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Oh, there's TH on "thorny" - ok, my vision is blurry at this hour. I guess we need to keep an eye on who is behind us around here, eh?

As for The Jester stealing his crown, well, um . . . it had to be an impostor. I'm still recovering from Mardi Gras. Maybe someone stole my marotte and my jester hat.

Now with six kingdoms and 1 queendom - oh, wait, 2 queendoms - clearly each one has a jester, perhaps?

We probably ought to have a Siftland map showing where all the kingdoms and queendoms are located - also the environments of each one.

Congrats on the Crown . . .

*jingles away exiting through a secret door*

The Krewe of Venus is no longer. I couldn't find anything on its demise, but I do know it no longer exists. Krewe of Muses is newer all-women-krewe.


This is an excerpt from Arthur Hardy's Mardi Gras guide:

"But Mardi Gras’ roots predate the French. Many see a relationship to the ancient tribal rituals of fertility that welcomed the arrival of Spring. A possible ancestor of the celebration was the Lupercalia, a circus-like orgy held in mid-February in Rome. The early Church fathers, realizing that it was impossible to divorce their new converts from their pagan customs, decided instead to direct them into Christian channels. Thus Carnival was created as a period of merriment that would serve as a prelude to the penitential season of Lent.

In the late 1700s pre-Lenten balls and fetes were held in New Orleans. Under French rule masked balls flourished, but were later banned by the Spanish governors. The prohibition continued when New Orleans became an American city in 1803, but by 1823, the Creole populace prevailed upon the American governor, and balls were again permitted. Four years later street masking was officially made legal."

For more:

http://www.mardigrasguide.com/history/

http://www.mardigrasguide.com/

Q&A:

http://www.mardigrasguide.com/qa/

The date for Mardi Gras is the day before Lent begins. So it varies according to when Easter falls. The Carnival season kicks off on January 6th, Twelfth Night. Parades gear up two weekends before Mardi Gras. The schedule was consolidated following Katrina. The 2009 schedule (just past) is here with profiles on the krewes:

http://www.mardigrasguide.com/calendar/


Mobile has a Mardi Gras celebration as well:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090218114920AA1ea4V

Goodbye CWBookthief, friend without remand,
I was going to upvote all your comments, but you just got perm-banned.
I have no idea what your name means,
But I assume that you made it while high, at Mardi Gras, in New Orleans.
You did what we all want to do, spam the comments list,
and sadly you've been forced to cease and desist.
Perhaps in the happy hunting grounds one day we will meet,
and there under the blue skies....oops game's back on, later

Making fun of the Judicial Siftstem are we?

Well it is Mardi Gras Day. What better day to skewer MycroftHomlz.

On second thought, I'm having a bit of déja WHO?

Happy Mardi Gras!

I went to a friends on Banks for Endymion. She had smoked pork and turkey, jambalya, red beans 'n' rice, Mexican corn bread, French bread, Caesar salad, potato salad, baked beans and an array of king cakes. There was so much food, she everyone take something home. There was also plenty beer and soft drinks.

Off I go . . .

Happy Mardi Gras!!

I stopped by Maurice French's yesterday and had my first piece this morning. Really good stuff. Had to get a cream cheese cake because they had run out of traditionals. I like that they don't overdue it with the cheese, which Haydel's seems to have been doing recently.

*requeue for Mardi Gras

Thanks for tuning in to the Parody channel for Roast IV. Happy Mardi Gras!

*unsticky


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THE JESTER

Peanut gallery indeed. Let's see, we've got: a raving psychotic on the loose; a pile of trash so ugly it can turn a person to stone; a Sicilian mob baby that can't string one sentence together without having to go find her bottle; a middle-aged wannabe cartoon wizard; a xenosexual squirrel with delusions of grandeur; a puppet and his master with an overwhelming anal fixation; a white rabbit with nothing to say; a self-proclaimed lazy pinko who's further to the right than Pat Buchanan; a drunken Mardi Gras reveler in need of a bucket; our very own Ron Paul look-a-like/martyr; and a shriveled up hobbit that can't stop touching his precious.

And then of course, our guest of "honor" - one dirty little rodent that couldn't spin a record to save its life.

What's next? A droopy-eyed dog-girl with a penchant for youngin's?

Just what the hell did I sign up for here?

Happy New Years Sifters!

B&C - Mardi Gras
B&C - Casino

The kinda-gamey toaster-raccoon is AWESOME.

"Eat it everyone who's never won a Nobel Prize, and that includes you - Amy!"

The Mardi Gras thing was great too...

"it's just like mardi gras!"