What are you giving up for Lent

[todd]

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[erika]

I miss living in Pittsburgh this time of year. There were churches all over Pityburgh that had fish fry's every friday afternoon. For like 5 bucks I could get kick-ass fish sammiches and cole slaw and fries. They don't have them in Baltimore city as far as I can tell.

It was when I moved to Pittsburgh that I first saw people with ash on their foreheads for Ash Wednesday. I saw that almost every person I passed on the street had a smudge on their face. I thought I was hallucinating.

[Sarah]

I used to be so jealous of the Catholic kids in my school around this time of year.  They'd  leave for a bit and then strut back to class showing off their ashy foreheads.  And then there were those nifty palm fronds.  And the fancy clothes on Easter Sunday.  Heady stuff for a heathen like me.

[Oogie]

I used to be so jealous of the Catholic kids in my school around this time of year.  They'd  leave for a bit and then strut back to class showing off their ashy foreheads.  And then there were those nifty palm fronds.  And the fancy clothes on Easter Sunday.  Heady stuff for a heathen like me.

i love ash wednesday. the ashes smell nice.

and i like lent. i gave up talking too much.

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in high school we'd go to the diner and put cigarette ashes on our heads. which is rude and crude.

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my ashes this year were put on by an old lady, and she missed the center of my forehead and landed them basically above my left eyebrow.

[iAmBaronVonTito]

Last year for Lent I gave up caring.

give up knoxville.
move to memphis.

[dave from knoxville]

That would make my family; errrh, I mean my "payroll designees" very unhappy.

[Fido]

Just don't give up the ghost!  Anything else is ok. 

For Lent, I believe I will give up taking taxis.  Let the Manhattan-bashing begin.

[zonny the nun]

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