In Poland, Paczki Day is celebrated on the Thursday before Ash Wednesday. It's in the US that it's celebrated on Fat Tuesday.
Cool. Thanks for the info.
Pretty cool except for the part where I was really terrified and now my knees are all dizzy.
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§ ita § - Feb 20, 2007 7:12:30 am PST #2104 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Theodosia - Feb 20, 2007 7:12:31 am PST #2105 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I note that the UK was Catholic before it was Protestant, so I expect Fat Tuesday has been what it's called there for a long, long time.
Aims - Feb 20, 2007 7:13:32 am PST #2106 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Fat Tuesday also = Shrove Tuesday. That's what out church called it.
Steph L. - Feb 20, 2007 7:13:42 am PST #2107 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
In Polish, it's "Tlusty czwartek."
No, I have NO idea how to pronounce it.
Also, the wikipedia page has been edited. Did someone here do it?
Topic!Cindy - Feb 20, 2007 7:14:38 am PST #2108 of 10001
What is even happening?
I think I like the Brit tradition of Shrove Tuesday - pancakes for supper tonight, maybe.
Daisy Jane - Feb 20, 2007 7:14:59 am PST #2109 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Fat Tuesday, the way I was taught, was the Annual Pig Out Day before Lent and Teh Fasting. Eat all of your favorite things before you offer it all up for the 40 days.
We didn't have to offer it all up, just whatever was a distraction from god or living a holy life. So, if you had a kind of obsession with- say going shopping- you'd quit that and spend that time thinking about how you and god could be better homies. If your thing, like mine, is scotch, every time you go to reach for a scotch, you contemplate your relationship with god instead.
A friend of mine who is a huge whisky drinker gives up Jameson every year and drinks beer instead.
§ ita § - Feb 20, 2007 7:15:01 am PST #2110 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I expect Fat Tuesday has been what it's called there for a long, long time.
Never heard it called that there once. In fact, the US was the first time I heard the day named in anything other than French. [eta: no, Shrove Tuesday is familiar...never put two and two together]
Lemme go google.
Aims - Feb 20, 2007 7:15:14 am PST #2111 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
That's right! Pancake Day! I forgot!
§ ita § - Feb 20, 2007 7:17:06 am PST #2112 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
From Wikipedia:
Shrove Tuesday is the term used in the English-speaking countries of the United Kingdom[1], Ireland[2], and Australia[3] to refer to the day after Collop Monday and before Ash Wednesday (the liturgical season of Lent begins on Ash Wednesday). In these countries, and amongst Anglicans in Canada, this day is also known as Pancake Day, because it is customary to eat pancakes on this day.[4][5][6] In other parts of the world—for example, in historically Catholic and French-speaking parts of the United States and elsewhere—this day is called Mardi Gras, and in areas with large Polish-immigrant populations (for example, Chicago and Detroit) it is known as Paczki Day.
Makes sense.
Topic!Cindy - Feb 20, 2007 7:18:41 am PST #2113 of 10001
What is even happening?
Ita (your name is capped against my will - I'm on the blackberry which is correcting me despitew myself) it's not Fat Tuesday in England. It is Shrove Tuesday, instead.