Go Out And Buy Your Easter Candy Right Now
I like to call the Monday after Easter “The Real Reason to Celebrate” because today’s the day stores mark down all their unsold Easter Candy as much as 75%. Only suckers buy their candy before Easter. You hear, me suckers? I know you do.
Right now there are Cadbury Creme Eggs at Duane Reade, practically begging you to eat them. Same thing for Peeps, although, if you like Peeps, you are disgusting and I don’t want to be your friend. So don’t buy Peeps because they’re gross.
Today is also Dyngus Day. For those of you who are not of Polish ancestry, here’s a quick tidbit on this most Polish of holidays from Wikipedia:
“Traditionally, boys will awaken girls early in the morning and douse them with water and strike them about the legs with long thin twigs made from willow, birch or decorated tree branches (palmy wielkanocne). This practice is possibly connected to a pre-Christian, pagan fertility rite, although the earliest documented records of Dyngus Day in Poland are from 15th century, almost half a millennium after Poland adopted Christianity.”
Good for you, Poland! Oh, and while I was researching Dyngus Day, I discovered that my hometown of Buffalo proclaims itself “The Dyngus Capital of the World!” I wish I were joking about that.
Today is also the deadline for filing your taxes in New York State. So I’ve got a full day ahead of me: hitting girls about their legs with twigs, gorging myself on chocolate, topped off with some kick-ass tax-filing. Jealous? I thought so.
Here’s the complete rundown on Dyngus Day.
