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Comments on: Feast Of Saint Nicholas https://whynow.dumka.us/2012/12/06/feast-of-saint-nicholas-5/ On-line Opinion Magazine...OK, it's a blog Sun, 09 Dec 2012 16:15:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2012/12/06/feast-of-saint-nicholas-5/comment-page-1/#comment-61311 Sun, 09 Dec 2012 16:15:38 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=27859#comment-61311 Well, Joulupukki is Finnish and was the model of the Coca Cola Santa Claus campaign as the graphic artist was a Finn.

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By: cookie jill https://whynow.dumka.us/2012/12/06/feast-of-saint-nicholas-5/comment-page-1/#comment-61309 Sun, 09 Dec 2012 09:20:07 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=27859#comment-61309 Well…Santa Claus IS Finnish, of course. 😉

http://www.visitrovaniemi.fi/in-english

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By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2012/12/06/feast-of-saint-nicholas-5/comment-page-1/#comment-61290 Sat, 08 Dec 2012 00:46:16 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=27859#comment-61290 In the case of the oligarchs, Jill, I think ‘fences’ would be more probable that pawn brokers.

He was a bishop and extremely wealthy, so the Santa Claus concept is not particularly applicable, Steve. He would have looked more like Aristotle Onassis than the guy quaffing a Coke or riding in a sleigh.

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By: Steve Bates https://whynow.dumka.us/2012/12/06/feast-of-saint-nicholas-5/comment-page-1/#comment-61288 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 15:22:35 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=27859#comment-61288 In that icon, Nicholas looks neither “jolly” nor “old.” Maybe it’s the medium…

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By: cookie jill https://whynow.dumka.us/2012/12/06/feast-of-saint-nicholas-5/comment-page-1/#comment-61286 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 10:04:42 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=27859#comment-61286 Patron Saint of “pawnbrokers”…Love it. We’ve got quite a number of “retired” Russian oligarchs living here in Santa Barbara…they just might be pawning off some of their things in our “higher end” broker businesses. Might take a field trip today to see.

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