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re: Lane Kiffin to ride in Endymion parade
Posted on 1/25/26 at 8:51 pm to Tom McD
Posted on 1/25/26 at 8:51 pm to Tom McD
We're talking about two different things. I'm talking about the modern understanding of Mardi Gras, the one people from all over the world come to see in New Orleans evey year: purple green and gold floats throwing items to people in a street parade and then a ball afterwards. New Orleans started all that. Comus came up with the format. Rex picked the colors.
You're talking about Mardi Gras as an ancient holiday with feasts and celebrations, and claiming it for Mobile, which is ridiculous. Mardi Gras in that respect predates the discovery of North America and Christianity itself.
You're talking about Mardi Gras as an ancient holiday with feasts and celebrations, and claiming it for Mobile, which is ridiculous. Mardi Gras in that respect predates the discovery of North America and Christianity itself.
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Posted on 1/25/26 at 8:54 pm to Errerrerrwere
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What truth? That Mardi Gras originated in Mobile and everyone goes to New Orleans to celebrate it for the last 100 years?
I was just laying out the real facts of the situation so even an LSU fan like one of your cross-eyed, inbred, swamp buddies like this one:
Wrong on every account
named Tall Tiger could understand. I understand that Louisiana Mardi Gras celebrations are much larger and more well known than Mobile's are.
That wasn't the predicament we found ourselves in. The predicament was that a retard LSU fan was trying to rewrite history to bend to his incorrect retard bayou brain thoughts.
This post was edited on 1/25/26 at 8:57 pm
Posted on 1/25/26 at 9:02 pm to Tom McD
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I was just laying out the real facts of the situation
You are embarrassing yourself.
Posted on 1/25/26 at 9:03 pm to Tall Tiger
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We're talking about two different things. I'm talking about the modern understanding of Mardi Gras, the one people from all over the world come to see in New Orleans evey year: purple green and gold floats throwing items to people in a street parade and then a ball afterwards. New Orleans started all that. Comus came up with the format. Rex picked the colors.
You're talking about Mardi Gras as an ancient holiday with feasts and celebrations, and claiming it for Mobile, which is ridiculous. Mardi Gras in that respect predates the discovery of North America and Christianity itself.
It's not that we are talking about two different things, it's just that you don't understand what you are talking about.
From the oracle of Mardi Gras history, which is here:
Mardi Gras New Orleans History
I will verbatim quote this:
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In 1704, Mobile established a secret society (Masque de la Mobile), similar to those that form our current Mardi Gras krewes. It lasted until 1709.
In 1710, the "Boeuf Gras Society" was formed and paraded from 1711 through 1861. The procession was held with a huge bull's head pushed along on wheels by 16 men.
Later, Rex would parade with an actual bull, draped in white and signaling the coming Lenten meat fast. This occurred on Fat Tuesday.
New Orleans was established in 1718 by Bienville.
All of this was already occuring in current day Alabama before New Orleans was even founded as a few trails, plank boards to keep out of the mud, and lean-to shacks.
Give up. Admit you were wrong and move along.
This post was edited on 1/25/26 at 9:11 pm
Posted on 1/25/26 at 9:13 pm to SEC Doctor
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You are embarrassing yourself.
It seems like an SEC Doctor from Louisiana would know enough about the history of Mardi Gras in the Untited States to correct other LSU fans on his own.
Maybe you aren't even a doctor; maybe you aren't even from Louisiana. You don't seem to know much about Mardi Gras, which is strange for someone from Louisiana.
Posted on 1/25/26 at 9:14 pm to Tom McD
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Maybe you aren't even a doctor; maybe you aren't even from Louisiana. You don't seem to know much about Mardi Gras, which is strange for someone from Louisiana.
Strike 1
Strike 2
Strike 3
You’re out.
Posted on 1/25/26 at 9:16 pm to SEC Doctor
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Strike 1
Strike 2
Strike 3
You’re out.
You certainly don't know the history of Mardi Gras in your own country so, it can't be strike three. Evidently, you can't add either.
Tall Tiger says that since in 18th Century Mobile, they didn't have tractors pulling floats on trailers and Chinese made plastic beads weren't thrown, it wasn't really a Mardi Gras "parade".
Both of you are idiots.
This post was edited on 1/25/26 at 9:29 pm
Posted on 1/25/26 at 9:21 pm to SEC Doctor
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SEC Doctor
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I’m from New Orleans
Liar.
Posted on 1/25/26 at 9:41 pm to cajunbama
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Liar.
Born at Hotel Dieu. That was in New Orleans, dummy.
This post was edited on 1/25/26 at 9:42 pm
Posted on 1/25/26 at 9:54 pm to cajunbama
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the LSU Alumni arse
Posted on 1/25/26 at 10:07 pm to Tom McD
If your whole argument is that whoever did the very first Mardi Gras celebration of any kind in North America gets to claim it, then Mobile loses again because the first recorded celebration was on the banks of the Mississippi River in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana.
Sorry.
Sorry.
Posted on 1/25/26 at 10:30 pm to VFL67
I know people in Rex, Endymion and Bacchus.
