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It's the Day Before Christmas

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It's the Day Before Christmas

 

It's the day before Christmas

Is Santa a myth?

If you are in hiding

Please come out forthwith

 

If you are still thinking

Of pulling sleigh here

I'd check on the temperature

And not use reindeer

 

Our normal mode of pulling

Sleighs with a crew

Are frizzle-proof animals

We call kangaroos

 

It's the day before Christmas

Is Santa a myth?

If you are in hiding

Please come out forthwith

 

(Hello? What's kangaroo droppings

doing on my lawn?....)

 

Don Matthews December 2018

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M.C. Newberry

Mon 24th Dec 2018 15:59

In these fragile days, I'm surprised some jobsworth hasn't started
banging on about "elf and safety" when the subject of Santa and
his stress-laden activities comes up!!

<Deleted User> (18980)

Mon 24th Dec 2018 09:28

Santa a myth?...I always thought he was a mythter. (NY Resolution - get teeth fixed)

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