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Sun Apr-04-10 12:24 PM
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Easter is now Christmas: The Sequel |
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Had a conversation with a nurse who is counseling my wife on some family matters. She mentioned that her sister works at China(Wal)mart as a manager and told us that the bicycles and toys were just flying off the shelves in preparation for the holiday.
So here are my questions, when did the holiest day of the year for Christians become nothing more than a marketing tool to sell cheap Chinese products to Americans? And if one is a true Christian, why isn't there a grassroots effort to shut down China(Wal)mart's marketing of Easter as a sequel to Christmas?
Oh, and fuck Billo, McFucksanity, FuckstickMcBeck and Fat Bag 'O Shit those bloviating assclowns for even thinking that liberals had anything to do with destroying Christianity in this country.
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Sun Apr-04-10 12:31 PM
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1. "Oh, and fuck Billo, McFucksanity, FuckstickMcBeck and Fat Bag 'O Shit those bloviating assclowns " |
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Sun Apr-04-10 12:32 PM
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2. Celebrate the death and resurrection of Jesus by buying shit ! |
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Sun Apr-04-10 11:50 PM
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18. actually, its spring break for a lot of folks and people ride their bikes. |
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Sun Apr-04-10 12:33 PM
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Easter is really more about Church than Christmas. Instead of gifts, today we mostly just get cheap chocolate.
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Sun Apr-04-10 12:36 PM
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4. How long before the wingnuts claim that we've declared war on Easter? |
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Sun Apr-04-10 12:39 PM
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5. It understand the gifting tradition at Christmas, because of the gifts of the magi. |
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Edited on Sun Apr-04-10 12:39 PM by kestrel91316
But there is no such gifting tradition at Easter.
We got a modest Easter basket with candy, and my parents made and hid Easter eggs for us. That was IT.
Oh, and Easter dinner was a big baked ham.
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Sun Apr-04-10 12:44 PM
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1. tax returns
2. movement away from candy/bad food to celebrate season
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Sun Apr-04-10 12:54 PM
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7. I think of chocolate, marshallows, and zombies. |
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Sun Apr-04-10 01:07 PM
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9. this easter is about staying in bed, for me. |
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I was speculating about why toys were selling so well this year, that's all.
Easter to me is all about the return of Spring and getting outside into the community....resonating more with the Zoroastrian holiday of Nourooz the Resurrection of Jesus. But this year it's rainy and cold so I'm checking out.
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Sun Apr-04-10 02:19 PM
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15. Way back when, candy was an occasional treat |
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I'm of an age to remember no candy for Lent, and meat limited to once a week, on Sunday. In northern European tradition, one gave up such luxuries for religious and practical reasons: Lent took place at the end of winter and last year's supplies were running out. One saved the last ham (which preserves well) for the Easter feast, along with new eggs and dairy, thereby celebrating the return of plenty - or at least adequate - supplies for the new planting year.
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Sun Apr-04-10 01:05 PM
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8. it started w/ small toys as a substitute for some of the candy |
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Sun Apr-04-10 01:08 PM
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10. "And, lo, the lord maketh the gifts wrapped and doth lower their price." |
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"Verily he saith unto thee, 'For the price of one you shall get two.'"
Sales 2:15-16 The New American Marketing Version
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Sun Apr-04-10 01:37 PM
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11. K&R #5 for, is this a war on Easter?!1 ----------Kidding!1 But when O'LOOFAH's producers |
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hear of this, they will be knocking on your door!1 They KNOW who you are!1
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Sun Apr-04-10 01:52 PM
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12. I was trying to remember back to my childhood the other day |
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and other than a small easter basket with a few chocolate "eggs" & an edible bunny & a package of Peeps, I could not recall any "gifts" at all..
Maybe the smallest kids got a stuffed animal (but mostly because the parents did not like the idea of messy little hands smearing candy all over)..
The egg hunt was for fun only..and of course egg salad sandwiches for lunch too:)
Our boys got the basket..but not the egg hunt..they thought it was "stupid", and I did not want to waste eggs:)
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Tue Apr-06-10 02:21 PM
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20. Yep, a basket with candy and one stuff toy, that was it |
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Sun Apr-04-10 02:05 PM
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13. When I was a kid I remember Easter always being like Xmas Junior |
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We'd get soccor balls and softball gloves, stuff like that. But then Xmas was always just a secular occasion for getting stuff in my family. I think people have been complaining about these holdiays being commercial for 100 years or so. Even back in Dickens time Scrooge was moaning about it.
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Sun Apr-04-10 02:15 PM
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14. I twisted balloons at a country club yesterday for their Easter lunch |
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They had an egg hunt as well for plastic eggs that had different prizes in them. The Golden Eggs (and there was 1 for each age group) held $50.00 in it. I guess if you've got the money, Easter is about gifts and money.
I remember getting Easter baskets with mainly candy but every now and then a small toy from the cheap toy rack from the local grocery store.
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Sun Apr-04-10 02:23 PM
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16. wow...bikes and toys for easter. It was candy & small toys when I was a kid |
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maybe a stuffed bunny. but that was it. spoiled kids
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Sun Apr-04-10 03:53 PM
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17. My teaching assistant buys a load of gifts for her girls for Easter |
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They don't attend a church or celebrate the meaning of Easter. It's just another reason to buy them more "stuff". She was complaining the other day about how expensive Easter was becoming now that her girls are teenagers. :eyes:
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Tue Apr-06-10 02:27 PM
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21. Yeah, All I got wa a basket with lots of candy, and maybe one or two Hot Wheels cars... |
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Or one of the smaller LEGO sets. That's it.
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