November 24, 2003, 22:18
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seems i have almost reached 500 posts after the many pc's i was handed by ming
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November 24, 2003, 22:35
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#152
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Can you put a christmas hat on Toejam here? 
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November 24, 2003, 23:12
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#153
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Firaxis Games Programmer/Designer
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Can someone equip Nappy for me? I'd do it myself but I'm too lazy. 
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November 25, 2003, 00:20
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#154
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Seems like a Santa *flc is going to be difficult, eh? 
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November 25, 2003, 08:59
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#155
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Originally posted by flash9286
seems i have almost reached 500 posts after the many pc's i was handed by ming
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...and because he's in a special Christmas mood, he gives you a few more PCR's this year
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November 25, 2003, 09:16
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a challenge. can you stick it on this one? 
the last one i had with the euro-dollar buttlovin' could have worked, but this one...?
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November 25, 2003, 19:36
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King
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Still waiting for my Christmas Toejam avatar. 
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November 25, 2003, 22:36
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Deity
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Now I'm ready for Christmas
Do U guys like it?
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November 25, 2003, 22:40
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Fitting really, given Coca-Cola's role in Christmas.
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November 25, 2003, 22:53
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Well, it is the CocaCola Holyday after all 
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November 25, 2003, 23:57
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Will somebody fix my duck up with a Christmas hat?
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November 26, 2003, 00:57
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Finally changed mine, now I´m a true Unspeakable Horror (remember the unit from ToT? )
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November 26, 2003, 01:45
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Originally posted by Chilean President
Well, it is the CocaCola Holyday after all
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It is?  Atlanta must be the best Christmas town then.
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November 26, 2003, 02:44
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Originally posted by vovan
It is? Atlanta must be the best Christmas town then.
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Yeah...there's no Christmas like Christmas in Atlanta 
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November 26, 2003, 02:47
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Originally posted by Asmodean
Yeah...there's no Christmas like Christmas in Atlanta
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Now, if only there was snow over there...
Sorry about the threadjack. 
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November 26, 2003, 02:56
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If you want a Christmas without snow, try Australia.
It will be the middle of summer.
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November 26, 2003, 10:53
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 here too obviously... a nice sunny Christmas
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November 26, 2003, 21:27
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http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/santa.asp
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Claim: The modern image of Santa Claus — a jolly figure in a red-and-white suit — was created by Coca-Cola.
Status: False.
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All this isn't to say that Coca-Cola didn't have anything to do with cementing that image of Santa Claus in the public consciousness. The Santa image may have been standardized before Coca-Cola adopted it for their advertisements, but Coca-Cola had a great deal to do with establishing Santa Claus as a ubiquitous Christmas figure in America at a time when the holiday was still making the transition from a religious observance to a largely secular and highly commercial celebration. In an era before color television (or commercial television of any kind), color films, and the widespread use of color in newspapers, it was Coca-Cola's magazine advertisements, billboards, and point-of-sale store displays that exposed nearly everyone in America to the modern Santa Claus image. Coca-Cola certainly helped make Santa Claus one of the most popular men in America, but they didn't invent him. .
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November 26, 2003, 22:13
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No one is saying that Coca Cola invented Santa Claus (aka Viejito Pascuero in Chilean), but they did change the original green color... as far as I know it was green the original, but I could be wrong, anyway, Coke's put him the red suit
http://www.historytelevision.ca/arch...ristmas/santa/
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Coca-Cola gave Santa Claus high exposure and cemented the modern image of Santa with their advertising campaign designed to increase sales over the winter that spanned 20 years. Beginning in 1930, Haddon Sundblom was commissioned to create a series of oil paintings for the company. Although Santa had appeared in many colours - brown and blue - the obvious choice was keep Santa in Coke's corporate colours of red and white as designated by Nast.
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November 26, 2003, 22:29
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From the above link
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Although some versions of the Santa Claus figure still had him attired in various colors of outfits past the beginning of the 20th century, the jolly, ruddy, sack-carrying Santa with a red suit and flowing white whiskers had become the standard image of Santa Claus by the 1920s, several years before Sundlom drew his first Santa illustration for Coca-Cola. As The New York Times reported on 27 November 1927:
A standardized Santa Claus appears to New York children. Height, weight, stature are almost exactly standardized, as are the red garments, the hood and the white whiskers. The pack full of toys, ruddy cheeks and nose, bushy eyebrows and a jolly, paunchy effect are also inevitable parts of the requisite make-up.
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November 26, 2003, 22:43
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Damn! I didn't read that...  oh well, anyway is the Coca Cola Holyday
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November 27, 2003, 07:50
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Maybe it wasn't Coca Cola who gave him the red color, but it was Coca Cola who made it standard AFAIK
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November 27, 2003, 18:02
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Read the link.
Coca-Cola didn't make santa what he is, but they put him into the public consciousness (and hence the strong but erroneous association between Coca-Cola inventing him/influencing his current image/standardising his image/whatever you want to call it) and hastened Christmas' transformation into a secular holiday..
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November 28, 2003, 14:51
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Retired
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While I already have my Ming Christmas Avatar, I could use some help with the avatar I use on some other sites. Any help would be appreciated
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November 28, 2003, 15:22
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curses. seems i've killed last year's christmas avatar. ah well....would it be too much trouble to put a hat on erm?
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November 28, 2003, 16:01
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xmas lights... that's what would work... though I can't edit .gif and keep the motion... 
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I'm not conceited, conceit is a fault and I have no faults...
As always, will play after work. I wonder if I'll ever be able to turn that the other way...
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November 28, 2003, 19:04
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While I already have my Ming Christmas Avatar, I could use some help with the avatar I use on some other sites. Any help would be appreciated
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I didn't know there were sites for draconian advertising executives from suburban Chicago 
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Im not sure what Baruk Khazad is , but if they speak Judeo-Dwarvish, that would be "blessed are the dwarves" - lord of the mark
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November 28, 2003, 20:23
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There are...
He may be Ming to us, but over there he's just Kermit the Frog. Make you wonder who would qualify to be the moderators.
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November 28, 2003, 21:28
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Hmmm... which do you guys like beter? My current one or the one I had last year with the Iwa Jima Marines all wearing hats (can't find the pic)?
[Edit] Avatars seem to be on/off all the time [/Edit]
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November 28, 2003, 21:29
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Originally posted by Ming
While I already have my Ming Christmas Avatar, I could use some help with the avatar I use on some other sites. Any help would be appreciated
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The lack of forehead does make it look kind of weird:
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