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Subject: BS: Here comes Easter From: nutty Date: 17 Jan 03 - 12:26 PM I don't often start non-music threads but I feel I must share my outrage with someone and I'm hoping that fellow mudcatters may be able to make sense of this. Today is 17th January ..... the sales are still in full swing ...... but down at the local supermarket the shelves are full of EASTER EGGS, and, in the Bakery section they have a special offer on HOT CROSS BUNS. Is the world really upside down?? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Here comes Easter From: mack/misophist Date: 17 Jan 03 - 12:38 PM yes. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Here comes Easter From: Roxanne Date: 17 Jan 03 - 01:28 PM Bought my Christmas cards for NEXT year in the sale, problems are I can never remember where I put them. It's all down to greed of the big chain store, ban Easter, Ban Christmas, and defiantly Birthdays once you hit 40ish!! Ban work, fun, love, sex, and the PEL |
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Subject: RE: BS: Here comes Easter From: Jim Krause Date: 18 Jan 03 - 12:17 AM Aw now hold on there just a minute! Ban fun, love AND sex? Nosireebob. Why you may as well ban folk music, too and the Mudcat with it! Jim |
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Subject: RE: BS: Here comes Easter From: JennyO Date: 18 Jan 03 - 01:09 AM Big displays of hot cross buns in my supermarket, too, and it's midsummer and currently 44 degrees C. Jenny |
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Subject: RE: BS: Here comes Easter From: katlaughing Date: 18 Jan 03 - 01:17 AM So do something about it!*bg* Seriously, call the store manager and tell them what you think of it OR, better yet, write a letter and send it to corporate headquarters. Ask everyone you know to do the same and/or boycott the stores which are doing so. That's the only way to get them to change...if they think they will lose enough business then they'll stop. Of course, the thing is convincing enough people to care enough to do so.:-) Really it is unbelievable. I haven't seen any of that here. What happened to Valentine's Day? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Here comes Easter From: Hrothgar Date: 18 Jan 03 - 05:36 AM Here, too, although some are creating confusion by pushing Valentines as well. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Here comes Easter From: gnu Date: 18 Jan 03 - 06:00 AM JennyO... 44C !!! It's -21C here. Too bad we can't get together and have a comfortable 23C. Pass them thar HOT cross buns, eh bye ? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Here comes Easter From: Liz the Squeak Date: 18 Jan 03 - 06:15 AM Valentines?? It isn't even Candlemass yet, that's when Christmas is really over! LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Here comes Easter From: *daylia* Date: 18 Jan 03 - 11:00 AM Liz are you in the UK? It's great to hear Candlemas called Candlemas! Around here Feb 2 is 'Groundhog's Day'. Wonder how that tradition started ... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Here comes Easter From: leprechaun Date: 18 Jan 03 - 12:57 PM What do bra sizes have to do with Easter? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Here comes Easter From: Clinton Hammond Date: 18 Jan 03 - 01:00 PM Read Neil Gaimans' "American Gods" for a GREAT scene about Easter... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Here comes Easter From: Mrs.Duck Date: 18 Jan 03 - 01:12 PM Woolworths have Easter eggs and bunnies in! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Here comes Easter From: Hrothgar Date: 19 Jan 03 - 05:00 AM Thought Christmas ended on Twelfth Night - the Epiphany. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Here comes Easter From: Liz the Squeak Date: 19 Jan 03 - 06:47 AM The Ecclesiastic Christmas finishes at Candlemas with the presentation of Christ at the temple, and the purification of Mary. It's when Simeon greeted the Christchild with the words that have become the Nunc Dimitis; 'Now lettest me, thy servant, depart in peace according to thy word, for mine eyes have seen thy salvation and the glory of thy people Israel'. Simeon had lived in the temple for many years and was an old old man, having been promised by God that he would see the salvation of the world before his death. The purification would be the ritual cleansing that a woman just delivered would go through, to allow her to take part in the services (known as churching in the Anglican church, and now mostly obsolete). If we're going to be pedantic, the bright light in the sky that announced the news to the shepherds that night, the star of Bethlehem, was seen by the observers (Magi, Kings, whatever you want them to be) and it took them another 2 years to get to see him, which is why Herod gave orders that all boys at 2yrs and under were to be killed (Holy Innocents). It's still Christmas!!! LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Here comes Easter From: Alio Date: 20 Jan 03 - 05:17 AM And if you're back on a diet like me Hazel, Easter eggs and hot cross buns are the last thing you want to see! Ali Ps I'm officially now in mourning Hazel, as it's nearly the end of January!!!! |