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supersnipe · 61-69, M
This trademark started life as an Easter cartoon.
Funnily enough I had this boiler (a Vaillant) put in one Easter!
LordShadowfire · 46-50, M
@supersnipe A bunny boiler. 😆
supersnipe · 61-69, M
@LordShadowfire Has been since the 19th century! The guy who founded the company was looking for an idea for a logo when he saw a cartoon in the paper one Easter. He promptly bought the rights and used it as a logo. It survives in stylised form as a hare's head in an egg shape.
brian29715 · 46-50, M
How did bunnies and eggs get mixed together?
LordShadowfire · 46-50, M
@brian29715 This is one of my favorite topics, so I hope you don't mind if I go on for a bit about it.
Rabbits and eggs are both pagan symbols of fertility. What that has to do with Christianity is technically nothing. You see, Easter is placed on the calendar where it is because of the spring equinox. The early Christian church needed to compete with the more popular religions, and the easiest way for them to do that was to sort of co-opt existing holidays. In the Middle East, the spring equinox festival was a celebration of the fertility goddess Éostre.
As for how it is that we have this image of a bunny delivering eggs, that's just a centuries long game of telephone (or Chinese whispers, if you're English).
Rabbits and eggs are both pagan symbols of fertility. What that has to do with Christianity is technically nothing. You see, Easter is placed on the calendar where it is because of the spring equinox. The early Christian church needed to compete with the more popular religions, and the easiest way for them to do that was to sort of co-opt existing holidays. In the Middle East, the spring equinox festival was a celebration of the fertility goddess Éostre.
As for how it is that we have this image of a bunny delivering eggs, that's just a centuries long game of telephone (or Chinese whispers, if you're English).
bookerdana · M
@LordShadowfire I think more like England and a few parts of Germany🤓
Sojournersoul · M
Hope he started collecting early. 😂😂
vetguy1991 · 51-55, M
Haha that time of year
PhoenixPhail · M
WolfGirlwh0r3 · 36-40, T
Hey hes touching raw chicken!!!!
LordShadowfire · 46-50, M
I tried to get one of the numerous AI programs I use for art to generate a picture of a bunny laying eggs, but they either don't get it or are programmed not to.
LordShadowfire · 46-50, M
@lostlissa Yeah, something like that, only maybe slimier and more photorealistic.
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