Amusing Ash Wednesday note

On Twitter today, I saw someone refer to the mark from ashes as an

#ashtag

Heh.

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7 Comments

  1. JohnE says:

    May have come from this post (slide 10)

    The Eight Type of Ashes You Might Get on Ash Wednesday
    http://www.focus.org/blog/posts/the-8-types-of-ashes-you.html

  2. mamajen says:

    Haha! People are so clever.

    For some reason mine didn’t stick, and it looks like I don’t have any at all.

  3. Eric says:

    For a fast day, it sure is going slow.

  4. frival says:

    I facepalmed today at work which resulted in most of the ashes coming off onto my palm. There must be some sort of theological significance to that, although I have yet to figure out what it is.

  5. janeway529 says:

    Looks like Archbishop Gomez of Los Angeles joined in on the fun:

    https://www.facebook.com/ArchbishopGomez

  6. acricketchirps says:

    mamajen: Next year don’t shower for several days beforehand. Mine are still there.

  7. markalves says:

    Regarding the origins of #ashtag, I helped popularize it by creating this parody https://twitter.com/markalves/status/440923126897967105 that trended on Twitter and was later covered by the BBC: http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-26453205

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