[UA] The Easterbunny

[Russell Rayburn]

On 5/3/07, graver <graver_13x at yahoo.com> wrote:
> That being said,
> I was wondering what he is today and what he is to most people today.

A joke.

Seriously, think about it.  Most people aren't children ( age-wise...
work with me here ;) ).  The easter bunny, along with the other
invisible friends of childhood ( tooth fairy, santa, et. al. ) are
symbols of a by-gone era: childhood.

Perhaps it's just the cynic in me, but I don't know many people who
pine for their childhood. Symbolically, the bunny can represent both a
more innocent time and a sense of "damn... I was dumb back then.  If
only I knew then what I know now...".

Of course that's impossible; if you knew then what you know now, you
wouldn't be you back then... you'd be you now, but in a smaller body.
With people telling you what to do.  No money.  No car.  An arbitrary
bed time based on how much you annoyed Mom and Dad.  And you'd know
how much it sucked.

So as a symbol of childhood, it's tinged with experience ( or
bitterness, if you prefer ).  Thus the image of an innocent bunny
laying eggs and having their chocolate ears ripped off by children
gives way to something funnier, and perhaps a bit darker.

Like a rabbit beating the hell out of random people.  Which we laugh at.



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but just a van and a few puppies to catch one.

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