I am leaving in a few hours to go to an Ides of March B-day toga party


TOGA TOGA TOGA

let's celebrate

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TOGA TOGA TOGA

I have a pic of a couple of my friends at a Toga party that we threw many years ago. I am not sure which box the pics is in right now.
It was great fun though.
Back then it was just an excuse to wear a sheet and get drunk. I did not ..I stayed sober to take pics.

Time for an infomercial

The Ides of March
Just one of a dozen Ides that occur every month of the year



As far as Caesar knew, the Ides were just another day.
The soothsayer's warning to Julius Caesar, "Beware the Ides of March," has forever imbued that date with a sense of foreboding. But in Roman times the expression "Ides of March" did not necessarily evoke a dark mood—it was simply the standard way of saying "March 15." Surely such a fanciful expression must signify something more than merely another day of the year? Not so. Even in Shakespeare's time, sixteen centuries later, audiences attending his play Julius Caesar wouldn't have blinked twice upon hearing the date called the Ides.

The term Ides comes from the earliest Roman calendar, which is said to have been devised by Romulus, the mythical founder of Rome. Whether it was Romulus or not, the inventor of this calendar had a penchant for complexity. The Roman calendar organized its months around three days, each of which served as a reference point for counting the other days:


Kalends (1st day of the month)
Nones (the 7th day in March, May, July, and October; the 5th in the other months)
Ides (the 15th day in March, May, July, and October; the 13th in the other months)
The remaining, unnamed days of the month were identified by counting backwards from the Kalends, Nones, or the Ides. For example, March 3 would be V Nones—5 days before the Nones (the Roman method of counting days was inclusive; in other words, the Nones would be counted as one of the 5 days).


Days in March


March 1: Kalends; March 2: VI Nones; March 3: V Nones; March 4: IV Nones; March 5: III Nones; March 6: Pridie Nones (Latin for "on the day before"); March 7: Nones; March 15: Ides


Used in the first Roman calendar as well as in the Julian calendar (established by Julius Caesar in 45 B.C.E.) the confusing system of Kalends, Nones, and Ides continued to be used to varying degrees throughout the Middle Ages and into the Renaissance.


So, the Ides of March is just one of a dozen Ides that occur every month of the year. Kalends, the word from which calendar is derived, is another exotic-sounding term with a mundane meaning. Kalendrium means account book in Latin: Kalend, the first of the month, was in Roman times as it is now, the date on which bills are due.

shanti0608 said:

I am positive I will be the sober photo taker tonight

Mach said:

We are off to a b-day party soon. Luckily it is not a Toga party and it is across the street. I will probably be the sober one as usual.

shanti0608 said:

I am wearing a black toga It's my friend Cheri's ( from Atlanta )44th natal day

Mach said:

Cool
We are just going to Simon, our neighbour/friends 32nd b-day.
Damn youngins...

shanti0608 said:

Have a nice time

MsLegs said:

Do they have a toga party in that movie ?

I have never been to a toga party.

Mach said:

Of course, Belushi invented it.

Mach said:

My parents met at a toga party.