"Egg! Sheep! Jesus! Assassin!"
This requires a bit of an explanation. It was the night before Easter, and all was quiet in the house...except for three strange teenagers lying in a pile on a couch, being extremely sleep-deprived and slightly bored. One of us made some comment about not being very educated on the story of Easter: Orianna obliged us by acting it out, using her hands as puppets. She told a long, drawn out story, gesturing (in a rather eccentric fashion) to illustrate her points.
The gesture for "egg" consisted of a closed fist, held vertically. "Sheep" looked like the letter 'a' in American Sign Language. "Jesus" was an open, slightly curled hand, palm turned upward, deftly implying both the manger and the light that supposedly shone forth from the child.
So, it looked like this:
Now, add to the picture crazed, verging-on-hysterical laughter, the need to hide Easter eggs, and a competition over who could find the most ninja hiding place. What do you get? Paranoid friends expecting ninja attack at any moment, and from any direction, including up. Somehow, this resulted in an addition to the mantra: now, inste
ad of egg, sheep, Jesus, we recited "egg, sheep, Jesus...assassin!"
At the "assassin!" we would look up in terror and hide behind our hand guns.
Overall, it was a pretty successful night.
