Well, I won't Lent pass by without at least one Friday Postcard Fish Fry. The above postcard is a Curt Teich (Curteich) postcard from the mid 20th century.
I don't celebrate Lent more than any other non-Catholic Christian, but I have always lived where there are a lot of Catholics around, and I hear them talking about Friday fish fries (fish fry's?) and I see them advertised a lot.
I spent a memorable day once, almost 20 years ago, at Bull Shoals in the Ozarks in Missouri. Bull Shoals is a fake lake, created by a dam; a reservoir impoundment. I have some pictures of it, somewhere. Maybe you've not heard of the Ozarks? But you have probably heard of Branson, Missouri, which is in the area, and also the comic strip Snuffy Smith, about an Ozark hillbilly. Snuffy, as you recall, was a dirt-poor cousin of Barney Google. I don't recall off the top of my head why Barney Google was rich... but all I know he was a visionary who made his 1920's fortune off of internet search engine futures, beating out rival tycoon Hyram Altavista. But I digress...
While we are in the subject of Lent, don't forget to check out this old blog post of mine from four years ago.
And make sure to check out the Blog of the Ozarks, which has a real fish photo in it.
4 comments:
Oooh, little fish is taunting everyone to come and get him!
I remember that Lent post! Although I must have read it in a more recent year...my favorite it still the thought of giving up martial sex :-)
Martial sex!
Well... reminds me. I worked in a bookstore. We had a Martial Arts section. Yeah, you know, kung fu, ninjutsu and all that. Someone made signs for all the sections. The one for the kung fu, karate,, etc section said:
MARITAL ARTS
We laughed. But we never corrected it.
As a reformed catholic, the only things I give up now are the days of my mis-spent youth and giving un-asked for advice.
But after reading your earlier post I've decided to give up Martial sex. ;)
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