The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.
George Carlin
I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
Dick Gregory
Imagine Black Friday, spring break and New Year's Eve -- then smash them together like sumo wrestlers full of saki. That was Christmas in the early 1800s.
A bunch of blue-blood New Yorkers decided all this fun must stop.
"They wanted to domesticate Christmas, bring it indoors, and focus it on children," says Gerry Bowler, author of "Santa Claus: A History," and professor of history at the University of Manitoba in Canada.
These grinches, who formed the Saint Nicholas Society of New York, would change the world with two little poems. Yep. Poems.
Santa is our culture's only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It's a fact that most of the true believers are under eight years old, and that's a pity.
Chris Van Allsburg
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