The cupid thing is just evil... February 14, 2002 11:16 AM Subscribe
The cupid thing is just evil...
Aren't there supposed to be some pancakes on those cupid's heads?
posted by cCranium at 11:23 AM on February 14, 2002
posted by cCranium at 11:23 AM on February 14, 2002
Why, oh why (oh why oh) must classical mythology continually be misrepresented in contemporary culture? When I took my children to see Disney's Hercules, I was appalled to see Hercules turned into the son of both Zeus and Hera, who were portrayed as a loving couple. The mind boggles.
Here we have not cupid, but five cupid-like animated flying objects. Cupid did not have a bunch of deputies flying around doing his bidding. Neither was he eternally an infant. If you'll remember the story of Cupid and Psyche, he grew up into a very hott man. If we must have animation, can we not have a picture of a single hunk flying around shooting arrows. Loincloth optional.
posted by anapestic at 11:26 AM on February 14, 2002
Here we have not cupid, but five cupid-like animated flying objects. Cupid did not have a bunch of deputies flying around doing his bidding. Neither was he eternally an infant. If you'll remember the story of Cupid and Psyche, he grew up into a very hott man. If we must have animation, can we not have a picture of a single hunk flying around shooting arrows. Loincloth optional.
posted by anapestic at 11:26 AM on February 14, 2002
can we not have a picture of a single hunk flying around shooting arrows.
No.
posted by adampsyche at 11:28 AM on February 14, 2002
No.
posted by adampsyche at 11:28 AM on February 14, 2002
I can't WAIT till Easter......
Ack! I don't want to see a bunch of floating crucifixes!
posted by iceberg273 at 11:28 AM on February 14, 2002
Ack! I don't want to see a bunch of floating crucifixes!
posted by iceberg273 at 11:28 AM on February 14, 2002
[Ack! I don't want to see a bunch of floating crucifixes!]
Actually that would be pretty cool. For halloween though...
posted by revbrian at 11:30 AM on February 14, 2002
Actually that would be pretty cool. For halloween though...
posted by revbrian at 11:30 AM on February 14, 2002
Why, oh why (oh why oh) must classical mythology continually be misrepresented in contemporary culture?
Why, oh why (oh why oh) must classical mythology remain a stale and stagnant beast? Why can't it be updated, made relevent, so the lessons and morals and point of the story be digested and understood in an easy-to-eat (mmm, paaaaablum) manner?
If the message that Cupid spreads love and love should be spread can be said to have meaning in today's culture, then why not bring it up to date.
Questioning hokey JavaScript makes the baby cupid cry.
(Definitely no loincloth)
posted by cCranium at 11:30 AM on February 14, 2002
Why, oh why (oh why oh) must classical mythology remain a stale and stagnant beast? Why can't it be updated, made relevent, so the lessons and morals and point of the story be digested and understood in an easy-to-eat (mmm, paaaaablum) manner?
If the message that Cupid spreads love and love should be spread can be said to have meaning in today's culture, then why not bring it up to date.
Questioning hokey JavaScript makes the baby cupid cry.
(Definitely no loincloth)
posted by cCranium at 11:30 AM on February 14, 2002
Why, oh why (oh why oh) must classical mythology remain a stale and stagnant beast?
Well, if you can get Ovid to do a rewrite, go for it.
Or perhaps you're arguing that Disney's Hercules and/or the five winged whatevers are more relevant than the originals? I think not.
Besides, what's more up to date than a hunk shooting arrows?
posted by anapestic at 11:33 AM on February 14, 2002
Well, if you can get Ovid to do a rewrite, go for it.
Or perhaps you're arguing that Disney's Hercules and/or the five winged whatevers are more relevant than the originals? I think not.
Besides, what's more up to date than a hunk shooting arrows?
posted by anapestic at 11:33 AM on February 14, 2002
I know, flying cupids are sooooo last year.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 11:35 AM on February 14, 2002
posted by mathowie (staff) at 11:35 AM on February 14, 2002
Why, oh why (oh why oh)
Is this some sort of Canadian postal code joke?
posted by iceberg273 at 11:35 AM on February 14, 2002
Is this some sort of Canadian postal code joke?
posted by iceberg273 at 11:35 AM on February 14, 2002
Well, if you can get Ovid to do a rewrite, go for it.
