Back to the main page

Mailing List Logs for ShadowRN

Message no. 1
From: Simon Fuller sfuller@******.com.au
Subject: It's Mardi Gras, let's party!!
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 16:58:26 +1100
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff <axter@*****.com>
To: shadowrn@*********.com <shadowrn@*********.com>
Date: Thursday, March 30, 2000 4:35 PM
Subject: Re: It's Mardi Gras, let's party!!


>> Wednesday, which is that start of Lent and 40 days
>> before Easter.
>> Catholics have to take one thing which they will
>> abstain for during
>> Lent (some choose chocolate, others choose red meat,
>> others
>> cigarettes, well, you get the idea :^)). Mardi Gras
>> is, I believe,
>> French, for "Fat Tuesday". That's when all good
>> Catholics do all the
>
>Hey tanx for the infos, btw I'm french (Quebec) and
>I'm *suppose* to go to church. And now I feel almost
>stupid getting catholic french course when I should
>know these things.
>
>Anyway, anything else useful I should know about?
>How long is Mardi Gras in NO?
>One day, a week?
>While the people are getting drunk and vomiting, what
>are the activities? A parade on the streets? Fireworks
>at the end?
>
>====>Jeff
I know carnivale means farewell to the flesh. spooky, huh. This could tie in
as a cryptic clue for something going astral...
Message no. 2
From: Simon Fuller sfuller@******.com.au
Subject: It's Mardi Gras, let's party!!
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 19:19:10 +1100
-----Original Message-----
From: Phil <pames@*****.net>
To: shadowrn@*********.com <shadowrn@*********.com>
Date: Thursday, March 30, 2000 7:52 PM
Subject: Re: It's Mardi Gras, let's party!!


>At 04:58 PM 3/2/2000 +1100, you wrote:
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>>Jeff
>>I know carnivale means farewell to the flesh. spooky, huh. This could tie
in
>>as a cryptic clue for something going astral...
>
>
>It could be used that way in game, quite possibly. Basically, it was a way
>of saying "Goodbye, meat," as your typical poor peasant didn't get any
>during the lenten season.
>
>Phil
>
Heh heh! That may well turn into one of my characters' catchphrases. As he
draws a bead on the bad guy's forehead, "Goodbye, meat."
You have a way with words, Phil. :)
Message no. 3
From: Jeff axter@*****.com
Subject: It's Mardi Gras, let's party!!
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 20:07:03 -0800 (PST)
I have Target: Smuggler Havens and I'm planning to
play in New Orleans. So I would like some info about
Mardi Gras. I couldn't find anything useful except
that it's a big party, that and loads of crap, crap,
crap and CRAP!
So, what happen in the Mardi Gras, what kind of
festivities are there... I want to know how it feels.
I know the best way to know is to get there, but it
cost a lot when you're 3000km away!

Tanx

====Jeff

__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger.
http://im.yahoo.com
Message no. 4
From: Strago strago@***.com
Subject: It's Mardi Gras, let's party!!
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 00:13:53 -0500
Jeff wrote:

> I have Target: Smuggler Havens and I'm planning to
> play in New Orleans. So I would like some info about
> Mardi Gras. I couldn't find anything useful except
> that it's a big party, that and loads of crap, crap,
> crap and CRAP!
> So, what happen in the Mardi Gras, what kind of
> festivities are there... I want to know how it feels.
> I know the best way to know is to get there, but it
> cost a lot when you're 3000km away!
>

Well, first of, Mardi Gras is takes place the night before Ash
Wednesday, which is that start of Lent and 40 days before Easter.
Catholics have to take one thing which they will abstain for during
Lent (some choose chocolate, others choose red meat, others
cigarettes, well, you get the idea :^)). Mardi Gras is, I believe,
French, for "Fat Tuesday". That's when all good Catholics do all the
things they won't do for Lent.
Basically, everyone gets drunk :^). Oh, and the beads. Don't forget
the beads. If you've got a string of cheap plastic beads (the ones
that cost about $.40) and give them to a girl, she's OBLIGATED to show
you her breasts!

*Strago goes to Mardi Gras with a suitcase bulging full of strings of
beads. "Woo-hoo! Boobies! Boobies! Boobies!" And then realizes he's
acting childish*

>
> Tanx
>
> ====> Jeff
>
> __________________________________________________
> Do You Yahoo!?
> Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger.
> http://im.yahoo.com

--
--Strago

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror,
murder, bloodshed - they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and
the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly
love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they
produce? The cuckoo clock!
-Orson Welles

SRGC v0.2 !SR1 SR2+ SR3++ h b++ B- UB- IE+ RN+ SRFF W+ sa++ ma++ ad+
m+ (o++ d+) gm+ M P
Message no. 5
From: Sommers sommers@*****.umich.edu
Subject: It's Mardi Gras, let's party!!
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 08:32:36 -0500
At 11:07 PM 3/28/00, Jeff wrote:
>I have Target: Smuggler Havens and I'm planning to
>play in New Orleans. So I would like some info about
>Mardi Gras. I couldn't find anything useful except
>that it's a big party, that and loads of crap, crap,
>crap and CRAP!

