[Sca-cooks] Half an outcast!

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

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

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