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Spoke to my five year old niece yesterday, asked What santa had brought, only to have Her explain to me slowly that presents came from people, not Santa, as tho I was a particularly slow person. I think I'll get over finding out at my age. ;-)

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Wed Dec 26th, 2007 at 03:23:06 PM EST
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ROFL, that made my day. Sounds like a bright kid. Best of luck to her.

- Jake

If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Wed Dec 26th, 2007 at 03:31:50 PM EST
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I do have clear memories of being five and thinking about why the grown-ups speak about Saint Claus (who is supposed to place sweets into boots put in the windows on the evening of 5 December here) and Little Jesus (who is supposed to bring presents on Christmas Eve, and signal his leave with little bells) while I knew full well it's them who were busy downstairs.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Wed Dec 26th, 2007 at 05:36:18 PM EST
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The adults pretend there is a Santa, and the children pretend to believe, because:

(sweet version) they don't want to disappoint
(cynical version) they want the presents.

by someone (s0me1smail(a)gmail(d)com) on Wed Dec 26th, 2007 at 05:44:23 PM EST
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Re: Boxing Day punch up material (4.00 / 2)

I remember Spike Milligan on a chat show one night telling the story of his children. He had his young daughter tell him that his slightly older son had told her that there was no Santa. Spike had reassured her and all appeared well.

On then night of christmas he'd gone up to put the sack of presents at the bottom of their beds. at the bottom of his daughters bed was a letter that read
"Dear Santa, Sean says you dont exist, so hit him.
p.s. theres a hammer under my bed"

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Wed Dec 26th, 2007 at 07:17:39 PM EST
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Some lighter stuff (4.00 / 2)

As I wrote recently, we're buying a new car, and informed the kids that it was a present for Christmas. This has led to some pointed questions or remarks from the two younger ones who, as far as we know, still believe in Santa Claus:

"How does Santa carry the car on its ludge"?
"If Santa is bringing us a car, why do we have to pick it up at the store?"

Skating on thin ice now...

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Thu Dec 27th, 2007 at 09:01:45 AM EST
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Re: Some lighter stuff (4.00 / 2)

oh that's easy, santa carries it under his sledge, tied between the runners. and if he deliverd it down your chimney, you wouldnt be able to get it out of the door to the street, so he had to deliver it down the stores chimney as they have big enough doors to get it out.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Thu Dec 27th, 2007 at 09:12:09 AM EST
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