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Joe Makowiec
Nov 7, 2012, 9:28:00 AM11/7/12
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On 06 Nov 2012 in soc.culture.scottish, soupdragon wrote:
> On this evening when America decides - what's the deal with the party
> symbols, a donkey and an elephant? What do they signify? Stupidity and
> a tremendous memory?
They came from American cartoonist Thomas Nast in the late 19th century.
Nast was the same guy who gave us our modern image of Santa Claus as a
rotund, red-clad elf and Uncle Sam as a tall, lanky bearded guy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Nast
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> On this evening when America decides - what's the deal with the party
> symbols, a donkey and an elephant? What do they signify? Stupidity and
> a tremendous memory?
They came from American cartoonist Thomas Nast in the late 19th century.
Nast was the same guy who gave us our modern image of Santa Claus as a
rotund, red-clad elf and Uncle Sam as a tall, lanky bearded guy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Nast
--
Joe Makowiec
http://makowiec.org/
Email: http://makowiec.org/contact/?Joe
Usenet Improvement Project: http://twovoyagers.com/improve-usenet.org/
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