****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]

[najida]

Ebay has this one, but no one has big yet, even though it starts at .99 cents.

[sully777]

Here's a shout out to my PEEPS...



...deuces up!

[najida]

I LUV peeps!

[sully777]

[sully777]

A new use for peeps



It looks as though the chef garnished with peeps after taking the cupcakes out of the oven.

[llevrok]

Prees. Bush wants us to cut the amount of gas we use. The best way to stop

Using so much gas is to deport 11 million illegal immigrants! That would be 11 million less people using our gas. The price of gas would come
down.

Bring our troops home from Iraq to guard the border. When they catch
an illegal immigrant crossing the border, hand him a canteen, rifle and
some ammo and ship him to Iraq. Tell him if he wants to come to America
then he must serve a tour in the military. Give him a soldier’s pay
while he’s there and tax him on it.

After his tour, he will be allowed to become a citizen since he defended this country.

He will also be registered to be taxed and be a legal patriot.

This option will probably deter illegal immigration and provide a solution for the troops in Iraq and the aliens
trying to make a better life for themselves.

If they refuse to serve, ship them to Iraq anyway, without the canteen, rifle or ammo.

Problem solved.

[sully777]

"...I've got ants peeps in my pants and I need to dance..."~~ James Brown

[Lady Jag]

I'M ON THE RUN
TIL AFTER EASTER

[martin_fierro]

Biker chix

[sully777]

I give you the traditional french greeting, Marty.

[sully777]

Peeps are on the highway
Haevy metal thunder
Racin with the wind
and the feelin we are under...


Born to be mallow



Born a marshmallow

[Lucky9teen]

Great Ideas!!!!

[sully777]

Sounds like the US policy toward the Irish during the Civil War. And it wasn’t the best idea to be sure.

[ErnBatavia]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnudM458uz8

[Theresawithanh]

I love the ***OFFICIAL FRIDAY SILLINESS*** thread!

Thanks, everyone, for keepin’ me laughin’ every Friday! Have a great week-end, and Happy Easter.

[Lady Jag]

[ilovew]

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

[Lady Jag]

PEEPS

WEAR YOUR HELMETS EVERYWHERE

[ilovew]