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23rd Mar 2016

The internet has come up with some brilliant new names for Easter

Ben Kenyon

Easter is almost upon us and everyone is getting rather excited.

For Christians it’s a time to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus and reflect on their own spiritual rebirth.

For everyone else it’s pretty much a four-day chocolate egg bender with a few hot cross buns thrown in for good measure.

But the good people of the internet have now decided to get together and find a more fitting name for Easter…because it’s 2016.

Easter is obviously a chocolate orgy of Dionysian proportion, so folk felt that the new name should reflect that…

https://twitter.com/AdamTodd310389/status/712565892345958400

This bloke saw the parallels between the Easter story and him getting nailed on a Friday and rising from the dead on a Sunday…

Not quite as sexy as we’d hoped for a new name for Easter, but we’ve all been here…

We’d probably really watch some of these on Netflix…

https://twitter.com/Dean_Machine_/status/712558914714345472

https://twitter.com/GroundZeroes911/status/712571072407842817

https://twitter.com/Woodlandbookshp/status/712571036718522368

There’s always one clever clogs…

And someone who takes it too far…

But after Boaty McBoatface there could only be one winner. Easter will now be called…

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Easter