Was It For This Our Saviour Died?

In these depraved and immoral times, alas, it is virtually impossible for a Saviour to be born before the forces of secular commercialism turn out to nail him up. Out for a constitutional yesterday, in order that the season's monosodium glutamate might be dissolved by the day's carbon monoxide, I saw the symptom - the first Creme Egg advertisement of Easter, which is, after all, a mere eighty shopping days away. The motto this year, admirably summing up the transience of all worldly things, is "Here Today, Goo Tomorrow".