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  1. Easter was noted in my family when I was young, and one year an ambitious pastor at Holy Sacraments Lutheran Church staged quite a show to dramatize the crucifixion and coming back from death, with the lights going out, crashes of cymbals and loud cries by some actors. (I think this took place of the evening of Good Friday.)

    I remember coloring Easter eggs, and chocolate bunnies, but I have no memory of going on any hunts for hidden eggs — though it seems like maybe my younger sister did.

  2. Thanks for the instructions, Neo. Gut Pesach to you and all your Jewish readers; and Happy Easter to all who celebrate the Resurrection, and to everyone who enjoys the special day as welcoming Spring.

  3. My family did the egg hunts, but strictly the candy varieties.

    I get a kick that “Jesus Christ Superstar,” the musical, is still going strong.

  4. When I was little my family would often celebrate Easter with family friends, often in a park, where the egg hunt could spread out over a wide area. One year while I was looking, I found a live rabbit sitting under a bush. Very exciting. (I didn’t disturb it.)

    Anyway, one year some friends brought their friends, who were from Argentina. They introduced us to the custom of cascarones — hollowed out eggs, dyed, and then filled with confetti (and you can seal them with a bit of tissue paper if you want to be fancy). The thing to do with the finished egg was to crack it over someone’s head.

    Later I would often hollow out eggs and just dye them and decorate them. As you say, they are less fragile than one might imagine, so they do last nicely.

  5. We used to make cascarones. You can also fill them with perfumed water, which we didn’t do. Good activity for kids, because the results are seldom of heirloom keepsake quality.

  6. I need to do a better job of the Jewish high holy days. So I can wish them can them well.

    https://www.hebcal.com/holidays/2019-2020

    Fortunately they publish calendars. So they make it simple for us knuckle dragging gentiles. Thank you, Jews, for speaking to us slowly in one syllable words.

    Wfeith much love, thank you neo, for treating me to beauty of ballet. If I could tell you of the ugly of what a 30 caliber bullet can do to a human head, I wouldn’t.

    I wasn’t exactly trained by Gunny Hathcock. I was at least briefed by himn.

    http://www.proguns.com/springfieldarmory-m25whitefeather.asp

    Get his rifle.

  7. I like all believers sometimes doubt. I had lost my wallet. It was nowhere. Maybe you can imagine the panic. I spent hours looking for it. I decided to to give it up to God. I was about to pray. Then I told myself, I blaspheme. I still have my passport and a credit card. Get over yourself, I tells myself. God has more important things to worry about than your silly wallet.

    Then look down and what do you know?

  8. I was a good intelligence officer.

    First, realize you’re a man.

    Second, your wife is right.

  9. The way he looks at me, Romeo tells me I’m sending him mixed signals. Yes he’s a dog.

  10. The Hound of the Baskervilles.

    I was hunting to clear things up and my keyboard jammed me up.

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