Weekend Open Thread-Mardi Gras Season
One example of a king cake. (theleadernews.com)
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year TAH! We are still in the Christmas season, today is the 10th day of Christmas. We could still say, “Merry Christmas”. Likewise, the year is still new, so, “Happy New Year”. Or, “Happy Holidays.”
There’s another main holiday coming up, albeit more for the season than for the government.
In some corners of Christianity, Christmas season lasts until February 2. This informally gives Christmas 40 days. However, it officially ends on the 12th this year.
January 6 is “Epiphany” or “Three Kings Day”. Informally, there is an “Epiphany season” that starts on Three Kings Day and runs through “Fat Tuesday” or Mardi Gras. This Is the Day before Ash Wednesday.
Epiphany Season is also called Carnival Season or Mardi Gras Season. The date range for the latter two may differ depending on who you ask. Just as Christmas season has the fruit cake and Christmas cake, Mardi Gras season has the king cake. It is decorated with frosting topped with the Mardi Gras colors of purple, yellow, and green.
There’s a baby toy inside the cake. One tradition associated with the baby is that if your slice contains it, your job is to get the King cake for the next celebration that occurs during this season. King cakes are central to regular Mardi Gras season socials that occur from Epiphany to Mardi Gras.
If you have a birthday anywhere from January 6 through February 25 this year, the King cake could be a seasonal addition to your birthday celebration… In addition to what you would normally eat on your birthday.
However, some consider it “bad luck” if you eat a king cake outside of Mardi Gras season. They claim that if you do, it would rain during the next Mardi Gras celebration.
Mardi Gras season comes with Mardi Gras lights and decorations. You could still “beat the darkness back” once you take the Christmas lights and decorations down.
Enjoy your weekend.
Mardi Gras music:
Category: Open thread
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Damn! Congrats FA. King o’ Battle reigns again (shocked face)
AMERICA FUCK YEAH!!!!
Fucking5th/77th FA is back in the saddle to save the Friday WOT First from the rest of us motherfuckers, FUCK YEAH!!!
Let’s bomb some other Iranian motherfuckers FUCK YEAH, and while we’re at it, let’s fuck up some NORKS too and maybe some Palestinian fuckers too …here we come to SAVE THE MOTHERCUKING DAY YEAH!!!! Oh and let’s not forget some african al-Qa’ida, SMOKE THEM YEAH!!!, but let’s not leave out the Haqqani motherfuckers YEAH, smoke em’ if ya got em’….Hi Diddly DOH to the Al-Shabaab bitches, how about some lasar guided enemas turd burglars, FUCK YEAH!!
Dust off our ‘splosives and share them the world around!!
HAPPY FUCKING NEW YEAR…..
Love….AMERICA!!!!!!!!
Oh and NOT First…so there….
PPPBBHHHHTTTTT!!!!!!!!!
*(Disclaimer- “It’s entirely possible I’ve had too much caffeine and it’s also Friday and I’m ready to GTFO but I have to work for 5 or 6 more hours …..FUCK YEAH!!!)
Love you guys! Have a lovely weekend.
Congrats, redleg!
sorru for teh shame less hijak.
The Witcher (it tok me ta a while yo to get thet righ) in Netflick, its amazing!!!1111
OMG. Supes is plyin teh withcer!
*Netflix
First
FIRST FIRST of the FIRST TAH Friday Weekend Open Thread!!!!!!!!!!!! King of Battle with a Time on Target Barrage has struck again! GO ARMY BEAT NAVY. HOW ‘BOUT THEM DAWGS SUGAR BOWL CHAMPS ROLL TIDE ROLL!!!!!!!!
Hot Wings, Cold Yuenglings Cat Heads and bacon on me!
2 in a row for the FRIDAY TAH Weekend Open Thread!
