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Happy Easter!

Sunday, 12. April 2009, 04:37:06

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It's easter! :yes:

I thought I would put a few fun facts up about the Easter:

-> The first Easter baskets were made to look like bird's nests.

-> The traditional act of painting eggs is called Pysanka.

-> The custom of giving eggs at Easter time has been traced back to Egyptians, Persians, Gauls, Greeks and Romans, to whom the egg was a symbol of life.

-> In medieval times a festival of egg-throwing was held in church, during which the priest would throw a hard-boiled egg to one of the choir boys. It was then tossed from one choir boy to the next and whoever held the egg when the clock struck 12 was the winner and retained the egg.

-> Easter is now celebrated (in the words of the Book of Common Prayer) on the first Sunday after the full moon which happens on or after March 21, the Spring Equinox.




-> The Guinness Book of Records holder for the largest Easter egg ever made is the Belgian chocolate producer Guylian who made the chocolate egg with at least 50.000 bars on behalf of the city of St. Niklaas. The egg measured 8.32 metres high. Twenty-six craftsman worked altogether 525 hours to build the egg. They needed 1950 kg of chocolates.



Happy Easter everybody! :heart:

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ellinidata 12. April 2009, 05:08

" the Belgian chocolate producer Guylian who made the chocolate egg with at least 50.000 bars on behalf of the city of St. Niklaas. The egg measured 8.32 metres high. Twenty-six craftsman worked altogether 525 hours to build the egg. They needed 1950 kg of chocolates"


Mr Guylian can put his shoes under my bed any time! ( :lol: i don't know if he still alive but chocolate made my brain hyper!! )



Happy Easter to you too Zaphira!!

Zaphira 12. April 2009, 05:11

Thank you, Angeliki. :happy:

Chocolate has the same effect on me - I was drooling too when I read about that giant egg! :lol:

Cois 12. April 2009, 05:30

:D anyone want MY egg?

AnitaMargita 12. April 2009, 05:33

Happy Easter, Zaphira! Have a great time! :D

Dacotah 12. April 2009, 05:39

Happy Easter Zaphira. :happy: :heart:

Wolfieboy no way, we've all seen your hairy egg. p:

Aqualion 12. April 2009, 05:47

Like this?



Happy Easter!

Zaphira 12. April 2009, 05:59

@ Cois ~ :no: I think your egg(s) are going to die in peace. :lol:

@ Ana ~ Aww thanks! :D Happy Easter to you too!

@ Carol ~ Happy Easter to you too. :heart:

@ Lion ~ Whoa - now we're talking! :happy: Happy Easter!

Dacotah 12. April 2009, 06:02


Easter



:heart:

Moesring 12. April 2009, 07:24

In medieval times a festival of egg-throwing was held in church, during which the priest would throw a hard-boiled egg to one of the choir boys. It was then tossed from one choir boy to the next and whoever held the egg when the clock struck 12 was the winner and retained the egg.

If you want to be the one holding the egg at 12, then why wouldn't you just refuse to throw it to anyone else once you had caught it? :rolleyes:

Happy Easter :Zaphira:
:Minstrel:

Marike79 12. April 2009, 07:56

Happy Easter Kitty :heart: *drools* I love chocolate :love:

Zaphira 12. April 2009, 07:56

Haha, good point. I don't think that you were allowed to refuse to toss the egg. :lol:

Happy Easter, Moe. :smile:

Zaphira 12. April 2009, 07:56

Happy Easter, Sweet Marike. :love:

jonpar 12. April 2009, 08:07

Happy Easter !

AnitaMargita 12. April 2009, 08:22

Thanks a lot Zaphira. :smile: We will have Easter in a week later here. :smile:

Zaphira 12. April 2009, 08:29

Happy Easter, Jonpar. :smile:

@ Ana ~ It will be so nice for you. Do you get extra days off??

Stomyr 12. April 2009, 10:22

Happy Easter! :smile:

AnitaMargita 12. April 2009, 10:35

We will have a fiew days off, Zaphira. And what about you, do you have some days off for this ocassion?

pintavodki 12. April 2009, 11:08

Here in Russia Orthodox church has Easter in a week, next Sunday. But Happy Easter anyway. :smile:

thaodp 12. April 2009, 12:13

We don't celebrate it in my country but I'd like to know more about this ocassion :smile: Happy Easter :up:

Javaen 12. April 2009, 15:03

Interesting post. *tosses Zaph a hard-boiled egg*

Okay, yer no choirboy, but work with me! :D.

Whoever holds it at 12 gets Clint's egg. So don't hang onto it looooong! :devil:

Zaphira 12. April 2009, 16:07

@ Stomyr ~ Thank you - and happy Easter right back at you! :smile:

@ Ana ~ My days off are soon history - I had the week off that just passed. It has been very nice! :yes:

@ Merlin ~ Thank you, and Happy Easter when it's your turn to celebrate it.

@ Mit ~ Thanks sweetie, it's nice of you. It's always nice to learn new stuff about other cultures, right? :smile:

@ Jen ~ Argh! *tosses the egg right back* Yuck if I win that prize... Darn... I'm going to have to crush it. :devil:

Javaen 12. April 2009, 16:26

:lol: *throws it to moesring*

AnitaMargita 12. April 2009, 16:41

I'm glad to hear that you had nice time Zaphira. :smile:

Hermitess 12. April 2009, 18:16

Hoppy Easter Zaphira!

Can my chocolate egg be filled with caramel? p:

Zaphira 12. April 2009, 18:31

Happy Easter, Hermitess.

Sure it can, but only if you promise you won't get nauseous! P:

Cois 12. April 2009, 20:03

Who's holding my egg so long? :lol:

Stardancer 13. April 2009, 04:52

Happy Easter, Zaphira!

:smile:

Zaphira 13. April 2009, 05:01

Happy Easter to you too, Star. :smile:

Cois 14. April 2009, 09:46

Give my egg now! p:

Zaphira 14. April 2009, 09:50

Moe's got it. :insane:

rose-marie 14. April 2009, 16:15

I miss easter already! awww

Zaphira 14. April 2009, 17:51

Me too. *sighs*

Or, I miss the days off!

rose-marie 14. April 2009, 18:54

Me too... I like easter more than christmas. It's still days off, but without all the hassle, plus the weather is (usually) nicer :yes:

Zaphira 14. April 2009, 19:30

It's true, and this Easter brought extraordinary good weather. One of my colleagues was looking as if she had been on a holiday down south somewhere. And she had only been on her balcony! :eyes:

jonpar 16. April 2009, 14:39

...wow, why weren't you too ??
oh, yes, here are 20 degrees (there should be 10-15) :wink:

jonpar 16. April 2009, 14:40

hey, how did you add that emoticon at your nick-name ??
TELL ME PLEASE :eek: :eek:

Zaphira 16. April 2009, 14:57

Moe taught me, in this post, Jonpar. :smile:

jonpar 16. April 2009, 15:24

i'm trying, i hope it'll work
looks very cool ...till now :headbang:

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