Easter

Truthful Tuesday — Holiday Themed Movies

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Frank, aka PCGuyIV, is back with another episode of Truthful Tuesday. The idea behind Truthful Tuesday is for us to respond to the question (or questions) Frank asks and to be 100% truthful in our responses. No glib answers, no funny business, no fibs. Just raw honesty.

For this week’s Truthful Tuesday, Frank wants to know…

Considering Halloween is only two days away, are you a horror fan? If so, what makes it so enjoyable for you? If you’re not, are there any exceptions that you actually like? In a broader sense, are you a seasonal movie watcher? (Watch horror movies at Halloween, run Christmas movie marathons in December, watch religious movies around Easter, etc.)

My short answer is no.

My long answer is that when I was a lot younger I used to enjoy horror movies, but these days I am not really into blood and gore anymore. I do enjoy psychological thrillers and good dramas that may include murder and mayhem, but that’s about as far as it goes with respect to the “horror” genre.

As for Christmas, Easter, or movies with blatantly or overtly religious themes, I must admit, I find them rather tedious. I eagerly anticipate January when the incessant Christmas music, movies, and TV shows will finally come to an end. While Easter may not be as commercialized, I don’t actively seek out Easter-themed movies or shows.

So I guess my long answer is also no.

Share Your World — 03/25/2024

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Di, at Pensitivity101, is our host for Share Your World each week. Here are her questions for this week.

1. It’s Easter this week. As a child, did you take part in Easter Egg Hunts?

My family wasn’t very religious and we didn’t do things like coloring eggs or going on Easter egg hunts as a family. That said, our neighborhood’s recreation center would sponsor Easter egg hunts and my two best friends and I would often head over and participate.

2. If you were to design an Easter Bonnet, what would it look like?

I dunno. Maybe something like this, which I found on Pinterest.

3. Have you ever seen the movie “Easter Parade” with Fred Astaire and Judy Garland?

Probably, but I really don’t remember it at all.

4. For my readers who don’t celebrate Easter, can you apply these questions to one of your traditional holidays?

The only holidays I celebrate are the nonsectarian ones. Of course, if invited for Christmas dinner or Easter brunch, I’ll happily go. But other than that, my traditional ways of celebrating holidays are backyard cookouts for Memorial Day, Independence Day, and Labor Day. And for Thanksgiving, we always get together for a traditional Thanksgiving dinner of Chinese takeout.

Truthful Tuesday — Commercialization

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Di, of Pensitivity101, is our host for Truthful Tuesday. This week Di wants to know:

Do you think Easter, like Christmas, is too commercialized and goods available too early in respect of the holiday?

I’ve never felt that Easter was as commercialized as Christmas. And this year, in particular, maybe because I’ve got a lot of other things on my mind, like returning to be physically fit after breaking my hip and my arm at my shoulder, I didn’t really pay that much attention to the upcoming holiday. And now, Easter has come and gone.

Did I miss anything important?

Share Your World — 04/10/2023

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Di, at Pensitivity101, is our host for Share Your World each week. Here are her Easter-themed SYW questions for this week.

1. Do you celebrate the Easter holiday and if not, do you have an alternative

I almost didn’t respond to this week’s Share Your World prompt because we don’t celebrate Easter or any alternative holiday. We do celebrate the arrival of spring, though, by firing up the grill and spending more time outside.

2. Do you exchange gifts or have a traditional meal?

No.

3. How many Easter Eggs (or alternative) did your receive/give?

None.

4. Was Easter a Bank Holiday in your country or did you have to work this weekend?

I think Wall Street (the stock market) was closed on Good Friday, but I believe that, for most banks in the U.S., it was business as usual.

Fibbing Friday — Rites of Spring

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Frank (aka PCGuy) and Di (aka Pensitivity101) alternate as host for Fibbing Friday, a silly little exercise where we are to write a post with our answers to the ten questions below. But as the title suggests, truth is not an option. The idea is to fib a little, a lot, tell whoppers, be inventive, silly, or even outrageous, in our responses. Today is Frank’s turn to host and here are his questions.

