Must letter carefully if using the word SNIT. I heard the word FLICK was banned from comiic books (and newspaper strips?) back in the newsprint days when inks would often spread out.
Reminded of my all time favorite Christmas strip, an episode of the sadly deceased “Monkey House”: 9-y.o. Sara is talking about staying up to catch Santa in the act, so her father tells her, “Well, if you go to bed and stay there, Santa will put your presents under the tree. If you don’t, he’ll just dump them someplace and I’ll have to put them there myself.”
If Santa Claus were a superhero … well, you know, maybe he is one. He’s got the colorful uniform, which we are grateful was not designed by anyone at Marvel, DC or especially whatever Hollywood costume shop did the George Clooney Batman. He’s definitely got superpowers, be they teleportation, flight, or simply outpacing the lifespan anyone else is ever going to get with that level of obesity, diet of cookies and cholesterol, and pipe-smoking habit. But what makes him most superhero-like is that he’s got a gazillion iterations of the origin story.
The aspect that’s on my mind now involves the chimney. When did that come about? The old Father Christmas and St. Nicholas versions seemed rather earthbound. Did the chimney follow the flying reindeer? Or did the chimney come first — it makes sense, since there are longstanding myths of other spirit entities coming into the house in the form of smoke the same way logs and other fuel exited it — bringing on the need for some way to get the old elf up there?
We may have wondered about a lot of aspects of the chimney, but I think we all took it as a given that just about anything made more sense than dumping packages right outside people’s front doors, facing the street, where they could, paraphrasing Alice in Wonderland’s cake, plead “steal me.” That would never happen. Would it?
Oh. Right. I guess that ship has sailed. We shall now turn to hoping Warner Brothers doesn’t redesign Santa’s frock with nipples and a codpiece.
fuzzbucket Premium Member over 5 years ago
I wish I could live in my imagination. Kids have a wonderful world when they let theirs fly free.
sandpiper over 5 years ago
Years ago, when the world population began to spill over its limits, Santa wisely hired outside temps.
jmcenanly over 5 years ago
These days Santa’s helpers aren’t elves, but Amazons.
Masterskrain Premium Member over 5 years ago
Remember, Santa is controlled by some Big Eastern Syndicate! Just ask Lucy Van Pelt.
asrialfeeple over 5 years ago
Hope nobody gets their packages stolen.
rlaker22j over 5 years ago
In retirement you get to revert if you want to and when you want to
WCraft Premium Member over 5 years ago
I think it’s s all a huge plot to by-pass the bell ringers…Shame!
ellisaana Premium Member over 5 years ago
That would be about the same time the Arctic started melting and Santa had to shift his base of operation to a river site in Brazil.
ChucklinChuck over 5 years ago
Must letter carefully if using the word SNIT. I heard the word FLICK was banned from comiic books (and newspaper strips?) back in the newsprint days when inks would often spread out.
gcarlson over 5 years ago
Reminded of my all time favorite Christmas strip, an episode of the sadly deceased “Monkey House”: 9-y.o. Sara is talking about staying up to catch Santa in the act, so her father tells her, “Well, if you go to bed and stay there, Santa will put your presents under the tree. If you don’t, he’ll just dump them someplace and I’ll have to put them there myself.”
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 5 years ago
Frazz17 hrs ·
If Santa Claus were a superhero … well, you know, maybe he is one. He’s got the colorful uniform, which we are grateful was not designed by anyone at Marvel, DC or especially whatever Hollywood costume shop did the George Clooney Batman. He’s definitely got superpowers, be they teleportation, flight, or simply outpacing the lifespan anyone else is ever going to get with that level of obesity, diet of cookies and cholesterol, and pipe-smoking habit. But what makes him most superhero-like is that he’s got a gazillion iterations of the origin story.
The aspect that’s on my mind now involves the chimney. When did that come about? The old Father Christmas and St. Nicholas versions seemed rather earthbound. Did the chimney follow the flying reindeer? Or did the chimney come first — it makes sense, since there are longstanding myths of other spirit entities coming into the house in the form of smoke the same way logs and other fuel exited it — bringing on the need for some way to get the old elf up there?
We may have wondered about a lot of aspects of the chimney, but I think we all took it as a given that just about anything made more sense than dumping packages right outside people’s front doors, facing the street, where they could, paraphrasing Alice in Wonderland’s cake, plead “steal me.” That would never happen. Would it?
Oh. Right. I guess that ship has sailed. We shall now turn to hoping Warner Brothers doesn’t redesign Santa’s frock with nipples and a codpiece.