of jail free card issued for Saint Patrick's Day (so you can drink and eat pork and cabbage, even if it's a Friday) ... but I don't know of any others.

busterb · 02-13-2005, 09:40 PM

When I lived among the coonasses, I had a few friends who gave up beer for lent. Talk about some wine drinkers! BOY

Troubleshooter · 02-14-2005, 07:31 AM

It's amazing what good Xtians can do with a pagan holiday isn't it?

capnhowdy · 02-14-2005, 05:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Troubleshooter

It's amazing what good Xtians can do with a pagan holiday isn't it?

This holiday, ( I thought ) is a Catholic holiday, origionally.
The Catholics are pagan? Come on, now........................

capnhowdy · 02-14-2005, 05:52 PM

I may buy " amazing what pagans can do with a Xtian holiday"

wolf · 02-15-2005, 12:55 AM

First off, I do want to say that I consider it demeaning to shorten "Christian" to "Xtian." It's just a thing that I have.

Capn, most of the "traditions" that we associate with the Christian Holidays are remnants of older practices of the traditional religions and folk magic practices of the peoples that were converted to Christianity by the early church ... the Christmas Tree, the Yule Log, red and green as colors at Christmas ... all relate to pagan practices. Jesus, as near as anyone has been able to figure out, was probably born in the Spring. Yule is the festival of the Birth of the Sun ... the shortest day of the year, after which the days begin to lengthen. Ditto for the big spring festival ... Easter, celebrating the resurrection of Jesus, has it's basis in Ostara, a pagan festival honoring the reawakening of the Goddess Ostara or Oestre ... which is pronounced "eester." The Catholic Church schedules Easter by setting it on the first Sunday following the First Full Moon following the Spring Equinox (which is the date of the festival of Ostara).

Undertoad · 02-15-2005, 07:26 AM

Xtian Xtian Xtian

They have little consideration for my beliefs so I demean them at will.

Elspode · 02-15-2005, 09:57 AM

FWIW, the Catholic Church is, IMHO, as Pagan as a Christian sect gets. They have a strong goddess fixation, their rituals are centered around symbolic cannibalism and often presented in a language not grasped by most.

From what I've been able to determine, most of my Pagan friends were Catholics when they were kids. Certainly not all, but by far a larger percentage than any other single sect.

When Catholicism swept over Europe, it wasn't just the Pagan peoples that were changed. The Church was also changed. It is inevitable when two cultures mix that each imparts something to the other.

02-11-2005, 11:23 AM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	2/11/2005: Dog-tired Mardi Gras celebrant Happy Friday. Elspode sends along this guy, who is exhausted by Mardi Gras, and who wouldn't be? He's actually exhausted because he's part of a parade - he's at the end of the "Krewe of Mutts" pre-Mardi Gras parade. It takes place a few days before actual Mardi Gras. It looks like this might become a tradition, as the biggest parade of dogs anywhere is in St. Louis, where the same "Krewe" parade brought out 6000 parading dogs this year. No info on why it's spelled "Krewe". I'm in favor. Let's make it a pack. Do you get more beads if you show 8 teats?

02-11-2005, 06:38 PM	#3
be-bop Operations Operative Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: scotland/uk Posts: 664	Dog-Tired-Dog This is Archie,another tired Dog. We got him just before Christmas.. Attached Images

02-11-2005, 06:42 PM	#4
capnhowdy Blatantly Homosapien Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 6,200	I love the bulldog. "Fat Tuesday" can fall on any Tuesday between 2/3 & 3/9, & I think it is always the day before Ash Wednesday. Leave it to us Catholics..... when it comes to a party; we're very flexible. Immediately after midnite on Fat Tuesday, everyone is forced to leave the street. I think it is kinda like the last gasp at partytown before we try not to party as much hereafter.........I may have skipped that day at Saint John's. __________________ Please type slowly. I can't read very fast............... and no holy water, please.

02-11-2005, 06:46 PM	#5
capnhowdy Blatantly Homosapien Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 6,200	[quote] "This is Archie,another tired Dog." [quote] bebop Does he let Meathead sit in his chair? __________________ Please type slowly. I can't read very fast............... and no holy water, please. Last edited by capnhowdy; 02-11-2005 at 06:50 PM.

02-11-2005, 08:46 PM	#6
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Excellent, UT. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

02-13-2005, 08:07 PM	#7
Karenv Slacker Join Date: May 2004 Location: Brooklyn, NY Posts: 144	btw, does anyone know which days between Mardi Gras and Easter AREN"T counted in Lent? I know Sundays are off, but there are still more than 40 days.

02-13-2005, 09:01 PM	#8
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	There's a get out of jail free card issued for Saint Patrick's Day (so you can drink and eat pork and cabbage, even if it's a Friday) ... but I don't know of any others. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

02-13-2005, 09:40 PM	#9
busterb NSABFD Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: MS. usa Posts: 3,908	When I lived among the coonasses, I had a few friends who gave up beer for lent. Talk about some wine drinkers! BOY __________________ I've haven't left very deep footprints in the sands of time. But, boy I've left a bunch.

02-14-2005, 07:31 AM	#10
Troubleshooter The urban Jane Goodall Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Florida Posts: 3,012	It's amazing what good Xtians can do with a pagan holiday isn't it? __________________ I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. - Aristotle

02-14-2005, 05:52 PM	#12
capnhowdy Blatantly Homosapien Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 6,200	I may buy " amazing what pagans can do with a Xtian holiday" __________________ Please type slowly. I can't read very fast............... and no holy water, please.

02-15-2005, 12:55 AM	#13
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	First off, I do want to say that I consider it demeaning to shorten "Christian" to "Xtian." It's just a thing that I have. Capn, most of the "traditions" that we associate with the Christian Holidays are remnants of older practices of the traditional religions and folk magic practices of the peoples that were converted to Christianity by the early church ... the Christmas Tree, the Yule Log, red and green as colors at Christmas ... all relate to pagan practices. Jesus, as near as anyone has been able to figure out, was probably born in the Spring. Yule is the festival of the Birth of the Sun ... the shortest day of the year, after which the days begin to lengthen. Ditto for the big spring festival ... Easter, celebrating the resurrection of Jesus, has it's basis in Ostara, a pagan festival honoring the reawakening of the Goddess Ostara or Oestre ... which is pronounced "eester." The Catholic Church schedules Easter by setting it on the first Sunday following the First Full Moon following the Spring Equinox (which is the date of the festival of Ostara). __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

02-15-2005, 07:26 AM	#14
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Xtian Xtian Xtian They have little consideration for my beliefs so I demean them at will.

02-15-2005, 09:57 AM	#15
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	FWIW, the Catholic Church is, IMHO, as Pagan as a Christian sect gets. They have a strong goddess fixation, their rituals are centered around symbolic cannibalism and often presented in a language not grasped by most. From what I've been able to determine, most of my Pagan friends were Catholics when they were kids. Certainly not all, but by far a larger percentage than any other single sect. When Catholicism swept over Europe, it wasn't just the Pagan peoples that were changed. The Church was also changed. It is inevitable when two cultures mix that each imparts something to the other. __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

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