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- From: dhenry@plains.NoDak.edu (David Henry)
- Subject: Paul Bunyan... Vampire? (Was: Re: Vampires-evil?
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 04:21:26 GMT
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- And, boy, after that Subject line, I'm sorry to say that this post is only
- a followup to the "folk/fake"lore Paul Bunyan minidebate...
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- Thanatos said:
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- > And, BTW, I was taught that Paul was 100% folklore. Depends on the
- >teachier/sources, I guess.
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- Living less than three hours from an *actual* Paul Bunyan statue (Bemidji,
- MN, for those of you looking for thrills), I guess, exposed me to plenty of
- Paul Bunyan lore when I was going through elementary school.
-
- I was quite shocked to learn that Paul, his grease-skating chefs, his
- mighty axe (and, lest we forget, Babe, the Blue Ox!), were all a PR/ad
- bit invented by a logging chain in the early part of the century.
-
- Of course, few people realize that the Pledge of Alliegance itself
- was written as an ad spiel by a flag company to get sales moving on Flag
- Day.
-
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