Bunnies - Mother's Day.. What?

 I just realized that the bunny thing might have gone over many people's heads. So let us break it down. 

If you've seen an older movie or TV show, you might have heard a woman was pregnant obliquely. Something like "the rabbit is dead," or "poor bunny," or "the rabbit died," or something like that. There is a good reason.

White Bunnies for White Women

Before the 1960s, starting in about the 1920s, the test to tell if you were pregnant involved animals. The doctor (maybe a nurse for this one) would gather urine. Then someone would put it in a syringe and inject it into a bunny, normally in its ear.

Then the witch doctor would then spread the entrails out onto a marble slab and read... no wait, that was before the 1920s.

No, but the real thing was almost as bad. They injected the urine into the bunny. After a few days, they killed the bunny and examined its ovaries. If the woman was pregnant, the bunny's ovaries would have transformed. If the woman was not pregnant, regular old dead bunny ovaries.

Somehow, this was translated into humor as the joke was that a dead bunny meant you were pregnant - hence the dead bunny jokes. However, in reality, the bunny died either way.

They fixed this later. The bunny was saved, but it was messy. You had to pee onto the top of this thing.

I say people don't understand because of posts like this...