How to know when Easter is celebrated?

[Oak Kitten]

I love this time of year, because it gives me the opportunity to strut my stuff as a Walking Compendium of Useless Information. This morning, a group of folks at work were waiting for the cafeteria to open up for breakfast. One guy asked, his friends, "How do they figure out when Easter is? I have never been able to figure it out." Everyone stands around with puzzled expressions. YESSS!!! I live for this moment - so I walk over and say, "Easter falls on the first Sunday following the first full moon after the vernal equinox." They stared at me. "WHAT?!" I repeated the answer. The guy says, "How is it that I have lived for 47 years and did not know this?" I replied, "Because you don't pride yourself on being a walking compendium of useless information."

Someone else posited that it usually falls a certain number of days after Passover. I responded that Passover was Old Testament and Easter is new Testament - one has nothing to do with the other. I was about to explain to them how most major Christian holidays were scheduled to co-opt Pagan celebrations - but the were all standing there reciting to themselves, "The first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox. . ."

If you have a calendar that shows the phases of the moon, check it out, you'll see.

Pointlessly yours,
Oak

[Margay]

It's the end of the 40-day fast following Ash Wednesday, which of course follows carnaval.

[Eva]

Ah, isn't useless information wonderful...?

Eva

[hoops]

I feel your Joy! i knew that too, i am graced with the gift of useless info too! isn't it wonderful!!!! i hope i don't forget it all beofre i get to use it all
happy holidays!
hoops

[Oak Kitten]

Hoops,

I hereby initiate you into the Secret Society of Walking Compendiums of Useless Information (SSWCUI). Congratulations! That and $2.50 will get you a tall latte at Starbucks.

Oak

[Bat]

Bwahahahahaha!!! As a fellow useless Compendite, I share your joy in feeble and widely spaced enlightenment opportunities.

Bat
(Best Is Great Trivia In-Toto Society)

[KarenSews2]

I always say that I am a "Wealth of Useless Information," so can I be a member, too.

My daughter's friend was watching me do a crossword puzzle, and I answered something quite obscure. Afterward, she asked, "How do you KNOW that?" Sometimes I ask myself the same question. Anything useful, I either don't know or (more likely) forgot!

And I always did well on standardized tests. I don't get it. :confused:

[Des]

Hmmm, a really interesting thread this;)

I've chosen not to subcribe to the Secret Society of Walking Compendiums of Useless Information.:p

Do I still get my Latte?:D

[Randy & Betty in Pa]

Ah, isn't useless information wonderful...?

Eva

Heyyyyy how'd ya know my middle name is "Useless", I was named after my uncle who was owned an ice cube stand in Artic Valley, Alaska back when the population was 12.

Best to all

R. from Pa

[Dar]

What I want to know is how come I can remember crap like how to know when Easter is celebrated, or all the words to some obscure 70's songs, but I can't remember what I did two days ago, or who I was going to talk to when I walked out of my office a few minutes ago?

[Eva]

Dar, I bet you always remember what you have eaten! ;)

Eva

[Dar]

That is very true! I have rarely met a meal I didn't like!!

;)

[Oak Kitten]

KarenSews,

Sure, your SSWCUI credentials are in the mail. All you have to do to validate them is recite "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll. I'll get you started;
"T'was brillig, and the slithy toves. . ."

By the way, here is another way you can tell when Easter is about to descend upon us:

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c70/rbalano/easter.jpg

[GodSistah]

LOL! Too funny, Oak Kitten! :D

~Andrea~