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skygazer

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Mon Dec-12-05 07:10 PM
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Rudolph the rednosed reindeer

Is it just me or is Rudolph a really stupid name for a reindeer? I mean, you have Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen, Comet and Cupid and Donner and Blitzen. And RUDOLPH? Come on! That's got no poetic ring to it at all.

I think his name should have been Lightning or something.

Discuss.

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radwriter0555

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Mon Dec-12-05 07:12 PM
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1. I'll see your rudolph and raise you a bambi: Bambi is CLEARLY a girl's

name.

How on earth did a little boy deer get stuck with it?

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skygazer

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Mon Dec-12-05 07:13 PM
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3. What is it with deer's names?

Why all the silly names for deer? Is it some sort of conspiracy? :tinfoilhat:

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Capn Sunshine

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Mon Dec-12-05 07:12 PM
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2. well, "Blitzen" already means lightning

However maybe "RED" would have been cool
Take it up with Gene Autry; he wrote the song.

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LiberalEsto

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Mon Dec-12-05 07:15 PM
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4. Alliteration

Edited on Mon Dec-12-05 07:19 PM by LiberalEsto

There are 3 words beginning with R in the first line: Rudolph, red-nosed and reindeer.

Alliteration, or the repetition of certain letters or sounds, is a device sometimes used in poetry or songs. It helps make a sentence or line easier to remember.

"Lightning the flying reindeer" just doesn't have the same impact.

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WCGreen

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Mon Dec-12-05 07:15 PM
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5. Fucking alcoholic reindeer should not be leading Santa's Sleigh

What kind of fucking message does that send to our children....

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trof

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Mon Dec-12-05 07:20 PM
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6. No, Lightning was this guy:

From the old Amos & Andy TV sitcom.

"After A&A":
Nick Stewart (Lightning), with his wife Edna, ran a theater in Los Angeles which they had founded earlier; plays were still being produced there in the 1980s.
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/2587/afteraa.htm

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