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Santa is Real
Build a non-profit organization at the north pole that closely resembles the lore of Christmas. | |
Make everyone dress in Santa/elf garb. There is a guy who sits all day and organizes the list of families to receive gifts. He checks this list several times before making his final decisions. He is fat and has a real beard. He is dressed like a felt-covered drunk who never gets out of bed. All the workers
are also dressed in similar garb and there is a yet-to-be-settled-due -to-equal-opportunity height requirement/limitation for these workers.
People donate to the organization all year around. All donations go to giving toys and gifts to children in poverty at the end of the year. In one night!
Now we can all feel a little better about lying to our kids about what is really happening at the north pole: Santa is Real!
North Pole, Alaska
http://en.wikipedia.../North_Pole,_Alaska
Vaguely similar [spidermother, Dec 13 2011]
Santa's Villlage in New Hampshire
http://www.santasvillage.com/
[xandram, Dec 13 2011]
I went to this one as a kid!!
http://www.roadside...ica.com/story/11577
[xandram, Dec 13 2011]
[link]
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The Global HQ had better be bouyant, or this will be a
pretty short-lived charity. |
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//He checks this list several times before making his final
decisions.// |
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"this list" -- and what a list! This will require
development a new field: Santa Informatics! [+] |
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Watch the movie "Bad Santa" - very funny thanks to Billy Bob Thornton |
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Seen it; funny, quite, but I don't exactly get your drift... |
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How do you working out the problem of Reindeer not being able to fly? Bun if you say rockets. |
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>this reminds me of something from my childhood; at the mall they had santa's sleigh set up for kids to play on, but instead of a regular red sleigh it had a high-tech cockpit and references to an FTL drive. Maybe it was the real thing? |
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I think Bad Santa is a movie about Santa and
therefore relevant? Then again, there are a
multitude
of movies about Santa, and one would be led to
wonder why this one is brought to fancy. |
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Edit: Got it. I mentioned a drunk Santa. But, it
was only in pitch to the investors! No drinking on
the job of course... |
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I don't understand this; won't this just be in competition with Santa? Won't he resent these imposters pretending to be real? |
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[+] I like the donations all year long idea! |
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those are going to be some expensive toys. Can we
at least bring in primary assemblies instead of raw
material? |
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Title should be Santa is Possible. |
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But then we would lose the punningly Zionist-baiting element. |
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Nothing in the mythos of Santa Claus denies Judaism (sp?).
In fact, it's pretty much all pre-Christian in origin. |
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No, Santa Claus was made up by Coca Cola in 1931. The rest of it is pre-christian. |
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That's a myth, [DIY]. Coca cola may have popularised Santa Claus, and somewhat influenced his appearance, but that's all. |
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