The King of Battle reigns again!!! The five-peat is a certainty in the future! That being the case, here you go … another trivia column. Such is life, I suppose. DID YOU KNOW…? Did an astronaut get “stuck” in space because his country’s government changed? By Commissioner Wretched Happy New Year! Well, here we are, in 2020. Is it what you expected it to be? Seriously, think back to the ‘70s, or ‘80s. Now, try to remember what you thought the world would be like in 2020. Yeah, it didn’t turn out quite that way, did it? We were supposed to have flying cars by this point, bases on the Moon, and robot maids, and … oh, wait. That’s “The Jetsons.” If you’re a follower of science fiction, you may recall the way the world of today was presented back then. The creators got a lot right, but they missed one big thing entirely – the home computer. Nobody predicted the rise of home computers, and the magnificent ease of life (and many difficulties as well) that they have provided. What does 2020 have in store for us? I don’t know. If I could answer that question, would I be writing a newspaper trivia column? Probably, but it would be in the “National Enquirer.” Anyway, hope your celebration was safe and sober, and let’s jump into the first trivia for 2020! Did you know … … the Earth does not have the most water of any world in the Solar System? Beneath the icy covering of Jupiter’s moon Europa, scientists have determined that there is an ocean that has more liquid water in it than there is on Earth. The amazing thing is, Europa is actually smaller than our Moon. But the water is deeper than our oceans and the icy crust over it is not very thick. Some scientists believe it could harbor life, as well. A moon of Saturn, Enceladus, is also known to have water under an icy crust, but we aren’t sure if it has more than Earth. (Makes you wonder how the fishing is there,… Read more »
Yes, on the dinosaur part.
In fact, one term to describe birds is, “avian dinosaurs”. The dinosaurs that went extinct are labeled as “non-avian dinosaurs”.
My plans for the whole Alien Invasion is to avoid that whole “anal probing” and becoming their dinner thing.
Tanks CW, you da man!
😉
“It’s a COOKBOOK” !!!!!
“Mr. Chambers, don’t get on that ship! The rest of the book To Serve Man, it’s… it’s a cookbook!”
Little trivia on that episode – the alien you saw most was Dick Kiel.
In March, I have a trivia column coming that’s entirely devoted to the Twilight Zone … but here’s a foreshadow: ALL of the alien Kanamits in that episode were played by Richard Kiel. You can only tell once, in a split-screen effect toward the end, where it doesn’t quite match up, but they were all Kiel.
… the average human head weighs between eight and twelve pounds? (Just right for bowling!)
Who knew that Jerry McGuire was a learning tool……
Happy New Year everyone!
Here’s one for a future trivia column if you haven’t included one from before. Person missing for 10 years found behind a freezer at a grocery store.
People “didn’t know” how his remains could be there for this long, some explained that the cry for help, if any, was drowned out by the units, but people commented that it reeked really bad near those freezers.
Interesting … thanks for the tip!
They probably used the same dog from
this mornings feel good story about the
dead transgender.
Some of the commenters to related articles said that the stench back in that area was really bad. One has to think, “Bad stench + missing employee” = I wonder…
If customers were aware of something not right back there, management could’ve come to a more closer conclusion.
Well, where Hack Stone worked in Bethesda there was a horrible stench. Thought it might be the remains of Elaine Ricci decomposing, but eventually discovered it’s coming from the Vice President of the company.
Space monkey, space monkey…
Future JB Hunt driver….
More like a Swift Driver wearing flipflops and driving a Volvo with an automatic transmission!
“… there are ice cream machines in Antarctica? (And here you thought Antarctica was an ice cream machine.)”
I’ve made a few trips to McMurdo Station and can confirm that fact. McMurdo also has 2 ATM’s.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mma-ufc/antarctica-is-home-to-the-worlds-loneliest-atm/vp-BBYjGyD
Has anyone stationed there ever “gone local” and married a native? Just wondering when they took the new spouse to S-1 for the military dependent ID, and the guy taking the photo had to find a booster seat for a penguin?
