Check your brains at the door!

Thanks to all who have contributed ideas to the Lepanto League Mackerel Snap. Some of the ideas that will definitely be incorportated into the festivities (including some that were already on the schedule):

1. Snapping mackerel. At around $2 a pound, how can you go wrong? Recipe? Grill them over a smokey fire with lemon slices, garlic, salt, pepper and a bit of olive oil. When they are done:

2. Burning wet or dry straw to announce the fact.

3. A brain check at the door.

4. Venerating statues.

5. Repetitious prayers in a dead language.

6. Taking orders from a foreign potentate in Rome.

7. Since it is a food event, men will take center stage and cook, leaving women to the minor roles.

8. Drinking, smoking, perhaps some gambling.

9. Foreign priests who will perhaps give the benediction with their backs turned to the rest of us.

10. No one shall bring in a Bible in the vernacular.

11. Heretics will be properly identified and denounced to the proper authorities.

12. Irish will be allowed in (this goes against my better judgement, but I am outnumbered, particularly by my half Irish wife), particularly since the author of distinction for this event is James Joyce (Catholic bad boys being the year's focus). Of course they can always be counted on to resort to pious superstitions, so this will be OK.

13. We do not want to specifically brand anyone as an "old lady," so we will generally encourage wearing o' the black, muttering o' the rosary (click them beads, natch), and the like from everyone.

14. On Monday, a field trip to see a bullfight.

15. Etc.

I will report on the event afterwards, after filing the required report with proper Ecclesial Authorities!

Posted by erik at May 21, 2005 1:33 AM | TrackBack