See, but that's what's great about works of art entering the public domain. They can be changed and modified as need be to have a message delivered to a specific audience.
The gospels, f'rinstance, were written for a specific audience because the story and message of Christ's life was deemed important, and a good way to get people to give you fish and stuff.
Or perhaps you're arguing that Disney's Hercules and/or the five winged whatevers are more relevant than the originals? I think not.
Ask any kid how they'd rather be taught a lesson, in a pretty cartoon with talking furry beasts and amusingly vain bad guys or by reading some crazy dead language. Or isn't translation bringing a story into a relevant mode of delivery?
Besides, what's more up to date than a hunk shooting arrows?
Hrm. Can't argue with good taste.
posted by cCranium at 11:37 AM on February 14, 2002
See, but that's what's great about works of art entering the public domain. They can be changed and modified as need be to have a message delivered to a specific audience.
The gospels, f'rinstance, were written for a specific audience because the story and message of Christ's life was deemed important, and a good way to get people to give you fish and stuff.
Or perhaps you're arguing that Disney's Hercules and/or the five winged whatevers are more relevant than the originals? I think not.
Ask any kid how they'd rather be taught a lesson, in a pretty cartoon with talking furry beasts and amusingly vain bad guys or by reading some crazy dead language. Or isn't translation bringing a story into a relevant mode of delivery?
Besides, what's more up to date than a hunk shooting arrows?
Hrm. Can't argue with good taste.
posted by cCranium at 11:37 AM on February 14, 2002
Ask any kid how they'd rather be taught a lesson, in a pretty cartoon with talking furry beasts and amusingly vain bad guys or by reading some crazy dead language. Or isn't translation bringing a story into a relevant mode of delivery?
I had no problem with the portrayal of Hades in Disney's Hercules. My problem was with turning Zeus and Hera into a happy, faithful couple, which completely undercuts the basis of much of classical mythology (without Zeus's inability to keep his toga closed and Hera's inability to look the other way, a whole lot of the stories disappear). Nothing was gained by that change; the story was simply made less complex. Bowdlerized, if you will.
Similarly, you wouldn't want to retell the gospels and replace the crucifixion of Christ with a case of Measles or something. Certain elements are vital to the story. What I worry about is a generation of kids growing up with the wrong information. An adaptation that doesn't lie and that might lead kids to explore further the real story is good. Needlessly changing the facts and obscuring the real point is bad.
Translation: give me my hunk shooting an arrow, or the downfall of western civilization is on your head.
posted by anapestic at 11:47 AM on February 14, 2002
I had no problem with the portrayal of Hades in Disney's Hercules. My problem was with turning Zeus and Hera into a happy, faithful couple, which completely undercuts the basis of much of classical mythology (without Zeus's inability to keep his toga closed and Hera's inability to look the other way, a whole lot of the stories disappear). Nothing was gained by that change; the story was simply made less complex. Bowdlerized, if you will.
Similarly, you wouldn't want to retell the gospels and replace the crucifixion of Christ with a case of Measles or something. Certain elements are vital to the story. What I worry about is a generation of kids growing up with the wrong information. An adaptation that doesn't lie and that might lead kids to explore further the real story is good. Needlessly changing the facts and obscuring the real point is bad.
Translation: give me my hunk shooting an arrow, or the downfall of western civilization is on your head.
posted by anapestic at 11:47 AM on February 14, 2002
Can we have a .midi of ABC's Shoot That Poison Arrow too?
Or maybe Look of Love:
And though my friends just might ask me
They say "Martin maybe one day you'll find true love"
I say "Maybe, there must be a solution
To the one thing, the one thing, we can't find"
That's the look, that's the look
The look of love
That's the look, that's the look
The look of love
That's the look, that's the look
The Look of love
ha!
posted by Kafkaesque at 11:56 AM on February 14, 2002
Or maybe Look of Love:
And though my friends just might ask me
They say "Martin maybe one day you'll find true love"
I say "Maybe, there must be a solution
To the one thing, the one thing, we can't find"
That's the look, that's the look
The look of love
That's the look, that's the look
The look of love
That's the look, that's the look
The Look of love
ha!
