The Erister Egg Hunt is also known as EggGasm
The Erister Egg Hunt is an annual Golden Apple Seed Mission. The object of the game is to put crazy crap inside of plastic eggs and hide them for people to find on Easter.
When somebody finds an egg, maybe they’ll laugh. Maybe they’ll be weirded out. Maybe they’ll have a conversation about it later. Maybe they’ll hide some eggs too.
Sure, it’s not exactly a new idea, per se. People have been hiding plastic eggs on Easter since the Triassic era. But instead of candy, fnords. Put stuff inside the eggs which you think it would be cool to find. What you put inside the eggs is really up to you.
Please take photos of your antics and post them here! People have also been posting pix to flickr and tagging them “EggGASM”
More info here.
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I posted a long comment here yesterday and it disappeared. Oh well.
The good professor beat me to posting this. There’s a lot of good info on the blackironprison.com site (especially the parts that were ripped off from our site–happy to share), but some important info is missing.
‘One Easter, the Sacred Chao Ranch Cabal hid plastic Easter eggs all over the mall, supermarkets, museums, churches, etc. that had enlightening fortunes trapped inside. The fortunes were along the lines of “This is an unfertilized egg”, “The PA lottery number for 5-23-97 will be 17-32-5”, “You picked the 10 of Clubs”, “25 cents off of LUCKY CHARMS”, and “You are pregnant (replace egg if you are a man)”.’
– Apocrypha Discordia, 2nd edition (from The Discordian Manifesto #3 by Professor Mu-Chao and other 23ae.com peeps). See more at http://discordia.loveshade.org/xtra/erister.html
Also there’s more about Erister Egg Hunt/EggGASM (including some cool photos) in Intermittens issue 7, which you can find at http://intermittens.org and at http://discordia.loveshade.org/xtra/intermittens.html
Note that the source for that paragraph was http://www.fortunecity.com/tattooine/vonnegut/42/egg.html
Their main page is at http://www.fortunecity.com/tattooine/vonnegut/42/ranch.html
I can’t believe they are still online
Eggsellent. I’ll add those links to our Erister Egg Hunt/EggGASM page.
‘Last year, the RAW Bidwell Enclave may have set a record for the largest Erister Egg Hunt ever.
‘This year, we aim to gain it definitively, with a whopping 1,000 eggs distributed throughout Chico, CA, plus another several dozen distributed to friends in Arizona, Santa Cruz, CA, Las Vegas, and Boston. Stay tuned for details.’
Their effort last year was hiding 250 eggs, which may have been a record as reported in Issue 7 of Intermittens and on their website. This year, they may blow their own record up.
See details at http://www.beraw.org/?p=93&cpage=1
Report so far:
The Mythics of Harmonia hid a few dozen eggs in different areas in the United States, including a park, two colleges, and a couple stores; a friend of the group and some others hid eggs at a college in England; Shamlicht Kids Club chapters hid dozens of eggs in various locations, mostly in the United States; our Ek-sen-trik Discordians hid a modest 3 dozen eggs, minus one that got stepped on.
But the RAW Bidwell Enclave may have distributed their 1,000 Erister eggs– see http://www.beraw.org/?p=89
Discordians for Jesus hid eggs too they hid two dozen. They were founded by Nixie Nurita and Sister Lorraine of Fairy Tree. They even snuck them into a church Easter egg hunt! But they made sure those were Ok for kids to find.
I wasn’t there I started Mythics with Fairy Princess Yoshikyoko. We led one college, Nurse Eggscream was in charge of another, and the college egg hiding in England was led by Bellydancer Upyours. It was funny cuz this guy saw us hiding them at our college and we were like we’re in trouble! But we weren’t he wanted to help. He never heard of Discordia before but he has now! He chose his holy name from the Holy Name Generator its Bishop Binocular Pants. I heard of telescoping pants but not binocularing! LMAO
I stashed some in connecticut. nobody will ever look there!
I first heard of the egggasm some years ago by an esoterically-minded friend..I’m going to guess 2004. We promptly found an online supplier of bulk eggs and purchased a box of 2000 golden (like the apple) easter eggs. For 3 years, we did a midnight drop of these eggs with the fortunes inside at our local university (northern new england). No idea if they blew anyone’s mind, but we had fun with it. In our 3rd year, there was a copycat (with multicolored rather than golden eggs) with some of the same fortunes. How flattering.
At least one person noticed!
I moved away after our 3rd year and managed to do a solo mission of a few dozen eggs in my new (rather remote) area. Not quite as fun as an epic 2k midnight mission, but fun nonethless.
Moved again last year to a town with a sizable university on the east coast and decided to step it up this year. Assembled a new team and made a little twist. Saw some photos (flickr) of a game piece style egg stuffing and decided to take a step further. We made 16 different versions of a “game board” (with different fortunes) but with an embedded map and gps locations…X marks the spot, ya know? Hid a tupperware, geocache style, filled with peeps, chocolate, and a log book saying hi from Eris and asking the finders to leave a note. The egg drop went from 1130pm to 230am. We had people coming home from the bars (and other college insomniacs) actively looking for the eggs as we were dropping them. Almost got caught by one kid who saw me drop an egg that said “RETURN TO SENDER ASAP!”. He was pretty confused when I told him I had nothing to do with it. According to the written logs in the prize box, it was first found at 3:45am (~4h after the first egg hit the ground) and had been found half a dozen times by the time I checked it Monday afternoon.
I guess that makes me the current record holder of egggasm volume unless someone else wants to step up. I figure I’ve dropped 8000+ eggs in 5 missions. Hopefully some minds have been blown.
I’ll flickrize some photos as soon as I get them off my camera. Glad to be part of something fun.
My egg supplier is as follows: http://www.centurynovelty.com/detail_156_056-005.html
Keep it strange.
Bonzaroni
As promised: http://www.flickr.com/photos/thebonzey/tags/egggasm/
John Hancock apparently found the treasure. Bonus.
Bonzaroni
2 overly-academized spags comprising the Glenuri Liberation Front complete Operation Campus Disruptus for their first Erister. The 007 inherent in this project, as it turns out, is entirely addictive and has led to endorphin-saturated postGASM spasms.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/48897648@N06/
- also tagged.
@ Bonzaroni – love the game board idea! Very worth stealing.
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