Christmassy
The new logo (which I'm sure nobody's seen) is kinda cool. Very Christmassy in a way. Could put some tinsel on it as well. Well done!
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I saw it.
Need to make a couple of the letters blue and white for our Jewish members. |
Well, the rest of the site is blue and white... :)
I did actually toy with putting a menorah in there, but I couldn't think of how to fit it in. |
Who not like in that musicle about the orphan girl (Anna? something like that),
there they don't have any red in the entire musicle. They use blue with green instead. |
Red is the colour introduced by the CocaCola Company, sad as that is.
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Probably that's why Pepsi chose to promote christmas in blue. Even blue pepsi last year (which tasted funny, but not half bad. Better than normal pepsi actually, I think they added some mint flavour)
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ANNNNNNNN...wrong, but thanks for playing! http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/santa.asp |
Well, St Nicolaas DOES have a red dress too. And so does Grandpa Frost, from the russian tradition of New Year, which was initiated by the communists basically... I guess that's why he's read.
which doesn't explain why st Nicolaas is red? |
I know it's Christmas when the Coca Cola adverts come on and you hear "Holidays are Coming..." :)
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The only historical reason for him to wear a red garment would be that he was a Bishop, therefore wearing a red dress. In older paintings and sclutpures you will find him in blue, purple or green as well.
I would assume the following: CocalCola created St. Claus, Santa Claus, who is based on St. Niclas. They gave him a red dress to represent the colour of their famous beverage (or the bottles thereof ;)). Now in turn St. Niclas, who before that wore his Bishop-garment (called Mitra in German) adopted features of this new Santa Claus. This all results in quite a confusion, for kids who know both guys can hardly keep them apart. |
Sinterklaas rules, he's not a fakey like the x-mas man :p
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Kakaze, that piece of thing is BS written by people who haven't grown up with only black and white footage.
We only had a black and white TV at home, and I can tell you, pure red like santa's can be very recognized by its unique shade of gray. I used to play that game for fun, guess the colours. You'd guess the colours of things in a video game, and then you'd play the video game on the television of a classmate who DID have colour tv. And I can tell you, you guess right about 4 out of 5 times, even on objects you can't posibly logically determine the colour of. (yeah we had weird games as kids. :what: ) |
Regardless, sweetie, the red santa clause was NOT an invention of Coca Cola.
Coke helped popularise the modern santa, but it didn't invent it. |
I'm sure I've watched a lot of TV, because at Christmas time they bring on experts on morning TV about myths of Santa Claus and Legends, how he was created, why we have misletoe, etc. And I'm sure they state as well that Santa Claus has his red and white due to Coca Cola.
But then experts can be wrong. |
The spreading of socalled american culture over the whole word is remarkable, btw. a number of years back hardly anyone thouhgt of a santa claus here. it was St. Nikolaus on the 6th who brought cookies, choclate, fruits and nuts and the Christkind, who brought presents on the evening of the 24th.
nowadays two dudes clad in red run around... one common dress-up for Nikolaus is this: http://www.wil.ch/vereine/st_niklaus...s/portrait.jpg his friend there is Knecht Ruprecht, who is supposed to punish bad kids. as you can see Nikolaus wears what he is ought to wear as the bishop he was. |
I'm worried. All these men running around on Christmas Eve, that would be a great job! I wonder if Santa is looking for a new elf :)
I wonder if they get benefits? :D |
they showed a report on television the other day: what are christmas-dudes really like.
one of the tests they performed was inviting a santa to a bunch of kids. delinquent #1, when having his beard ripped off, dropped his clothing and revelead:"hah, i'm not santa, just a student who needs money." as you can guess the children's mood went down south. delinquent #2, when shot at with a waterpistol, just left the children-party because he felt treated disrespectfully. what does he expect of 4 year-olds? sad, sad, sad... |
It's cause they're not the real Santa. Plus, he does it when they're sleeping, so they can't tug on his beard nor shoot him with a waterpistol, cause hopefully it's still in its wrapping paper :D
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