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LOL! Nothing gets past that one, does it!

Everyone knows bunnies don't write. :-)

Dang. What happened next? How did she respond?

She thought she was very clever. She held the sample up to the letter and grinned. This is mythological creature #2 to bite the dust, as K was told before she lost her first tooth that there is no tooth fairy. They like that, because they can make requests ("I don't want money, because I have plenty of that.")

Hmmm, really? Can I have some?

We're not celebrating Easter any more, anyway. K and I decided that last year. (We'll substitute a "spring" celebration, a day or two after Easter so we can get cheap candy ;-). I don't even know how the whole Easter thing got started, but I'm real happy to see it go.

I think there's a very good reason that Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. Oh, idea for a post on my blog. I still can't get used to that. "My" blog. Good grief, I feel like I'm being absorbed by the pod people.

You have sharp kids, you know that? Sure, all kids figure out things like this, but through handwriting analysis? Wow!

It's not so unusual... my mother used different wrapping paper for our Santa Claus presents and wrote our names in all caps on the labels. However, I recognized her all-caps writing. There were little loops that were a dead givaway.

I just thought it was amusing. She could have simply asked me.

With the Santa notes I have been a little bit more careful. To tell the truth, I was surprised to see she'd kept the Easter Bunny note, but I guess she did because this one was specifically to her.

In any case, if I'd been at all interested in maintaining the ruse about the Easter Bunny, I could have copped to the note and claimed the Easter Bunny can't write. Actually, this is what led her to suspect the note. Rabbits are illiterate.

Here's a question: Does anyone remember in what 80's-era comedy movie a main character exclaimed "Le jeux sont fait!"

Was it Danger Mouse or Touche Turtle?

Nope - a movie. I'll reveal the answer tomorrow if no one gets it.

To rephrase - I can't say the phrase wasn't used in the places you mentioned. In fact, there a good chance it's used in more than one film. But I'm thinking of a specific, 80's era live action comedy.

It's a movie everyone our age has seen, I expect.

I'm not sure what that phrase even means.

My first guess would be "Top Secret."

It means "The game is over!"

In this context:

"The ruse has been revealed."

"The jig is up."

"Les jeux sont fait" means, literally, the plays are made.

For the gamers among us, "Game over."

After I read your initial post, and I translated the phrase as you did to mean "the jig is up," I began to wonder about the origin of the phrase.

Here's what I found from http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&q=game%20is%20up%2C%20the

"The trick or deception has been exposed. For example, When they took inventory they realized what was missing, and the game was up for the department head. This expression dates from the mid-1800s and uses up in the sense of "over" or "lost." The variant employs jig in the sense of "trickery," a usage dating from about 1600."

I love words!

Based on the meaning I'll guess Clue.

It's in Ferris Beuller (Mr. Rooney says it)