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A comment on Egg Boxing.

Re:Egg Boxing by lxe on Friday September 16, 2022 @05:20PM (#32872145)
Also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_tapping - an Easter game. Thought it was an Eastern European thing but apparently it's a thing all over the world anywhere you paint eggs for Easter.
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Re:Egg Boxing by lynguist on Friday September 16, 2022 @06:20PM (#32872752)
I am perplexed. After this juxtaposition of the boxings, and now the juxtaposition of Easter and Eastern I realized for the first time perhaps the connection between East and Easter.

Eastern European suddenly looks like Easter European.

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Re:Egg Boxing by boomboomsubban on Saturday September 17, 2022 @03:11AM (#32875440)
Though East and Easter share an etymology, the Germanic goddess Ēostre, most of the world including Eastern Europe calls the event some version of "Pascha."
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Re:Egg Boxing by quickthrower2 on Friday September 16, 2022 @08:53PM (#32873825)
My Nan boxing eggs from egg boxes on an Eastern European Easter as I box NaNs.
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