hangs around, waiting for confirmation that this is also "Taco Tuesday"

It is Taco Tuesday in the Cult of Gud. You can join for just six easy payments of $19.99. AND if you join today you can get a free bathrobe with the image of Gud on the back.

Here's additional info about fasting during Lent that I found here: [link]

"The law of fasting requires a Catholic from the 18th Birthday to the 59th Birthday [i.e. the beginning of the 60th year, a year which will be completed on the 60th birthday] to reduce the amount of food eaten from normal. The Church defines this as one meal a day, and two smaller meals which if added together would not exceed the main meal in quantity. Such fasting is obligatory on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. The fast is broken by eating between meals and by drinks which could be considered food (milk shakes, but not milk). Alcoholic beverages do not break the fast; however, they seem to be contrary to the spirit of doing penance.

"Those who are excused from fast or abstinence -- besides those outside the age limits, those of unsound mind, the sick, the frail, pregnant or nursing women according to need for meat or nourishment, manual laborers according to need, guests at a meal who cannot excuse themselves without giving great offense or causing enmity and other situations of moral or physical impossibility to observe the penitential discipline."

Rick, how could you avoid getting confused in the afternoon and not weed out the thing you spent the whole morning weeding?

it's fasting-lite.

Heh. We have fasting (no eating and drinking), longer fasting, and longer fasting with more-things-you're-not-allowed-to-do.

Obviously, exceptions are made for people who are sick, diabetic, frail, elderly, and young -- they don't have to fast

In Judaism, too [Edit: but apparently with different, more strict, rules. You only start fasting from 12 (girls) or 13 (boys), and there's no upper age limit, other than the person's health situation]. And thanks for the explanation, Teppy.

Obviously, exceptions are made for people who are sick, diabetic, frail, elderly, and young -- they don't have to fast

In Judaism, too. And thanks for the explanation, Teppy.

When I was typing it, it reminded me of what you've said before about fasting in Judaism -- that the greater duty is to maintain your physical health, so if fasting would put your health at risk, then don't fast.

I'm trying to find a church service to go to tomorrow, and it's a problem. I don't really have time to go into the city for a noon service, but I have class from 6-8 pm, which is the other typical time. Of course, randomly trying to remember church names around town is not the most methodical way to do this either....

Does the Cult of Gud permit slacking on Tuesdays?

'Cuz I'm ordering my bathrobe today! (OK, soon!), if so.

Rick, how could you avoid getting confused in the afternoon and not weed out the thing you spent the whole morning weeding?

I confess that mistakes were made.

Does the Cult of Gud permit slacking on Tuesdays?

Really that's more the purpose Slacker Thursday, but there is a sect in the cult that believes in having Slacker Thursday and Slacker Tuesday as well as Pizza Monday.

the greater duty is to maintain your physical health, so if fasting would put your health at risk, then don't fast.

Yup. In any fast that is not Yom Kippur, you are allowed to just break the fast, but Yom Kippur is different (holiest day of the year, and all that). There are rules for how you eat/drink during it, if you don't fast (basically, there are 'levels' of rules, and you try to break the least severe ones. Of course, if you have to, then you have to and forget the rules).

Gus being in the Cult of Gud may create lots of confusion. Especially considering that "s" and "d" are so close on the keyboard.

Pancake Day Update: a traditional recipe has been found from the bbc archives and lemon and castor sugar will be purchased.

As we have prepared fajitas (as in, the meat is marinating in the fridge as we speak) for dinner, we will have pancakes for dessert.

Pancake Day totally snuck up on us.