Children, don't worry! Santa Claus is white.

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I have never seen Max ask a question. I would love to see a link to one sometime.

[max]

Lemon Drop wrote:
max, you were right but in order to show me the information, you provided a link to something that contained the same incorrect information that I had heard and thought was correct. So your response was pretty sloppy for someone so fascinated with proving me wrong about am obscure Christmas story.

Sam3 provided the helpful and correct information, not you.

If you want to show people you are "right" then learn from Sam3.

a) I am not going to do your research after you post some hearsay as a fact.
b) I did explain to you the nature and the probable cause of your mistake:

max wrote:
You found some made up english story being peddled as Russian without any reason to believe that it actually is.

A century ago, this retelling of the story was given to a distant relative, Howard Neal, in a little book published by the Saalfield Publishing Company in 1903 (it had been previously published by the Werner Company in 1899). Unfortunately, the the author's name was not included in the book.

Just because someone repeats something they read on internet it still does not make it a fact....

c) the quote I provided (you referred to it as a link) was an example of the English language source for the story.
Instead you went on some tangent, repeating exactly the very mistake I told you were making in the first place:

Lemon Drop wrote:
from you link max;
"This is one of the first English retellings of this charming Eastern European legend. In this version, first published in 1899, the heroine's name is spelled Babouscka, though it's more often spelled Babouscha today. I am told that this name is related to the Ukranian and Russian words for Grandmother, and also for head scarf. In the retelling published below, she is occasionally called "the babouscka," which makes it sound like a nickname for any woman of "a certain age," whether a grandmother or not."

this is not an English story, it's Russian. It was popular up until the early 20th century.

A perfect example of "I know it is true, because I have read it on internet".
Sam3 understood the concept, I am glad he explained it to you the way could comprehend it.
You should have had a hint when you could not find any actual Russian examples of the story....

[Lemon Drop]

that was a lot of work to try and defend your idiotic link max, the link that stated the opposite fo what you were trying to say.

better luck next time.

[max]

I had no need to defend anything, Lemon, just trying to help you out, walking you step by step through your repeated screwups, so you could have gained something from your another lost argument.

The helpful person that I am.

Oh well, as Babuscka said, "you can take a horse to the water...."