Whats happening in brighton for god sake ??

[leg_end758]

Now i know its the norm for folk to rant about xmas and the changes that pc councils make. But ive just heard about a school in brighton ,sorry missed the name of it. Anyway this may be old news to you . But apparently the pta have decided that santa being in a red suit is too commercial and is advertising coca-cola. So in their wisdom theyve decided santa will be wearing a green suit to promote being eco friendly ! ! ! Sorry but what a load of fannies , pardon my scottish. Anyone else find this bizarre?

[Beads]

All a bit too trendy wendy for me - where' the traditionalism?!!

[johnny.5]

santa should be in a green suit as he is a pagan and derived from older religions

[Goodsoulette]

Actually in the back of my mind somewhere I believe that Father Christmas did used to wear a green coat until the late 19th century. When cocacola got popular in America and father christmas was shown with the can he wore a red suit. The school in Brighton are right. I hate commercial christmas and my boys are going to church for all the advent services. Im not overly religious but if they are to enjoy christmas they can flipping well know its not about cocacola, chocolates and pressies.

[redcrx]

isnt it supposed to be true that santa was dressed in green until coke put him in red?

I do think its silly though, i didnt know about the supposed coke link until i was way past the age of believing in santa and even now santa to my mind wears red.

[leg_end758]

Santa Claus later appeared in various colored costumes as he gradually became amalgamated with the figure of Father Christmas, but red soon became popular after he appeared wearing such on an 1885 Christmas card.
The popularity of the image spawned urban legends that Santa Claus was in fact invented by Coca-Cola or that Santa wears red and white because those are the Coca-Cola colors. In fact, Coca-Cola was not even the first soft drink company to utilize the modern image Santa Claus in its advertising � White Rock Beverages used Santa in
advertisements for its ginger ale in 1923 .

seems the folk of brighton might have their wires crosssed?

:-)

[warpig3]

Yep, my understanding was that Coca Cola changed Santas outfit colour as GS says. And having watched a program on Coca Cola recently I throughly approve of not 'advertising' their colours.

[Beads]

I don't associate St N with coca cola though! Regardless of him wearing the colour roja! :)

[leg_end758]

hola beads.
well it seems santa was red before coca-cola.
then they saw a chance to use something in same colours as coca-cola to boost their advertising.
hardly changed him tho ?
some folk will believe any old legend .


ooooopopsss urban one that is lol :-)

[Goodsoulette]

The red coat is 'new'. Images of Father Christmas prior to about 1880 most pictures showed him with a green coat. The red became the most popular colour after the US introduction by Coca Cola during the 1930s.

In England, Father Christmas was portrayed as a green fur lined coat.

n 1931, the Coca-Cola company hired an artist named Haddon Sundblom to create the artwork for a massive Christmas advertising campaign they were preparing. Until then, the soda was primarily a summer drink, with sales dropping off sharply in the cooler winter months. Coke hoped to reverse this trend by somehow linking the drink to the winter holy, sorry, holidays ... and they decided the most effective way to do that would be to make Santa a Coke drinker. Sundblom was told to create a painting of Mr. Claus that the company could use in magazine advertisements. Sundblom's first brainstorm was to dump Nast's black and white Santa suit and adopt the increasingly more popular image of the old gent in red and white, which just happened to 'suit' the Coca-Cola livery.

[Beads]

lol Leg!

[jake-the-peg]

The twist in this is that the urban legend is in fact reinforcing itself.

Coke may not have invented Santa but the urban legend is so widespread that many people associate the two.

Even people who know it's untrue will think of Coke in that association, even if to dismiss it.

I think a green Santa's a great idea, we've nearly managed to wrestle the mid-winter feast back off of the Christians.

[Beads]

*wonders if I'm the only person who doesn't associate Father Xmas with Coca Cola or think CC invented him?*

[leg_end758]

JAKE WELL SPOTTED.
GOODY YOU MUSTVE MISSSED MY 10.02 POSTING.
aS JAKE SAYS , THATS THE BEAUTY OF AN URBAN LEGEND.
MOST BECOME TRUTH BY THE MASSES BELIEVING THEM.
COCA COLAS BIGGEST ADVERTISING COUP??

CONVINCING FOLK THEY INVENTED SANTA BEING RED.
Sinterklaas was Americanized into "Santa Claus" but lost his bishop's apparel, and was at first pictured as a thick-bellied Dutch sailor with a pipe in a green winter coat. Irving's book was a lampoon of the Dutch culture of New York, and much of this portrait is his joking invention.

SANTA WAS RED , BUT SO WAS COCA-COLA. :-)

[leg_end758]

beads it was a piece of advertising genius.

find something so popular.
santa.
and forge a link between yourself and it.

in fact i cant think of another case where something is so closely linked thru advertising.

look at all the holidays are coming adverts ?
but i still think it was just a case of right pl�ace right time :-)

[Beads]

Leg, I never associate FT with CC. I never will! I associate CC with sugary drinks and FT with chrimbo gifts!

[Gromit]

Saint Nicolas was from Anotolia which is now the muslim state of Turkey.

So Santa should be dressed like a suicide bomber.

[leg_end758]

did they have bombs then gromit??

i think not.

as the chinese invented gunpowder are they to blame for alll the deaths and wars ?

ooops hope i havent opened a can of worms lol

[jno]

green is the main colour of Islam, so that's good, a Muslim Santa. (And before you laugh, since when was Santa a Christian?)

[leg_end758]

im confused wasnt he a bishop?

or some saint?
didnt they steal hiois bones?
or was that black peter?

where do the reindeer come in ?

what about osama saint nicklaus?


oh im confused as helll now.


im gonna go down the dummies route.

santas red cos of coca cola cops mr george bush says so
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rki7bhtuklm&fea ture=related

[Pippa68]

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