The marriage was quickly annulled. All the penguins looked the same and the husband kept bringing the wrong “wife” home.
“[Y]ou have more bacterial cells in your body than you do human cells.”
That explains why my jeans are tighter, illegal bacteria crossin my borders!
The actual count on both those organisms are as follows in an approximation . The human body is a machine, an amazingly complex and elegant machine that captures our soul and confines it for however long we walk in an upright position as we fight the never ending struggle with gravity, which always wins… It will take mankind numerous centuries to comprehend the true ways that the bodily cell structures interact in a smooth and amazingly complex fashion where one chemical does one thing unless you have this other chemical hormone in the bloodstream along with this, that and the addition of yet more hormones and chemicals that enable all three trillion cells to exist as separate little machines that individually eat, breath, digest their food and get rid of the waste products… That’s right, three trillion cells that all work together to keep our soul in check while we perform whatever duties we perform in this game we call life… NOW, add into the mix the FIVE trillion bacteria that live in, on and deep inside our bodily cavities and help the overall machine to work as it was designed by someone at least half as smart as larsy-boi, don’t believe me ??? Ask him, he’ll tell you just how smart he is !!! With that in mind and my 25 year career as a nurse I simply tell people that are having OCD issues with germaphobia to give up as we have lost the war. Germs, like insects outnumber us so incredibly smart humans that think of themselves as omnipotent by about five thousand trillion to one in the overall scheme of things. Your body needs germs as does the planet we live on and they are truly everywhere. There is no doubt that with all the mass extinctions in the history of Planet Earth it was probably the bacteria that carried the DNA that allowed God in his infinite wisdom to repopulate the Earth. The original movie and the remake of a great movie, “The War of the Worlds”, you know, the remake, the one with the… Read more »
Thanks for the knowledge drop!
Ive heard that its our sterile-ish lifestyles that may be causing some health effects. I know its anecdotal but after digging in the dirt and gardening my allergies seem to effect me a lot less.
It’s possible that it just gets me away from dust mites long enough, it could be the microbiome of the Good Earth.
All I know is nature is creepy as sh*t….
and we’re all doomed.
Thanks again!
11th
Alright folks, I have some GREAT news!!!
Since I’ve been here on TAH I’ve had this hole, an absence in my life, alone and cold in this world. There has been times were I had flings on other sites, posting frivolously, having one response stands, really using my eyes in a seemingly hopeless pursuit…
But I finally found what I was looking for: love.
I want to announce my engagement to a user here: Fuck the military!
I want to extend a thank you to my larger TAH family and invite you to the nuptials.
We haven’t picked a date, yet! But I’m hoping y’all can make it for a 04NOV20 to celebrate the re-election of President Trump and the unification of our souls!
See: https://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=93951
Can we have King Cake for the reception???
(Can’t wait to celebrate the progeny of your union.)
If it occurs in one of the days from January 6 to February 25 this year. If the reception takes place outside those dates this year, it’s “bad luck”.
I don’t know what that is but we are going to have all the things!
FtM wants the invitations to be on giant candy d*cks, I hope everyone is ok with that.
Old habits die hard, I guess.
But can FtM find enough time in between cooking fries and mopping the floor as well as screaming in “Orange Man Bad” rants to go do that? FtM might two-time on you with Lars!
Its not cheating if I’m there, right?
Make sure you give us plenty of advance notice so the TAH gang can get up the contributions for that “Honeymoon Size” tub of “I Can’t Believe It’s Not K-Y,” so that your beloved bride can “lube you long-time.”
13th
Sorry Iran, you can vote for Bernie in 2020.
Folks in that area, radical types, tend to cheer when Democrats enjoy electoral victories in the U.S. They tend to consider it their victory too. They don’t like Republicans. Detrimental to their long term plans.
Please, let them have Bernie now.
I spent 1/2 hour on a treadmill at the gym trying to ignore his scolding on one TV screen by watching a football game on the next screen.
Off-putting.
