re: Happy Front Day 2024

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Misspelling of loup garou.
French for werewolf.
Likely someone with hearing problems came up with the erroneous pronunciation and people have continued that error.

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That wasn't the part I was asking about.
It was the festival that I wanted to know about.

Dear Friends,

It was indeed a marvelous Front Day. Our official Mid-City mercury dropped to a refreshing 57 this time a day ago. It reached a pleasant 77, just as Mother predicted. Although the turnout for our hymn sing and drinking chocolate party did not reach triple digits, we had a good crowd with beautiful voices lifting in unison praise to our God and King. It was definitely a top 10 all-time Front Day.

Fr33manator, your fervor and creativity are inspiring. But let us use a less scurrilous language. And never, ever should we encourage the use of alcohol. Let us forever sing out the dangers of that evil liquid.

LickittySplit, love is always a part of Front Day. Faith, hope,and love are the foundations of Front Day.

Tigerfan311, HFD to you! Compliments of the day, indeed!

LSUCoyote, Uncle, Mother, and I send our heartiest greetings to you and your dog. We still enjoy thinking of you sending out Christmas cards with our stories in them.

Legion of Doom, I hope you were one of the many hundreds of lovely people we met in the Quarters yesterday. Probably ten or fifteen said they had read about Front Day on the OT. I do apologize for not responding sooner – it was a most busy day yesterday.

Soccerfut, how wonderful to see your presence here. We hope you had a edifying Front Day.

Rummey, a name I have always pronounced as is the name of the great Muslim mystic poet, Mother makes the Front Day rules. I see you fall in line with my Great, Great Grandmother’s school (1911-1929), who believed that weather alone dictated Front Day. But since Mother is the current Queen of Front Day, you have no authority here. Mother reminds us that Front Day is a communal holiday that requires the majority of people be off work so that they can celebrate. She also told me to tell you, “If Front Day were on any day of the week, Front Day would not mark the end of hurricane season for New Orleans. Remember 1985. Rummey’s definition of Front Day came on September 27. Hurricane Juan hit us a month later. How can Front Day be Front Day if hurricanes are hitting the city after Front Day? Rummey is wrong, but I still think he is intelligent.”

Jake88, we spent a good portion of our time walking between Jackson Square and the Historic New Orleans Collection on Royal. I hope you were one of the OT posters who stopped to tell us hello, but if you were, why did you not introduce yourself? We hope one day to get that permit to put up a Welcome to Old Metairie sign on Veterans. When that happens, we will inform you and then you must join us.

Mr. Misanthrope, it is always a gift from on high to read your words. I hope you find virtuous pleasure in knowing that we indeed took your splendid suggestion and included To Thee Our God We Fly. Splendid! Thank you.

As to your inquiry, Mother believes that all people can, and indeed, should celebrate Front Day. She is not a relativist, and thus, believes that there is only one Front Day, the one that occurs in New Orleans. On that day, should your current location experience temperatures in the 80s or 90s, you, as a former New Orleanian or convert, as you put it, are free, but not duty bound, to celebrate it, joining such a great cloud of witnesses who are celebrating it within city limits. It gives all great joy knowing that you celebrated Front Day from abroad, and hope you will join us for the carol singing in Jackson Square this year.

Philemon Tiger, it is an axiom that LSU is nearly unbeatable on Front Days. At the same time, please do not encourage people to gamble. Gambling is a snare that entraps more and more each year, destroying our economy and funneling money that should go to acts of charity and love to organized crime and people who are unconscionably willing to feast on man’s weakness. Those who peddle gambling are of the same mind as those who peddle fentanyl and pornography, Philemon. As Paul encouraged Onesimus to cast of the chains of slavery from your namesake, encourage all to cast off the chains of gambling.

Cosmo, I do wonder if you are correct and their agenda of moving thermometers on the Tarmacadam, just behind a jet’s revving engines or dangling above the Lake’s 80 degree waters, is to be noted and rejected. Those of us who were out and about at 4:30 in Mid-City yesterday know it was in the upper 50s. Our mercury touched 57. One would not expect non-New Orleanians, who have easily attained degrees in the soft earth “sciences”, yet still posit themselves as professionals – as absurd as someone with a B.A. in history calling himself a historian simply for having the degree! – to live and move and know our weather. They are carpetbaggers, trying to profit from our grand city’s wealth. No better than Benjamin Butler, we should give them as much respect.

Roobedoo, while she would not give specifics as to what percentage of the day needs sun or what percentage of the sky can have cloud cover, she said, “You know a sunny day when you see it.”

Festus, thank you. It was such a marvelous day! We hope you and your family, here and abroad, celebrated.

Tall Tiger, may God bless you. Front Day is always a day to remember that we are all brothers and sisters in Christ, a day to cast aside divisions to find unity in the Church.

844_Tiger, Mother returns her greetings.

Tiger985, you must remember Front Day also signifies the end of hurricane season for New Orleans. Using your and Rummey’s and Great, great Grandmother’s definition of Front Day, you have a loud hiccup from 1985.

Rabby, always our pleasure to read your words. We had considered walking to Ocktoberfest to picket the sales and consumption of beer, as we often do, but time did not allow for it this year. We hope you enjoyed the festivities. We miss the old Galvez confines, but clearly, the Fest would have outgrown it. You may appreciate that we opened our meal last night with the old prayer: Some hae meat and canna eat / And some wad eat that want it / But we hae meat, and we can eat / Sae let the Lord be thankit.

Jamiegla1, I turned 40 this year.

Yours,
TulaneLSU

I must protest yesterday being Front Day. Do you have records of your thermometers calibration being accurate?