OT: Rip City Merry Xmas

[Haakzilla]

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[jlprk]

Merry peach pie and happy eggnog!

 

[Rhal]

Anyone know the name of the redhead in the middle?

 

[jlprk]

Santa Claus. And it's a hat.

 

[Haakzilla]

Anyone know the name of the redhead in the middle?

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[jlprk]

Battle of the Christmas threads!

 

[jlprk]

There are Christmas threads in the OT board. They should be merged into this one!

http://sportstwo.com/threads/226959-10-Things-You-Didn’t-Know-About-Beloved-Holiday-Songs

http://sportstwo.com/threads/226733-Santa-High-on-Magic-Mushrooms-!

 

[jlprk]

Q. Were reindeer in North America for thousands of years?

A. No. They were brought here to be eaten. Before the mid-1800s, reindeer were only in Siberia and Scandinavia (in Lapland, herded by the Sami people). To give Eskimos a new meat source, Sheldon Jackson convinced the socialist U.S. Government to make their suffering rich taxpayers pay to import not only reindeer, but also herders to teach Eskimos how to herd reindeer.

Reindeer first came to Alaska, via Siberia, through the work of an Alaskan missionary named Sheldon Jackson. In the mid-1800s, many Inuit were starving due to the commercial overfishing of whales, the core of the Inuit diet, for whale oil. Consumed with the idea finding an alternative food source for this culture, Jackson turned to the idea of reindeer herding and husbandry. Thanks to Jackson's lobbying, the U.S. government agreed, appropriating funds to support seeding the plan by knowledge transfer of expert herders to the Inuit, starting with a short-lived attempt with Siberians, and later, the Sami. And so in 1898, more than 100 Sami reindeer herders and their families, and nearly 600 reindeer, made the passage from the north of Norway to the United States, ending up in Alaska to introduce reindeer herding, Sami style, to America.

Q. Did Santa and his reindeer become popular because of the 1822 poem, "The Night Before Christmas?"

A. No, moron. Carl Lomen created the image in parades, to promote reindeer meat.

...in 1926 he conceived, along with Macy's department store, a promotional Christmas parade led by Santa, his reindeer, a sleigh and several Sami herders in their vibrant traditional dress. Eventually, similar parades were held in cities around the country, and a meme was born. Lomen is said to have further accelerated his marketing efforts by planting fake children's letters in local newspapers, the fictitious children asking for Santa and his reindeer to visit their towns. In the 1920s, the Lomen Reindeer Co. owned more than a quarter-million reindeer...

http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/22/opinion/galloway-reindeer/index.html?iid=article_sidebar

 

[MickZagger]

Q. Were reindeer in North America for thousands of years?

A. No. They were brought here to be eaten. Before the mid-1800s, reindeer were only in Siberia and Scandinavia (in Lapland, herded by the Sami people). To give Eskimos a new meat source, Sheldon Jackson convinced the socialist U.S. Government to make their suffering rich taxpayers pay to import not only reindeer, but also herders to teach Eskimos how to herd reindeer.



Q. Did Santa and his reindeer become popular because of the 1822 poem, "The Night Before Christmas?"

OiA. No, moron. Carl Lomen created the image in parades, to promote reindeer meat.



http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/22/opinion/galloway-reindeer/index.html?iid=article_sidebar

Quit being such a dirty little varmit!

 

[Denny Crane]

Reindeer tastes like Bald Eagle.

 

[jlprk]

Waitress, there's a hair in my bald eagle soup!

 

[Denny Crane]

I take my wife everywhere. She keeps finding her way home.

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