If by Fat tuesday you mean PANCAKE DAY, then it's a British thing. Mmmm, pancakes...
The money was too good. I got stupid.
Jayne ,'Ariel'
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jim - Feb 08, 2005 5:12:14 am PST #4850 of 10002
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
Jesse - Feb 08, 2005 5:12:24 am PST #4851 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
We traditionally had a pancake dinner for Fat Tuesday in the church I grew up in -- it's a yummy way to "get rid" of the stuff in your house, in preparation for Lent.
Nilly - Feb 08, 2005 5:14:20 am PST #4852 of 10002
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Fat Tuesday
I have to ask what that is (the hivemind is more fun than Google), because all I can imagine when reading this expression is the day Tuesday decides to take more place in the week, and squeezes Monday and Wednesday to making them shorter and thinner so that it can be bigger and fatter, and suddenly they have only 20 hours each because Tuesday took 4 hours of each of them and now sits there in the middle of the week all big and making people confused with the schedules.
Also, hi, Jim! Long time no post together.
Gus - Feb 08, 2005 5:15:09 am PST #4853 of 10002
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
Homemade tortillas. I learned how to do these, after many false starts. Worth the effort, in so many ways.
tommyrot - Feb 08, 2005 5:15:16 am PST #4854 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
To confuse Nilly even further: Sometimes Tuesday is "Taco Tuesday."
Jim - Feb 08, 2005 5:17:32 am PST #4855 of 10002
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
Nilly - Hi! Fat Tuesday is I guess an Anglicised version of Mardi Gras; on the last day before Lent you scoff all the good food to remove the temptation for the 40 days fasting that follows. Which has in the UK become a secular tradition; come the last day before Lent, you make pancakes.
Jesse - Feb 08, 2005 5:17:44 am PST #4856 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Nilly, it's the day before the start of Lent, which is the lead-up to Easter. Traditionally, Lent is a fast period, so you wouldn't be eating a lot of fried foods and whatnot, so you get it all out of your system on Fat Tuesday/Mardi Gras. Then the next day is Ash Wednesday, where you get smudged with ashes on your forehead, and there's No More Fun for 40 days, til Easter.
Nora Deirdre - Feb 08, 2005 5:21:41 am PST #4857 of 10002
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
If by Fat tuesday you mean PANCAKE DAY, then it's a British thing. Mmmm, pancakes...
Yes, that is exactly what I mean! I know now, because TomW responded to my news with, "crap, it's Pancake Day? D'oh!"
sarameg - Feb 08, 2005 5:21:47 am PST #4858 of 10002
I really want pad thai right now. Or whatever that spicy dish is with peanut sauce.
I have no idea why.
§ ita § - Feb 08, 2005 5:21:56 am PST #4859 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
And in New Orleans, you drink all the alcohol and have all the shared nudity with strangers. It's pretty fun.