# And To Think That I Saw It On Bourbon Street! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 2, 2008, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-to-think-that-i-saw-it-on-bourbon-street/455105 "2008-07-02T21:45:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2008, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-to-think-that-i-saw-it-on-bourbon-street/455105/1 "2008-07-02T21:45:28Z")
I saw love being made vertically in a trench-coat wrapper at 3 in the afternoon. I saw street acrobats performing incredible leaps for donations. I saw breasts aplenty. And nobody was even handing out beads! What’d you see in The Quarter? ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2008, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-to-think-that-i-saw-it-on-bourbon-street/455105/2 "2008-07-02T21:53:25Z")
> **[My little dragonfly buddy](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=439807)** > > Just to balance out my cynical gloomfest over in IMHO, here’s a cheery, sappy thread about an incident it makes me happy to remember. This past weekend, my wife and I took an anniversary trip to New Orleans. We are of the very strong opinion that... ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-to-think-that-i-saw-it-on-bourbon-street/455105/3 "2008-07-03T00:07:16Z")
I saw vomit. Stepped in some, too. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-to-think-that-i-saw-it-on-bourbon-street/455105/4 "2008-07-03T00:38:41Z")
_(Hurriedly makes notes, as he shall be in NOLA for a business meeting in three weeks… )_ ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-to-think-that-i-saw-it-on-bourbon-street/455105/5 "2008-07-03T01:52:01Z")
I once saw people boffing in Jackson Square during a Mardi Gras parade. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-to-think-that-i-saw-it-on-bourbon-street/455105/6 "2008-07-03T12:29:12Z")
I saw stripper bars with mirrors in the doorways so that passers-by could see the show and be enticed in. I saw displays of amazingly realistic dildos in well-lit shop windows. All of which was a helluva culture shock to someone who’d just stepped off a plane from Salt Lake City ---
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-to-think-that-i-saw-it-on-bourbon-street/455105/7 "2008-07-03T12:34:42Z")
I saw some people filming a movie (called “Mardi Gras”, strangely) and a man dancing with a golf club (not part of the movie). ---
**Author:** ![Ichbin\_Dubist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@Ichbin\_Dubist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ichbin_Dubist)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-to-think-that-i-saw-it-on-bourbon-street/455105/8 "2008-07-03T14:34:13Z")
NOLA is the only place I’ve been heckled for jogging. Including my fave: “God already knows when you’re going to die, buddy!” This from a filthy bearded dude still drunk at 7 AM. So, fine, I’ll jog with a beignet in one hand and a hurricane in the other and let God sort it all out. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/and-to-think-that-i-saw-it-on-bourbon-street/455105/9 "2008-07-03T14:39:06Z")
I saw my yellow lab drinking out of the gutter in the Quarter as we were walking through. They don’t call that muck on the streets “gravy” for nothing!