posted by Kafkaesque at 11:56 AM on February 14, 2002
I love the cupids, Matt. I don't care what anyone says.
posted by evanizer at 12:02 PM on February 14, 2002
posted by evanizer at 12:02 PM on February 14, 2002
I said it there, and I'll say it here:
I'd far rather have some little Tinkerbell with a toy arrow zap me into twitterpation, then be stalked by some nefarious nude man with a questionable carnal imagination and a high-powered crossbow.
posted by Perigee at 12:05 PM on February 14, 2002
I'd far rather have some little Tinkerbell with a toy arrow zap me into twitterpation, then be stalked by some nefarious nude man with a questionable carnal imagination and a high-powered crossbow.
posted by Perigee at 12:05 PM on February 14, 2002
(Reaches into jacket pocket, gives flask disproving last look goodbye, throws flask over shoulder.)
posted by dong_resin at 12:05 PM on February 14, 2002
posted by dong_resin at 12:05 PM on February 14, 2002
Really perigee?
*puts down crossbow*
Oh well. Maybe next year.
posted by Kafkaesque at 12:13 PM on February 14, 2002
*puts down crossbow*
Oh well. Maybe next year.
posted by Kafkaesque at 12:13 PM on February 14, 2002
Chacun a son gout, perigee, but you've no idea what you're missing.
posted by anapestic at 12:13 PM on February 14, 2002
posted by anapestic at 12:13 PM on February 14, 2002
I'd woken up with a rather fierce head cold and throbbing headache, and thought, for a moment, that I was having a Valentine's hallucination. Aside from the cold, not a bad way to start my day!
posted by kittyloop at 12:29 PM on February 14, 2002
posted by kittyloop at 12:29 PM on February 14, 2002
Hehe. I think it's funny.
And anyway, Greek mythology was not one big set of ideas codified on a stone tablet. It was dynamic, it was adaptive, it was inclusive. The idea that there is a definite set of images that if you were Greek, you believed in, is incorrect. Hurray for Pantheism!
I don't know for sure, but I would guess that the idea of a unified Classical Greek Mythology was created by monotheistic scholars much later..
And look at them fly! Wheeeee!
But I do agree with you that teaching children a version of a culture's mythology that you yourself are making up outside of that culture is a bit inappropriate. I'm not sure how well the two statements I've made here mesh with each other, but there must be some middle ground. Maybe it's that Matt didn't imply any sort of connection to Greek or Roman culture.. ?
posted by Hildago at 12:34 PM on February 14, 2002
And anyway, Greek mythology was not one big set of ideas codified on a stone tablet. It was dynamic, it was adaptive, it was inclusive. The idea that there is a definite set of images that if you were Greek, you believed in, is incorrect. Hurray for Pantheism!
I don't know for sure, but I would guess that the idea of a unified Classical Greek Mythology was created by monotheistic scholars much later..
And look at them fly! Wheeeee!
But I do agree with you that teaching children a version of a culture's mythology that you yourself are making up outside of that culture is a bit inappropriate. I'm not sure how well the two statements I've made here mesh with each other, but there must be some middle ground. Maybe it's that Matt didn't imply any sort of connection to Greek or Roman culture.. ?
posted by Hildago at 12:34 PM on February 14, 2002
i thought it was nice of me to put all of those hearts on metafilter for my anniversary.
posted by goneill at 12:34 PM on February 14, 2002
posted by goneill at 12:34 PM on February 14, 2002
My problem was with turning Zeus and Hera into a happy, faithful couple, which completely undercuts the basis of much of classical mythology (without Zeus's inability to keep his toga closed and Hera's inability to look the other way, a whole lot of the stories disappear).
So then it's harmful to portray the gods as a happy couple? Why does Zeus need to turn into a bull and boink happy farm girls to make a demigod, why can't he just say "Poof, you're a demigod?"
Hera's jealousy can focus on Zeus not paying attention to her. She can still take her vanity out on the pathetic half-breeds so Herc can run around with his loincloth and pass his tests. How much of the moral is tied up in the infidelity? Not a whole heck of a lot.
True, there's some sacrifice of plot and character development, but that's stuff secondary to the moral anyway. Mythology's about the message, not Hermes.
Er, the messenger.
