santa_clause sonic i dont understand it.....why would you want to tell your kids that santa clause is real? you buy your kids all these presents and then you give all the credit to an imaginary figure! and also its like lying to them too telling them that hes real. i know that im not going to tell my kids that santas real. 021223 ... kss Forelo: Hey, wait - wait! What does this say here? This thing here? Driftwood: Oh, that? Oh, that's the usual clause. That's in every contract. That just says - uh - it says - uh - if any of the parties participating in this contract is shown not to be in their right mind, the entire agreement is automatically nullified. Forelo: Well, I don't know. Driftwood: It's all right. That's - that's in every contract. That's - that's what they call a sanity clause. Forelo: Ha ha ha. You can't fool me. There ain't no Sanity Clause! 021223 ... zander did you know that the coca-cola company invented the modern day santa clause? kinda sad, isn`t it? 030103 ... p2 actually the great thomas nast was the first to draw santa as the jolly bearded fat man we all know and disbelieve in today from http://www.christmas-treasures.com/duncan_royale/Collection/SantaI/NastSantaClaus.htm "Until Nast picked up his pen, Americas images of Santa Claus were many. No one characterization really stuck to him. Some thought of him as a man in buckskin, a throwback to the pioneer days. Others saw him as the mitred bishop from the Old World. Still others saw him as a sprightly gent in Dutch garments, chewing on a long pipe." 030103 ... User24 what about the rest of the world? america's images of santa indeed. fuck's sake, people, there's a gazillion miles of soil outside your borders, you know? (this rant is not aimed at anyone in particular) 031013 what's it to you? who go blather from