Somebody tell me that this is a joke. Please.

[Bertha Venation]

[ismnotwasm]

1. Well it was an anonymous caller

I suspect a hoax, but in these times, who knows?
What's even stupider is there is fairly strong evidence that Easter celebration is actually a Christianized version or the rituals of Ēostre. I mean Rabbits and eggs?

[Demoiselle]

9. Eostre as in Estrus? Sounds right to me!

I love wabbits and eggs. What are we to make of "Deviled Eggs" anyway?

[ismnotwasm]

10. Let your mind go free...

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

17. Although I have no philosophy relative to deviled eggs,

somehow, after thinking about them,

I'm hungry.


:hi:

[Demoiselle]

21. Oh yes! And yum.

I have a dynamite recipe. AND special deviled egg carriers that are spectacular.
I just have to control myself and not eat them all before others get a chance...

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

23. We have ways of making you talk ...

divulge that recipe

or face some serious

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whining.

[Demoiselle]

24. I will divulge without torture.

The problem is, I sort of do it by ear. Er. Tastebuds...so this will be a very lacksadaisical recipe:

Hardboil your eggs according to Julia Child, ie: Bring to a boil, boil for ten minutes. (Use a timer, this is serious.) Plunge the eggs into icewater (serious icewater, with icecubes!) and, again, time it for ten minutes. Then you should be able to peel them easily. There's nothing more frustrating than having to pick little bits of eggshells off hardboiled eggs because they're sticky.

Slice the eggs in half, scoop out the yokes. In a mixing bowl, with a hand mixer, add mayonnaise, curry powder (mild) a bit of garlic powder, a bit of mild paprika and salt. I taste test and texture test until I'm happy with it. I prefer a slightly less goopy yoke mixture, pasty, but mixed very smooth. You'll have to judge for yourself. Fill the egg white halves with the yoke mixture and sprinkle a little paprika over them. You can add a little finely chopped parsley or chives.
The secret for me is the mild curry powder.
I also have these wonderful plastic picnic deviled egg carriers that have little depressions in them for the egg white halves and make it very very easy to set up the things. I can carry 60 deviled eggs to a party at a time. For some reason, that makes me proud.

[MiddleFingerMom]

2. Could be worse...

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[eyepaddle]

3. Oh. That is awesome.

:thumbsup:

[rurallib]

14. Lucifer's testicles???? That will haunt me all easter

pray I don't say "the hunt for Lucifer's testicles will start in one minute" Saturday.

[MiddleFingerMom]

16. Or worse yet, you say, "This morning, I think I'm in the mood for a 3-balled omelet." n/t

[KamaAina]

4. That's the radio station's own website

an RW hate station, of course; that same host has an article up there about how Seattle is "pandering to bike tyrants" (!).

So all that's really saying is "Someone who gave a common girl's first name told us this on our radio show, so here it is on our website". And remember, you can't spell weBSite without BS!

[dixiegrrrrl]

19. Found an article about it:

http://www.mynorthwest.com/?nid=11&sid=459668

However, it is not the school, but a hearsay of one teacher who used the phrase

and


the end of the article says:
The city's parks department has removed Easter from all of its advertised egg hunts.

however, when you click on the Parks Dept. page link in the article, the word Easter is all over the Park Dept, page:
http://www.mynorthwest.com/category/holidaymap

[JitterbugPerfume]

5. That is BS

eggs are oval :shrug:

isn't a sphere round?

[geardaddy]

7. indeed. n/t

[pokerfan]

6. It's a mystery

The right-wing blogs went bananas over the weekend about a young caller who phoned in to KIRO-FM's Dori Monson Show to share a tale about how she was told she could only bring Easter eggs to a local elementary school if she called them "Spring Spheres" instead.

Jessica said that she is a 16-year-old student at a private high school, and wanted to give the eggs as part of a community-service effort that she was doing through her school. Of course she refused to say what school she goes to or what school demanded the ridiculous renaming of her eggs.

http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/dailyweekly/2011/04/mystery_seattle_student_claims.php

[Orrex]

8. My local school district calls them "vernal ellipsoids"

[TheCentepedeShoes]

11. I hope there is not

a geometry theorem to go with that

[struggle4progress]

12. Until I know enough actual details, I tend to use the word "rumor"

[RebelOne]

13. Nope. No joke. Heard it on the radio yesterday. n/t

[krispos42]

15. It had better be

Eggs are ovoids, not spheres.

[Blue_Tires]

18. The fact that the student and school are unnamed tell you all you need to know

Fertilize the lawn with it...

[LynneSin]

20. Well we need the "War on Easter" as a warm-up for the "War on Christmas"

:D

[Glassunion]

22. Cause we all know when Jesus rose on the 3rd day

he had him a hankerin for eggs and what luck!!! A bunny with a basket full of em.

On the other hand... Is the word Easter offensive to anyone?