Peanuts Begins by Charles Schulz for October 28, 2023

Now phrased as, “It is what it is”.

I guess that’s why NORAD started tracking him every year.

Don’t worry Slim Pickens will safely ride that missile past Sant’s Sleigh

Years later, 99 red balloons would be shot down.

You are quite the naysayer Lucy!

Santa tends to avoid the Middle East, especially now

And this was way before Tim Burton’s “The Nightmare Before Christmas.”

I would say that was a misguided missile, Lucy.

Be like a pinata busted open, the people there will get all the presents.

I always thought Santa flew under the radar so he wasn’t detected.

From MAD Magazine:

TO: Secretary of Defense, The Pentagon, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.

FROM: S. Claus

Dear Mr. Secretary:

As you know, I will be making my annual Christmas Eve flight on 24 December. Please inform your SAC radar installations and DEW line posts that I will be the blip on their radar screens that night.

I would be quite chagrined if, instead of bringing the world good cheer, I brought it the start of World War III.

Sincerely, S. Claus

cc: Defense Minister, Moscow, U.S.S.R.

Unlike Charlie Brown, I’d be worried sick.

Pshaw! Santa’s way too fast for mere missiles! ㋛

Oct. 28 Heathcliff.

Robot chicken did a skit where the Air Force shot down Santa.