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

Published 10:17 23 Mar 2016 GMT

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

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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/Robertomorley/status/712557295268458496 https://twitter.com/aidno/status/712550723251257345 https://twitter.com/AdamTodd310389/status/712565892345958400 https://twitter.com/samuel_stani/status/712572268887597056

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

https://twitter.com/Steveedub/status/712566217924558848

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

https://twitter.com/adu1tg33k1/status/712558549046530048

We'd probably really watch some of these on Netflix...

https://twitter.com/blockneil4/status/712571210698203136 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...

https://twitter.com/Snoodlife/status/712571997566447616

And someone who takes it too far...

https://twitter.com/WayneLNoel/status/712573120012529664

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

https://twitter.com/TheSnackarchist/status/712567789903544320

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