Nothing was gained by that change; the story was simply made less complex. Bowdlerized, if you will.
So when I discuss developing software and use jargon and get blank stares, that's better then making it less complex so my message is gotten across better? Huh. Well, looks like my people skills are bang on then! :-)
Similarly, you wouldn't want to retell the gospels and replace the crucifixion of Christ with a case of Measles or something.
No, but you could retell the gospels and make a Good San Franciscan hire a former boo.com employee and still get the point across.
Certain elements are vital to the story.
Certain lessons are vital to the story, everything else is just brain candy.
What I worry about is a generation of kids growing up with the wrong information.
Heh. They won't know the ancient lie quite as well as you? I can hear Mrs. Lovejoy
An adaptation that doesn't lie and that might lead kids to explore further the real story is good. Needlessly changing the facts and obscuring the real point is bad.
But the real point isn't being obscured it's being repackaged in an envelope that the kids enjoy, that will spark their curiosity more than a dusty old tome that's heavier than they are.
Translation: give me my hunk shooting an arrow, or the downfall of western civilization is on your head.
Are we back to the pancakes again?
posted by cCranium at 12:35 PM on February 14, 2002
So then it's harmful to portray the gods as a happy couple? Why does Zeus need to turn into a bull and boink happy farm girls to make a demigod, why can't he just say "Poof, you're a demigod?"
Hera's jealousy can focus on Zeus not paying attention to her. She can still take her vanity out on the pathetic half-breeds so Herc can run around with his loincloth and pass his tests. How much of the moral is tied up in the infidelity? Not a whole heck of a lot.
True, there's some sacrifice of plot and character development, but that's stuff secondary to the moral anyway. Mythology's about the message, not Hermes.
Er, the messenger.
Nothing was gained by that change; the story was simply made less complex. Bowdlerized, if you will.
So when I discuss developing software and use jargon and get blank stares, that's better then making it less complex so my message is gotten across better? Huh. Well, looks like my people skills are bang on then! :-)
Similarly, you wouldn't want to retell the gospels and replace the crucifixion of Christ with a case of Measles or something.
No, but you could retell the gospels and make a Good San Franciscan hire a former boo.com employee and still get the point across.
Certain elements are vital to the story.
Certain lessons are vital to the story, everything else is just brain candy.
What I worry about is a generation of kids growing up with the wrong information.
Heh. They won't know the ancient lie quite as well as you? I can hear Mrs. Lovejoy
An adaptation that doesn't lie and that might lead kids to explore further the real story is good. Needlessly changing the facts and obscuring the real point is bad.
But the real point isn't being obscured it's being repackaged in an envelope that the kids enjoy, that will spark their curiosity more than a dusty old tome that's heavier than they are.
Translation: give me my hunk shooting an arrow, or the downfall of western civilization is on your head.
Are we back to the pancakes again?
posted by cCranium at 12:35 PM on February 14, 2002
I think this may be the first DHTML I've ever seen work in IE5/Mac. I always miss out on all the dorky things that the NYTimes or Yahoo does when they mess with the page. But the cupids are pretty good.
Why no flying pancakes on national pancake day?
posted by panopticon at 12:44 PM on February 14, 2002
Why no flying pancakes on national pancake day?
posted by panopticon at 12:44 PM on February 14, 2002
replace the 'me' with 'matt'
Never in my heart, my dear. Never in my heart.
posted by ColdChef at 12:58 PM on February 14, 2002
Never in my heart, my dear. Never in my heart.
posted by ColdChef at 12:58 PM on February 14, 2002
Willie Sutton: "naw...listen or we might take away 'che' and yer left with the 'rub'...cherub. O.K....Ya's take this here grapple hook and flys up thats ally roof, ya.... ( bolt whizzes by...THUNCKannananan)
Cupid: "listen man i didn't sign on for NO gunplay no how..."
Willie Sutton: "that was a stone-biter my little flying housebreaker...someones beat us to the loot...skattle"
posted by clavdivs at 1:13 PM on February 14, 2002
Cupid: "listen man i didn't sign on for NO gunplay no how..."
