December 20, 2004

Vintage Christmas Cards

Someone on the newsgroups posted a bunch of vintage cards and I thought I'd share some. For the bandwidth impaired, they're in the extended entry.

There's a couple things I noticed right off the bat. In the old days Santa was more than a little creepy.

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In fact, the first thing I thought of when I saw some of these cards was Aqualung.

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St. Nick also seems to have a drinking problem. Who needs Rudolph with a honker like that?

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What's with his compulsion to go mining for nose gold? I believe that the bit about "laying his finger alongside his nose" was a literary attempt to cover for the old man's less than exemplary habit.

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So apparently, the big red round dude has done some serious image modification for today's world. Is he hiding something, or has he really changed?

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Posted by Ted at December 20, 2004 04:01 AM | TrackBack
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Aqualung, lol, you got THAT right!

Posted by: Tuning Spork at December 20, 2004 10:37 PM
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