Don’t be fooled, that bulk is pure muscle. You think he does a 24-hour global round trip lifting boxes and climbing chimneys without burning a few cookies worth of calories? He’s got the build of those men who compete to see how far they can throw barrels of cement.
“Fat City”, that was big in the 70’s. Anything with “…City” at the end. “Hot City” for a good looking girl, “Stupid City” if one or your friends did something dumb. Didn’t last long.
Fortunately, as Santa fattens himself up for Xmas, he’s probably in pretty good shape for an elderly guy of his advanced years. So, for 9-10 months of the year he’s in good shape.
Not long ago, Kurt Russell played Santa while looking like Kurt Russell does these days. His bulk is basically the heavy clothing he wears while traveling in an open sleigh at high speed https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2990140/?ref_=adv_li_tt
I long suspected that some legends get mixed up when ingredients come from too many sources. We imagine a character who comes down chimneys, which can be pretty narrow spaces, but we keep imagining him as bigger and bigger. In “A Visit from St. Nick” (‘Twas the Night before Christmas) it’s implied that Santa is small.
Carl Barks addressed this in a Donald Duck comic by showing that Santa shrinks down before he enters the chimney, and then POPS back to full size when he exits.
A roommate once told me that his dad stuck a piece of red flannel in the fireplace grate one year. The youngest son brought it to school for show and tell after Christmas break.
Sally, since Santa Claus is a mythical being, if he has a coronary in your living room you can grab your toy nurses kit, whip out your make believe defibrillator and revive him.
You might want to do that for the red M&M as well. If you want to avoid such a situation, then just don’t have any M&M’s around for the holidays. Get Hersheys kisses instead.
Templo S.U.D. over 1 year ago
you’re overreacting over Christmas magic, Sally
Wilde Bill over 1 year ago
No one has ever explained how he gets past the damper, either.
mccollunsky over 1 year ago
If that does happen, be careful and maybe don’t try the suit on
ronaldspence over 1 year ago
thankfully physics do not apply to Santa, hence, the lack of medical issues as well…
monkeysky over 1 year ago
Don’t be fooled, that bulk is pure muscle. You think he does a 24-hour global round trip lifting boxes and climbing chimneys without burning a few cookies worth of calories? He’s got the build of those men who compete to see how far they can throw barrels of cement.
Blu Bunny over 1 year ago
You could be famous then, The kid who saved Santa Claus and Christmas.
wesleylscott1 over 1 year ago
Santa is gelatinous and flexible, he can get through tight spaces like a Fat Octopus would. This is why the elves have nicknamed Santa “The Foctopus.”
The Reader Premium Member over 1 year ago
He uses the elevator. You do have an elevator, don’t you?
Purple People Eater over 1 year ago
To translate into English an Icelandic translation of an English song…
There’s something in the chimney and it doesn’t smell real nice…
And it’s been there since last Christmas
littlejohn Premium Member over 1 year ago
Be glad then that she doesn’t know about the real Saint Nicholas, Archbishop of Myra. And just the Thomas Nast version that we have today.
The original St. Nicholas — https://orthodoxwiki.org/Nicholas_of_Myra
America’s Santa Claus — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Claus
Decepticomic over 1 year ago
Try fat shaming him more; that provably works to get people to lose weight… if you’re rock-stupid.
dcdete. over 1 year ago
Well if there is one expert who is perfectly suited to give an oration lecture on the fat city – it is Santa Claus.
PaulAbbott2 over 1 year ago
“Fat City”, that was big in the 70’s. Anything with “…City” at the end. “Hot City” for a good looking girl, “Stupid City” if one or your friends did something dumb. Didn’t last long.
jagedlo over 1 year ago
That’s why you should learn CPR, Sally…can you imagine how Santa would reward the kid who saved his life?
Ellis97 over 1 year ago
Apparently, Mrs. Claus and the elves fatten him up for the sake of his image.
Darryl Heine over 1 year ago
Doesn’t Santa use magic with finger by nose and a nod?
SquidGamerGal over 1 year ago
Sally’s right. It’s a lawsuit waiting to happen!
preacherman Premium Member over 1 year ago
Fortunately, as Santa fattens himself up for Xmas, he’s probably in pretty good shape for an elderly guy of his advanced years. So, for 9-10 months of the year he’s in good shape.
Doug K over 1 year ago
Charlie Brown’s calmness here reminds me of the beginning of the Rudyard Kipling poem If
“If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs …
mourdac Premium Member over 1 year ago
Just don’t be leaving him a glass of Slimfast and celery sticks, Sally.
uniquename over 1 year ago
Maybe you’d get to keep all the presents left in his bag.
Can't Sleep over 1 year ago
The fears of childhood…
mikehop23 over 1 year ago
MERRY CHRISTMAS
John Jorgensen over 1 year ago
If he does you get to keep the loot.
delennwen over 1 year ago
There’s something stuck up in the chimney. . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQS5nAesfGk
EnlilEnkiEa over 1 year ago
Even Santa’s not immune to it, I see…
jmcenanly over 1 year ago
Not long ago, Kurt Russell played Santa while looking like Kurt Russell does these days. His bulk is basically the heavy clothing he wears while traveling in an open sleigh at high speed https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2990140/?ref_=adv_li_tt
mindjob over 1 year ago
Santa is in great shape because of all the cookies and milk he consumes. He gets lots of protein, exercise and was born with low cholesterol.
scottartist creator over 1 year ago
I long suspected that some legends get mixed up when ingredients come from too many sources. We imagine a character who comes down chimneys, which can be pretty narrow spaces, but we keep imagining him as bigger and bigger. In “A Visit from St. Nick” (‘Twas the Night before Christmas) it’s implied that Santa is small.
Carl Barks addressed this in a Donald Duck comic by showing that Santa shrinks down before he enters the chimney, and then POPS back to full size when he exits.
nsr60 over 1 year ago
A roommate once told me that his dad stuck a piece of red flannel in the fireplace grate one year. The youngest son brought it to school for show and tell after Christmas break.
Daltongang Premium Member over 1 year ago
Sally, since Santa Claus is a mythical being, if he has a coronary in your living room you can grab your toy nurses kit, whip out your make believe defibrillator and revive him.
You might want to do that for the red M&M as well. If you want to avoid such a situation, then just don’t have any M&M’s around for the holidays. Get Hersheys kisses instead.
I❤️Peanuts over 1 year ago
Leave Santa some nitroglycerin tablets and practice CPR.
Angry Indeed Premium Member over 1 year ago
Shame on you Sally for body shaming SC! Coal for you! ;-p
John Schneider over 1 year ago
This is pretty dark for a Peanuts strip. Sally talking about a coronary?