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Happy Mardi Gras Y'all ~!:bouncybou :bouncybou

If you've never been, GO!

Damn, life is fine during carnival~!
:bouncybou :bouncybou
Oh, and by the way, Venners...if you read this...your sig-chickie is ready for the French Quarter! Someone throw that girl some beads! Hehehe 😉

Jo
~!:bouncybou :bouncybou
 
Man, I gotta get me back to Nawlins!

Dat dere be won partee town, eh Cher? Might we get YOU some beads dis year, gwan down to de Pat O'Brien's an' drink us up some hurricanes raht nice, no? :devil:
 
ah Jobelle,

Always been one of my dreams to get to New Orleans at Mardi Gras time, heck its always been a place I have wanted to visit period. I am so into the culinary arts, music, shows, etc that its always been a place of keen interest. I was supposed to get down there for my 40th Bday with my sis-in-law but it got cancelled as that was right after 9/11 and she was afraid to fly at that point. If I can get a good deal it would be a great long weekend holiday for hubby and I...maybe you can tour guide us one day if we ever get down...and I do think its a possibility!

Judy aka JPie
 
Does everybody who celebrates Fat Tuesday also follow the laws of Lent beginning the next day? 😀
 
Re: Man, I gotta get me back to Nawlins!

AffectionateDan said:
Dat dere be won partee town, eh Cher? Might we get YOU some beads dis year, gwan down to de Pat O'Brien's an' drink us up some hurricanes raht nice, no? :devil:
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I went to New Orleans with a friend a few years back. I drank one Hurricane, then half of another, and...well, let's just say I lit up Nawlins. 😀

Laissez les bonne temps roulez! :jester: :smilestar :redheart:

*waving to JoBelle, hoping to meet her one day* :wavingguy :grouphug:
 
Ah....mah cherie,

Dan t'is a flat shame indeed dat you not comin' down dis way for de fete. So missed ya be! I jus' got me summa dem beads, mah love. T'was hard I say....took damn f'evah to find me a foot guy on de float! But oooh!!! Dat Feder!

Judy, Let me know if you come this way, as I love to show ya around!! It's a great place. I'd say it's better in the off-mardi-gras season because you can really appreciate the city that celebrates decay. This drunken party is just a way to escape life for a while.

Oh, and by the Mila...Mardi Gras is non-denominational. Though some of us are Catholic about SOME things! 😛

Jo, waving at lite-brite, who is of course no fun at all. 😀
 
I would love to meet Joby, one day...

Prolly be a letdown tho, as I have built her up in me mind...😛

On a more serious note, I have heard it's fright night down there during Mardi Gras these past years...scawy, scawy moidaars 'n such.

Any comments? Are you committing these heinous acts, Jobellina?

Cheers.😀
 
Maybe nex year, we do uppa nother Mardi Gras Southern Gatherin', eh cher?

A Gran time be had by all, no?
 
Why don't they just change the name to Parti Gras once and for all?

Huh? Why not?

Do they still sell that Voodoo Beer there?
 
Moby, You outrageous nutcase. Just because they report three murders in one day doesn't mean times have changed. Folks have been killing each other everywhere on this planet without the need of provocation by such things as crowds, laughter, good times, beads and a beer or twelve. I remember a guy being shot to death during mardi gras in a bar I was in back when I was 15 years old. (Yes I know...the horror of my being in bar at 15! GASP!) Times don't change....reporting styles do. Come on down. Chicken! Hehe, glad to be on that silver pedestal in your head though!

Every holiday needs a nickname...Party Gras will do jusssss fine, thanks oh odd one. After all, it conjours up naughty ideas of tickling people while wearing a feather mask and tying them up with purple green and gold beads! 😀 I love this time of year! Dan, it's a thought you know...now that there is a place like the TMF where we can advertise greatly. Might be something worthy of jumping back into the hostess fray of things. Just doesn't seem worth the trouble otherwise! I've been toying with the idea of another.....might have to do that next time 'round.

Voodoo Beer? *hic* dunno whatcha talkin' about...how's that pin in yer leg feelin'? *hic* I mean cramp! *hic*

Jo, off to trot around the city now....Eljah Wood in Bacchus this year!
 
Let the good times ROLL!😀

Mardi Gras in New Orleans is big fun! Everyone should try to get there at least once in their life. Someday, I hope to make it down to Brazil for Carnival, the biggest, baddest party on the planet!
 
I'd always avoided New Orleans in Feb because of the stories of sleaze & drunks. But a friend sent me this link to a site that describes what it's really like - now I want to go!

Button :bubble:

[http://www.mardigrasneworleans.com/]

Question:
What's with the tradition on Bourbon Street where women are offered beads to bare their breasts to the crowd? Could someone explain this? Where did this tradition come from?

Answer:
As a fifth-generation New Orleanian, let me say this was never and is still not a tradition. Saying it is "tradition" is like saying that people who get drunk and pass out on Bourbon Street are following tradition as well.

