Awesome post, it was a lot of fun to read. I love it when people take the time to go full on geek to explain stuff in an interesting way in comments. Thanks. : )

Ha. I'm just a grump (at least when it comes to mardi gras). Pay me no mind. (But hear me rant!) After a while the whole affair wears thin; it's really just Bourbon street writ large. It has the same rank smell, the same "boisterously" aggressive drunks, the same testosterone levels in the air. Not to mention the…

Ugh. Don't remind me. The 41 mardi gras I've experienced in my life is about 25 too many for me, thank you very much. And people don't even wear costumes anymore! So WTF? Now it's just an excuse for college kids and tourists to get drunk and feel like they've participated in something exotic. It's as if the whole city…

I love the drop in lead levels factoid. Such wow.

There are rules enshrined in law which spell out what can and cannot be tossed from the floats. I'm guessing condoms are on the verboten list?

Millenials, amirite?

I love the paper watch. That's such a 5 year old's way. Don't have what you need/want? Make it out of paper! Problem solved.

I know it's pedantic, but there's a huge difference between psychotic and psychopathic. The study of psychopaths is pretty big in psychology right now, so I understand. And they're finding them all over the upper echelons of fields like (surprise, surprise) finance, politics, and executive management. Where ever…

But, but, but.. boobies!

I've never seen her before. She's kind of hot!

If he really is dead those cops are gonna have egg on their faces!

I wanna meet squirt. (And her brother.)

All things considered, pretty innocent fun. And look! No one died! I am agree with you.

Not very p.c., but I gotta admit, this whole report is funny as he'll.

Something must be wrong with me, cause I find all of this completely hilurious. Even the HITLER song. Da fuq is the matter with my brain?

Poverty? But there's a tv in every pot! And a value-meal Big Mac on every plate! Godsfuck, man, there's no poverty in AMERICA! And don't talk to me about college, housing and healthcare. Those are all red herrings anyway.

Thanks for that. For the life of me I couldn't remember how to write a proper musical accompaniment. : )

Your joke fell flat...footed?

They don't got shoes in Africa? Sounds fishy to me. LOL. So many posters talking like all these Africans have no shoes because, Africa duh. Is this really the case that there is rampant shoelessness among Africans who grow up to participate in track and field events?

This.