James F.W., Mat and Erin’s Adventures in Egg Hunting!

Sure Easter will never really have the punch around these parts of the internet like Christmas or Halloween, but hey some things are still fun about Giant Rabbit Day. One thing is the fact that I got wicked toys! Some LOTR, some Star Wars, but most notably an original HORDAK! Yes! THE Hordak! He’s wicked, and just screams "resurrection of Jesus."

Anyways, regardless of the excellent toys, this years Giant Rabbit Day highlight was easily the annual egg hunt that my mom puts together, and has me and the gang look for the haul. Sure, when yer little it’s fun for all. When yer us, it’s a fierce competition. Here’s the entire bloody event told through a lovely pictorial adventure, because those are always friggin’ fun!


Meet the contestants/combatants. Mat Hiscock, Erin Q. Gillis, and myself James F.W. Thompson. These 3 met in this contest last year, and this year Mat is hungry for a victory. It also may be because last year he only found like 12 eggs out of like 125... and my mom was helping him. I was the returning champ, with the advantage that it was my house. Erin is shorter than the both of us, so it’s funny that she’s in the middle.


While Mat and I hunted about upstairs, Erin went to the lower level, and not only found a crapload of eggs before me and Mat could even try, but she also over-threw Castle Greyskull, in what I am sure was a bloody plastic sword-filled battle to the death. The only real threat would be Skeletor, as most of the others were already dead at his hands. He was weeping when I found him. Erin can be crazy when there’s eggs to find.


Here we see one of the many instances of my mom saying, "I think there’s still a few eggs in the pool table..." What you can’t really see here is the action. There’s a LOT of pushing. Way more than Jesus died for. Way more. Well, maybe not that much more, but oh well.


Here we see an "after shot." See how the couch is slightly askew? The reason is that Mat had just flung it into my head. No lies on that one actually - it’s really what happened. There was an egg balanced on the top of it, and Mat went for it and it fell. He tried to go over the top for it, and I hit the floor, as it made more sense to go to the egg. Mat sensing my logic and the eventual loss of the egg did what he had to, and pushed the couch 3 feet over, into my face. Hence why I am swinging my smackin’ arm at him. I think Erin is inspecting Greyskull again, to make sure there wasn’t a revolt against her.


"I think there’s still a few eggs in the pool table..." This time, I stayed away. This was getting WAY to violent, as I had just received a serious couch injury. Mat and Erin went for the pain though. Hell, ya can’t even see Erin really. Well, you can see the top of her head. There were a lot of actual screams of serious pain as they both crammed their arms into the ball return at the same time, and rummaged for ONE DAMN EGG! I wish you could see under the table. Mat is kicking Erin directly in the spine with steal-toed boots, and Erin is stabbing Mat in the gut with a pool cue. The honorable end to a vicious battle for tiny chocolates.


After the egg hunt, the eggs were counted and prizes were awarded. Here’s Mat upon receiving his 3rd place (again) chocolate bunny with literally oodles of angry, bitter joy. Final egg count (FEC) for Mat: 27.


Coming in second place was Erin Q. and she too received a chocolate bunny... actually it was identical to Mat’s. Really makes the "2nd, 3rd" thing seem irrelevant, especially considering 1st got nothing! Anyways, Erin’s FEC: 53.

As I got no picture of my victory, as I got nothing for it, I’ll just give you the details. I beat them both - bad - with an FEC of 77. Really makes Mat’s 27 look lame. The argument COULD be issued that yes, it’s my house. However, I point out the fact that many of the eggs I found were in places where Mat had just looked, only very poorly. Better luck next year Matty!


There are the competitors, back to their regular life now that the hunt is over. All are friends again as we sit on the floor and trade our new found sugary-bounty. It’s all about friendship afterall, isn’t it? That is until we realized that Erin was not sponsored, unlike Mat and me...


We were both sponsored by the good ol' Atari company, makers of such fine games as... I dunno... "Busy Police," and "Pitfall." Team Ataris’ FEC: 104. That’s kickin’ Easter’s ass all over the place!

With a grand total of 157 eggs, I’d say the day was a success. So yes, until next year when the whole fight begins anew - possibly with weapons! Who’s to say?! Anyways, from all of us at thePS and the original Hordak:


Happy Belated Giant Rabbit Day!!