Boise Ed sends this in: “(1) “Happy Easter”? Be joyful over an episode of ritual torture? (2) Do kids really do the Halloween thing at Easter nowadays?”
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Josh at the Comics Curmudgeon was also a bit baffled by the idea of kids going door-to-door on Easter for candy. So am I – I’m not from an Easter tradition but my understanding is that you make up baskets for your kids and any guests’ kids.
I also understand that can be pretty expensive. Dagwood married into money, but I don’t imagine most people have a budget to just hand out baskets to all takers. Personally I don’t even spring for full-sized candy bars on Halloween!
Dagwood didn’t marry into money, he married out of money. His family was rich, but they disowned him when he married Blondie. Of course, that was nearly 100 years ago, so who knows what’s canon now.
I don’t believe he’s handing out baskets, just putting eggs in the kids’ baskets. Which is pretty expensive these days in itself.
I misremembered his origin. I guess Blondie does have a wholesale account, which might help. But also, I guess he is just giving out eggs? Are kids into eggs?
I recall as a kid kind of liking hard-boiled eggs but really like two were enough to meet my needs for a while. If you gave me more than that I would have gone outside and thrown them at stuff to watch them smash. If my parents asked me to go door-to-door to collect eggs on a Sunday I would have whined the entire time. I still would.
While I’m as atheist as they come, even I know that Christians say “Happy Easter” because they’re celebrating the resurrection, not the death, of Christ.
Besides which, saying “Happy Easter” while collecting dyed or chocolate eggs is thoroughly pagan and has nothing to do with Christianity.
The kids-at-the-door interaction doesn’t quite fit the Rule Of Three. The third time not only starts off the same as the first two, it proceeds just like them all the way along. Yes, there is a sort of a joke after that, but it’s after.
1) Powers is correct; Easter is about the resurrection; Good Friday (which, when observed, is very sombre) is about the crucifixion.
2) I’ve never heard of anyone going door-to-door on Easter, but I would assume Dagwood is providing chocolate eggs to each basket. That doesn’t really make this make more sense, though
I would guess it’s a reference to how Dagwood is all about food – and a pushover for kids. I doubt they’re going to any other houses… And if Dagwood complained that Easter wore him out, other parents/adults would look at him funny. At least, that’s how I read the joke.
The decorated hard-boiled eggs (and sometimes hollowed-out eggs) in my childhood were strictly for hiding or display, and did not go in the baskets. Those only contained candy.
I’ll have to agree with Powers’ second graf.
I never heard of anyone going door to door for Easter either.
When I married my husband I started doing something which I had never done on Easter (as nice Jewish girl) and did the same on Christmas – I started going to mass with my husband as he does not like to go alone. (I knew the proper way to behave – stand when the congregation stands, sit when they sit and sit when they kneel having read several books on proper etiquette when I was young.
On the other hand I do prefer to go alone, so I go to Jewish holiday services on my own – this includes the days I have to go to the synagogue annually in remembrance of my late father. Problem is that most synagogues (around here at least) require a membership or at least tickets to attend services on “the High Holy days” (Rosh Hashannah and Yom Kippur). I did find that there were services available on a Jewish religious TV station and made do with same. I later found another one which I like better.
Of course some years I go to mass with him for Easter and then watch the Passover services on TV later the same day when it is on TV – or watch same the night before.
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Josh at the Comics Curmudgeon was also a bit baffled by the idea of kids going door-to-door on Easter for candy. So am I – I’m not from an Easter tradition but my understanding is that you make up baskets for your kids and any guests’ kids.
I also understand that can be pretty expensive. Dagwood married into money, but I don’t imagine most people have a budget to just hand out baskets to all takers. Personally I don’t even spring for full-sized candy bars on Halloween!
Dagwood didn’t marry into money, he married out of money. His family was rich, but they disowned him when he married Blondie. Of course, that was nearly 100 years ago, so who knows what’s canon now.
I don’t believe he’s handing out baskets, just putting eggs in the kids’ baskets. Which is pretty expensive these days in itself.
I misremembered his origin. I guess Blondie does have a wholesale account, which might help. But also, I guess he is just giving out eggs? Are kids into eggs?
I recall as a kid kind of liking hard-boiled eggs but really like two were enough to meet my needs for a while. If you gave me more than that I would have gone outside and thrown them at stuff to watch them smash. If my parents asked me to go door-to-door to collect eggs on a Sunday I would have whined the entire time. I still would.
While I’m as atheist as they come, even I know that Christians say “Happy Easter” because they’re celebrating the resurrection, not the death, of Christ.
Besides which, saying “Happy Easter” while collecting dyed or chocolate eggs is thoroughly pagan and has nothing to do with Christianity.
The kids-at-the-door interaction doesn’t quite fit the Rule Of Three. The third time not only starts off the same as the first two, it proceeds just like them all the way along. Yes, there is a sort of a joke after that, but it’s after.
1) Powers is correct; Easter is about the resurrection; Good Friday (which, when observed, is very sombre) is about the crucifixion.
2) I’ve never heard of anyone going door-to-door on Easter, but I would assume Dagwood is providing chocolate eggs to each basket. That doesn’t really make this make more sense, though
I would guess it’s a reference to how Dagwood is all about food – and a pushover for kids. I doubt they’re going to any other houses… And if Dagwood complained that Easter wore him out, other parents/adults would look at him funny. At least, that’s how I read the joke.
The decorated hard-boiled eggs (and sometimes hollowed-out eggs) in my childhood were strictly for hiding or display, and did not go in the baskets. Those only contained candy.
I’ll have to agree with Powers’ second graf.
I never heard of anyone going door to door for Easter either.
When I married my husband I started doing something which I had never done on Easter (as nice Jewish girl) and did the same on Christmas – I started going to mass with my husband as he does not like to go alone. (I knew the proper way to behave – stand when the congregation stands, sit when they sit and sit when they kneel having read several books on proper etiquette when I was young.
On the other hand I do prefer to go alone, so I go to Jewish holiday services on my own – this includes the days I have to go to the synagogue annually in remembrance of my late father. Problem is that most synagogues (around here at least) require a membership or at least tickets to attend services on “the High Holy days” (Rosh Hashannah and Yom Kippur). I did find that there were services available on a Jewish religious TV station and made do with same. I later found another one which I like better.
Of course some years I go to mass with him for Easter and then watch the Passover services on TV later the same day when it is on TV – or watch same the night before.