If you want tourists to go to NOLA, you better hope they’re expecting beads, booze and boobs. Most of the people I know who went ther for Mardi Gras went for those reasons.
BTW, look at the graphic chosen for the link to Mardi Gras on the official New Orleans web site. I don’t expect them to put boobs on their web site, but those sure look like beads to me.
Then most of your friends I would venture to guess are rather shallow. Spending hundreds of dollars in travel and hotel fees to go flash strangers for a strand of cheap plastic beads seems kinda silly to me, but to each his own.
Beads, yes. Some booze, yes. Boobs, with very few exceptions, only in the FQ.
Good morning and happy Mardi Gras. I’m out the door with Mrs. Ivorybill and our four children to go see Rex. We’ll also join some other families and friends, eat some fried chicken, drink a bloody mary or two (not the kids, of course) and let the good times roll. My guess is that this thread will sink into oblivion where it rightly belongs.
Ivorybill, that’s the worst article I’ve ever seen. He glossed over the beads, booze and boobs available during Mardi Gras, and didn’t even mention the gambling and whores on tap year-round. Well, maybe the casino boats blew away with most of the city’s infrastructure (such as it was), but it is a crime against truth that a Fox reporter (an oxymoron, I’ll grant you) did not at least research all the potential for debauchery your city offers.
By the way, there’s a reason there are no news reports about breast-baring during the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. That reason: 29 degrees, plus, sorry, no long-standing tradition of getting plastered and yanking up your sweater while vacationing in the Big Apple, except indoors, and for money up front.
Besides which, the lines will shortly have to be redrawn (again) with respect to what percentage of the garbage collectors’ salary, etc., is donated by drunk and lewd tourists. So it will soon be worthwhile to live in a city described by libertarian P.J. O’Rourke as like “taking a sauna in a high-crime drainage ditch.”
Huh. I was watching Fox’s coverage of Mardi Gras while at the Y this weekend, and what I was wondering was
“why is that guy on TV wearing a t-shirt?”
I mean, I know that Mardi Gras is rather informal at times, but seriously, who’d get on camera standing around in a gray t-shirt?