Willie Sutton: "that was a stone-biter my little flying housebreaker...someones beat us to the loot...skattle"
posted by clavdivs at 1:13 PM on February 14, 2002
I was actually thinking of little easter bunnies hopping around.....give me credit for knowing what a bunch of little heathens most of you are..:-) I call MY holiday that time of year resurrection sunday.....
posted by bunnyfire at 1:18 PM on February 14, 2002
posted by bunnyfire at 1:18 PM on February 14, 2002
I call MY holiday that time of year resurrection sunday.....
And I call MY pretentious, holier than though attitude idiotic!
posted by cCranium at 1:25 PM on February 14, 2002
And I call MY pretentious, holier than though attitude idiotic!
posted by cCranium at 1:25 PM on February 14, 2002
You're all scaring me! Disney changes things when it makes movies? *gasp* Say it ain't so!...
posted by krewson at 1:27 PM on February 14, 2002
posted by krewson at 1:27 PM on February 14, 2002
What the hell. Split the difference. For Easter - flying Jesi. (I don't find enough opportunities to use the plural of Jesus)
posted by liam at 1:37 PM on February 14, 2002
posted by liam at 1:37 PM on February 14, 2002
Just make the damn things stop buzzing in my face!! AIEEEEEEE!
posted by briank at 1:48 PM on February 14, 2002
posted by briank at 1:48 PM on February 14, 2002
I call MY holiday that time of year resurrection sunday
<eyes bulging> You've been resurrected?! </eyes bulging>
posted by iceberg273 at 1:50 PM on February 14, 2002
<eyes bulging> You've been resurrected?! </eyes bulging>
posted by iceberg273 at 1:50 PM on February 14, 2002
What's really unfortunate is when the flying Jesi get sucked into jet intake engines.
posted by Kafkaesque at 2:01 PM on February 14, 2002
posted by Kafkaesque at 2:01 PM on February 14, 2002
What's really unfortunate is when the flying Jesi get sucked into jet intake engines.
They should stop trying to land on the wings and preach to the passengers. We have a wide selection of movies, and complimentary mini-pretzels.
posted by liam at 2:17 PM on February 14, 2002
They should stop trying to land on the wings and preach to the passengers. We have a wide selection of movies, and complimentary mini-pretzels.
posted by liam at 2:17 PM on February 14, 2002
The cupid thing wouldn't be so bad if you could maybe take them and hurl them across the screen--bludgeoning their little pink heads against the scroll bar.
And "flying Jesi"? Are those anything like Flying Elvi?
posted by jpoulos at 2:18 PM on February 14, 2002
And "flying Jesi"? Are those anything like Flying Elvi?
posted by jpoulos at 2:18 PM on February 14, 2002
Are the flying Jesi hot? I always figured that Jesus was considerably studlier than most of those religious paintings portray him.
posted by anapestic at 2:21 PM on February 14, 2002
posted by anapestic at 2:21 PM on February 14, 2002
OK, those cupids are starting to make me feel like my water is spiked...
Is that what LSD is like?
posted by dness2 at 2:42 PM on February 14, 2002
Is that what LSD is like?
posted by dness2 at 2:42 PM on February 14, 2002
What the zark are you lot talking about? What am I missing?
posted by salmacis at 2:59 PM on February 14, 2002
posted by salmacis at 2:59 PM on February 14, 2002
Well, you know, there is that Jesus Christ on a Pogo Stick applet...
posted by eilatan at 3:15 PM on February 14, 2002
posted by eilatan at 3:15 PM on February 14, 2002
I couldn't see any cupids either, in N6.1 nor IE5.5. Wah!
posted by Lynsey at 3:19 PM on February 14, 2002
posted by Lynsey at 3:19 PM on February 14, 2002
I can't WAIT till Easter......
if matt posts little ascending jesus .gifs i'm going to scream.
posted by quonsar at 3:20 PM on February 14, 2002
if matt posts little ascending jesus .gifs i'm going to scream.
posted by quonsar at 3:20 PM on February 14, 2002
He killed cupid, and now he's got to pay:
Tonight on a very special Law & Order.
posted by Kafkaesque at 3:38 PM on February 14, 2002
Tonight on a very special Law & Order.
posted by Kafkaesque at 3:38 PM on February 14, 2002
Anybody know that Voice Of The Beehive song "I'm Shooting Cupid?" That's a cool album (though I seem to be the only person that really got a kick out of it).
posted by NortonDC at 4:47 PM on February 14, 2002
posted by NortonDC at 4:47 PM on February 14, 2002
I can't WAIT till Easter......