That is one angry dangerous man, much like Huey Long…
Too bad the heart attack didn’t kill the fuck…
I mean that too. The bastard is more dangerous to the welfare of America is than all the Mullah’s in Iran…
Fuck you larsy-boi… ESAD….
I confess to, while trying to ignore him and focus on my work on the treadmill, asking God if He couldn’t intervene in Bernie’s case and take him out of our misery.
Probably not the best Christian thoughts, but I am imperfect.
Congrats FA King of Battle.
I had no idea it was Friday.
Are the freakin holidays over yet?
Three Kings Day is on Monday, religiously observed on the 5th (Sunday) in the U.S.
I know something about this Mardi Gras thing, so I’d like to make a minor correction to the original post. It’s not a baby toy in the cake, it’s a toy baby. And since there’s such an abundance of lawyers in the world, the plastic babies are seldom put in the cake anymore, since someone might bite down on one and chip a tooth, or swallow it, or whatever. The babies come separate now, and if you’re feeling lucky, you can put it in the cake yourself.
And the thing about eating a king cake out of season will make it rain next Mardi Gras. That’s not a very clever superstition. All it would take is ONE person to eat a king cake – heck, it would rain every Mardi Gras. Kind of like the thing of getting my lucky numbers in a Chinese fortune cookie – I don’t need MY lucky numbers, I’ll settle for anyone’s lucky numbers, as long as I win the lottery with them.
Looks like Iran found a replacement for Qassim Soleimani. Meet Brigadier General Esmail Ghani. https://www.dailywire.com/news/general-replacing-soleimani-was-named-terrorist-entity-by-obama-administration-bragged-u-s-troops-have-suffered-more-losses-than-iran?itm_source=parsely-api
Oops. More bad news for Iran. (https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-u-s-military-kills-more-top-iranian-backed-terrorist-leaders-in-airstrikes-report-says) And of course, we all know CNN always covers the important details. (https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-gets-serious-reports-trump-was-eating-ice-cream-when-news-of-airstrike-broke)
Great.
It looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.
Next thing you know CNN will be reporting that Melania Trump was wearing high heels when it happened!
Was away from the puter, so:
FIRST in the hearts and minds of my grandchildren!
On a somber note, I learned, today, of the sudden, unexpected, death of a friend of ours last night. A pillar of our church and one of those men who was an ever-present helper and friend.
Hug your family. Tell your friends you care for them. Remember nothing here is permanent.
Condolences Graybeard. Prayers will be offered up for your Church Family and the Family of your departed Brother in Christ.
You are most correct. Things can change in a blink of an eye. We have all been there and done that.
Thanks.
His wife (who has had her own health struggles the past few months) was at her mother’s to care for her overnight. She returned home to find her husband’s body.
That is going to be really tough to live with.
You’d think after so many years, and the loss of so many friends over the years (and a few near-misses myself) I’d handle these things better.
I guess we never really do.
No, we don’t. Somehow, though, each loss does seem to allow us to acknowledge what it does to us quicker, and maybe that is a bit healthier for us than denying it, as most of us did when we were much younger.
If it’s any comfort to you at least you know that all of us have also lost dear ones and managed to muddle through it. It just doesn’t get any easier. Perhaps the management of the grief gets a little easier?
Our thoughts and prayers are with you, GB.
Democratic Socialism for Iraq now,,, GO BERNIE!
sarc
Umpteen eleventyeth and Honorary First once again.
((((OVER))))
Did I already tell y’all HAPPY NEW YEAR???
OK. Better twice than forget to do it at all.
H*A*P*P*Y N*E*W Y*E*A*R !!!
Joe “Dog Killer” Cryer made PJ Media:
https://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/former-green-party-candidate-claimed-to-be-jesus-while-killing-his-dog-with-a-hammer/
I’m sure that we’ll see more crazy shit from him in the future, let’s hope that he gets committed instead!
