MARDI GRAS THREAD

This topic was created in the Religion forum by Whorpio on Saturday, January 27, 2018 and has 23 replies.

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Posted by lesenfantterribles
you doing kru du vu?

so sad i am missin mardi gras this year...

that fuckin crawfish pic got me fucked up

Nah I’m staying away this year since my bf can’t come 😪😪 I’m just gonna do something low-key up in Shreveport 😎😎 Or Natchitoches, but I’m still waiting to hear what parties they’ll have goin 🤔🤔

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“Mardi Gras is the love of life. It is the harmonic convergence of our food, our music, our creativity, our eccentricity, our neighborhoods, and our joy of living. All at once.”

–Author Chris Rose

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Jimmy C. Newman – Louisiana Saturday Night

A Louisiana Saturday night everybody feeling alright

There ain't nothing like a Louisiana Saturday night

If it's one of those nights a night that's happy and wild

If you pole the pirogue you come for a many a mile

If you're singing a song feast on gravy and rice

I know what that is a Louisisana Saturday night

A Louisiana Saturday night everybody feeling alright

There ain't nothing like a Louisiana Saturday night

If it's one of those nights everybody go hog wild

All the pretty girls you see wear a pretty cajun smile

The fiddle and accordian play an old song happy and bright

I know what that is a Louisiana Saturday night

A Louisiana Saturday night everybody feeling alright

There ain't nothing like a Louisiana Saturday night

We make like a Mardi Gras dance till broad daylight

Bet all our money then on a dog or chicken fight

The day after Friday next week everything'll be alright

Cause we're gonna have us another Louisiana Saturday night

A Louisiana Saturday night everybody feeling alright

There ain't nothing like a Louisiana Saturday night

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This song cracks me up 😂😂

Johnny Horton – The Battle of New Orleans

In 1814, we took a little trip

Along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip'.

We took a little bacon and we took a little beans

And we caught the bloody British in a town in New Orleans.

We fired our guns and the British kept a-coming

There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago.

We fired once more, and they began to running,

On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.

We looked down the river and we see'd the British come

and there musta' been a hundred of 'em beating on the drum.

They stepped so high and they made their bugles ring

We stood beside our cotton bales and didn't say a thing.

We fired our guns, and the British kept a-coming

There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago.

We fired once more and they began to running,

On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.

Ole Hickory said we could take 'em by surprise

If we didn't fire our muskets 'till we look 'em in the eyes.

We held our fire 'til we seen their faces swell

Then we opened up our squirrel guns and really gave 'em... Well..

We fired our guns, and the British kept a-coming

There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago.

We fired once more and they began to running,

On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.

Well they ran through the briars, and they ran through the brambles

And they ran through the bushes where a rabbit wouldn't go.

They ran so fast that the hounds couldn't catch 'em

On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.

We fired our cannon 'til the barrel melted down

So we grabbed an alligator and we fought another round.

We filled his head with cannon balls and powdered his behind,

And when we touched the powder off, the gator lost his mind.

We fired our guns and the British kept a-coming

There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago.

We fired once more and they began to running,

On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.

Well they ran through the briars and they ran through the brambles

And they ran through the bushes where a rabbit wouldn't go.

They ran so fast that the hounds couldn't catch 'em

On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.

hup, two, three, four.

sound, off, three, four.

hup, two, three, four.

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This one is definitely my favorite song ❤️❤️

Jimmy C. Newman – Alligator Man

Mosquitos buzzin' round my head Spanish moss for my bed

There is seldom seen dried land cause I'm an Alligator man

I hunt the gator all night long sell his hiding then I'm gone

I see the belles from bayou shanty love this Alligator man

This bayou country is my home and from this place I'll never roam

For I'm the leader of the clan oh I'm the Alligator man

When I bring my hides to town all the people gather round

They just want to shake the hand of the top gator man

Some people search their world for fame but fightin' gators is my game

And the scars on my hand cause I'm an Alligator man

Top gator man until I die when I marry by and by

A pretty belle from the bayou shant we'll raise a little gator man

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Posted by lesenfantterribles
girl, what do they even do up in natch? anything interesting—

Lol natty... There’s this lil club out there that my old, uh, friends go to. I was thinkin bout linking up with them and then an after party at theys house. But I dunno if it’ll be good for my relationship...

We shall see how things go in Shreveport.

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Some of y’all may have figured I had never been to a Mardi Gras parade [yeah, despite living in Louisiana] since I was always working. But this year I made it a point to attend one so this past weekend my boyfriend and I attended the Krewe of Gemini parade in Shreveport.

These are all the beads we kept (+ a couple cups we got):

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And then here is a handful of the floats.

This was the opening float, Queen Gemini the 3rd:

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Texas represent:

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Ark-la-tex:

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Kenya:

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China:

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France:

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Ireland:

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Shoutout England:

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Mexico!!

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Italy:

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Random ones I can’t remember:

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Netherlands:

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And the final official Mardi Gras float:

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