bilby

Saint Bilby portrait series

Of course, you can't just have heathen bilbies taking over as spokesmarsupials for the most important Christian holy day.

No worries. Turns out bilby is not only a Catholic already, but has actually been canonized within the church:

"Tired old Easter Bunny has given his job to Bilby. Easter eggs must be delivered all around Australia on time. But how?
The rabbits will no longer help. Hungry cats and foxes roam Australia, always looking for something to eat.
How will Easter Bilby and his friends get the job done?"
- synoposis of 'Easter Bilby's Secret' by Ali Garnett and Kaye Kessing.

Easter Bilby propaganda kit

bilbies, not bunnies

2 × trilby ÷ 3

And I am pleased to see that the bilby we have all come to know and love is an enviromenalist, with or without the bilby being a true animal.

You know they have this campaign now to make chocolate bilbies for Easter. Because the rabbit is a destructive, introduced pest and the bilby is a native, cuddly, innocent chap. With, erm, big ears ... I swear WeirdNET is spying. Anyway, the bilby is a kind of symbol of environmentalism v capitalism.

Eat me.

Oh. All this time I thought his name was Bill, and he was just playing off that.

Now I'm starting to doubt he's even a he. I mean, who knows? Bilby is a real word? Whoops.

I actually stumbled across this page via the random word feature, of all things. :-)