Okay, so this is coming from someone that was just down in New Orleans for
Mardi Gras, and went to the museum for it to boot. (Can't drink the entire
time you're there...)

>So, what happen in the Mardi Gras, what kind of
>festivities are there... I want to know how it feels.
>I know the best way to know is to get there, but it
>cost a lot when you're 3000km away!

As someone else already posted, Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday) is the day before
Ash Wednesday, when Lent begins. Its basically the last hurrah for partiers
before you have to be good for Lent. Technically it is only that Tuesday,
what many people consider Mardi Gras is really called Carnival (like down
in Rio) and lasts for 40 days before Ash Wednesday. The real big parties
and parades are held the last week before Wednesday, ending with an
official State holiday that Tuesday.

The part that most people know about are the parades, where carnival groups
(called krewes) create large floats following a particular theme that run
through the town. Masked members of the krewes man the floats, throwing
beads, coins, cups and other small objects to the crowds. The floats are
very elaborate, with the biggest ones in Orpheus (run Tuesday morning)
running close to 1 million dollars.

Many of the krewes sponsor costume balls that last far into the night. Some
are very exclusive, by invitation only, while others are open to the
public, with one being held in the Superdome! Elaborate costumes are the
order of the day at these balls, as is the custom of masking to watch the
parades. Masking is simply wearing a large, sometimes very elaborate mask,
during Mardi Gras.

For those commenting on bead throwing, you'll want to go to Bourbon Street.
This is a several block area of the French Quarter that is absolutely
packed with bars and strip clubs. Many apartments and hotels are located on
the second floor, with balconies overlooking the streets (as is the custom
in the entire French Quarter). Women on the balconies flash passerbys, and
women on the street flash men above, and in return expect some beads to be
thrown their way. However, this generally applies only in that area, and
flashing in other parts of town may still cause you grief.

The whole thing ends promptly at midnight of Fat Tuesday, when literally
everything shuts down. The NO police start sweeping the streets, announcing
that Mardi Gras is over and everyone should leave the area. By the next
morning, everything has pretty much settled down to normal.

For SR tie-ins, I definitely see the krewes using magic in their floats to
get even bigger effects. The background count of the place, especially the
French Quarter, is going to spike relatively quickly. All of those masks
and costume balls make for lots of confusion, which makes for a great cover
for corporate extractions.

In the cemeteries, they bury the dead in mausoleums, since burials tend to
wash away. But since they are so small, there's a law that states after
three years the same crypt may be used again, where the bones are carefully
pushed to the back. Some have dozens of bodies buried in the same box, and
I don't want to think of what that background count is going to look like.

I think that Smugglers Havens covered the voodoo history pretty well,
although I've been meaning to read it again to see how well they did.

Sommers
Aerospace engineers build weapon systems. Civil engineers build targets.
Message no. 6
From: Richard Gaywood r.gaywood@**********.com
Subject: It's Mardi Gras, let's party!!
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 20:14:05 -0000
I assume you've got the voodoo rules from Awakenings? I'd say they're pretty
much essential for good Mardi Gras.

--
-=R=-

SRGC SR1+ SR2++ SR3+++ h++| web: http://www.clmconsulting.co.uk
b+++ !B UB IE++ RN++ W- | ICQ: 66545073
ri++ ma++ m+ gm+ M+ !P | UT ngStats: RichBeard
Message no. 7
From: Jeff axter@*****.com
Subject: It's Mardi Gras, let's party!!
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 21:33:41 -0800 (PST)
> Wednesday, which is that start of Lent and 40 days
> before Easter.
> Catholics have to take one thing which they will
> abstain for during
> Lent (some choose chocolate, others choose red meat,
> others
> cigarettes, well, you get the idea :^)). Mardi Gras
> is, I believe,
> French, for "Fat Tuesday". That's when all good
> Catholics do all the

Hey tanx for the infos, btw I'm french (Quebec) and
I'm *suppose* to go to church. And now I feel almost
stupid getting catholic french course when I should
know these things.

Anyway, anything else useful I should know about?
How long is Mardi Gras in NO?
One day, a week?
While the people are getting drunk and vomiting, what
are the activities? A parade on the streets? Fireworks
at the end?

====Jeff

__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger.
http://im.yahoo.com
Message no. 8
From: Phil pames@*****.net
Subject: It's Mardi Gras, let's party!!
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 02:44:04 -0600
At 04:58 PM 3/2/2000 +1100, you wrote:
>
>-----Original Message-----
>>Jeff
>I know carnivale means farewell to the flesh. spooky, huh. This could tie in
>as a cryptic clue for something going astral...


It could be used that way in game, quite possibly. Basically, it was a way
of saying "Goodbye, meat," as your typical poor peasant didn't get any
during the lenten season.

Phil
Message no. 9
From: Strago strago@***.com
Subject: It's Mardi Gras, let's party!!
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 04:20:16 -0500
Simon Fuller wrote:
You're still screwed up, there Simon. I sort by date as well and you're coming
in on March 2. Could you please fix that? Pretty please?

