Talk:Easter egg

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"One well-known early Easter egg found in a couple of OSes caused them to respond to the command make love with not war?."

That quote can't be correct....? "Make love not war," you mean?-

--- I would move the article on easter eggs (decorative) here. It is what is meant by the vast majority of the population when they say easter egg. Even if Google might show otherwise. - SimonP 18:01, Feb 14, 2004 (UTC)

Fine with me. It would seem to be more logical. Just make sure the edit history doesn't get lost (i.e. delete this page and then MOVE the easter egg decorative here). Jor 18:05, 14 Feb 2004 (UTC)
The majority of the history is still in this article so I think in this case it is best to just copy and paste. - SimonP 18:57, Feb 14, 2004 (UTC)
Go ahead :) Jor 18:58, 14 Feb 2004 (UTC)

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[edit] Weird article...

Its all about the mostly defunct tradition of egg decorating- there should at least be a partial mention of the chocolate eggs which today are what you are taken to mean when you say easter egg --Josquius 11:03, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Depends where you live. Bazza 12:04, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Article incomplete

I'm surprised that the article completely leaves out the fact that colouring of and exchanging of eggs at the beginning of spring has been a tradition in Persia from before the birth of Christianity.

Agrred the article seems to have been written by Christians seeking to distort history as usual. It makes no mention of the Teutonic goddess of spring "Eastre" which is patently ridiculous in fact no mention of the obvious pagan origins of easte rat all : The name "Easter" originated with the names of an ancient Goddess and God. The Venerable Bede, (672-735 CE.) a Christian scholar, first asserted in his book De Ratione Temporum that Easter was named after Eostre (a.k.a. Eastre). She was the Great Mother Goddess of the Saxon people in Northern Europe. Similarly, the "Teutonic dawn goddess of fertility [was] known variously as Ostare, Ostara, Ostern, Eostra, Eostre, Eostur, Eastra, Eastur, Austron and Ausos." Despite attempts to Christianise it Easter is accepted by all scholars to be a pagan fertility rite in origin celebrating the rebirth of life in spring.

More propaganda. Any actual evidence to back your claims? How about signing up for an account and signing your comments? Dogface 05:20, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

I actually find this interesting and would like to see an expansion. I really thought that easter eggs to be some sort of perverted idea for commercializing Easter and now it has an actual meaning! Someone please do the research on this! I would be eternally grateful. 22:01, 20 February 2008 (UTC) Buggs —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.201.26.70 (talk)

[edit] Easter Egg roll at the White House

The article says that The most well-known egg roll is done at the White House. It might be the most well-known in the US, but it may not be anywhere else. Until there's a citation to prove the assertion, I have amended it to the Easter Egg Roll has become a much-loved annual event on the White House lawn. Bazza 12:11, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Easter Eggs in video games

It would be interesting to disambiguate Easter Eggs and create a new article about "Easter Eggs" in video games, that is, secret areas, messages, or objects put into games which is popular among today's game designers. There's certainly enough about those to make a new article for it.--67.172.10.82 21:33, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

You may perhaps be looking for Easter egg (media), which is linked at the top of this article. Powers T 15:10, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
I agree there should be should be a Disabiguation page, any one else feel this way? 72.185.138.138 00:32, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Easter-Orthodox Easter eggs

The material already in the article fits in well with what i have heard, that is not described: two people each holding such an egg, and crying different versions of the Resurrection news (in Greek, for Greek O.) while they hit them together to see which one's shell is cracked -- the cracking symbolizing the opening of the tomb. Someone should be able to get the details better than i would manage.
--Jerzy•t 04:20, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] external links

Ok, I admit I am a useless newbie, but I just thought I'd fix the External Link section broken link for the Vegreville egg, while I was visiting the page. I browsed around, found a Tour Alberta Main Streets site with a nice picture, and substituted that link, since the town of Vegreville's gallery seems to be broken. I also clarified that the egg is the World's Largest Ukrainian Pysanka. The error messages I got tonight were worse than useless. From what I can figure out, I was accused of linkspam. The edit was removed, and instead of putting up something that worked, the editor just left the broken link. Why? What should I have done instead? Clear constructive criticism welcome. Thanks. 142.59.110.73 02:04, 7 April 2007 (UTC)Sim

You should of used a more descriptive edit summary, something like "fix broken link" could of prevented my revert. Mentioning changes to the external links section first here on the talk page is always a good idea. Now that you have stated your intentions on fixing that link your change sounds great, please change it back. Since it's Easter weekend this page is a seasonal spam magnet. You are welcome to help out, if you see spam links added then please delete them. Thanks. (Requestion 18:18, 7 April 2007 (UTC))

[edit] Proposed move of Easter article

Hi. I've started a discussion regarding moving Easter (disambiguation) to Easter (after having moved Easter to Easter (Christian festival) (or something similar). Discussion to please take place at Talk:Easter_(disambiguation)#Requested_move, NOT here. Many thanks! --Rebroad 10:31, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Deep Fried Easter Egg

Erm, I suspect the bit at the end about "deep fried easter eggs in scotland" is an urban myth. Is there anyone there who can testify to having found such a thing. (if so was it any good? ((and what is the recipe?!)))

Aye, I think this needs a cite -- can't see a hollow chocolate egg surviving deep frying that well. A deep-fried Creme Egg sounds more plausible, but I've never seen one. Mendor 18:51, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
http://www.historyishappening.com/Apophis/BatteredEasterEgg.jpg <<< I can certify that, as I read it in the "Press and Journal" newspaper, cut it out, and took that scan, a long time ago... If I looked around, i could find the original scan, but couldnt get you a date. Still, you'll know roughly when its from. If you do decide to include it, perhaps upload that image to imageshack, etc, incase that site goes down. Popher (talk) 00:41, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] National differences

See my comments on Talk:Chocolate egg. --SJK (talk) 09:44, 24 March 2008 (UTC)