Everyone rejoice! The lord has risen and there is egg salad for EVERYONE! That and the happy tiny tots running headlong into the wall in that special hypergylcemic fot that can only say….”If I eat any more chocolate cadbury eggs, my pancreas will leap out of my body and beat me to death.”
So on the trip over to the Gleeful Gecko’s house for some easter festivities, several very important topics came up. Firstly, a discussion of the Historic Jesus VS the Supernatural Jesus. It was in BC Comics “greatest match up series” and I dont want to give anything away but its a better fight than “Kirk VS Piccard”. Actually, the discussion started because of the book The Jesus Dynasty that Stacey had read recently; but also spurred on by a similar discussion at martial arts practice that morning on the same subject (note: yes I went to learn how to inflict harm upon another on easter, makes as much sense to me as the easter bunny).
So the discussions bring some interesting points up. Now I know not everyone reading this was raised Roman Catholic, but I was so my views a skewed to that. We have major Church dogma that is directly attributable to Paul. Everything from transsubstantiation to who the good guys and the bad guys were. So why does his word hold so much weight when he never met Jesus? No one else makes incrediably wild claims about Jesus coming back from the dead. Paul taught to the gentiles, and apparently they liked there stories with a “greek mystery” edge to them. Also, an interesting point to ponder, if Jesus was dead, most hebrews would no longer touch him. Only certain people touched the dead. So would his disciples pull him off the cross? if he was dead? But I digress……. much more important things have to be brought up here.
So in the front seat, the discussion about Jesus, philastines, Paul, ect. In the back seat, a no less important “discussion” on how Garrett could poke his sisters scar on her arm, laughing all the time. His sisters rebuttal was to sing a song over and over and over and over (I dont remember now what it was). But all this back seat diplomacy came to a screaching halt when I made a joke about the easter bunny.
I know, I know. How could I make fun of the time honored tradition of THE bunny? um….. its not that hard.
But Samantha, astute little girl that she is, really wanted to know what the joke meant. Well, besides the fact that explaining a joke in gorey detail that an 8 year old could understand ruins a joke, its not that easy. But the answer came out that the connection between Jesus, eggs and bunnies is not clear.
So I have decided to give Hallmark a few things to chew on to make the egg association easier. Samantha’s suggestion was the EASTER SALAMANDER
I think there is some marketing potential here but the basket of eggs will only appeal to a certain strata of society. And the connection to eggs is still not clear. So we came up with the idea of the EASTER FERRET
You can see the egg connection immediately! The religious implications are tremendous. The egg eater born again to give away the food of choice! And its easy to explain how the clever little devils can sneak in a leave behind all the goddies, ferrets have mulit articulated spines! AH The piety! the sacrifice! the Marketing!…..Ok maybe not so much on the marketing. Most members of the family Mustelidae arent so flashy, maybe Pepe LePew or how about THE EASTER WOLVERINE ………..
Peace and peace grease
Edit: Our estute reader from Colorado, Alice did point out that Kangroos and Walabies are great for easter. Now we all know that Kangroos have great makerting potential and they have the built in basket. They did come up. LEts do an impromtu survey of what people like the best!