These guys are crazy!' [float builder Blaine] Kern told his wife when he arrived home from the first meeting. 'They want to bring some hot-shot to town and make him king of their parade. Imagine. It will never work.' - Silver Jubilee (Krewe of Bacchus' 25th-anniversary book,1993), by Bonnie Warren

2:It's a funny thing how life can be such a drag one minute and a solid sender the next. The day I got out of jail Mardi Gras was being celebrated. It is a great day for all of New Orleans, and particularly for the Zulu Aid Pleasure and Social Club. Every member of the Club masquerades in a costume burlesquing some famous person. The King of the Zulus, also in masquerade costume, rides with six other Zulus on a float giving away coconuts as souvenirs. The members march to the good jumping music of the brass bands while the King on his throne scrapes and bows to the cheering crowds.

3:There's a thing I've dreamed of all my life, and I'll be damned if it don't look like it's about to come true--to be King of the Zulu's parade. After that, I'll be ready to die.

4:You greet people with Howyamomma'an'em? and hear back Dey fine!

5:As a spirit figure, the Indian would never have entered the folk streams of New Orleans music had it not been for Carnival. Congo Square was suppressed about 1835, though some gatherings probably occurred afterward.,Mardi gras facebook timeline cover picture

6:fred's lounge in mamou means more to you than the grand ole opry.

7:You know when it's appropriate to use Tony Chachere's. (Cajun seasoning)

8:You greet people with Howyamomma'an'em? and hear back Dey fine!

9:fred's lounge in mamou means more to you than the grand ole opry.

10:Anything goes for Mardi Gras.

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