Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for November 30, 2017

Didn’t Letterman do something like this once? How many guys in Santa suits can you get into a bar?

They know which bars are naughty and which are nice.

Why? Little kids aren’t allowed in the bar, and you already know about Santa.

Actually, I think it would be funny.

I always loved the santas in the bar on Married With Children, LOL!

That’s the problem with being Santa. You can’t sneak away for a quiet drink someplace, without being recognized.

and in some cases, chastised by the far right . . . er . . . or is that far left. Oh well, guess it depends how many you’ve had.

Maybe they could write that Claus into their contract.

Where is Art Carney?

Reminds me of Santa Con.

The key word in all of this is “stagger.”

There are still malls?

It’s not just Rudolph that will have a red nose.

They would still stagger back to the job.

This is a pretty white Christmas scene….

Someone also needs to figure out how to stagger American Airlines pilot vacation times.

Are they allowed to drink or even being seen in a pub while in uniform? Many organizations whose members wear uniforms prohibit those things.

It’s a Yule tide!

Many years ago I heard a reading of “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” read in a threatening tone as if by a gangster. I have been unsuccessfully trying to find that – anyone here ever heard it?

Zagmuk, which literally means “beginning of the year”, is a Mesopotamian festival celebrating the New Year. The feast fell in March or April1 and lasted about 12 days.2 It celebrates the triumph of Marduk, the patron deity of Babylon, over the forces of Chaos, symbolized in later times by Tiamat. The battle between Marduk and Chaos lasts 12 days, as does the festival of Zagmuk. In Uruk the festival was associated with the god An, the Sumerian god of the night sky. Both are essentially equivalent in all respects to the Akkadian “Akitu” festival. In some variations, Marduk is slain by Tiamat and resurrected on the vernal equinox.3 Wikipedia::https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zagmuk

There are 11 malls nearby?

Attack of the “Santa Clones”?

All those Santas and no helpers?! – are the elves all down at the “alternative” bar?

Hey can anyone send me the big sigh little sigh one of these? Few years old…

A phalanx of pissed-on Santas. Every bar’s wet dream!

It’s hard being St. Nick these days without the cigarette ad revenue.

They sure look grumpy.