Screw Easter, I can't wait till St. Particks Day!
posted by jonmc at 5:59 PM on February 14, 2002
Screw Easter, I can't wait till St. Particks Day!
posted by jonmc at 5:59 PM on February 14, 2002
Matt is working his way towards villainhood.
Maybe Matt can become the Vince McMahon of MeFi... he already runs the place, what if he also was the archvillian?
posted by thebigpoop at 6:23 PM on February 14, 2002
Maybe Matt can become the Vince McMahon of MeFi... he already runs the place, what if he also was the archvillian?
posted by thebigpoop at 6:23 PM on February 14, 2002
awwlright, yew buncha heathen critters with no sense of humor, ditch the Jesus jokes. I like Easter bunnies, and I meant no insult to you about Resurrection sunday....do you people constantly march around with an industrial sized chip on your shoulders?
Easter is the secular side where you get to color the eggs and bite the ears off the chocolate rabbits and get the plastic easter grass all over the carpet and eat too many jelly beans till you wanna puke. Resurrection Sunday is when you get to go to a sunrise service and celebrate the fact that Jesus rose from the dead.
Capiche?????
Okay then-Bring on the flying shillaleighs!!!!
posted by bunnyfire at 8:27 PM on February 14, 2002
Easter is the secular side where you get to color the eggs and bite the ears off the chocolate rabbits and get the plastic easter grass all over the carpet and eat too many jelly beans till you wanna puke. Resurrection Sunday is when you get to go to a sunrise service and celebrate the fact that Jesus rose from the dead.
Capiche?????
Okay then-Bring on the flying shillaleighs!!!!
posted by bunnyfire at 8:27 PM on February 14, 2002
awwlright, yew buncha heathen critters with no sense of humor, ditch the Jesus jokes. I like Easter bunnies, and I meant no insult to you about Resurrection sunday....do you people constantly march around with an industrial sized chip on your shoulders?
Easter is the secular side where you get to color the eggs and bite the ears off the chocolate rabbits and get the plastic easter grass all over the carpet and eat too many jelly beans till you wanna puke. Resurrection Sunday is when you get to go to a sunrise service and celebrate the fact that Jesus rose from the dead.
Capiche?????
Okay then-Bring on the flying shillaleighs!!!!
posted by bunnyfire at 8:31 PM on February 14, 2002
Easter is the secular side where you get to color the eggs and bite the ears off the chocolate rabbits and get the plastic easter grass all over the carpet and eat too many jelly beans till you wanna puke. Resurrection Sunday is when you get to go to a sunrise service and celebrate the fact that Jesus rose from the dead.
Capiche?????
Okay then-Bring on the flying shillaleighs!!!!
posted by bunnyfire at 8:31 PM on February 14, 2002
I was sick all last week and I know I shouldn't be allowed near a computer when I'm feverish but...
I checked into MeFi this morning and my first reaction was: Oh, my god, I was *so* sick I've acquired a Comet cursor. When the cupids went away, I burst into laughter.
Lovely joke, Matt, even if you almost gave me a heart attack (pun intended).
Will you be my valentine?
posted by realjanetkagan at 8:38 PM on February 14, 2002
I checked into MeFi this morning and my first reaction was: Oh, my god, I was *so* sick I've acquired a Comet cursor. When the cupids went away, I burst into laughter.
Lovely joke, Matt, even if you almost gave me a heart attack (pun intended).
Will you be my valentine?
posted by realjanetkagan at 8:38 PM on February 14, 2002
Maybe Matt can become the Vince McMahon of MeFi...
"You listen to me Kottke, you listen to me! There is NO CHANCE in HELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL I'm givin' up my pancakes! I made this company, and I'll be damned if I'm giving YOUUU the pancakes!"
posted by owillis at 10:04 PM on February 14, 2002
"You listen to me Kottke, you listen to me! There is NO CHANCE in HELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL I'm givin' up my pancakes! I made this company, and I'll be damned if I'm giving YOUUU the pancakes!"
posted by owillis at 10:04 PM on February 14, 2002
I'm familiar with Jesus, but this "Easter Bunny" you mention... ? Could someone explain or provide a link? The google search was of little help (unless you like Beatrix Potter or porn). I'm not sure I understand the connection.