Let me explain why you may have heard this rumor. Within the last 10 or so years, a few spring-break age tourists visiting our city get drunk after the parades, go to Bourbon Street in the French Quarter, and lose their inhibitions. The others are onlookers. The end result is that certain types of individuals are now attracted to the French Quarter in the evenings after the parades.

Sadly, many bystanders caught in this crowd will never return to Mardi Gras ... because they don't realize they did not experience the "real" Mardi Gras. It does not occur in this area. The Mardi Gras that locals grew up with, enjoyed, and love ... is occurring everywhere else -- throughout the entire city of New Orleans and all of its surrounding suburbs!

The result: If you're a woman, be warned. If you go into the French Quarter at night after a parade, many men are there just to see the sleazy stuff they saw on the news or the internet ... and often assume every woman there wants to be part of the frenzy.

Thankfully, this does not occur everywhere in New Orleans during Mardi Gras - just on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter area. (An area known for its strip joints where those interested in this sort of thing can see it year round.)

Local Mardi Gras krewes who bring you the "Greatest Free Show on Earth" do not even parade through the Quarter. That is why you have never seen a parade filmed from a balcony in the Quarter -- you just see the crowds after the parades.

We look forward to the day people will again understand, appreciate, and experience the magic of Mardi Gras!
 
I recall seeing a video capture on the Net where 2 real-live, gol' dang INDIAN women from India were poppin' their boobs out on a balcony during Mardi Gras! Indian women! Naked in Louisiana! The Mars rover could find Osama Bin Ladin holding OJ Simpson's lost travel bag filled with Nixon's missing Watergate audio and that would be about equally surprising as to me as that image. I wish I could find that site again and make a giant poster of that image, not for the erotic content but for the "who would have thought?" concept of it.

I never knew what really happend at Mardi Gras 'till recently. It's only become popular here in the last 10 years or so as people have less to celebrate wildly for, I guess. I'd be riding with a girl in her car with beads on the rearview mirror and she would say "I got these at Mardi Gras" and smile flirtily, and I'd be thinking.... you went to the South's biggest party and all you bought was $1.50 worth of plastic junk? I just didn't know.

Back in the 1980s the Voodoo Beer was banned from being imported to a certain state - I think Alabama - by the legislature becuase it had "satanic" symbols on it.
 
All the surrounding suburbs? What about over in Lake Charles? We had our first "Blazing Bikers" rally. Yes, I'm a biker. We raised a lot of money for the autistic childrens foundation. People think that Mardi Gras is centered around New Orleans. It's not. It's celebrated all over the great state of Louisiana. My wife and I attented this first biker celebration. We had parades. We had great bands. We had great food. Don't just think that Nawleans has the only mardi gras. It's celebrated all over the state. I've been to N.O. and I've never had a bad time there but to see the true mardi gras you've got to get away fron the big city. The old folk have the traditional "chicken run". If anyone wants to know what this is, just ask, I'll be glad to explain it.
So c'mon down and we'll "pass a good time"
 
tyf69---You're right on about the general area offering more than just a drunken stupor. I didn't go to the rally, but I bought two tickets last year for a bike that I did NOT win! 😛 My uncles have retired to Goldwings, so I just ride along poker runs now...lol

"Flashing" for beads is not a tradition. Very True. Mardi Gras is the tradition. Flashing ones ta-tas is just a funny thing that is evah-so-risque that it gets attention. It's funny to joke about it, but we locals tend to forget that people who have never been don't know any better. There are a few blocks of Bourbon where you might see anything, but as a rule it's not a titty-fest. As a matter of fact, it's such an ordeal, that when someone does more than flash a little skin, there are great circles of underage college boys gathered round with gaping mouths and flashes at the ready to document this strange sight. It's the hype that sells. That's all. I've seen many more exposed body parts at Spring Break in Florida than I ever have at Mardi Gras in N'awlins.

Mardi Gras is a year long season, not a one day or one week event. It's a season of balls and courts. Kings and Queens. Parties, parades, and secret meetings. For Krewe members, it's an all year event. We don't just jump on the float, throw some beads, and call it quits for a year. It's many social groups that celebrate with parades. Small towns, big cities, it's all the same. Each hosting its own version of what MTV bastardizes. Tonight, I was in Mobile, AL where residents lay claim to the first carnival. It is smaller, and more family friendly than the Big Easy. This year I went to 31, yes...thirty one....mardi gras parades. I was in three. Everywhere from the TX/LA stateline to the AL/FL stateline. They were all great....even those that were covered in rain like tonight!

It's something worth seeing indeed. I recommend NOLA in the off season, and some of the smaller towns during carnival. It's lovely. If I lived on the other side of the planet, I'd still come back every year.

The year 2022 sees it falling on my birthday! I can't wait....hehe

Jo, of sore voice and tired waklin' feeties. 😀
"Throw me sumthin', Mistah!"
 
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