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    • CommentAuthorJJoker
    • CommentTimeApr 9th 2007 edited
     

    Why is candy such a big deal on Easter? There's the pagan festival for Eostre that the "church" took over in the eighth century (or was that eighteenth?), so that explains the bunnies and eggs... but what about the candy?

    :confused:

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      CommentAuthorMrFingers
    • CommentTimeApr 9th 2007 edited
     

    my guess would be it is similar to halloween; it is a method of getting the kids excited and involved.

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      CommentAuthorUdoboy
    • CommentTimeApr 10th 2007
     
    Posted By: MrFingers

    my guess would be it is similar to halloween; it is a method of getting the kids excited and involved.

    No, Pope Pius II issued a decree stating that sweets were only acceptable for wedding ceremonies, birthday celebrations, Christmas, and Easter. It's all but forgotten now, but the tradition holds.

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    pope... why does the leader of the cotolic church have to have such a strange sounding title.
    Pope ha

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      CommentAuthorcritdragon
    • CommentTimeApr 10th 2007
     
    Posted By: MrFingers

    my guess would be it is similar to halloween; it is a method of getting the kids excited and involved.

    sorry if its inappropriate but the first thing i thought of when you said this was weird catholic vicars molesting small children lol

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      CommentAuthorD League
    • CommentTimeApr 11th 2007 edited
     
    Posted By: nowhere man

    pope... why does the leader of the cotolic church have to have such a strange sounding title.
    Pope ha

    I've never heard of the Cotolic Church.

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    oh its just like the catholic one

    but missing an h

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      CommentAuthorD League
    • CommentTimeApr 12th 2007
     

    and an 'a'

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    oh hey your right

    its got an extra 'o' as well

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      CommentAuthorFact totum
    • CommentTimeApr 12th 2007
     

    your is just like you're but without a ' or an e

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      CommentAuthorD League
    • CommentTimeApr 12th 2007
     

    Good call fact totum.

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      CommentAuthorD League
    • CommentTimeApr 12th 2007
     

    Just like they're is like there but without the ' or the y

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      CommentAuthorAthene
    • CommentTimeApr 12th 2007
     

    And aardvark is just like zither but without the z, i,t, h, and e and with a few extra letters thrown in...

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      CommentAuthorFact totum
    • CommentTimeApr 12th 2007
     

    But I can play an aardvark passably well but I can't play a zither to save my life.

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      CommentAuthormargaret
    • CommentTimeApr 12th 2007
     

    Strange. I have a pet zither, but can't find any cute aardvarks here in Minnesota. :sad:

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      CommentAuthorFact totum
    • CommentTimeApr 12th 2007
     

    Minnesota passed a law in 1847 creating a permanent open season on aardvarks. Although the law was repealed in 1851 the Minnesotan aardvark population has never recovered.

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      CommentAuthormargaret
    • CommentTimeApr 12th 2007
     

    Aah, that certainly explains our aardvark deficiency. Thanks! :thumbup:

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      CommentAuthorAthene
    • CommentTimeApr 12th 2007
     
    Posted By: Fact totum

    But I can play an aardvark passably well but I can't play a zither to save my life.

    Let's hope you're never accosted by a rogue band of criminals who offer to let you live in exchange for playing Symphony No. 13 on a zither, then...

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    I came up with a really good joke this one time. it goes like this

    you know, if you reaarange all the letters in you name it spells gullible, but if you put your name backwards, take out a couple letters and put in a few, it spells *insert insult here*

    maybe not really good, but decent perhaps

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      CommentAuthorD League
    • CommentTimeApr 13th 2007
     

    I don't get it. I keep reordering the letters in my name but it won't spell gullible!

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      CommentAuthorTaed
    • CommentTimeApr 14th 2007
     

    I think I get it -- it's a language joke in that "adgelue" (which is an anagram of "D League") is the French word for "gullible".

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    yes. it only works for people named D Leauge. and Elbillug,

    • CommentAuthorJJoker
    • CommentTimeJun 6th 2007
     

    That explains it!

    Candy is such a big deal because the pope doesn't like gullible aardvarks.

    Thanks again, guys!

    :bigsmile:

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      CommentAuthorPaulustrious
    • CommentTimeJun 6th 2007 edited
     

    Since aardvark is Dutch the plural should be aardvarken. Bunnies are a tradition at Easter, because in medieval Britain the common person was allowed to hunt and eat rabbit after Easter Sunday. During Lent it was forbidden. After that you could let your hare down.

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      CommentAuthorFact totum
    • CommentTimeJul 1st 2010
     

    Amazing. And I thought you were *never* satisfied.

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