What I Realized When Watching Rudolph...

[Ranger REG]

Not only the reindeers didn't like him and his red nose but Santa, too. Only when that fat nearsighed tub of lard couldn't fly his sleigh through blinding snow did he find how useful Rudy is. And he should be making a list of who's naughty and who's nice?

*shakes head in disappointment*

 

[ssampier]

.... I don't know how to respond to that.

Oh yeah. Don't post while drunk.

 

[Taelorn76]

Not only the reindeers didn't like him and his red nose but Santa, too. Only when that fat nearsighed tub of lard couldn't fly his sleigh through blinding snow did he find how useful Rudy is. And he should be making a list of who's naughty and who's nice?

*shakes head in disappointment*

LOL

 

[horacethegrey]

Not only the reindeers didn't like him and his red nose but Santa, too. Only when that fat nearsighed tub of lard couldn't fly his sleigh through blinding snow did he find how useful Rudy is. And he should be making a list of who's naughty and who's nice?

*shakes head in disappointment*

But dude, don't you see? It's realistic storytelling. It shows that even a paragon of virtue like ol' Kris Kringle isn't above prejudice or ignorance. Not only that, he's a coward too. In that he has get rid of Rudolph in order to apease the other reindeers.

 

[atom crash]

And he should be making a list of who's naughty and who's nice?

Yeah, that calls into doubt how good a judge of character this guy really is.

(As George Carlin used to say, "These are the thoughts that kept me out of the good colleges." So here goes.)

Something's been bothering me lately.

If somehow Santa's data-entry elves make a mistake -- get you mixed up with someone else with a similar name or just enter data on the wrong line in the spreadsheet -- and your name ends up on his bad list, what steps can a person take to see that list beforehand (before it's too late and you wake up to find nothing on Christmas morning) and how can you go about getting your name off that bad list? I just can't trust that checking it twice is adequate.

Getting inadvertently left off the good list can scar a person for life, in a way that they may never recover from. Remember that old 1966 movie The Christmas That Almost Wasn't?

And can you contest Santa's judgment if he thinks you're naughty and you disagree?

Maybe there should be an independent naughty-or-nice reporting agency to check these things, like how you can check your credit rating each year with the 3 credit reporting agencies.

 

[Ranger REG]

.... I don't know how to respond to that.

Oh yeah. Don't post while drunk.

Would it frighten you that I was stone cold sober when I posted?

You don't noticed the little things until later in life (being age 37). Fortunately, my godchild noticed it and didn't want to sit on [Mall] Santa's lap in protest to Rudolph's treatment. When you look at her, she was beyond naughty; her eyes were murderous.

 

[bodhi]

Maybe there should be an independent naughty-or-nice reporting agency to check these things, like how you can check your credit rating each year with the 3 credit reporting agencies.

My mental image just went from Rankin/Bass to Brazil. Tuttle becomes Buttle, and Sam gets a lump of exploding coal through a pneumatic tube, and then the stormtroopers with antlers and glowing noses show up.

 

[jaerdaph]

Santa's no Hanukkah Harry.

 

[Rl'Halsinor]

Ranger REG, a long time needed post! It is about time somebody exposed the dark side of this children's special.

And another thing, the so-called "adult" reindeer join in the derision. They're worse than the kids! Hmmm, reminds me of parents at any childrens'sporting event in this 21st century...

And another thing, Santa can't deliver toys and so he has to cancel Christmas -- because he can't deliver toys. Ah, consumerism at its best. I didn't realize he had such power.

 

[ssampier]

Would it frighten you that I was stone cold sober when I posted?

You don't noticed the little things until later in life (being age 37). Fortunately, my godchild noticed it and didn't want to sit on [Mall] Santa's lap in protest to Rudolph's treatment. When you look at her, she was beyond naughty; her eyes were murderous.

I'm 26, so I assumed you were drunk. Oh well. More beer (and rum) for me...