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  • This is a man who openly pressured the semi-corrupt British and Scottish governments to release one of the world's most famous terrorists, Al Megrahi, the Lockerbie bomber, and then gave him a Mardi-Gras scale celebration upon his return home.

    Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: As the Arab Dominoes Fall, Is Gaddafi Next? Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2011

  • This is a man who openly pressured the semi-corrupt British and Scottish governments to release one of the world's most famous terrorists, Al Megrahi, the Lockerbie bomber, and then gave him a Mardi-Gras scale celebration upon his return home.

    Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: As the Arab Dominoes Fall, Is Gaddafi Next? Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2011

  • This is a man who openly pressured the semi-corrupt British and Scottish governments to release one of the world's most famous terrorists, Al Megrahi, the Lockerbie bomber, and then gave him a Mardi-Gras scale celebration upon his return home.

    Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: As the Arab Dominoes Fall, Is Gaddafi Next? Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2011

  • An American has not seen the United States until he has seen the Mardi-Gras in New Orleans.

    LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

  • An American has not seen the United States until he has seen the Mardi-Gras in New Orleans.

    LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

  • Bojangles #2 looks like he's at a Mardi-Gras party.

    Funny Business 2010

  • The largest annual event in New Orleans is a something which we arrived too late to sample--the Mardi-Gras festivities.

    Mark Twain on Mardi Gras Victoria Janssen 2009

  • Mardi-Gras is of course a relic of the French and Spanish occupation; but I judge that the religious feature has been pretty well knocked out of it now.

    Mark Twain on Mardi Gras Victoria Janssen 2009

  • But last Friday the colors were accented with green, as the students celebrated Unofficial Saint Patrick's Day, wearing green hats and t-shirts and Mardi-Gras beads and getting drunk beginning at 7: 30 AM when the bars opened.

    Where the world was as blue as an orange Roger Sutton 2007

  • As I swung myself over the corral fence though, I saw the awful truth: kicking up sawdust amidst the peanut shells and cigarette butts, an enormous Mardi-Gras bead-wearing raccoon going into convulsions and Rick, in the center of it all, directing the medical crews and passing out free drink tickets.

    Go Ahead 2009

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