Carnival revellers kiss each other, as they celebrate the start of the street-carnival with its tradition of fools entering the town halls and women cutting off men's ties with scissors on carnival's so called "Old Women's Day" in Cologne, Germany, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013. The "Old Women's Day" is traditionally the beginning of street carnival, the foolish street spectacles in the carnival centers of Duesseldorf, Mainz and Cologne. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)