Happy Easter

[Cami A]

Hope everyone has a nice bunny day...Remember, always eat the ears first...I'll be back Monday, if you promise this whole identity confusion thing will be over. :D

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[flatfloor]

Same to you don't forget where you hid the eggs. http://www.clicksmilies.com/sammlung/tiere/tiere022.gif

[JC]

Just what does Bunnies have to do with easter..and more importantly why do we have easter eggs...I mean bunnies don't lay eggs? This has got to be the most distorted holiday of all...If I am correct the date is wrong also.

Always bugged me.


Enjoy the holiday everyone.

[flatfloor]

Bunnies do to lay eggs.............er, don't they?

JC lighten up, is the date so important, really? It's what it represents. Many Christian HOLYdays are intermingled with many pagan holidays. The thinking at the time by the church was to assimilate people into Christianity. By incorporating the old holidays with the new the change was not so abrupt. Eggs are part of that process. I would go into more detail but I'm a little foggy about the eggs. Spring solstice, the earth renewed, Christ rises from the dead, eggs new life, see the thread?

Enjoy! :)

[JC]

No not really...I am curious enough to research the pagen easter though and try to find a connection somewhere.

What about the bunnies? Is they any mention of bunnies in the bible? Do bunnies even live in the holyland?

Who decided to hard boil and paint the eggs?

There has got to be some interesting stuff behind this story..remember the Christmas thread awile back?

I'll see what I can find.

[JC]

Heres some info..like you said..it does seem to simplistic to me though I am still searching.


http://wilstar.com/holidays/easter.htm


Another slightly conflicting expalanation

http://www.holidays.net/easter/story.htm

and a similar story

http://www.pastrywiz.com/season/easter5.htm


and of course a completly differant explanation:

http://www.billpetro.com/HolidayHistory/hol/easter/easter.html

Interesting that Mardi Gras was a feast selebrated before lent so people could get there last good meal in. And "Carnival" means "no meat or to go without meat". If thats true.


about the eggs;

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/8149/egg.html


I am stating to think everyone is just guessing at this stuff.

[Edited by JC on 03-28-2002 at 09:14 PM]

[flatfloor]

Enjoy:)

Actually I think St Brendan the Boisterous started the hard boiled egg thing. While celebrating Easter Sunday in Montana he and his brethren were attacked by a marauding band of Fugawi Indians. Having run out of ammunition they were forced to hurl their lunch at the Fugawis. Lunch just happened to be hard boiled eggs. And that's how that tradition started. BTW, John did all the research on this. He will be happy to confirm it.

[JC]

This is very interesting..a little long but well researched.


http://www.leaderu.com/everystudent/easter/articles/yama.html

[Rob Z]

Jim, Cami

Could you both post a bunch of bunnies and other thingys on a separate thread for Jana? She is in an egg-decorating-frenzy right now, and would really enjoy seeing bunnies here on the computer.

She would also like to see a picture of Tanner. Bud?

[John Bridge]

http://johnbridge.com/junk/easter.jpg

[flatfloor]

From Oz and the Kiwis (could have swore I posted this earlier.)

http://www.weekiwis.com/easter.html

[Bud Cline]

You know....one of these days things are going to slow down a little and I'm going to have some free time again to do stuff like take pictures of my kid and dye easter eggs and go fishin' and stuff like that.

But until this deeply embedded fear I have (and have always had) of my entire family going hungry because I wasn't working goes away, I'm takin' all comers this "tile season", I'm confused, but I think I just filled July the other day.

......and I still don't know how to work that damned digital camera efficiently but I'm sitting right here looking at it and one day I will learn it.

But first I've got to get loaded for tomorrows job.

[J.L. Burns]

Thank you for the greetings-Before I got married it was no big deal to work the holidays-long as I dont miss a Laker Or King Game; but now the wifey wants to spend quality time during the holidays-which is great. Which came first the bunny or the egg?

[JC]

Ya know John last night I was so tempted to post the Playboy bunnie amoung Jana's photos but I resisted as it was not politically correct..Like she would know anyways..

Then you go and post this...hehe

[John Bridge]

Now JC, my little post ain't exactly on the same level as Playboy. :)

[JC]

Nah John the playboy logo(black background w/white bunny head)..not an actual picture.

[John Bridge]

Oh, good. I was trying to figure out how to get the whole center-fold into the scanner. I could get everything but the face and the lower legs. :D

[cx]

Hmmmmm. We're supposed to eat the ears first? Is that how this all started? :D

[Bud Cline]

Playboy???

Bunny??

Fold-out???

Why would you need the face and lower legs?

"Go for it"!!!!!

Scan it scan it scan it scan it.

[chip]

Happy Easter!!!

And I hope you enjoy eggs and Ham, Ham sandwiches, escaloped potatoes and Ham and left over ham and mashed potatoes all week.

Chip