Either way. Bunnyfire, your passion for "Easter Bunny" and Jesus is inspirational!
posted by G_Ask at 11:21 PM on February 14, 2002
Either way. Bunnyfire, your passion for "Easter Bunny" and Jesus is inspirational!
posted by G_Ask at 11:21 PM on February 14, 2002
Bill HIcks on Easter:
I've been travelling a lot lately. I was over in Australia during Easter. It was interesting to note that they celebrate Easter the same way as we do - commemorating the death and resurrection of Jesus by telling our children a giant bunny rabbit left chocolate eggs in the night. I wonder why we're so messed up as a race? You know, I've read the Bible - can't find the words "bunny" or "chocolate" in the whole book. Where do we get this stuff from? And why those two things? Why not "goldfish left Lincoln logs in our sock drawers"? I mean, as long as we are making things up, why not go hog wild?
-jessamyn "I'm not heathen, I'm Jewish" west
posted by jessamyn at 12:42 PM on February 15, 2002
I've been travelling a lot lately. I was over in Australia during Easter. It was interesting to note that they celebrate Easter the same way as we do - commemorating the death and resurrection of Jesus by telling our children a giant bunny rabbit left chocolate eggs in the night. I wonder why we're so messed up as a race? You know, I've read the Bible - can't find the words "bunny" or "chocolate" in the whole book. Where do we get this stuff from? And why those two things? Why not "goldfish left Lincoln logs in our sock drawers"? I mean, as long as we are making things up, why not go hog wild?
-jessamyn "I'm not heathen, I'm Jewish" west
posted by jessamyn at 12:42 PM on February 15, 2002
Easter, of course, has its roots in paganism. It's yet another instance of Christianity taking an existing pagan holiday and using it for its own purposes. Bunnies and eggs are both good symbols of spring, as is, of course, the resurrection. Symbols from many mythologies can coexist peacefully, and I say the more the merrier, especially insofar as it permits me the opportunity to nibble on chocolate bunny ears. I mean, you don't really think the Christmas tree is a Christian symbol, do you?
posted by anapestic at 1:03 PM on February 15, 2002
posted by anapestic at 1:03 PM on February 15, 2002
Can you find some flying Abe Lincolns for President's Day?
posted by dness2 at 3:33 PM on February 15, 2002
posted by dness2 at 3:33 PM on February 15, 2002
:: looking sad :: I was working on a server all day yesterday. The server had major problems. I got home from work at midnight, to an apologetic husband -- he tried to buy me some flowers for Valentine's Day, but went out too late. (He got his gifts yesterday morning...) Yesterday was awful, horrible, no time to look at MeFi...
And now I've missed the cupids. <:( Waaaaaaa! :: small Cake of Sadness ::
posted by metrocake at 8:51 PM on February 15, 2002
And now I've missed the cupids. <:( Waaaaaaa! :: small Cake of Sadness ::
posted by metrocake at 8:51 PM on February 15, 2002
Where do we get this stuff from?
sadly, it's all very sensible and not all that funny. Easter is named for the Norse goddess of fertility, Eastre. it's the festival of spring, rebirth, etc... bunnies are famous breeders, eggs are the beginning of life, & the festival is held on the first sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox. Christmas, likewise, is a celebration of the return of light, held on what was the winter solstice by the Julian calendar - & taking evergreens inside reminds us that the earth isn't dead, it's just hibernating. Yay pagans!
Ok, the chocolate component is a mystery. I'll give you that.
posted by mdn at 10:01 PM on February 15, 2002
sadly, it's all very sensible and not all that funny. Easter is named for the Norse goddess of fertility, Eastre. it's the festival of spring, rebirth, etc... bunnies are famous breeders, eggs are the beginning of life, & the festival is held on the first sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox. Christmas, likewise, is a celebration of the return of light, held on what was the winter solstice by the Julian calendar - & taking evergreens inside reminds us that the earth isn't dead, it's just hibernating. Yay pagans!
