Date sent: Sat, 08 Jan 2011 10:40:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Drsolly <[email protected]>
> > I mentioned this to Gloria when I got home, and she said that the girls > > would > > have just googled "why is red a Christmas colour?" So, I did that. > > Coca Cola. Crowdsourcing loses again! Clement Clark Moore's poem was written in the early 1800s, and, even though it didn't get popular for another twenty years, the illustrated versions were enormously popular by the mid-1800s. Coca-Cola didn't jump on the bandwagon until early in the 1900s. Obviously they thought the congruence of colours was a good marketing match, but they hardly influenced the choice. The illustrated versions probably emphasized red and white (the poem doesn't mention a red suit) because of pre-existing identifications with Christmas, and we are back to holly and the complementarity of red with green boughs ... ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] There are two ways of constructing a software design: one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. - C. A. R. Hoare victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm blog.isc2.org/isc2_blog/slade/index.html http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/ http://www.infosecbc.org/links http://twitter.com/rslade _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
