Ash Wednesday?

[kent_allard_jr]

I think it is, anyway. I've never been sure, and never thought about it before I moved to New York.

The first time I saw a guy with a big black blotch of his forehead I thought, "Poor guy. He has one hell of an ugly birthmark."

The second time it was a group of young women, brunnettes with tawny skin. "Gee, there are an lot of Hindus on the streets today," I mused to myself.

It was years before I figured something was wrong, and someone -- I think it was bugsybanana -- told me the truth.

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[avram]

’Cause it’s not like Boston has Catholics.

[stormsweeper.livejournal.com]

My stepfather is Catholid, and my mother converted several years ago, but I never saw the smudging until I moved here.

Hey, it's another chance to play the which-culture-did-they-assimilate-this-from game.

[stormsweeper.livejournal.com]

He's Catholic too.

[feiran.livejournal.com]

Ha, I thought it said "cathloid" and wondered if that was a sweeping term for catholic-or-vaguely-catholic entities. :-P