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

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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?

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

Dog-Tired-Dog
 

This is Archie,another tired Dog.

We got him just before Christmas..

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.

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

Does he let Meathead sit in his chair?

Excellent, UT. :thumbsup:

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.

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.

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

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........................ ;)

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

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).

Xtian Xtian Xtian

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

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.