Ash Wednesday - Non Catholic b ball players

[Knight Commission]

What is it like for non Catholic ball players on campus today seeing a bunch of Star Bellied Sneetches with ashes on their foreheads for the first time?

Will never forget my all time favorite Joe Nethen's reaction when he saw us emblazoned when the vator opened in McCormick in 88.

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

What is it like for non Catholic ball players on campus today seeing a bunch of Star Bellied Sneetches with ashes on their foreheads for the first time?

Will never forget my all time favorite Joe Nethen's reaction when he saw us emblazoned when the vator opened in McCormick in 88.

I would have been in McCormick in 88 too.  I certainly remember Joe Nethen at that time.

[tower912]

If my memory of Joe Nethen serves, he would have dropped an expletive and then asked for help changing batteries in his Walkman.   I witnessed him ask Linda, the Saga queen, for help changing his batteries. 

[ChitownSpaceForRent]

I just read the thread where Nethen responded to all of the stories about himself. Never heard of him until today but had a really good laugh at all of those stories.

[Silkk the Shaka]

What's a star-bellied sneetch?

[ChitownSpaceForRent]

What's a star-bellied sneetch?

Its a Dr. Seuss story.

[79Warrior]

Ricky Pitino styling the ashes today @ SMU

[SaveOD238]

I missed my favorite Ash Wednesday tradition this year: Tony Reali with a big dark splotch on his face during PTI and Around the Horn...there's always next year...

[keefe]

Ricky Pitino styling the ashes today @ SMU

[Skitch]

I missed my favorite Ash Wednesday tradition this year: Tony Reali with a big dark splotch on his face during PTI and Around the Horn...there's always next year...

He said something on Twitter a couple weeks ago about a "fan" who referred to him as Jewish, which I'm pretty sure the guy was bringing up in a negative way, and Reali said something to the effect of "then what is all that stuff on my forehead every Ash Wednesday? Have you even seen the show?"

[ChicosBailBonds]

I just read the thread where Nethen responded to all of the stories about himself. Never heard of him until today but had a really good laugh at all of those stories.

I was a freshman in '87, Nethen was a freshman and I think he lived on the 6th or 7th floor in a triple...can't remember.  It was rather hilarious being in the elevator with him or walking the halls.  Funny guy

[mu03eng]

What is it like for non Catholic ball players on campus today seeing a bunch of Star Bellied Sneetches with ashes on their foreheads for the first time?

Will never forget my all time favorite Joe Nethen's reaction when he saw us emblazoned when the vator opened in McCormick in 88.

Just as an FYI Catholics aren't the only ones who do ashes....Lutheran's do it too

[LloydMooresLegs]

Just as an FYI Catholics aren't the only ones who do ashes....Lutheran's do it too

and Episcopal/Anglicans--in fact, giving then out at the train stations and all around the city yesterday--branded as "Ashes to Go."  I thought that it was bad enough that Catholics skipped Mass on Ash Wednesday in favor of an assembly line stop-by dose of ashes in church.

Next step:   "iAshes--get your digital ashes here!!" 

[chapman]

I'll admit first year at MU and saying to a friend "dude, you have poop or something on your face", then being terribly confused.

[ZiggysFryBoy]

and Episcopal/Anglicans--in fact, giving then out at the train stations and all around the city yesterday--branded as "Ashes to Go."  I thought that it was bad enough that Catholics skipped Mass on Ash Wednesday in favor of an assembly line stop-by dose of ashes in church.

Next step:   "iAshes--get your digital ashes here!!" 

Ash Wednesday actually isn't a holy day of obligation in the Catholic Church.

[LloydMooresLegs]

Ash Wednesday actually isn't a holy day of obligation in the Catholic Church.

I don't think I said it was.

[Coleman]

No Holy Day of Obligation....I ain't goin. I don't need that flair on my head.