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Skriven 2007-02-07 00:35:09 av Dan Ceppa (1:138/666.0)
     Kommentar till en text av Ardith Hinton
Ärende: HNY
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-> On 05 Feb 07  05:10:13, Ardith Hinton got back to Dan Ceppa 
-> Re: HNY

 DC>  In that time frame, they could have come from anywhere.
 DC>  including Alpha Centauri!

 AH> Hmm... I suppose so.  They are often portrayed as having
 AH> used camels on the journey, but then they're often included in manger
 AH> scenes as well.  ;-) 

I imagine things must have been pretty ripe after a couple of 
weeks in a manger!   

 
 DC>  More fun is in calculating how fast Santa has to travel
 
 AH>  Here's more little-known trivia which might help explain
 AH>  how he does it.  He visits the Netherlands on St. Nicholas'
 AH>  Day (Dec. 6)... he visits some Jewish households, in North
 AH>  America at least, during Hanukkah... and he visits Russia
 AH>  on Jan. 6.  Also, in order to give the reindeer a bit of a
 AH>  break during the long trip to Australia, he uses six white
 AH>  boomers (kangaroos) there.  :-))
 
 DC>  With the time line you gave above, you might be getting
 DC>  presents that you should have gotten 2 years earlier.  :)

 AH> What I meant was that Santa spreads his deliveries out over
 AH> a 32-day period.  Although it's a long way from the North Pole to most
 AH> of the places he visits, I presume magic reindeer can fly faster than
 AH> camels can walk....  :-)) 
 
Yeah, but think about the heat friction generated!  

 
 AH>  I'd always wondered about Vixen.  But Rudolph, a later
 AH>  addition, is clearly male.
 
 DC>  I didn't think that the cartoons were that graphic...

 AH> Anatomically correct cartoons?  No, I haven't seen any
 AH> either.  I was thinking of the song "Rudolph the Red-Nosed
 AH> Reindeer".... [chuckle]. 
 
Which brings to mind that Russian joke.  

 
 DC>  My older sister once woke the family at 1 minute after
 DC>  midnight.  Not fun...

 AH> I woke my parents once at about 3:00 AM (I guess).  My father
 AH> usually arrived home from work at about 2:00 AM... so they'd probably
 AH> only just gotten to bed.  We lived in a very small house with no
 AH> fireplace & the stocking (i.e. one of my father's old socks) was hung
 AH> at the foot of my bed (a small bunk bed wedged into a corner).  That
 AH> year Santa brought a doll which wouldn't fit into the stocking.  I
 AH> stretched out a leg, my foot came in contact with a cardboard box...
 AH> and I was awake in a flash!  When I went to my parents' bedroom to
 AH> show them what Santa had brought, they weren't particularly
 AH> enthusiastic... [grin]. 

I wonder why.....  ;)  


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