Mardi Gras

**Ash** · 15 Feb. 2010 07:38am

Anyone here celebrate Mardi Gras?
We have Paczki's on sale already here (Pronounced no way how its spelt Poo-unch-keys) and there seems to be a few places on tuesday that are giving away mardi gra beads on tuesday like the casino and bars; Imma try to see how many I can get.

15 Feb. 2010 02:37pm

Never had a Paczki. King Cakes are every where though. Pretty much all you ever see here.

Mardi Gras celebrations have been going on since January 30th here. Went to like 9 different parades-- Venetian tribute parade was the best, New Orleans Saint's Prade was cold as fuck. Sick of the throws and ready for our Mardi Gras feast tomorrow with family.

Laissez les bon temps rouler!

**Gina** · 15 Feb. 2010 04:01pm

I dont celebrate Mardi Gras

Isnt that in New Orleans?

15 Feb. 2010 04:23pm

Originally Posted by Gina

I dont celebrate Mardi Gras

Isnt that in New Orleans?

No. It's to anyone that celebrates lent. Mardi Gras is a religious holiday which most people fail to realize because the tourist going into New Orleans get drunk off their ass on bourbon street, turning it into something unholy, and it's not just in New Orleans. It's all over Louisiana as a huge holiday, and I believe Mexico does carnavale. A lot of places in Europe: Spain and Italy are the countries that I know of.

**ksrocks333** · 15 Feb. 2010 04:52pm

I don't celebrate, but I can only imagine it's going to be a lot better in NO this year because of the fact that the Saints won the Superbowl.

**C0FFINCASE** · 15 Feb. 2010 05:59pm

I do, but only in the sense that I celibate St. Patty's day. In other words its an excuse to get with friends, play loud musics, and eat food.

15 Feb. 2010 11:58pm

Originally Posted by La Vie Cruelle

No. It's to anyone that celebrates lent. Mardi Gras is a religious holiday which most people fail to realize because the tourist going into New Orleans get drunk off their ass on bourbon street, turning it into something unholy, and it's not just in New Orleans. It's all over Louisiana as a huge holiday, and I believe Mexico does carnavale. A lot of places in Europe: Spain and Italy are the countries that I know of.

yea your right, unfortunately i'm one of those people...not proud of that lol. but yea pretty much just an excuse to leave town for a few days and stay trashed.

**x-WTF** · 15 Feb. 2010 11:59pm

Party tommorow at school!
i was supposed to make a king cake but im to lazy , heard it takes 3-4 hours.

**Stormie** · 16 Feb. 2010 12:03am

Al lI know if that it's in new Orleans and I'm going there as an excuse to show off my boobs and get trashed one time in my life.

I respect that it's a religion thing, but I like the festivities. :]

**x-WTF** · 16 Feb. 2010 12:07am

Originally Posted by Storms

Al lI know if that it's in new Orleans and I'm going there as an excuse to show off my boobs and get trashed one time in my life.

I respect that it's a religion thing, but I like the festivities. :]

LMAO, alot of people flash at mardi gras.

& the only reason were celebrating it up here is because my teacher who used to live in the states and also knows french used to celebrate it there and she's like lets have a party. and on lent were having a test as sacrifice Dx

**Frostbite** · 16 Feb. 2010 12:09am

We (a bunch of friends) were going to go to New Orleans this year for Mardi Gras... but.... yeah... didn't work out.

I was gonna get wasted and leave New Orleans with a couple thousand strings of beads... but no.

16 Feb. 2010 12:17am

And tits fly out everywere =]

16 Feb. 2010 12:23am

well its actually illegal now to flash your boobies at mardi gras and people only do that and get drunk because its actually celebrating the last bit of sin before lent. not lent itself.

**x-WTF** · 16 Feb. 2010 12:26am

Its actually illegal?

16 Feb. 2010 03:00am

yea lol its public nudity. it used to get overlooked cause everyone did it, but i saw like 8 or 9 people getting arrested for it

16 Feb. 2010 12:56pm

Originally Posted by x-WTF

Its actually illegal?

It's always been illegal. So many times have I seen drunk women handcuffed and brought off for it. It's funny and disgusting at the same time.

