communities would elicit volunteers who would hide dyed hardboiled chicken eggs in public parks. Meanwhile, parents all across America hid colored hardboiled eggs in their backyards. These eggs supposedly were laid by the Easter Bunny (remember, in those days children also believed a stork brought babies). Children would then delight in trying to find as many of the colored eggs as possible. No one knew why, as most of those children weren't too keen on eating a bunch of hardboiled underdeveloped chicken embryos. Besides, many of those eggs had cracked shells, and were often covered with dirt, ants and dog pee. Great stuff for kids, huh? In the late 20th and early 21st centuries, things changed. Some Christian groups started calling the holiday "Resurrection Sunday" instead of Easter. This is because they finally learned that Easter, or Ostara, is a pagan goddess. So now these groups have renamed the holiday after the pagan sun god. An increasing concern for what children were eating led to another change. It became more popular to hide colored plastic eggs that had stuff in them kids really wanted to eat. This drive for proper nutrition meant that, instead of encouraging the kids to eat protein-rich eggs, they would instead fill up on fat- and sugar-laden candy. But now Discordians want to take the whole putting-things-in-plastic-eggs tradition to a whole new level... |
| This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. The photo was posted on the site mentioned above by Professor Cramulus. The Illuminati symbol and the 23ae post we think are public domain but aren't sure and wish someone would tell us. Easter is currently a registered trademark of the Easter Island Restoration Project. OK so not really. |
| ERISTER EGG HUNT |
| Introduction which has nothing to do with the point of this page so just skip it |
| Easter Egg Hunt this posting is what started this idea Wednesday, 12 March 2008 22:12:21 |
I am planning a random Easter Egg hunt in my local town park...No, the locals don't know they will be attending it. Any ideas for various random articles to place inside plastic eggs? I have had the suggestion to put real hard-boiled ones inside, but I don't want to kill any vagrants. TA, Pinky McFatfat, High Shamrock Shake (Dublin) click the link above to learn what Pinky did hide, see suggestions, or add your own |
| EggGASM Professor Cramulus compiled McFatfat's idea with suggestions from 23ae peeps, and listed plastic egg-filling suggestions, claiming this was an annual Golden Apple Seed Mission (GASM) |
www.poee.co.uk/bip/index.php?title=EggGASM |
| One Little Suggestion Credit goes to the Mythics of Harmonia for coming up with the terms "Erister Eggs" and "Erister Egg Hunt." And we must recognize Nurse Eggscream who has the ability to lay Erister eggs (I've yet to see it, but I've heard it's quite a sight). Without repeating my 23ae suggestions too much, I think that putting a Discordian quote in with the goodies is a great idea. And I would like to remind egg-fillers that most of these eggs will be found by impressionable young children. Unless of course you put them in places where only teens or adults are likely to find them.... -- R. L. |
| HAPPY EGGGASM DAY! |
| As a Discordian, what can you do to show proper respect for the next Easter/Erister? See below! |
| This page is an Illuminaughty-approved part of OMGASM. "GASM stands for Golden Apple Seed Mission. GASMs are part of project Operation: Mindfuck, therefore the whole project is called OMGASM." |
| Have a Discordian Easter Egg Hunt! |