"You've got some shmootz on your forehead"

[Judge Smails]

<p>Everybody ready for this?&nbsp; Ash Wednesday, I mean.&nbsp; I was born and raised Catholic but I can honestly say that I have NEVER gotten the ashes.&nbsp; I think it stems from the fact that I'm a neat freak.&nbsp; I always found some excuse&nbsp;to avoid&nbsp;it.&nbsp; Anyone here getting it?&nbsp; </p><p>I always like to people watch on Ash Wednesday and try to keep a straight face.&nbsp; It's always funny when you see someone who the priest really went to town on and smeared their whole forehead black.</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

[Sheeplovr]

i love it i dont go to church but i take some of my art charcoal and smudge my self so i can fit in <br />

[MrPink]

I used to do it when I was younger. I&nbsp;would always laugh&nbsp;when I saw a hundred people walkin around with ashes on their forehead.

[PapaBear]

<p>I'm not the least bit Catholic. I had no idea what Ash Wednesday was all about, until a wired (for me) experience in Pittsburgh, Pa, about 20 years ago. I was sitting in the middle of PPG square, and I saw all these &quot;normal&quot; looking people walking around with the ash smudge on their foreheads. </p><p>Keep in mind... I had watched Krishnas dancing around the square on a daily basis. Until I learned what the whole ash thing was about, the Krishnas looked a little bit more normal to me.</p>

[Bob Impact]

<p>I'm not trying to be inflammatory here but:</p><p>If this was any other religion, wouldn't this look really fucking weird to people outside of it?&nbsp; It's like some strange pagan ritual.&nbsp; I swear I forget every year and it weirds me out when I remember that this is normal.&nbsp;</p>

[underdog]

<strong>Bob Impact</strong> wrote:<br /><p>I'm not trying to be inflammatory here but:</p><p>If this was any other religion, wouldn't this look really fucking weird to people outside of it? It's like some strange pagan ritual. I swear I forget every year and it weirds me out when I remember that this is normal. </p><p>&nbsp;Its religion. Just about everything about it would look weird/crazy to an outsider if it wasn't categorized as &quot;faith&quot;. </p>

[Fezticle98]

wait for it...

[Furtherman]

<p>Hee hee... shmootz.&nbsp; </p><p>No comment!</p>

[EliSnow]

<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">&quot;Ashes to ashes, dust to dust&quot;</font>

[Death Metal Moe]

<strong>Bob Impact</strong> wrote:<br /><p>I'm not trying to be inflammatory here but:</p><p>If this was any other religion, wouldn't this look really fucking weird to people outside of it?&nbsp; It's like some strange pagan ritual.&nbsp; I swear I forget every year and it weirds me out when I remember that this is normal.&nbsp;</p><p>You weren't inflammatory in the least.</p><p>We sit over here and make fun of people doing stuff for their religions all the time.&nbsp; Time to laugh at ourselves.</p><p>I went to a Catholic High School and saw lots of kids walking around with the shit on their foreheads all day.&nbsp; Next day it was back to the same.</p>

[Jughead]

Im cleaning my Weber...

[torker]

<strong>EliSnow</strong> wrote:<br /><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Ashes to ashes</font> <p>Funk to funky</p>

[Furtherman]

<strong>torker</strong> wrote:<br /><strong>EliSnow</strong> wrote:<br /><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Ashes to ashes</font> <p>Funk to funky</p><p>Funky to Funkman!</p>

[Fezticle98]

<strong>Furtherman</strong> wrote:<br /><strong>torker</strong> wrote:<br /><strong>EliSnow</strong> wrote:<br /><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Ashes to ashes</font> <p>Funk to funky</p><p>Funky to Funkman!</p><p>Go ahead, just add another&nbsp;thing to the Funkman/Furtherman confusion.</p>

[SatCam]

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[Hottub]

<em>Q</em>uia pulvis es et in pulverem reverteris.