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The True Meaning of Holidays

by John Cole|  April 5, 201510:00 pm| 33 Comments

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Taking photos of screaming kids dressed up on a creepy symbol of the holiday:

someharveyshithere

That’s my brother’s god daughter and his sister. Look at that smug ass look on her face as he screams bloody murder. That damned rabbit is probably whispering “redrum” in the kid’s ear or something.

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  1. 1.

    the Conster

    April 5, 2015 at 10:01 pm

    Mad Men. That is all.

  2. 2.

    randal sexton

    April 5, 2015 at 10:05 pm

    redrum, hahahahahahaha –

  3. 3.

    JCT

    April 5, 2015 at 10:09 pm

    That pic is for the ages.

    And holy crap, that rabbit would give a clown a run for its money on the scary scale.

  4. 4.

    gogol's wife

    April 5, 2015 at 10:09 pm

    Yes, that rabbit is dangerously close to being a clown. I’ve always been terrified of them.

    Happy Easter — we just had a great party, but I will regret it during my morning class. Oh well.

  5. 5.

    gogol's wife

    April 5, 2015 at 10:10 pm

    @JCT:

    You typed faster than me! No fair!

  6. 6.

    NotMax

    April 5, 2015 at 10:10 pm

    Kudos due Madison

    (In yer face, Scott Walker!)

  7. 7.

    Currants

    April 5, 2015 at 10:16 pm

    @NotMax: WOOOT!!!

  8. 8.

    Tree With Water

    April 5, 2015 at 10:20 pm

    I sincerely mean no offense today of all days, but that little kid is surely asking whomever it was that abandoned him to The Monster, “Why has thou forsaken me?”.

  9. 9.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    April 5, 2015 at 10:25 pm

    I’d be crying too if that rabbit touched me, much less held me. In the even of such an occurrence, of course, I’d deck the rabbit.

  10. 10.

    craigie

    April 5, 2015 at 10:30 pm

    Is that a chocolate rabbit in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?

  11. 11.

    Bobby B.

    April 5, 2015 at 10:32 pm

    “Stupid itchy church pants!”

  12. 12.

    Suzanne

    April 5, 2015 at 10:33 pm

    That poor schmuck in the bunny suit is probably praying for death.

  13. 13.

    mainmata

    April 5, 2015 at 10:37 pm

    @NotMax: it is instructive that the Madison ordinance has a long list of protected people because the right wing, hate-filled mind must always find the “other” to persecute. What an exhausting useless life they live.

  14. 14.

    varmintito

    April 5, 2015 at 10:43 pm

    I have a picture of my daughter at about the same age on Santa’s lap, screaming so hard you can see her uvula, just like in the cartoons. Santa doesn’t look too plussed either.

  15. 15.

    Cluttered Mind

    April 5, 2015 at 10:47 pm

    *muffled from costume* Sexual Harassment Bunny!

  16. 16.

    Violet

    April 5, 2015 at 10:51 pm

    The carrot on the right side of the picture really makes it for me. Looks like it’s handy for the rabbit to whack kids over the head. No wonder the kid is crying.

  17. 17.

    Anne Laurie

    April 5, 2015 at 10:56 pm

    @varmintito: Somewhere I have a photo, hand to goddess, of my first dog & my friend’s Irish Setter ‘meeting Santa’. (It was for a dog-related charity, and we were foreign guests — at a Canadian obedience trial.) Fifteen-pound Galley, sitting in Santa’s lap, wears the ‘Do I cry, scream, or wet myself first?’ look, while Roo cuddles next to Santa, one paw on his hand, giving him her most winsome expression. You could imagine her reading off a summary, complete with Toys’R’Us catalog numbers, of her very long wish list…

  18. 18.

    Tara the Antisocial Social Worker

    April 5, 2015 at 11:15 pm

    That is one scary looking lepus – a killer bunny if I ever saw one.

  19. 19.

    Mnemosyne (tablet)

    April 5, 2015 at 11:41 pm

    In the words of MST3K, “That’s good old-fashioned nightmare fuel!”

  20. 20.

    grishaxxx

    April 6, 2015 at 12:03 am

    Why adults (who design them, after all) find these figures charming, when kids find them appalling and frightening is beyond me. Big, exaggerated effigies, clowns of whatever design, just freaked me out when I was very young – I wanted to run screaming. Did, in fact.
    Killer rabbit, indeed!

  21. 21.

    jl

    April 6, 2015 at 12:15 am

    @grishaxxx: Why do you wage war on Easter, our Christian nation, and the baby Easter Jesus?

    However, people like you do keep Fox News producers busy.

    You want to know where your doubting leads? I’ll tell you. I couldn’t find any malted milk candy Easter eggs this year. I promised to bring them to an Easter party. Had to settle for Whoppers. Put in a bowl and called them Easter Bunny Dumps. The Endtimes are nigh.

  22. 22.

    Omnes Omnibus

    April 6, 2015 at 12:16 am

    @grishaxxx: Obligatory song.

  23. 23.

    AdamK

    April 6, 2015 at 2:00 am

    “That’s my brother’s god daughter and his sister.” Your brother’s sister? Looks like a little girl and a little boy to me, not two little girls. But it might be. But then it refers to the “…smug ass look on her face as he screams…” I don’t know why I bother.

  24. 24.

    grishaxxx

    April 6, 2015 at 2:30 am

    @jl: Yup! :-)

  25. 25.

    grishaxxx

    April 6, 2015 at 2:36 am

    @Omnes Omnibus: Thanx O-O – I feel so much better now…..8-)

  26. 26.

    Bart

    April 6, 2015 at 6:47 am

    Sorry, but “my brother’s god daughter and his sister” just doesn’t make sense to me. Do you mean “my brother’s godson and his sister”? (Yes, it’s “godson”, one word, just like “godfather” or “godchild” etc.)

  27. 27.

    Donut

    April 6, 2015 at 6:51 am

    @AdamK:

    I don’t know why you bother, either. It’s a fucking blog post, not a seminar.

  28. 28.

    Snarkworth

    April 6, 2015 at 7:55 am

    I don’t get the appeal of the screaming kid on bunny’s/Santa’s lap. Imagine being that kid, and your parents think it’s hilarious and take pictures, instead of rescuing you.

  29. 29.

    Patricia Kayden

    April 6, 2015 at 8:03 am

    I’m dying with laughter at that photo and John’s write- up. That is one scary looking rabbit, which is unusual because real rabbits are cute.

  30. 30.

    NonyNony

    April 6, 2015 at 8:13 am

    @AdamK: @Bart:

    I’m pretty sure Cole puts shit like that in his posts just to troll folks like you.

  31. 31.

    rikyrah

    April 6, 2015 at 9:01 am

    Peanut didn’t like the Easter Bunny until she was 4. We have three years of screaming pics for her.

  32. 32.

    varmintito

    April 6, 2015 at 10:21 am

    @Anne Laurie:

    That’s the stuff. My daughter was solo so it didn’t have the complete effect of the picture at the top of this post — the angelic sibling, whose expression confirms that she know that this could not be working out any better if she had scripted it.

  33. 33.

    A Humble Lurker

    April 6, 2015 at 10:47 am

    That’s my brother’s god daughter and his sister.

    Eh?

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