Over the Hedge by T Lewis and Michael Fry for December 13, 2016
Transcript:
rj: Frank jennings (aka the future santa claus) was selling tanning beds one day when.. verne: just stop! Santa did not start as a tanning bed salesguy! Verne: hammy, santa's a mixture of st. nicholas, father christmas, sinterklaas, and thomas nast's sketches all squeezed thru retro coca cola ads. santa isn't real?? verne: so, frank was on his fourth sales call of the day and...um...rj?.... rj: please go on.you tell it so much better than I do.
juicebruce almost 8 years ago
Just read Hammy “The Night Before Christmas”
TheTrustedMechanic almost 8 years ago
To borrow from a favorite,
Yes, HAMMY, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus. It would be as dreary as if there were no HAMMYS. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which your antics fills the world would be extinguished.
KEA almost 8 years ago
excellent summary Verne, but you left out… “with soundtrack by Johnny Marks”
dogday Premium Member almost 8 years ago
Let’s see, how does that go? Oh, got it: “Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.”
David York Premium Member almost 8 years ago
I was telling my elves about this on Sunday.
librarian4hire almost 8 years ago
In a mall in Texas, some a-hole pastor started yelling about how Santa wasn’t real and parents should stop lying to their kids about him. Got shot down (not literally, amazingly) by some dads waiting with their kids.
hippogriff almost 8 years ago
Left out the Coke advertising department who used corporate colors of red and white clothes on Santa who previously was only B&W or dressed in nature colors of greens and browns.Raise the kids to know the history and symbolism of Santa and there will be no shock from mallwalk orators, and won’t diminish things from the kids’ viewpoint.