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To: ladtx
There are folks who don't know that's Baby Jesus.

I'd apologize for them, but I've met their kind before ~ and in their view Baby Jesus better be laying down in a strawfilled manger ~

Several years back I found it necessary to dispute the legitimacy of one of the secular stamps. Although Santa Claus is a favorite figure, this time the stamps had Little Red Man's colors and decor (white dots on a red background) and Reindeer man (as a shamen) blowing a shamen's trumpet and/or beating a shamen's drum.

Technically no one believes in the Old Religion these days, so that wasn't a problem, but Little Red Man is the amanita muscaria mushroom which is halucinogenic. Reindeer love 'em. They'll snarf one up and run around with it on their nose, their eyes rolling in their heads as they imagine they are flying (SEE: Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer).

I thought it a tad inappropriate for the Postal Service to be issuing stamps celebrating dopers.

Some of my posts in FR regarding those stamps are among the highest volume cites found in Google.com 4 years later! Guess everybody wonders what Santa Claus did for kicks eh?! And why's he wandering about with all those flying reindeer.

53 posted on 10/25/2007 12:10:18 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah

PLEASE tell me you’re kidding.


101 posted on 10/25/2007 12:27:19 PM PDT by Squawk 8888 (Is human activity causing the warming trend on Mars?)
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To: muawiyah
Technically no one believes in the Old Religion these days,

There are FReepers who will disagree with your assertion that they don't exist.

136 posted on 10/25/2007 12:44:39 PM PDT by null and void (Franz Kafka would have killed himself in despair if he lived in the world we inhabit today.)
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