[Sca-cooks] Half an outcast!
Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius
adamantius1 at verizon.net
Sat Dec 23 14:11:27 PST 2006
On Dec 23, 2006, at 4:35 PM, Kathleen A Roberts wrote:
> 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.
And Clement C. Moore, whose family, BTW, had owned the farmland that
was later to be designated as a goodly chunk of Queens County,
including that chunk where I'm now sitting, since the seventeenth
century...
>
> say, how far back does the image of santa claus or saint
> nicholas go... as we might see it or in period.
Well, since we have some fairly recent images (say, late 19th
century) of Saint Nicholas in his Christmassy incarnation that don't
fit the "standard" modern red-suit model, I suspect it's quite
recent. Of course, some of the older images of SC in episcopal garb
might well be period -- _he_ certainly is.
>
> 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?
All I know is that when I am the benevolent ruler of the planet I
intend to seriously limit the wearing of red stocking caps with white
fur pom-poms and trim only to licensed individuals. Wearers not on
legitimate SC business, but who think such caps make them look cool
will be seriously and officially subjected to behavioral modification
techniques.
Adamantius
"S'ils n'ont pas de pain, vous fait-on dire, qu'ils mangent de la
brioche!" / "If there's no bread to be had, one has to say, let them
eat cake!"
-- attributed to an unnamed noblewoman by Jean-Jacques Rousseau,
"Confessions", 1782
"Why don't they get new jobs if they're unhappy -- or go on Prozac?"
-- Susan Sheybani, assistant to Bush campaign spokesman Terry
Holt, 07/29/04
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