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What about the one where we celebrate nailing a guy to a tree by distributing eggs via a bunny.
Well, actually, we celebrate the guy becoming zombie three days after nailing him to wood.
Also, the guy is often called “the lamb”.
So we naturally eat roasted lamb as a traditional celebration, while the bunnies hide colored eggs for us to search.Technically, he retained his powers after resurrection, so he was a Lich, not a zombie. I don’t know if anyone figured out his phylactery, but my best bet would be the wood he was nailed to.
And so it was decided to transform some bread into his flesh using ritual magics to partake of the lichs power
I mean, a guy sneaking into your house at night and leaving you “presents” under a tree you’ve cut down and brought into your house for no other reason has to be up there too, right?
And don’t get me started on how fucked up Thanksgiving is.
Not to mention that Santa is a prolific home-wrecker, as millions of children have witnessed him making out with one of their parents’ partners.
Probably the weirdest thing to me about Thanksgiving is that it wasn’t even remotely real in the sense of being founded on a historically coherent event. Perhaps this is just the nature of mythology. Thanksgiving was a religious fasting ritual at the time. Sharing a meal with indigenous people was a coincidence during a harvest festival, which isn’t exclusive to any one religion or even spirituality at all. It’s two, entirely unrelated things that got crammed into a single tradition because they occur roughly during the same season. Also, there was a lot of ethnic cleansing before and after, but that doesn’t go well with primary school history class, so let’s leave that bit out.
Hey, don’t blame the bunnies!!!
They’re definitely up to something, building their underground bunkers like power-addled billionaires.
That’s a little unfair. We also adjust our clocks forward one hour.
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One of the people who wrote or produced that movie said they thought Bill Murray was in the loop for 1000 years before he became a good person. I don’t think it’d take that long, but sure.
If you’ve seen him at the US Open it’s a conservative estimate
Thought the script said he repeated that day for million years. Just watch it last night always a joy.
I would also recommend checking out Palm Springs, same formula, but very good.
Happy Death Day is my favorite. I love that movie it’s my guilty pleasure.
I think the 1000 or millions years was just in one version of the script but was deemed a little too dark. But maybe I’m wrong.
I also watched it last night and it is indeed always a joy!
I just saw it again this week, too!
It sounds like he learned two new languages. That’s several years right there. He mastered the piano at a professional level at a late age. That’s nearly impossible for most people, and would take a decade or so.
He has an intimate knowledge of every single person in the entire town, such that he can effortlessly rattle off the entire life history of any one of them. That’s at least another ten years. More importantly, he’s able to predict what people would do in different situations. He didn’t just memorize the routine of the town and everyone in it, he memorized most of the variations of the routines. That’s information orders of magnitude larger than just the history of everyone in the town and their actions in a single day. He was there for a long time. 1000 years isn’t unreasonable.
Still, we only see his experiences for a few days. It’s possible that was the intent of the writers and director, but at a certain, point it doesn’t matter, because art is as much about what the audience perceives as what the author intended, perhaps more so as time goes on. I think it’s safe to assume he was there for at least hundreds of years in the cannon of that story. We just see his first day, his last day and a few days scattered in between among the myriad of those during his time loop internment.
Plus the movie would be hard to finish if it was real time over 1000 years.
It’s not too bad if you put it on octuple speed and watch it while doing some chores.
Originally, the ceremony used a variety of rodents and mustelids, but over time most people agreed it made sense to standardize on a specific individual ground squirrel in Pennsylvania.
the weirdest US holiday is all the ones where they call it a holiday and don’t get time off work
so most of them?
hey, I’m not the one calling non-holidays, holidays.
It’s the difference between a cultural holiday and a federal one.
I speak english, not yankee cowboy. Holiday is holiday. Celebration is celebration.
Pre edit : I also speak turkish, there’s a difference between “Bayram” and “Tatil”.
You probably know this, but it’s what remains of the Celtic festival of Imbolc. It’s the first of the three spring festivals. Ostara you definitely know since it was coopted by the church along with the eggs and rabbit symbology.
This claim is marked “citation needed” on Wikipedia :)
You can add my post 😀.
Wikipedia gets strange in some articles, and this is definitely one of them. St Brigid is a Catholic thing, not a wheel of the year feast. Why the conflation here? I don’t know.
There are a number of articles that talk about the “awakening” aspect of Imbolc, and it is associated with other hibernating animals peeking out of their dens to see what’s up. So the groundhog in the American context is a natural one.
the ground boy saw his shadow for anyone wondering
Drat, 6 more decades of fascism!
I always wanted that when I was a kid cause I wanted lots of snow. I live in a place with no snow, so it doesn’t matter to me anymore (not believing in magical thinking aside). Anyway, good job Phil.
It is what it is
