tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6469587717890903237.post6120395567103939714..comments2024-03-15T12:52:45.625-07:00Comments on Cartoonatics: Santa Claus by Haddon SundblomTom Rueggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16509448730816934205noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6469587717890903237.post-73537132711579530942017-11-25T16:22:01.916-08:002017-11-25T16:22:01.916-08:00@Keeper: True, but when kids go to the department ...@Keeper: True, but when kids go to the department store to give Santa their Christmas list, I doubt if they want to talk to a spritely elf.fgoodwinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06871146755683912743noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6469587717890903237.post-37333611654652536392011-12-21T18:10:20.603-08:002011-12-21T18:10:20.603-08:00Well, once Santa has the dimensionally-transcenden...Well, once Santa has the dimensionally-transcendental wacky sack, he can just jump inside it himself and drop the whole thing down the chimney. (Also, given that he manages to cover the whole world in one night, Santa is presumably a Time Lord.)<br /><br />I was never sure what Moore had in mind with his "jolly old elf" line; St. Nicholas was traditionally depicted as tally and thin (more Tolkienly elvish). Then again, several centuries of milk and cookies would make you chubby too….<br /><br />-David "well, okkay, maybe not <i>you</i>" GreenPlatonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6469587717890903237.post-69330446478453701292011-12-20T18:23:12.648-08:002011-12-20T18:23:12.648-08:00The one thing I don't like about how the Coke ...The one thing I don't like about how the Coke ads "finalized" the image of Santa Claus is that they don't portray him as an elf, which he previously had been described as. So we're left with a large fellow far too chubby to fit down a chimney. And thus the "eight tiny reindeer" also are tiny no longer, but life-size.<br /><br />I would think kids would have a better time believing in a tiny dude with a wacky sack that fits every present imaginable than a giant dude who has to use some wacky dust (or maybe it's the wacky tobacky in him pipe) to make himself fit down a chimney ... AND with a wacky sack that fits every present imaginable.Keeperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14927854184107004121noreply@blogger.com