He choose a strange way to spend Easter
Slan,
D.
Who is that? They didn’t have cameras around when Christ walked the earth, you know…
Who cares? Did you play the sound track? I have friends that cannot tolerate Indian singing. Can you imagine them waking up to that first thing in the a.m.? 
djm
Just as well..
Symbolism is the Camera of the Atheist.
Slan Bro.
Slan,
D.
I still don’t understand what you’re saying. 
Cran,
It’s a joke…
And there was me thinking you were smart
Wake up boy!!!
Slan,
D .
I is smart as the next person but sometimes i dont feels so well, sorrie.
Don’t go taking the cop out option on me.
Doesn’t work here..
Do I look like a nurse..
C’MON..
Slan,
D.
never mind, then. cheer, cheer, cheer
well now,
why be so pessemistic when you could be so optimistic?
Smile…look on the bright side.
You are there on the other side of the world talking to me and you seem as bright and smart as ever.
FFS, cheer up and think positive,
Cancer…Ha..Cran Bro,I could tell you stories that would make you vomit on the spot..I don’t hear no fat lady singing..
Spare me the remorse and self pity..
Get a grip on yourself before I really go to town on your skinny yankee ass…
Trust me Bro…ye don’t want to know 
Slan,
D.
I’m not that skinny, and I’m not a Yankee (Yankees are from the North, I’m a Southerner by birth).
And I really didn’t get the joke, so since I can’t possibly be sick according to you, I must just be stupid. Yep, that must be it. I need to sleep so bad.
No Cranberry, on this side of the pond we are all yanks to some. Suck it up and drive on.
I doubt He is so often portrayed as a light-haired western European-looking fellow in the majority of Eastern Orthodox iconography.
Likely, conventions of how Christ is portrayed in art have a lot to do with where the artists lived who portrayed Him, and what sort of people they saw, themselves. When I was a child in rural Oklahoma, I knew many white Americans and many American Indians, but I didn’t know a Chinese from a German.
Artists use models, much of the time, to base features on. Having little in the way of physical attributest to go on, beyond mention in Scripture that He had a beard, artists relied more on symbolism. Soft-colored eyes indicated less about race than an attempt to convey kind eyes, I suspect. A long, thin, face suggested someone who lived a hard life of deprivation, even hinted at the mutilations of the cross. Hair with a golden cast to it hinted at a royal crown, and rays of light.
Those “some” are in error. Would a Welshman like it if we referred to him as an Englishman?
Not nearly as much as an Irishman would care to be described as a Paddy…
Slan,
D.
In this country, people in the South call people in the North “yanks”. I guess people in the North call people in the South Southerners.
In other countries, it is common to refer to Americans in general as Yanks. It is not incorrect. Think of the song Yankee Doodle Dandy? Did that come before or after the Civil War? Just because some people changed the definition of Yanks doesn’t mean the other earlier meaning is invalid. Yank, as used by people in other countries, isn’t necessarily derogatory. In WWII movies people refer to Yanks who are on the same side as we were.
So it is nothing like calling a Welshman an Englishman which is downright incorrect.
There is nothing to suck up. As I have suggested to Cranberry a number of times, the dictionary is a handy thing to use. Look up Yank like I did before you start yapping about it.
Over here, anybody from America is a Yank.
You would not believe what they call them in Ireland 
Slan,
D.
I think the portrayal may have more to do with historical notions of an ideal appearance. I have read that, at least in Europe if not elsewhere, fair skin denoted aristocracy, where as any degree of browness of skin indicated you were a peasant who had to toil out in the sun. I don’t know of any document that declares this openly, but I suspect this kind of thinking may have crept into the Christian iconography of Europe, which is where most of these images originate.
djm
Have you ever heard of Sepponian?
It comes from Septic Tank / Yank.
Gawd laav them Cocknees.
Mukade
Archie McFee’s has been a family favorite for years. Their grab bags are a real bargain. It’s one of the ways we can tell which friends are keepers. 