Ok, the chocolate component is a mystery. I'll give you that.
posted by mdn at 10:01 PM on February 15, 2002
Not really. Chocolate often leads to serious bonking.
posted by dong_resin at 1:06 AM on February 16, 2002
posted by dong_resin at 1:06 AM on February 16, 2002
It does?
If I see my wife biting the ears off a bunny, it doesn't exactly pitch my tent if you know what I mean.
And I think you know what I mean.
posted by Kafkaesque at 12:12 PM on February 16, 2002
If I see my wife biting the ears off a bunny, it doesn't exactly pitch my tent if you know what I mean.
And I think you know what I mean.
posted by Kafkaesque at 12:12 PM on February 16, 2002
I hate pagans. Worshipping trees is like, so 5 eons ago.
I like Caravaggio's nasty little cupid better.
posted by evanizer at 1:28 PM on February 16, 2002
I like Caravaggio's nasty little cupid better.
posted by evanizer at 1:28 PM on February 16, 2002
Besides the sugar rush, Kafka, chocolate contains tryptophan, which for most people boosts serotonin levels, which often makes people horny.
Anyway, have you seen your wife eating a cadbury's creme egg? When the white goo spills out, dribbles on her chin, and drips down over... over....
`Scuse me for a moment... I need to be alone with Kafka's wife, who, for my purposes, will be played by former Noxema girl Rebecca Gayheart.
posted by dong_resin at 5:17 PM on February 16, 2002
Anyway, have you seen your wife eating a cadbury's creme egg? When the white goo spills out, dribbles on her chin, and drips down over... over....
`Scuse me for a moment... I need to be alone with Kafka's wife, who, for my purposes, will be played by former Noxema girl Rebecca Gayheart.
posted by dong_resin at 5:17 PM on February 16, 2002
Then wouldn't turkey make you horny instead of tired?
Not that I mean turkeys themselves should make you horny. Unless they do. Which would be perfectly OK.
Stavros?
posted by Kafkaesque at 5:31 PM on February 16, 2002
Not that I mean turkeys themselves should make you horny. Unless they do. Which would be perfectly OK.
Stavros?
posted by Kafkaesque at 5:31 PM on February 16, 2002
Actually, Rebecca Gayheart IS his wife. Shhhhh. It's a secret...
posted by ColdChef at 5:33 PM on February 16, 2002
posted by ColdChef at 5:33 PM on February 16, 2002
Turkey doesn't have sugar. Or the right kind of sugar. Or chocolate just looks like Barry White.
I dunno either, but it works.
posted by dong_resin at 5:58 PM on February 16, 2002
I dunno either, but it works.
posted by dong_resin at 5:58 PM on February 16, 2002
I hate to ruin your fantasy, people.....but zoloft boosts your serotonin....and totally destroys your sex drive.
don't kill the messenger....
posted by bunnyfire at 6:12 PM on February 16, 2002
don't kill the messenger....
posted by bunnyfire at 6:12 PM on February 16, 2002
"Is there any cure for chronic TMI?" he asked, out of the blue.
posted by iceberg273 at 11:28 PM on February 16, 2002
posted by iceberg273 at 11:28 PM on February 16, 2002
Chocolate causes a release of serotinin, where as SSRIs create a blockage that causes the nerotansmitter to pool up artificially, is why chocolate works to make ya get yer ya-yas out, and prozac doesn't, dong yelled at the long disinterested and most likely now empty thread.
Pardon my ignorance, iceberg273 but what the heck is TMI?
I tried looking it up, I kept getting it as some sort of handicap that I couldn't get defined very well.
posted by dong_resin at 12:09 AM on February 17, 2002
Pardon my ignorance, iceberg273 but what the heck is TMI?
I tried looking it up, I kept getting it as some sort of handicap that I couldn't get defined very well.
posted by dong_resin at 12:09 AM on February 17, 2002
TMI: Too Much Information.
posted by iceberg273 at 12:14 AM on February 17, 2002
posted by iceberg273 at 12:14 AM on February 17, 2002
DR, you are a lot of things but a jackass is not one of them.
posted by bunnyfire at 3:19 AM on February 17, 2002
posted by bunnyfire at 3:19 AM on February 17, 2002
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Nice little surpise actually. Evil, nevertheless.
posted by revbrian at 11:17 AM on February 14, 2002