Digital [email protected] Posted December 22, 2004 Share Posted December 22, 2004 http://www.randburg.com/is/icelandic-yule-lads/index.asp Now those santas have flair. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kheprera Posted December 22, 2004 Share Posted December 22, 2004 Actually, they all sound like relatives of mine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enchantra Posted December 22, 2004 Share Posted December 22, 2004 Now THAT is funny! That would be cool [email protected]! I still like my eight days of Chanukkah though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vejlin Posted December 22, 2004 Share Posted December 22, 2004 Why not just adopt the icelandic santas. It's just a matter of chosing those instead of old boring coca cola santa. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unglef Posted December 22, 2004 Share Posted December 22, 2004 Coca-Cola did not invent Santa Claus, despite what you might hear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qwyksilver Posted December 22, 2004 Share Posted December 22, 2004 Yes, Santa was clearly a product of McDisney. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spike Posted December 23, 2004 Share Posted December 23, 2004 HAHAHAHAHA! Now THAT'S what I call holiday fun! Notice though how much of it seems to revolve around the swiping of food? By my math, tonight is the night we can expect ... The eleventh to drop by is Sniffer, he has a huge nose and sniffes out his favorite food, fried bread, wherever it is being made. Teehee... better set out some Marmite for this one. His love of fried bread makes me think he's really English. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vejlin Posted December 23, 2004 Share Posted December 23, 2004 Coca-Cola did not invent Santa Claus, despite what you might hear. Ok this is what I've heard: Santa Claus is originally Polish. However the way we depict him today (fat red guy with a big white beard) is because of Coca Cola. If anyone has a different story I'd love to hear all te dirt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digital [email protected] Posted December 24, 2004 Author Share Posted December 24, 2004 Coca-Cola did not invent Santa Claus, despite what you might hear. Ok this is what I've heard: Santa Claus is originally Polish. However the way we depict him today (fat red guy with a big white beard) is because of Coca Cola. If anyone has a different story I'd love to hear all te dirt. I don't know about the Polish roots, but Coke did create the current physical icon of Santa. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill_Adcock Posted December 24, 2004 Share Posted December 24, 2004 I like Claus' Germanic helper, Krampus. While Claus gave good kids gifts, Krampus gave bad kids beatings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kheprera Posted December 24, 2004 Share Posted December 24, 2004 Actually, no they didn't. He was created by illustrator Thomas Nast, who worked for Harper's magazine back in the mid-late 1800's. He made the sketches based on "The Night Before Christmas" poem written by a minister named Clement Clarke Moore who elaborated the image of St. Nick established by Washington Irving, who based his image from the Dutch legend of Sinter Klaas. The human sized version of Nast's Santa was depicted in the early 1930's by Coca-Cola. All they did was increase the height of Santa so he wasn't so elfish. The white beard, overweight, red-suited image, however, was Nast. More information can be located just about anywhere on the net by Googling "History Santa Clause" And I was watched Christmas Unwrapped (on the History Channel) just as I was reading this topic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digital [email protected] Posted December 24, 2004 Author Share Posted December 24, 2004 But it was that launch from Coke that made the image renown across the US and Europe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digital [email protected] Posted December 24, 2004 Author Share Posted December 24, 2004 I wrote a book to spice up our Santa back when i was in Saudi during the first Gulf War. I wish it did not get lost. It was about Santa's integration with society. It started w/ St. Nick giving toys to local kids. He then started helping out in surrounding communities. After several years he started to have a hard time keeping up w/ demands and was getting pressure from people. Letters begging for toys and furniture came ouring in. That is when the elves showed up. The elves chose to help Clause and gave him a magic red suit that helped him go around unseen and in subsequent years they gave him other enchanted things like the sleigh and flying reindeer. Finally the army influence kicked in and I added commando elves who would go and take out greedy people who were waiting in ambush to steal Clause's goodies. It was a good fun read and I was hoping to have a friend illustrate it for me. In the end, Clause had to hide in the N. Pole to keep away from strangers and beggers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qwyksilver Posted December 24, 2004 Share Posted December 24, 2004 Finally had a chance to read up on the Icelandic Santas... 3-12 sounds like my dog. If we had cows and sheep, I am sure she'd try to steal milk from em too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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