I only made six
figures last year
I shouldn’t brag
but I can’t stop
But only six
figures wasn’t enough
I only made six
figures last year
I shouldn’t brag
but I can’t stop
But only six
figures wasn’t enough
Here’s something
That
will make you wiser
The
Claus’s wash their hands
Using
Hand Santatizer
Santa Claus crossed the road
To get to the
other side
“Get out of the bloody
road”
The drunken driver
cried
But the red suited
man
Was the victim of
Santacide
Santa Claus wears his famous red suit
As down another Chimney he’ll shoot
But no one knows what’s under there
He likes dressing in Ladies underwear
The saint and the butcher is a popular St Nicholas tale in northern France which is told every year before St Nicholas day.
The Tale tells of three children who
wandered away from their village and got lost. They continued on their way
until Cold and hungry they came to an unfamiliar village.
They were discovered by a wicked
butcher who lured them into his shop with the promise of food and warmth.
Once inside his shop he attacked the
three children and he salted them away in a large tub.
They children would have been lost
forever but for the intervention of St Nicholas who rescued the children and
returned them safely to their families.
From that day forward St. Nicolas has
been regarded in France as the protector of children.
The evil butcher became Père
Fouettard who forever follows St Nicholas with switches in hand to threaten
children and it’s the evil butcher who leaves any naughty children with a
bundle of birch twigs.
On the eve of St Nicholas day, the
children put their shoes near the chimney and sing a song to the Saint before
going to bed.
The next morning the shoes overflow
with special Saint Nicolas sweets, chocolates and cookies.
Even the best of children will find
by their shoes some birch twigs tied with a ribbon as every child does
something naughty in the year.
After the
demise of the puritans in Europe and America the St Nicholas legend went from
strength to strength.
He has over
recent centuries become known by different names for example in Holland he is
known as Sinter Klaas and when the Dutch arrived in New York or New Amsterdam
as it was then the red suited Sinter Klaas arrived with them but the name has
since become Americanized into Santa Claus.
The first
time the Name Santa Claus appeared in print was in 1773 but the first
description of the most traditional image of Santa Claus was by popular author
Washington Irving In his History of New York, published in 1809.
But he was
finally immortalized along with his eight reindeer in 1823 in the poem “A Visit
from Saint Nicholas” more commonly known to all of us as “The Night Before
Christmas” written by Clement Clarke Moore an Episcopal minister.
Moore, who
wrote the poem for his three daughters, depicted Santa Claus as a "right
jolly old elf" with a supernatural ability to ascend up a chimney with a
simple nod of his head.
The familiar
round jolly white bearded image of Santa Claus was definitively illustrated by
the political cartoonist Thomas Nast for Christmas issues of Harper's Weekly
magazine in 1881.
It was Nast
who revealed the details of Santa's workshop at the North Pole and alerted the
world to the existence of what have become known as the naughty and nice lists.
Haddon Sundblom further reinforced Santa’s image when, in 1931, he drew a
representation of the jolly red faced Saint for the Coca-Cola Company as part
of their advertising campaign which was so successful that he has been used
every year since.
Through
literary references and descriptions of Christmas the legend of St Nicholas
spread and became ingrained in all of us and Along the way the legend of the gift giver became intertwined with other
country’s myths and folk lore figures and St Nicholas became known by a wide
variety of names.
As well as Santa Claus or Sinter Klaas he is named Father Christmas, Kris
Kringle, Père Noël, der Weinachtsmann and Papa Noel to name but a few.
So I can say
to you all with hand on heart to young and old wherever you might live there is
most definitely a Santa Claus.
If you’re a worshiper of Satan
And you suffer
from Dyslexia
Take care
before you commit
You may
sell your soul to Santa
Santa Claus is a very jolly chap
And not just because he’s festive
His jollity stems from knowledge
Of where the naughty girls live
The Bermuda Triangle got bored
Of warm weather over the years
So it relocated to Lapland and now
Santa Claus has disappeared