--
--Strago

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder,
bloodshed - they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance.
In Switzerland they had brotherly
love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The
cuckoo clock!
-Orson Welles

SRGC v0.2 !SR1 SR2+ SR3++ h b++ B- UB- IE+ RN+ SRFF W+ sa++ ma++ ad+ m+ (o++
d+) gm+ M P
Message no. 10
From: Simon Fuller sfuller@******.com.au
Subject: It's Mardi Gras, let's party!!
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 19:46:03 +1000
-----Original Message-----
From: Strago <strago@***.com>
To: shadowrn@*********.com <shadowrn@*********.com>
Date: Thursday, March 30, 2000 7:19 PM
Subject: Re: It's Mardi Gras, let's party!!


>Simon Fuller wrote:
>You're still screwed up, there Simon. I sort by date as well and you're
coming
>in on March 2. Could you please fix that? Pretty please?
>
>--
>--Strago
>
Huh? it is March 2, isn't it? Don't tell me I slept in again.

Once again, apologies. I normally check, but this time it slipped through.
Message no. 11
From: Sommers sommers@*****.umich.edu
Subject: It's Mardi Gras, let's party!!
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 08:23:27 -0500
At 12:33 AM 3/30/00, Jeff wrote:
> > Wednesday, which is that start of Lent and 40 days
> > before Easter.
> > Catholics have to take one thing which they will
> > abstain for during
> > Lent (some choose chocolate, others choose red meat,
> > others
> > cigarettes, well, you get the idea :^)). Mardi Gras
> > is, I believe,
> > French, for "Fat Tuesday". That's when all good
> > Catholics do all the
>
>Hey tanx for the infos, btw I'm french (Quebec) and
>I'm *suppose* to go to church. And now I feel almost
>stupid getting catholic french course when I should
>know these things.
>
>Anyway, anything else useful I should know about?
>How long is Mardi Gras in NO?
>One day, a week?
>While the people are getting drunk and vomiting, what
>are the activities? A parade on the streets? Fireworks
>at the end?

If you go back through yesterday's posts, I put up a fairly long one about
carnival, who's running it, and a few other tidbits I learned down while I
was there.

Sommers
Aerospace engineers build weapon systems. Civil engineers build targets.
Message no. 12
From: Sebastian Wiers m0ng005e@*********.com
Subject: It's Mardi Gras, let's party!!
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 11:35:41 -0600
:Anyway, anything else useful I should know about?
:How long is Mardi Gras in NO?

Thanks to tourists, it's year round, basicaly, at least in the French
Quarter. :-)
:One day, a week?

Really, I'd imagine it really starts to kick off on the weekend before Fat
Tuesday, and ramps up from there as more people arrive. Its just to much
party for only one day. But, at midnight sharp on Tuesday, the cops WILL
bust you for being drunk in public. (Actually, from what I hear, they will
bust you all through the party if you do something stupid, like vomit in the
streets, or look like you don't have money.)

:While the people are getting drunk and vomiting, what
:are the activities? A parade on the streets? Fireworks
:at the end?

Lots and lots of parades, sponsered by "crewes" who try to outdo each other
in staginging an elaborate walking carnival show type thing. Themes are
gereally various gods and thier attendant posse, who throw bead necklaces,
candy, and funny money to ardant worshipers. Yeah, its just slightly
pagan...

And that's the OFFICIAL show. The unofficial show is people having sex in
the streets, whatever drug you desire to indulge in, etc. Lots of people
wearing masks and not much else...

Its basically like a good drunken circus funhouse orgy. Of course, this is
only from reports and pictures,
but hey, might as well make it over the top (for Shadowrun, at least).

SanFrancisco has a similar event down on Castro street on Halloween (with a
bigger focus on homo-erotica), but I imagine the Imperial Stormtroopers put
a stop to that...

Mongoose


_____________________________________________
NetZero - Defenders of the Free World
Click here for FREE Internet Access and Email
http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html
Message no. 13
From: ROGER PERRY smithsguild@*******.com
Subject: It's Mardi Gras, let's party!!
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 23:29:42 GMT
>Sebastian Wiers wrote: SanFrancisco has a similar event down on Castro
>street on Halloween (with a bigger focus on homo-erotica), but I imagine
>the Imperial >Stormtroopers put a stop to that...

Similar HUGE party in Tampa Bay area called 'Gasparilla'(sp) day to
commemorate Jose' Gaspar a pirate that raped/pillage/burnt along the
area... Huge floating party in the bay ranging from luxury liners to
I exagerate not 'a canoe w/t only a trolling motor'.

given the chance people will celebrate anything... *G*

Lilblue



______________________________________________________
Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Further Reading

If you enjoyed reading about It's Mardi Gras, let's party!!, you may also be interested in:

Disclaimer

These messages were posted a long time ago on a mailing list far, far away. The copyright to their contents probably lies with the original authors of the individual messages, but since they were published in an electronic forum that anyone could subscribe to, and the logs were available to subscribers and most likely non-subscribers as well, it's felt that re-publishing them here is a kind of public service.

Thwap!