Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for May 11, 2024

A trio of Santa Claus facts

Mames Jartin

One time I was 111 years old.

May the Lord be with you as He is with me.

There is a Santa Claus Village in Rovaniemi, Finland.

Boy, this sure puts me in the Christmas spirit.

One Christmas Eve, many decades ago, Santa Claus announced to his elves, “I’m supposed to begin my annual flight in one hour. But there are still some toys that need to be made and put into my sack. I need all seven of my elite toymakers to finish the toys on time.”

“I’m so sorry, Mr. Kringle,” said the elf in charge of the workshop. “One of the elite toymakers is on vacation, and two are sick. I’m afraid we only have four elites tonight.”

“So be it,” said Santa.

It took two hours for the elves to finish making the toys. By the time they were done, Santa was one hour overdue.

Finally, the sack was full. Santa dragged the heavy sack out of the workshop and to his sleigh. But the sleigh, of course, was very old, and some of the wood was rotting. So when Santa put the sack into the sleigh, it went right through the wood.

He hoisted the sack out of the hole, rushed to the barn, and came back with a hammer, nails, a ruler, a saw, and several planks of fresh wood.

It took two hours for Santa to fix the sleigh. By the time he was done, he was three hours overdue.

Finally, the hole in the sleigh had been patched. Santa went back to the barn to put away the hammer, the ruler, and the saw, and also to fetch his eight tiny reindeer. But when he got there, he found that he had left the door open. “Oh no!” he said. “Some of the reindeer may have escaped!”

Indeed, when Santa entered the barn, he found that Dasher, Dancer, and Donner had run away. To make matters worse, Comet and Cupid were giving birth to fawns. Only three of the regular reindeer could pull the sleigh that year.

Santa immediately ordered some of his elves to look for the missing reindeer, and others to help Comet and Cupid give birth. Then he hitched Prancer, Vixen, and Blitzen to the sleigh without any problems. Now he needed to find five replacement reindeer. He eventually settled on Basher, Flasher, Smasher, Rudolph (this was before his nose started glowing), and Fred.

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I can’t believe this moron is still alive, let alone tolerated on this site. A good reason to take this comic off my favourites

X’mas decorating already… it’s not even June yet! :D

I hate snakes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Kids have been duped for over 100 years with letters from Indiana that they believed to be from the North Pole.

Santa Claus, Indiana was a couple of counties away from me when I was a kid. Almost all of the streets in that town are related, more or less, to Christmas. For example, “Candy Cane Lane”, “Mistletoe Drive”, “Tinsel Circle”, "Madonna Drive ", “Elf Lane”, “Jingle Bell Lane”, and on and on and on.

This would be great in December. In May? Meh.

There is a very small town in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula named Christmas (it even has a casino).

Too early to be showing Christmas-related topics when many people are still paying off the credit card bills from last Christmas. This might cause some to have a nervous breakdown. Anyways, is not July, yet!

There was, don’t know if it’s still there or not, Santa’s village on the way up to Big Bear in CA. And here in Central FL, there’s a town called Christmas. I’m sure that they get a lot of cards to be sent from them with the stamp from Christmas.

Merry Christmas to all the mothers this weekend, I guess….?

There is a Christmas, Florida that post marks cards saying they’re from Christmas!

Kids must suspect something when they write to Santa Claus at his house in Santa Claus, IN.

Wait a minute, did I over sleep or something? It’s Christmas already?

Treating the present date like the past?

Eagles fans, are you here? ☺️