1. Why is April Fools Day on April 1st?

It’s to celebrate the birthday of Tom Foolery.

2. According to the old adage, exactly what do April showers bring?

Flash floods.

3. What is a Haiku?

It’s when you say to your friend when you want to go hiking: “Hey, hike, you?”

4. How did the tradition of hiding eggs on Easter begin?

Back in the day there was a severe egg shortage, so people would hide their eggs to make sure there were enough to last through the spring.

5. Why is it a tradition to serve lamb on Easter?

Because turkey is reserved for Thanksgiving, ham for Christmas, and beef for the Fourth of July. So lamb was all that was left.

6. Why is the season between winter and summer called spring?

Because the cold of winter makes you feel stiff, and the heat of the summer makes you feel wilted, so in the season in between you feel like you’re springing between stiff and wilted.

7. Since March just recently ended, what is meant by the old adage, “In like a lion, out like a lamb”?

The guy who came up with that expression mixed up his zodiac signs.

8. What is meant by the phrase, “trial by fire”?

Back in the early days of human evolution, before there were indoor court rooms, they would conduct trials outdoors in front of large fires. If the defendant was found guilty, it was easy to just toss him or her into the fire.

9. What is the difference between fact and theory?

One is indisputable and the other is something you wish was indisputable, but it may not be.

10. What is a postulate?

It’s when you scheduled a post to be published in the middle of the wee hours of the morning, but when you scheduled it, instead of designating a.m., you mistakenly put p.m., so when you look for your post the next morning and don’t find it, you scratch your head and say to yourself, “Post, you late!”

An Easter Story

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Heavens Open Ornate GatesThree women — a brunette, a redhead, and a blonde — find themselves standing in front of Saint Peter at Heaven’s Pearly Gates after having tragically died in a freak auto accident. They are surprised to hear Saint Peter tell them, “Whoa, ladies. You don’t just walk in here. You’ve got to pass a test!”

With that, Saint Peter turns to the brunette and says, “Tell me about Easter.”

She responds, “Oh Easter is my favorite time of year. We all get together and cook a turkey with stuffing and all the trimmings and eat too much. And then we sit and watch football on the television!”

“Sorry that’s not correct,” Saint Peter replies. Turning to the redhead he asks the same question.

She responds, “Easter is fabulous! We get a tree and put lights on it and exchange presents and sing carols. Easter is my favorite time of year!”

With a sigh, Saint Peter says, “Sorry, that’s also not correct.” Suspecting he’ll hear even a bigger mistake from the blonde, he nonetheless asks her to tell him about Easter.

The blonde replies, “Well, about two thousand years ago a child was born to a couple in a manger and he grew up to be a carpenter and good men liked him until one day, while he was having dinner with friends, he was captured and taken away and nailed to a cross and his body was put into a cave and the cave was closed with a large rock.”

Saint Peter is just about to congratulate her when she continues, “And every February they roll the rock away and if he sticks his head out of the cave and sees his shadow, there’s going to be six more weeks of winter.”

Happy Easter and/or Passover everyone.

Image credit alswart – Fotolia

One-Liner Wednesday — Business as Usual

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“I would love to have the country opened up and just raring to go by Easter.”

Donald J. Trump

A World Health Organization (WHO) spokesperson told a press conference in Geneva yesterday that there has been a “very large acceleration” in U.S. coronavirus cases in recent days.

Yet the American president, despite warnings like these from the WHO that the United States could soon become the epicenter of the global coronavirus pandemic, wants to return the country to business as usual by Easter.

Further, Trump has predicted that, on Easter Sunday, there will be “packed churches all over our country.” He added, “I think it would be a beautiful time, and it’s just about the timeline that I think is right.”

This is something that virtually all doctors, epidemiologists, and health experts agree is exactly the wrong thing to do if we want to “flatten the curve” of this highly contagious and easily transmitted disease.

It’s obvious that the current president of the United States is more eager to prop up the faltering U.S. economy in order to reinvigorate his re-election campaign than he is in saving the lives of American citizens.

Written for today’s One-Liner Wednesday prompt from Linda G. Hill.