WORLD'S CHEAPEST CARNIVAL KREWE CELEBRATES 25th ANNIVERSARY

Platefaces predict biggest turnout ever for Mardi Gras 2004

NEW ORLEANS, LA -- The year was 1978. Mardi Gras in New Orleans had been getting bigger and more expensive every year, the floats and costumes of the organized carnival krewes more and more lavish. If something hadn't been done soon, the average reveler would have been confined forever to the role of spectator. It just didn't seem fair.

It was his far-sighted recognition of the need for a carnival krewe so cheap that anyone could join that prompted a presumably handsome young New Orleanian to found a new carnival group 25 years ago. No preparation was necessary to join, and the cost was less than a dime. All you had to do was put a paper plate on your face.

The rest, as they say, is history.

John Smith, mysterious and anonymous founder and captain-for-life of the Spontaneous Krewe of Platefaces, predicts that Mardi Gras 2004 -- Tuesday, February 24th -- will see the biggest spontaneous turnout of Platefaces ever. To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the world's cheapest carnival krewe, Capt. Smith has established an online boutique offering exclusive Plateface products.

Plateface Boutique
http://www.cafeshops.com/politickles/139715

Official Plateface Scrapbook
http://www.politickles.com/Bobliography/plates/plates.html