Rex is the most prestigious from a historical standpoint, Endymion has the best ball/extravaganza and Bacchus has the best parade/route IMO. Comus is a different category since they don’t ride and I have a lot of friends in Thoth too so I’m partial to them as well.
Also, Nola is a huge LSU town but the Saints are no. 1, although LSU is by far the more popular team statewide. Not sure what the Vol fan is thinking, but as someone who was born and raised in Nashville, I can tell you there’s significantly more people who despise the Vols in Music City than those who like them.
Rex is the most prestigious from a historical standpoint, Endymion has the best ball/extravaganza and Bacchus has the best parade/route IMO. Comus is a different category since they don’t ride and I have a lot of friends in Thoth too so I’m partial to them as well.
Also, Nola is a huge LSU town but the Saints are no. 1, although LSU is by far the more popular team statewide. Not sure what the Vol fan is thinking, but as someone who was born and raised in Nashville, I can tell you there’s significantly more people who despise the Vols in Music City than those who like them.
This post was edited on 1/25/26 at 10:33 pm
Posted on 1/25/26 at 10:44 pm to am4titansandlsu
Most of Comus rides in Knights of Chaos, and most of Comus also rides in other krewes, namely Rex and Proteus
Posted on 1/25/26 at 11:34 pm to Tall Tiger
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If your whole argument is that whoever did the very first Mardi Gras celebration of any kind in North America gets to claim it, then Mobile loses again because the first recorded celebration was on the banks of the Mississippi River in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana.
Sorry.
I'm not sure why your seeming self-worth is tied to Mardi Gras first being celebrated and then paraded in Louisiana. It wasn't, but that isn't good for you.
What you are referencing, and I have already mentioned in a previous post, is that a handful of French guys in few canoes were floating around in a swamp and landed on a small patch of dry land for a while and named it Pointe du Mardi Gras due to the time of year being during Lent season.
There was no festival, there was no parade, there were no societies, etc... They left that bit of land they made landfall on almost immediately.
As I've already stated, and proven with reputable links provided by a Mardi Gras historical society based in NEW ORLEANS, Mobile, Alabama, had the first krewe, society, and parade before New Orleans was founded.
Let it go. You can't change history because you want it to be different to fulfill your fantasy. Everyone realizes that the New Orleans Mardi Gras celebrations are more famous, elaborate, fancy, fun, and exciting than Mobile's are but, that doesn't magically equate into New Orleans, or even present day Louisiana, somehow having the first Mardi Gras.
You've already had a couple of LSU posters tell you that you are incorrect in this thread. The one's who aren't responding know you are wrong too but they have to show solidarity with a fellow LSU fan because they feel that is more important than reality.
Since processing information is difficult for you, I will again quote straight from the horse's mouth for you, so maybe it will sink in.
MardiGrasNewOrleansHistory.com
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On March 2, 1699, French-Canadian explorer Jean Baptiste Le Moyne Sieur de Bienville arrived at a plot of ground 60 miles directly south of New Orleans, and named it "Pointe du Mardi Gras" when his men realized it was the eve of the festive holiday.
Bienville also established "Fort Louis de la Louisiane" (which is now Mobile) in 1702. In 1703, the tiny settlement of Fort Louis de la Mobile celebrated America's very first Mardi Gras.
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In 1704, Mobile established a secret society (Masque de la Mobile), similar to those that form our current Mardi Gras krewes.
It lasted until 1709. In 1710, the "Boeuf Gras Society" was formed and paraded from 1711 through 1861. The procession was held with a huge bull's head pushed along on wheels by 16 men.
Later, Rex would parade with an actual bull, draped in white and signaling the coming Lenten meat fast. This occurred on Fat Tuesday.
This post was edited on 1/26/26 at 12:41 am
Posted on 1/26/26 at 12:10 am to Tom McD
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it was also Prostestant Anglo-Americans that turned New Orleans into a livable and prosperous city were before them arriving and taking over it had been a deeply indebted, mosquito infested, disease ridden, horror show barely subsiding on welfare from France.
True.
But who turned that livable prosperous city into the mess that it is today?
Posted on 1/26/26 at 1:19 am to SEC Doctor
It is truly amazing how LSU fans melt over the fact that the birthplace of Mardi Gras resides in the state of Alabama. It is History 101. They are straight out history deniers. There is no way they can be that dumb.
Posted on 1/26/26 at 1:36 am to coldbeerfan
It actually known as the "City of Six Flags," Representing the six nations that have governed it: France, Great Britain, Spain, the United States, the Republic of Alabama, and the Confederate States. It used to have the six flags on Mobile's flag before they changed it.
Posted on 1/26/26 at 1:45 am to Bobulinski
Mardis Gras is about debauchery before Ash Wednesday. But Louisianans just use it for whatever ignoring Ash Wednesday. 40 days of lent doesn’t mean much to them and that is ok.
Posted on 1/26/26 at 7:02 am to SEC Doctor
fully expect LK to switch floats before the parade is over -
anything less would be out of character for him - :
anything less would be out of character for him - :
Posted on 1/26/26 at 7:09 am to Lt. Columbo
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Mobile has the original Mardi Gras. Like everything else in Loozeyanna, even "their" cultural events are stolen
I see you suck at history! Do they not teach American history in Florida?
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