@Frostbite- Lol, the possibility of catching something at a N.O. parade is zero. Unless you somehow manage to move through the masses right up to the already crowded front and hope you don't get punched while someone else is grabbing the throws.

**Raivu** · 16 Feb. 2010 01:44pm

I don't celebrate it mySELF, however I Do enjoy watching other people celebrate it.

**C0FFINCASE** · 16 Feb. 2010 02:20pm

Originally Posted by La Vie Cruelle

@Frostbite- Lol, the possibility of catching something at a N.O. parade is zero. Unless you somehow manage to move through the masses right up to the already crowded front and hope you don't get punched while someone else is grabbing the throws.

I have a friend that went, got close enough to catch some thing only to discover they were throwing coconuts and she got hit in the face. XD

**Raivu** · 16 Feb. 2010 02:21pm

Originally Posted by C0FFINCASE

I have a friend that went, got close enough to catch some thing only to discover they were throwing coconuts and she got hit in the face. XD

xD wtf kind of sick party is that!? lol

16 Feb. 2010 02:25pm

Originally Posted by C0FFINCASE

I have a friend that went, got close enough to catch some thing only to discover they were throwing coconuts and she got hit in the face. XD

LOL! THE LUCKY ZULU COCONUT!

well... only lucky if you catch it xD
most coveted item of all parades.

**Raivu** · 16 Feb. 2010 02:30pm

so I'm confused. Could somebody explain to me the coconut part? I always thought it was beads.

**C0FFINCASE** · 16 Feb. 2010 02:30pm

Originally Posted by La Vie Cruelle

LOL! THE LUCKY ZULU COCONUT!

well... only lucky if you catch it xD
most coveted item of all parades.

Most insane idea ever. "What can I throw into the crowd that is like a rock but not? I know."
How do they not kill people. I mean most of them are too drunk to catch and are standing in urine. How do they not get hit and fall on their ass and get trampled.

**Raivu** · 16 Feb. 2010 02:32pm

not to mention, with ALL of those people there, how can nobody catch the skull-pummeling coconut? Might as well use...chainsaws.

16 Feb. 2010 02:33pm

Well they don't throw out many coconuts, which is why everyone wants them. And they aren't thrown, they are handed from the float, or lightly tossed.

**Raivu** · 16 Feb. 2010 02:45pm

Originally Posted by La Vie Cruelle

Well they don't throw out many coconuts, which is why everyone wants them. And they aren't thrown, they are handed from the float, or lightly tossed.

Ooh ok that makes much more sense ^^; And much less harmful. Whats the story behind the coconut though?

**C0FFINCASE** · 16 Feb. 2010 02:49pm

Originally Posted by Raivu

Ooh ok that makes much more sense ^^; And much less harmful. Whats the story behind the coconut though?

Minus the one throw into my friend's face. XD
Trying to go along with the Zulu theme I'd guess though I don't thin coconuts have anything to do with zulu or come from Africa.

16 Feb. 2010 02:55pm

Originally Posted by Raivu

Ooh ok that makes much more sense ^^; And much less harmful. Whats the story behind the coconut though?

Well long ago they used to throw glass beads off of floats that were imported. So in order to ridicule them and get back, a certain krewe threw coconuts that were shaved, painted, or carved. They ended up being popular, and coveted. I don't know how the Zulu krewe ended up throwing them though xD

**Raivu** · 16 Feb. 2010 03:12pm

do they still follow the "you give me your coconuts and I'll give you mine" rule?

16 Feb. 2010 05:24pm

Originally Posted by Raivu

do they still follow the "you give me your coconuts and I'll give you mine" rule?

Not for those coconuts. >W>
For doing that you get a cheap 50 cents plastic bead that you can find anywhere in the state of Louisiana.

**Raivu** · 16 Feb. 2010 06:53pm

Originally Posted by La Vie Cruelle

Not for those coconuts. >W>
For doing that you get a cheap 50 cents plastic bead that you can find anywhere in the state of Louisiana.

I'll have to start hosting some of these events. o.o

**Smithno13** · 16 Feb. 2010 11:04pm

While mardi gras may have started as a religious holiday, it has become "unholy" by no accident.
Basically, its like "Mkk, lent starts wednesday, lets stuff our bodies full of all the bad shit we can that we wont be able to have for 40 days!"
Not a holy holiday in the least.

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