Happy Easter! (warning - may offend the sensitive)

my personal favorite:



These are from the Onion a looonnng time ago.

that good, that good. :D

"I was over in Australia, and they celebrate Easter the same way we do. By telling our children a giant BUNNY RABBIT came to us in the middle of the night and left CHOCOLATE EGGS for us. Now, I wonder why we're fucked up as a race. I've read the Bible, I can't find the words 'chocolate' or 'bunny rabbit' anywhere! I mean, as long as we're making shit up, let's go hog wild, like, a goldfish left Lincoln Logs in your sock drawer. At least a goldfish schleping across your floor with a Lincoln Log tied to its back has some miraculous connotation to it.

'Mummy, I woke up this morning and there was a Lincoln Log in me sock drawer!'

'That's the story of Jesus.'

Bill Hicks

Are y'all Gideons?

"Ever met one, no! Ever seen one, no! But they're all over the fuckin' world, putting Bibles in hotel rooms!! Who are the fuckin' Gideons?!.. what are they, ninjas?.. where are they from, Gidea?"

Ah, Bill, we really could use someone like you today.

I am still convinced that he was a holy man, perhaps - if such a thing exists, which I doubt - the real Messiah.

When I made a contribution to his conservation charity, via his website - http://www.billhicks.com/users/wildlife/ - I got a handwritten thank-you note from his mother, with her return address handwritten on the envelope.

For some reason, that made me cry.

You know she must love to hear from his fans.

Gideon story: I was in the waiting room of my dentist's office when a couple of little old lady Gideons came in and offered me a bible. I said,"No thanks. I'm not part of that fan club". They got a look on their faces like I'd tried to teach a German Shepherd calculus. But, they left me alone.

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Bill Hicks's scathing, fearless standup comedy is on full display in Satirist, Social Critic, Stand-Up Comedian, the first official DVD release containing the late performer's work. Hicks, who died in 1994 at age 32, may not have been a total original; he's often compared to Lenny Bruce, as well as Sam Kinison and others, and he was hardly the first comic to talk about sex, drugs, politics, and religion, even if Hicks's takes on these matters are usually strikingly fresh. But there's simply no denying the unabashed, in-your-face power of these three early '90s performances, one each from Chicago, Montreal (entitled Relentless, this show originally aired on HBO), and London. Hicks is profane, to say the least, but never crude for its own sake, and certainly not stupid (we're not talking Andrew Dice Clay here). His humor is abrasive, passionate, shameless, provocative--calling non-smokers "obnoxious, self-righteous slugs" is one of his milder observations--and it's delivered in riveting, almost preacher-like fashion, with a strong physical element. And anyone who doubts his impact, both during and after his short, turbulent life, need only watch "It's Just a Ride," the 40-minute documentary accompanying the three live shows, in which both family and famous (Jay Leno and David Letterman among them) comment on him and work. In the end, you realize that since his death, no comic has come along who can touch Bill Hicks. --Sam Graham


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The week of St. Patrick's Day, in fact.

We were taking an alternate route home from dinner one night, on a road where most of the houses are multi-million-dollar piles, when we rounded a curve and I thought I caught something out of the corner of my eye that absolutely could not possibly be where it was. I made the hub turn around and go back.

It was exactly what I thought I'd seen.

Someone had a lighted diorama in their garden right next to the edge of the road.

Three crosses arranged like the SOP images of Golgotha -- one bigger, in the middle, with two smaller crosses on the right and left.

No, this isn't all that unusual for this part of Ohio -- it wouldn't have been as surreal as it was, if that was all.

It was the leprechauns nailed to the three crosses that did us both in.

We had to pull over. Wish we'd had the camera -- I'm sure they've taken the leprechauns off, by now, though maybe they've got an Easter Bunny on it this week.

I'm not sure I want to know.

That's hilarious.

That is way too funny! I printed those images for an atheist group at UTA. Each club got a cubbyhole to put holiday images in relating to their group. The atheist group used these pictures and immediately got them yanked.

:D

Those are so wrong, but so funny.

But it does kind of point out the hypocrisy, doesn't it?

have resurrection stories of this type (Egyptian, Mesopotamian, etc). All involve an important figure dying in some fashion, and they are all tied to the need to herald and remember the coming of spring/hope/ renewal etc.

I don't know why any one religion thinks that their resurrection story is superior to or different from the others.

of sacred and secular- the virgin mary and the easter bunny- the baby jesus and santa claus... I guess I'd stick with one or the other.
Gotta be confusing for kids.

...who's still stick and could use more warm fuzzies from her fellow DUers.