# No Ash Wednesday thread yet?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-ash-wednesday-thread-yet/436602
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [February 6, 2008, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-ash-wednesday-thread-yet/436602 "2008-02-06T23:36:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Captain\_Socks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Socks)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2008, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-ash-wednesday-thread-yet/436602/1 "2008-02-06T23:36:59Z")
Just thought I’d note that it’s today.
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### Author:  [@hekk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hekk)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2008, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-ash-wednesday-thread-yet/436602/2 "2008-02-07T04:40:26Z")
Otherwise known as “What the f— is on all these peoples’ foreheads??” day.
Before you realize that it’s Ash Wednesday, that is.
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### Author:  [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2008, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-ash-wednesday-thread-yet/436602/3 "2008-02-07T05:13:12Z")
I just sprinted downstairs to the fireplace for matches and a fingerful of soot, lit a candle and said a quick prayer. Now I have an odd blackish smut on my forehead.
Maybe I’ll get it together in time for Lent. _sigh_ :rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2008, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-ash-wednesday-thread-yet/436602/4 "2008-02-07T05:15:57Z")
I decided to be different and go to an Episcopalian service today. They have the most delicious bread! On top of that they were swell folks. I think I’ll be back.
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### Author:  [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2008, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-ash-wednesday-thread-yet/436602/5 "2008-02-07T05:16:51Z")
Heh, the mass I went to had some hippy spread the love crap going on where they passed the ashes down the rows and you ashed the forehead of the person next to you. I felt bad for the person I ashed because, as I learned last year when I was an official asher, the ashes don’t stick to my thumb and the people get a vaguely gray swoosh on their forehead.
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### Author:  [@Skara\_Brae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skara_Brae)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2008, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-ash-wednesday-thread-yet/436602/6 "2008-02-07T05:20:23Z")
[QUOTE=Inner Stickler]
Heh, the mass I went to had some hippy spread the love crap going on where they passed the ashes down the rows and you ashed the forehead of the person next to you. I felt bad for the person I ashed because, as I learned last year when I was an official asher, the ashes don’t stick to my thumb and the people get a vaguely gray swoosh on their forehead.
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That’s bizarre. I have never heard of that.
I do like Ash Wednesday though. There is nothing like walking around with a visible symbol of your own mortality on your forehead!
The service I attended was packed. I don’t think I ever have seen the church that full. And people kept coming in a half hour late!
In other news, I think I need to work on my tolerence this lenten season. 😛