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Post by Sabeine on Mar 4, 2003 13:08:28 GMT -5
Happy Fat Tuesday everyone! Today is Mardi Gras in the U.S. Have fun, have some drinks, get some beads for flashing etc... ha ha Det hetter "fettisdagar" här i sverige. Me, I'm home doing homework for my Swedish classes. But I'm dreaming of fun, sun, and beads. ;D
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Post by Pam on Mar 4, 2003 14:50:22 GMT -5
LOL But it can't be Fat Tuesday. I thought it was Monday to the extent that I was flipping channels looking for Charmed a few minutes ago.
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Post by Sabeine on Mar 4, 2003 15:08:08 GMT -5
It is Fat Tuesday in the States as in they are several time zones behind us?? How many time zones are there in the US really? I think there are 6 correct? I know that my hometown of San Diego, CA is 9 hours behind Sweden, and my sister lives in Houston, TX and they are 7 hours behind. My dear friend lives in Ft. Lauderdale, FL and they are 6 hours, so what are the other time zones? (Arizona? Hawaii?) what else? Arizona doesn't change with daylight savings time right? So part of the time they have the same time as the west coast (CA, OR, WA) but the other times they are 1 hour ahead, right?
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Post by Carolyn on Mar 4, 2003 15:20:30 GMT -5
You know those Arizonans, just too weird sometimes.
Actually, there's 4 time zones in the States: Eastern, Central, Mountain and Pacific. I'm in Mountain, which means we're 8 hours behind you all, but it's still Fat Tuesday.
At least, I'm still fat and it is Tuesday ..... ;D
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Post by Carolyn on Mar 4, 2003 15:22:06 GMT -5
Emeril Lagasse, who has 3 restaurants in New Orleans, was doing a tribute to Mardi Gras and typical foods last night. Everything looked yummy, except that King Cake, which is basically a sweet dough with a plastic baby doll stuck somewhere inside, and this sugar icing with purple, green and other fluorescent sugars strewn across the top. It looked truly icky.
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Post by Cake Guru on Mar 4, 2003 17:52:46 GMT -5
I love New Orleans, and there is nothing better than a King Cake done right!! I used to date a boy from there, and we'd go every year for Mardi Gras, and a couple of times just because!!!!
Gimme a Fais do-do with some great zydeco, Kermit Ruffins and Rockin' Dopsie!
Catch some of the action LIVE
www.experienceneworleans.com/mardigras/mardlive.html
Here's the parade schedule! I always thought that the Zulu and the Rex krewes had the BESt parades!
Monday, March 3
Proteus 5:15 p.m. Uptown Orpheus 5:45 p.m. Uptown
Tuesday, March 4
Mardi Gras Indians All Day Uptown Marching Clubs 6:45 a.m. Uptown Zulu 8:30 a.m. Uptown Rex 10 a.m. Uptown Elks 11:30 a.m. Uptown Crescent City After Elks Uptown
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Post by Sabeine on Mar 4, 2003 18:25:44 GMT -5
And how young was this "boy"? ha ha ;D
j/k
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Post by Cake Guru on Mar 4, 2003 18:42:41 GMT -5
Well, considering that all this took place about a hundred years ago.........
He was younger than me, I can tell you that! A nuclear engineer on the U.S.S. Enterprise. I think I was more förtjust in the fact that he was stationed aboard the EnTERPRISE (being the trekkie that I am!)! I seriously broke the number two 'boy rule' in dating him..... (no military boys).
We had fun, and I did visit him in Baton Rouge a couple of weeks before I moved to Sweden! We're still friends, believe it or not!
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