Re: OT Thanksgiving and Christmas was Re: Thoughts on Tarsyanian verbs
| From: | Wesley Parish <wes.parish@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, October 4, 2005, 9:32 |
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On Tue, 04 Oct 2005 12:24, tomhchappell wrote:
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> Santa Claus came from the Dutch.
And Santa Fangs comes from the Kiwis/
- or at any rate, I told - and terrified - a little girl about Santa Fangs,
Santa Claws' evil cousin who follows him and beats up the bad children, as a
joke one Christmas. After a while her mother and I noticed she was actually
believing it, so we back-pedalled on it. (The _real_ reason Rudolf's got a
red nose isn't his partaking of Chirstmas cheer at all times whatever the
occasion, it's that one day Santa Fangs was famished and tried to make a meal
out of him. Unfortunately Santa Fangs had ridden through the Chernobyl and
Six-Mile Island radiation clouds, so Rudolf caught a bit of the radioactive
debris in his nose and it stuck there.) There's not a lot of love to be lost
between Santa Claws and Santa Fangs. And of course he's Mr Claws - how on
earth do you think he gets up and down chimneys? ;)
Wesley Parish
Later she informed her cousin about
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> Tom H.C. in MI
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