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# Coke invented Santa
the fuckers
(I helped save b3ta! gaijintendo Regular Member, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 10:11, archived)
# no, they made him red
they didn't invent him
(I helped save b3ta! GrandmaOfShoes, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 10:12, archived)
# they didn't even make him red. A red image of santa existed before Coke came along
www.snopes.com/cokelore/santa.asp
(I helped save b3ta! mugatu, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 10:15, archived)
# thank you
(I helped save b3ta! GrandmaOfShoes, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 10:17, archived)
# my pleasure.
*pleasures*
(I helped save b3ta! mugatu, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 10:18, archived)
# They made him be red
rather than just 'any colour' though.
(I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 10:18, archived)
# there were pictures of santa in red before Coke though
"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. "
(I helped save b3ta! mugatu, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 10:21, archived)
# I thought the red
and fur-edged thing was a corruption of Herne the Hunter or somesuch.
(I helped save b3ta! Afinkawan Yes I can hear you Clem Fandango, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 10:25, archived)
# Actually not that even.
1865 onwards you can find examples
of red father christmass. Fat ones too.
(I helped save b3ta! Tahkcalb ω∞ for sigs, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 10:15, archived)
# clarification indeed
(I helped save b3ta! GrandmaOfShoes, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 10:17, archived)
# I'd never heard that one before
(I helped save b3ta! davew27 hevosen kuva!, Wed 13 Dec 2006, 11:10, archived)