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Today is Ash Wednesday. I don't go to Mass anymore and I haven't in a long time, but there were plenty of Ash Wednesdays as a kid that I walked around all day with a cross on my forehead made from the ash of last year's palm fronds. I think Maggot & Clangy did too.
Do you have any weirdness from your childhood or customs in general that are odd?
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My Grandfather once tried to push the lump on my brothers head in with a quarter after I whacked him with a rake until my Mother came running in and stopped him. That's all I got. And I just took it for granted that everyone had the ashes on their forehead.
He ain't heavy, he's my brother.
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(02-17-2021, 11:32 AM)Duchess Wrote: Today is Ash Wednesday. I don't go to Mass anymore and I haven't in a long time, but there were plenty of Ash Wednesdays as a kid that I walked around all day with a cross on my forehead made from the ash of last year's palm fronds. I think Maggot & Clangy did too.
Do you have any weirdness from your childhood or customs in general that are odd? Yep. I used too. But I don't go to Church anymore either. It feels great to not have to worry about not eating meat on Fridays during Lent.
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Growing up, the Friday before Easter I went my folks who would take a basket of ham, bread, hard boiled eggs, butter, and other goodies to their church and have our parish priest bless the stuff in the basket. We then ate some of those things on Easter Sunday.
Another thing I remember, was on January 1st, or 2nd, my folks would have our parish priest come over to our house, and bless the entry way by marking a chalk cross on the door jam, and then walk through the house sprinkling holy water in all the rooms to drive out devil spirits!
They gave him a donation for his blessings efforts.
When I got older, I was not involved with that any longer.
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I put $8 in a red envelope for Lunar New Year.
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My grandma used to turn her hands into a church. Even until she was almost 90 years old with alzheimers she was still making that stupid church with the steeple and all the people.
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I do that with my feet then my legs until God comes out.
He ain't heavy, he's my brother.
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I do that with my ass cheeks until Holy Shit comes out.
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I hope you slip and fall on a large crucifix.
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Is that code word for a large black dick?
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(02-18-2021, 11:47 PM)BigMark Wrote: No, that's an eggplant.
That's a Sicilian.
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For gods sake, pull your panties back up.
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Not you sally, leave them down.
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(02-19-2021, 12:09 AM)BigMark Wrote: For gods sake, pull your panties back up.
You're just jelly of my fantastically humongous micro-peeny.
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