Crips, Bloods, Gators
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good grief......:roll:
The parents will probably sue.....:roll: Mental anguish, he was sooo embarrassed
and had to wear his GYM shirt all day!!! 
GET OVER IT!!!!
The parents will probably sue.....:roll: Mental anguish, he was sooo embarrassed
and had to wear his GYM shirt all day!!! GET OVER IT!!!!
TooFarTampa
SoWal Insider
:rofl:
Must be Seminole territory, eh?
Skunky...your sig looks like a Mardi Gras advent calendar.
It is the 2007 Rex Bulletin. These are the floats that will roll this year.:clap_1:
Where can I get a closer look? They look wonderful!
:clap_1: I think those shirts should be banned too, but not for the reasons stated.
Seriously, I do feel bad for the kid, though, as that's absolutely ridiculous. But, it's Osceola County...par for the course!
Perhaps I should restate that...I have to spend tomorrow night and Friday in Kissimmee...
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Here is a brief history, including a link to the Rex website. Tough to find a large image of the artwork, but Rex's website has photos of the flesh and blood floats in action-the first four are the same every year, so you can see what they look like in reality;#4 the bouef gras is my favorite; and you can see him on the website
History of the Rex Bulletin
In the mid-1870s, newspaper coverage of the Carnival season began to augment descriptions of the pageants with small black-and-white engravings of the float designs. The evolution of these printed images magically paralleled the increasing grandeur of their subjects, and in 1882, the first large "broadside" sheets appeared. On one side were the floats for Momus ("The Ramayama"), Proteus ("Ancient Egyptian Theology"), Rex ("The Pursuit of Pleasure") and Comus ("Worships of the World"). On the other side, amid numerous advertisements, were explanations and descriptions of the arcane tableaux; lengthy descriptions also appeared in the daily press, but without illustrations.
The first attempts to reproduce the float designs in color came in 1884, with booklets illustrating the pageants of Momus and Comus. The color was uneven and out of register in these early efforts, but only two years later, the great wedding of steam presses and color lithography produced the first beautiful chromolithographed Carnival Bulletins.
Newspapers, notably the Times-Democrat and the Picayune, vied with one another to publish the Carnival Bulletins. Thousands of copies were printed and always sold separately. These colorful souvenirs could be ordered from the papers ? on the day of the parades, they were hawked for a dime by youngsters on streetcars and busy street corners. These 10-cent bulletins have assumed an importance that could not have been imagined when they were produced. Because so few collections of original float and costume designs have survived, these lithographs became the visual record of the great processions, with every float from 1877 until the bulletins were discontinued in 1941.
The Rex Organization revived the tradition in 2003, and this marks the fourth year that the bulletins have appeared in Gambit Weekly. For 2006, His Majesty presents "Beaux Arts and Letters," commemorating artists and writers who have added to the rich culture of New Orleans. Information about Rex, its history and its activities is available on the Rex Organization Web site http://www.rexorganization.com/ . Prints of the 2006 Bulletin may be purchased from Enoch's Framing and Gallery. A poster of the 2006 Rex Proclamation is available at www.neworleansposters.com. Written by Henri Schindler, Rex Artistic Director
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Thanks for the history lesson. :clap_1: