Did you celebrate Fat Tuesday? Eat any pancakes?

[Sparky Kronkite]

The Shebabe and I did - saw a band called Grandson's of the Pioneers - they do a lot of roots type, southern'ish, New Orleans style rock with bari-sax and steel drums too. A parade happened right outside the club in Arlington, Va. Lots of beed throwing but not much breast exposure - right outside DC is not necessarily the place where lots of breast exposer's live. Had two shot's of bad tequilla, one 3-finger glass of Yeger and 5 Coors Lights. Shebabe had 2 Cosmo's and a few Miller Lights. Then we went to Marios - the oldest Pizza/Sub place around and I ordered a Steak, Egg, Ham and Cheese sub with everything on it - HUGE!!! Shebabe had pizza. We got home around 12:30 and crashed until the baby woke up at 6:30 am.

Now it's Skinny Wednesday.

Did you do anything for Fat Tuesday? Eat pancakes maybe?

 

[InternationalFunboy]

But of course....living in the middle of the most notorious Carnival/Mardi Gras celebaration in the US will get you swept up every time...
Usually by the time Mardi Gras rolls around I'm so tired from two weeks of full on shit-faciness and bead-whoring that I rest all day Tuesday and prepare for work on Wednesday. This year was different....I didn't make it down for Zulu this year but I did watch Rex, the King of Carnival come down the street...followed by truck floats numbering easily above 200.

I'm not from New Orleans originally so Carnival and Mardi gras has not gotten old for me as it has for so many locals...of course walking a few blocks beats the shit out of having to drive around the city and deal with the crowds when you are from out of town.

Weird things that happened this Carnival Season:
The King of the Krewe of Pegasus' float caught on fire and burned to the ground right on the parade route 8 blocks from me.

I found a member of my party asleep in my neighbor's broken down 70's era BMW.

I helped form a man-wall while this girl Amy peed in the street at Lee Circle during Endymion.

A car burst into flames across the street from my house and revelers cheered on Firefighters who proceeded to destroy it to put out the fire. It was a honda, for those curious.

Some people sleep-walk, some people sleep-vommit - I've seen it happen.

I caught a pair of panties and they were warm. I'm sure from the sun.....

 

[*bratcat*]

 

[riff]

I LOVE PANCAKES!

 

[MunchinMark]

Damn!!

I forgot pancake day!

Nevermind, I'll make some tonight and make up for it

 

[Mensa]

Lots of beed throwing but not much breast exposure - right outside DC is not necessarily the place where lots of breast exposer's live.

I thought they covered their asses in D.C.?

 

[sexy-girl]

i made pancakes for lisa ... english ones she's never had them before but she found them yummy we both ate loads ... we dont call it fat tuesday in the uk but we were both a little fatter i think

 

[ranajja]

Throw me sumthin', Mistah!

Well, we didn't make it down to Mardi Gras this year. Too much going on on the home front--but we'll try to make up for it at JazzFest...

Now, I've been to many a Mardi Gras down in N'awlins, and I, too, have seen the strange, the exciting, the good the bad and the ugly, 'specially down in the French Quarter. But, I'll tell you what, after the cleaning crews get done, there is nothing prettier than New Orleans on Ash Wednesday morning. Awfully quiet, but sparklin' clean.

Now, Pancake Day? That's a new one on me...

 

[MunchinMark]

Pancake Day

It's no Mardi Gras (the continentals having more fun than us, mainly because they're Catholic in this case) but yesterday was apparently Pancake Day. When you eat pancakes, only I forgot so I've just cooked a few up today. That's all there is too it. It would be dull if it wasn't for the patina of grease.

 

[Aphrodisiac]

Nope I did not get to celebrate Fat Tuesday ... I was stuck in a lecture room presenting a paper on " left ventricular hypertropy" along with 20 other individuals.

We did have fun poking fun @ each other ... so maybe that made up for the fact of us not getting to eat pancakes & kick in Fat Tuesday.

 

[MunchinMark]

"Left ventricular hypertrophy".

Something to do with the heart. You didn't have to give a talk on heart disease on Fat Tuesday did you Aphrodisiac?

 

[Aphrodisiac]

"Left ventricular hypertrophy".

Something to do with the heart. You didn't have to give a talk on heart disease on Fat Tuesday did you Aphrodisiac?

Unfortunately I did have to talk about heart disease & give this whole lecture. Even tho' I had no idea what I was really talking about , I simply skimmed over the article... but I did okay ... it seems my extensive vocabulary got me out of some sticky questions.

But alas .. no pancakes or celebrating for me ... on yesterday's Fat Tuesday.