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Happy Mardi Gras to all my brothers in Mobile, Florida
Posted on 2/17/26 at 9:13 am
Posted on 2/17/26 at 9:13 am
Florida's grand tradition back from the glorious West Florida days, before the tyrant James Madison invaded, pillaged, and parcelled out the land to greedy shitbags.
Unfortunately, like all great traditions Florida creates, cultural wastelands like Louisiana, Alabama, & Texasfeel the need to steal and claim them as their own (Mardi Gras, Cowboys, The Blue Bonnie Flag, muh "we wuz a independent country", The Southern Cooking, etc etc).
Unfortunately, like all great traditions Florida creates, cultural wastelands like Louisiana, Alabama, & Texasfeel the need to steal and claim them as their own (Mardi Gras, Cowboys, The Blue Bonnie Flag, muh "we wuz a independent country", The Southern Cooking, etc etc).
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Posted on 2/17/26 at 9:14 am to Lt. Columbo
Posted on 2/17/26 at 9:21 am to NFLSU
Bugs Bunny will always get an upvote. I used to alwasy say that he was my favorite actor.
Posted on 2/17/26 at 9:24 am to Lt. Columbo
So the real Mardi Gras is a Spanish celebration ? I'll be damned !
Feliz carnaval !
Feliz carnaval !
Posted on 2/17/26 at 9:40 am to Lt. Columbo
When did Mardi Gras originally start?
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March 2, 1699
Mardi Gras was first celebrated in what is now the United States on March 2,
1699. The holiday was established by French-Canadian explorer Jean
Baptiste Le Moyne Sieur de Bienville when he departed France to plant a colony at the mouth of the Mississippi
River.
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March 2, 1699
Mardi Gras was first celebrated in what is now the United States on March 2,
1699. The holiday was established by French-Canadian explorer Jean
Baptiste Le Moyne Sieur de Bienville when he departed France to plant a colony at the mouth of the Mississippi
River.
Posted on 2/17/26 at 9:51 am to Lt. Columbo
Baws seething.
Happy Mardi Gras, Forida Man!
Happy Mardi Gras, Forida Man!
Posted on 2/17/26 at 10:13 am to Lt. Columbo
This is petty and weak. I feel sorry for your mother. I would say your dad but nobody knows who that is.
Posted on 2/17/26 at 10:20 am to Lt. Columbo
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all great traditions Florida creates
As someone who lives in what was Spanish west Florida, it would appear you are celebrating the time honored tradition of day drinking.
Posted on 2/17/26 at 11:29 am to Lt. Columbo
If Alabama would have waited 2 years for statehood (after Spain surrendered Florida) all of West Florida to the Apalachicola River would most likely be in Alabama today.
Posted on 2/17/26 at 11:40 am to mckibaj
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If Alabama would have waited 2 years for statehood (after Spain surrendered Florida) all of West Florida to the Apalachicola River would most likely be in Alabama today.
As someone born and raised in the panhandle of FLORIDA, thank God this did not occur.
Posted on 2/17/26 at 11:43 am to Lt. Columbo
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As someone born and raised in the panhandle of FLORIDA, thank God this did not occur.
Well it didn’t, and maybe for the best. I was born and raised in Alabama but spent a lot of time in the panhandle, and do love it down there.
Posted on 2/17/26 at 11:47 am to mckibaj
The panhandle of Florida was actually offered to Alabama and Alabama did not want it. They thought it was nothing but a bunch of sand.
Posted on 2/17/26 at 12:04 pm to Lt. Columbo
what's this about a Bonnie Blue flag?
Posted on 2/17/26 at 12:12 pm to mckibaj
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If Alabama would have waited 2 years for statehood (after Spain surrendered Florida) all of West Florida to the Apalachicola River would most likely be in Alabama today
The Alabama/Florida border was originally proposed to run basically north south along the Chattahoochie River straight down from the Alabama/Georgia border but that was too much of a compromise (and rightly so) for Florida to agree to.
The final compromised proposal came very close to hapoening but for Alabama's shortsightedness in the mid to late 1800s. The final proposal was for the border to run north/south basically along the Santa Rosa and Okaloosa County line down to the beach which would have given Escambia and Santa Rosa counties to Alabama.
That move would have resulted in roughly 503,000 more Alabama residents (as of 2023) and cost Alabama a ton of tourism revenue not to mention a prestigious Air Force base. Granted, the stretch of beach from Pensacola Beach to Navarre Beach would be a solid wall of several miles of high rise concrete condos and hotels instead of the mostly pristine and preserved stretch of Beach it is today.
This post was edited on 2/17/26 at 12:14 pm
Posted on 2/17/26 at 1:48 pm to Lt. Columbo
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cultural wastelands like Louisiana
Uhh..what?
Posted on 2/17/26 at 2:09 pm to Lt. Columbo
Guarantee you no one is trying to steal Florida trash traditions
Posted on 2/17/26 at 2:15 pm to Csmims
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The panhandle of Florida was actually offered to Alabama and Alabama did not want it. They thought it was nothing but a bunch of sand.
At the time, that really was all it was. Nobody envisioned condominiums, Alvin's Island, motorized boats, etc.
Posted on 2/17/26 at 2:56 pm to Lt. Columbo
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West Florida days
Unfortunately, like all great traditions Florida creates, cultural wastelands like Louisiana, Alabama, & Texas feel the need to steal and claim them as their own
Guess you didn't know Baton Rouge was in West Florida as was the land comprising the present day 8 "Florida parishes " of Louisiana. So did they steal it from themselves??
Poor detective work, Lt. Columbo.
Signed, A resident of the former West Florida.
This post was edited on 2/17/26 at 2:57 pm
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