****THE OFFICIAL GOOD FRIDAY SILLINESS THREAD****

Awesome Eggs ^ | April 6, 2007

[Lucky9teen]

Good Friday To You All!!!

 

From the earliest times the Christians kept every Friday as a feast day; and the obvious reasons for those usages explain why Easter is the Sunday par excellence, and why the Friday which marks the anniversary of Christ's death came to be called the Great or the Holy or the Good Friday.

 

Easter marks the Resurrection of Jesus three days after his Crucifixion. Sandwiched between the 40 preparatory days of Lenten penitence and the seven weeks of Eastertide, it is the most important and most joyous holiday on the Christian calendar. 

 

Easter, like the spring season it graces, is associated with birth, renewal and fertility.  In 2007, Easter falls on April 8.

 

The Easter timeline runs as follows:

• Shrove Tuesday, aka Mardi Gras

• Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent...

• Lent — 40 days, excluding Sundays

• Holy Week, the last week of Lent, consisting of:

  • Palm Sunday

  • Maundy Thursday

  • Good Friday

  • Holy Saturday

• Easter Sunday

• Easter Monday

• Eastertide, the 50 days leading up to Pentecost...

• Pentecost

According to the eighth-century theologian the Venerable Bede (who came up with the dating system of AD and BC), Easter is named for Eostre, an Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring. She is associated with the egg and with the hare, both symbols of procreation that have been enduringly incorporated by the church in the form of Easter eggs and the Easter bunny who brings them.

 

 

 

 

Top Ten Reasons to Celebrate Easterr

10. You absolutely love the movie, "The Ten Commandments".

9. You look really, really good in yellow.

8. You just went on a low cholesterol diet and didn't want to waste all those eggs in the fridge.

7. You figure any Holiday that starts with a "Good Friday" can't be all bad.

6. You love to bite the heads off chocolate bunnies.

5. It's a good time to check out your neighborhood church and not be noticed.

4. You have this bunny suit you love to wear, but are too insecure to wear it without a reason.

3. Even though you don't know what it is, you really like the sound of going to a "Passion Play."

2. You figured since Jesus went to all THAT trouble to make it to the first Easter, you'd give it a shot.

1. As a Christian you celebrate the resurrection every other day, why not Easter too?
 

 

 

"Easter says you can put truth in a grave, but it won't stay there.  You can nail it to a cross, wrap it in winding sheets and shut it up in a tomb, but it will rise!"

[Lucky9teen]

Watch, it only happens when I post pictures....

[Lady Jag]

Alright already!

[ErnBatavia]

Exorcism works!

[greyfoxx39]

placemark

[Lady Jag]

[MeekMom]

re: 106
Too funny, Tom!

[MeekMom]

re: 59
lol where do you come up with these pics? LOL

[llevrok]

That doesn’t really sound like a comment for the Silliness thread... >

How about this then?

[2111USMC]

Much better!

[2111USMC]

A U.S. Marine squad was patrolling north of
Fallujah when they came upon an Iraqi terrorist, badly injured and unconscious.

On the opposite side of the road was an American Marine in a similar but less serious state.

The Marine was conscious and alert and as first aid was given to both men, the squad leader asked the injured Marine what had happened.

The Marine reported, “I was heavily armed and moving north along the highway here, and coming south was a heavily armed insurgent. We saw each other and both took cover in the ditches along the road. “I yelled to him that Saddam Hussein was a miserable lowlife, and he yelled back that Ted Kennedy was a good-for-nothing, fat, left-wing liberal drunk.”

“So I said that Osama Bin Laden dresses and acts
like a frigid, ugly, mean-spirited lesbian!

He retaliated by yelling, “Oh yeah? Well, so does
Hillary Clinton!” And, there we were, in the middle of the road, shaking hands, when a truck hit us.

[ilovew]

Don’t blame me for your idiocy.

[llevrok]

Don’t blame me for your idiocy.

I never understand why there are so many angry people on FR who feel they must control and police the site. Bitter, little people with little control in their own lives, I suspect.

Not that I am making any comparison in your case. Just commenting, mind.

Now run out and find some Easter eggs.

[ilovew]

Because this is the SILLINESS thread. I come here for ridiculously stupid jokes and funny pictures, not idiotic rants. Not that I’m calling you idiotic...just commenting.

[llevrok]

A little more maturity on your part and you may see the absurdity, nee: silliness, of what Mr. Carlin suggests.

But being 23 and the dad of a new baby, I'll cut you some slack rather than rip your young "6 o'clock" a new one.

Now be a good boy and go play with your baby. That's what is important. Not trying to be a post cop on an internet blog. There are paid moderators for that, son.

[ilovew]

Um...I’m a girl, stupid. And I’m 23 too. Not sure why you felt the need to tell me your age/status but...whatever. Have a nice life. Oh, and the moderators aren’t paid.

[Kate of Spice Island]

That is the best solution to both the war and the illegals that I have ever seen.

[ilovew]

You don’t read very well, do you? That’s my NEPHEW.

[Salem]

[Kate of Spice Island]

Don’t you just love it when artificial intelligence makes a liar out of you?

[greyfoxx39]

That is just great! What a spot on description of the SWAT types, especially.