[Sca-cooks] Half an outcast!

[Kathleen A Roberts]

On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 15:52:26 -0500
  "Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius" 
<adamantius1 at verizon.net> wrote:

> I'm thinking Santa Claus is similar -- I don't have any 
>evidence that  
> there's an old fat man with a white beard (actually I 
>never thought  
> of him as all that old, or even all that fat). He just 
>makes a  
> convenient conceptual explanation for otherwise 
>unexplained phenomena.

thank you coca cola.

say, how far back does the image of santa claus or saint 
nicholas go... as we might see it or in period.

we have had several kings and queens at our midwinters 
dress in red with white fut trim.  sometimes i am reminded 
of the finale of 'white christmas' when i see them, but is 
there something historical to tweak the collective modern 
consciousness?

cailte
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