On 2009-12-05 02:11, "Andre Poenitz" <andre.poen...@mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 03:54:52PM +0100, Pavel Sanda wrote: >>> Anyway, I've never seen the angel with Sinterklaas indeed. We also don't >>> regard the Zwarte Piet as a devil. For us, it's just the helper of >>> Sinterklaas bringing presents and handing (throwing) candy to the >>> children. At worst, the Zwarte Piet puts you in a bag and ships you to >>> Spain if you have been really bad this year. >> >> why spain? ;) we are sending them to hell when they are bad, unless angel >> steps up... > > There was some ... "tension" ... between Spain and the Netherlands about > 400 years ago. It might well be that going to hell was considered a > lesser evil back then. In response to this decidedly OT but amusing thread I can't help but point out a link to David Sedaris' monologue entitled Six To Eight Black Men. There is a text version here: http://www.channels.nl/knowledge/28970.html Or a youtube audio version of the reading here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbJpRLhaSqs Happy St Nicholas' Eve. Greg.
