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 Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 4:20 pm
Today is Mardi Gras, also known as Fat Tuesday. Do you celebrate Mardi Gras? What do you think about this holiday?
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Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 4:21 pm
The Mardi Gras before Katrina I went to New Orleans...CRAZINESS rofl
It was fun, i liked the city.
I dont think much of this holiday, but I do plan to decorate my pen-pal letters to other countries with a Mardi Gras theme.
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Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 4:39 pm
Already? *looks at calendar* Where did the month go!?
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Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 5:03 pm
Obviously I don't celebrate it as a religious holiday, nor as an excuse to drink and party all day and night, but I take part in some of the fun traditions with my friends (most of whom are Christian). We have a New Orleans themed dinner, and wear beads, and one girl always makes King Cake. Last year, she made baby Jesus out of marzipan and I accidentally ate him gonk
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Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 6:31 pm
I love Mardi Gras!!!! Love it!!! Haha, sorry, just had to vent that out after the celebration we had today. Warning: small children throwing darts are very dangerous.
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Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 9:06 pm
I've never celebrated it, but I've heard it's fun. ^^
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Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 9:08 pm
xxEternallyBluexx I've never celebrated it, but I've heard it's fun. ^^ It is. I'm not strictly Christian, but seeing as most of my family is, I grew up around these holidays. I think the best part is just the, well, fun theme. ^.^
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Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 9:54 pm
anticupid16 xxEternallyBluexx I've never celebrated it, but I've heard it's fun. ^^ It is. I'm not strictly Christian, but seeing as most of my family is, I grew up around these holidays. I think the best part is just the, well, fun theme. ^.^ Well the holiday was started by Christians as a form of preparation for Lent. I mean the Lent season is one less festive seasons in the Church Calender.
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Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 10:42 pm
parties are fine with me.
having a party because you are soon sposed to stop enjoying yourself kinda put a damper on it for me, though.
i like to really celebrate at the END of Lent, which would be Easter; have a lot of food, friends and family over, and a couple good bottles of wine! and if you need a reason, it's because you are happy, not because you are dreading self denial tomorrow.
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Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 3:25 pm
i celebrate mardi gras by watching some girls gone wild videos; does that count?
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Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 3:40 pm
i don't. never have. mostly because i'm mormon, and we tend to think that you need to be good and sacrifice year round, not just for 40 days and nights, and that there isn't a good excuse to act like a jacka** ever.
my husband keeps saying he wants to go to new orleans or rio de janeiro and see all the girls' chichis, but i think if he did, he'd be spending the whole time looking at the ground, and not see anything of that variety.
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Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 6:32 pm
I like Mardi Gras and laugh out loud whenever I hear someone saying how 'disgraceful' it is, or whatever the heck their reasoning is. Yeah, people get totally drunk on that holiday, but they're doing the same thing on Christmas! Lighten up and have some King Cake, guys, it's not a sin if YOU'RE not the one having wild parties and sex.
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