Re: Waitaminute...the poet who

Posted by MF from h00105a17b29a.ne.mediaone.net on December 13, 2000 at 07:55:39:

In Reply to: Re: Waitaminute...the poet who wrote "A Visit from St.Nick" where the reindeer are first named, misspelled Donner as Donder? Do we know he didn't intend to name the 7th reindeer Donder?...BTW, Indy AND The SnowMiser rule.(NM) posted by The Spatsman on December 13, 2000 at 02:09:51:

> Do we know he didn't intend to name the 7th reindeer Donder?...

nope! :-) We don't...

> the poet who wrote

Mr. Moore wasn't a poet, per se, but rather an educator and father who, having delayed his holiday shopping past the sensible point, was pressed into poetry lest St. Nick not visit *his* children.

(No record exists as to whether said children happily accepted said poem in lieu of sugar plums, etc)

So a typo, given the time constraints, was surely possible. But given that, and the following Blitzen, there can be no real doubt as to intent... those reindeer were Thunder and Lightning!

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