Re: putting the "x" back into xmas


mcisr...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Temporary Like Achilles wrote:
> > > The X, for
> > > chi, does indeed refer to Christ -- hence Xian and Xmas. As it is used
> > > in the other examples cited, the X comes from its mathematical use --
> > > namely, an unknown quantity.
> >
> > So is "Miss X" Miss Unknown or Miss Christian or both? If both, then
> > Dylan also confuses the two meanings. Maybe they are the same?
>
> If it means Christ, she would be Miss Christ, wouldn't she? Odds are
> he meant it to be Miss Unknown.

On second thought, his pony is named Lucifer.

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