Easter Marketing

[captain_slinky]

Whoever was in charge of marketing Easter, messed-up HUGE. It's really a great big cluster of random contrasting, confusing messages and images.

In a nut-shell:

"Hey kids! Remember that sweet baby Jesus who was born on Christmas and is the reason you get all those awesome presents? Well he's DEAD! NAILED TO A CROSS AND STABBED TO DEATH! DEAD DEAD DEAD!!! But then he came BACK and NOW YOU HAVE TO EAT EGGS! FUNNY COLORED EGGS!!! Oh crap, stop... stop crying, kids... look! A BUNNY! Have some SUGAR! Okay? Let's, uh... let's just not talk about this any more, okay?"

I think David Lynch may have been involved...

Comments

[lynna12000.livejournal.com]

David Lynch? I'm thinking more like Roger Corman and Wes Craven.

[aurora77]

I found out where the boiled egg thing came from. I never knew until just this month. There's all these rumors of it having to do with being a fertility symbol and all, but it was much more practical than that. People would give up some of the richer foods, like meat and eggs, during their Lent fast, but would eat them once a week on Sundays, which were not considered part of Lent. So the eggs would keep until Sunday, they'd boil them.

But yeah, there's lots of weird things around Easter traditions.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

I thought it was just because Jesus had an egg allergy. That;s why we hide them till he comes back and says "No, guys! It's cool! I can eat them now!"

[ukulele-hatter.livejournal.com]

I know the truth. There's a secret organization called the Hare Club For Men that believes that Saint Peter was a rabbit and they color eggs to keep the secret in da Vinci's painting alive. It has to be true, i saw it on South Park

[dagna76.livejournal.com]

Ha!! You put it much more eloquently than I would have.