I’m expecting we will see him leading a cult and smearing jello on himself.
Didn’t need that visual, thanks.
What can I say, I’m a giver!
Mostly I give bad mental images, but still…
I wonder if he didn’t see himself as becoming the next Jim Bakker or Jimmy Swaggart with his “international Ministry”?
I’d rather he lace up some purple Nike’s and chow down on some applesauce.
10 dickweed points to first person who gets the reference.
5 bonus points if you tell us what happened first.
Those hale bopp idiots… I’m not bothering to look it up (I’m already on lists as is)
If memory serves, they, um, ‘Bobbett’ed themselves
Award yourself 15 dickweed points, good sir.
Heavens gate!
It took a min. Miller High Life is a anti-thoughtsant
Sweet! What does that get me at the TAH store?
I do appreciate a good bunkbed tho…
Another Red Dawn WIP shot, plus a couple of completed projects, for those interested.
https://www.deviantart.com/yt45
Tanks TOW. And yes, there are a number of us interested AND enjoying the progress.
And since I missed the post on Soleimani, good riddance. May he be assraped by feral hogs in Hell.
Bernie Sanders next U.S ambassador to Iran.
In other news,
Daniel Bernath is still dead. As per the NTSB Medical Factual report “According to the autopsy performed by the State of Florida, District 21 Medical Examiner, the cause of death wasmultiple blunt force injuries and the manner of death was accident.The brain was not available for examination due to the extent of injury.” I’d argue that the brain was never present to begin with. To see the report: Follow this link, search for ERA18FA064 https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/SitePages/dms.aspx Then click on the result. On the next page, select “NTSB Medical Factual Report”
Also in other news, Joseph Cryer is still locked up for the heinous things he did to his dog. Google “joseph cryer” dog and see all the news reports.
Somewhere in Floriduh, there’s a purple suited clown drinking DRG cocktails (don’t forget the lead paint chip garnish) and crying over pictures of Dan and Joe.
My hypothesis is that the last thing to go through Bernath’s brain was his ass and even before the “accident” nobody could tell the difference between the two!
At least Bernasty has been consistent in maintaining his minus 6 feet AGL for the last little while, so there is that.
The ONLY consistency he ever had besides being guano-crazy.
Dannyboi’s brain must have been about the size of an orange and it just disintegrated into a grayish goo that soaked into the underbrush and ground in that pine forest. Some pine trees in the vicinity now likely have lower IQ’s.
Been on vacation the past two weeks. Back to work on Monday. 2020 is gonna be a crazy but interesting year…
January 3rd 35 years ago I was in RTC San Diego. My first day in the Navy.
Get off my lawn!
35?
Boot.
Just read an article posted on some proggy website called theoutline.com. It was an attack on those of us who like to out and ridicule valor thieves. This Alex Nichols fellow who wrote it claims that those offended by valor thieves all identify as conservatives (his first false statement). I love how he seems sympathetic to one of our faves, ol’ fake CSM Papotia Wright. He implies we should have ignored his fakery, because what he really needs is government funded mental healthcare. Anyway, anyone interested can read his BS posted on Dec. 20, 2019.
Personally, I think ol’ Pap should have faked or changed his first name. It seems he was cruelly mistreated by his parents when they handicapped him with “Papotia.”
Izzat so?
Last I heard, Doug Sterner was anything but a conservative.
I find this funny. Kaepernick weighs in on the recent swatting of Soleimani.
Humorously, the decedent is paleface. “Sun tan” does not equal “Brown folk”.
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/soleimani-colin-kaepernick-us-terrorist-attacks-black-brown-people
Oh, that IS pretty funny, n a pitiful sort of way.
Bless his widdle heart. His widdle BLACK heart. (Oh, wait, his heart really isn’t black??)
Wow.
Just wow.
I can’t even…what if…who dafaq…
At least he’s angry, which makes me happy.
Who wants a shot?! Ive got; whiskey, whisky, or whiskey.