Talk:1464: Santa - Revision history

172.68.142.177 at 18:12, 17 December 2020

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International Space Station at 17:14, 19 April 2016

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International Space Station at 17:13, 19 April 2016

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173.245.56.159 at 06:03, 17 January 2015

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Davidy22 at 23:44, 5 January 2015

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Weatherlawyer: Religious observations require observing, careful observing.

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Religious observations require observing, careful observing.

Davidy22 at 11:17, 30 December 2014

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173.245.52.88 at 19:11, 29 December 2014

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Davidy22 at 01:42, 29 December 2014

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	Easy solution. Santa stuffs the cookies in a box in his magic bag, and eats them over the course of the next year. Or he sells them off to get money to outweigh the materials cost of the presents.[[User:International Space Station\|International Space Station]] ([[User talk:International Space Station\|talk]]) 17:14, 19 April 2016 (UTC)		Easy solution. Santa stuffs the cookies in a box in his magic bag, and eats them over the course of the next year. Or he sells them off to get money to outweigh the materials cost of the presents.[[User:International Space Station\|International Space Station]] ([[User talk:International Space Station\|talk]]) 17:14, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
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		+	Maybe Santa just uses public restrooms. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.142.177\|172.68.142.177]] 18:12, 17 December 2020 (UTC)

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−	Easy solution. Santa stuffs the cookies in a box in his magic bag, and eats them over the course of the next year. Or he sells them off to get money to outweigh the materials cost of the presents.	+	Easy solution. Santa stuffs the cookies in a box in his magic bag, and eats them over the course of the next year. Or he sells them off to get money to outweigh the materials cost of the presents.[[User:International Space Station\|International Space Station]] ([[User talk:International Space Station\|talk]]) 17:14, 19 April 2016 (UTC)

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	What if Santa just converted the mass of the cookies to energy to power his sleigh? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.215.89\|108.162.215.89]] 02:33, 6 May 2015 (UTC)		What if Santa just converted the mass of the cookies to energy to power his sleigh? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.215.89\|108.162.215.89]] 02:33, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
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		+	Obviously he either goes to the bathroom in their houses. Or his stomach is four dimensional and the mass of the cookies is stored elsewhere. Or he has a magic device on his sleigh that provides the extra lift needed to hoist the two billion presents in the air. It's shit powered.
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		+	Also isn't "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or one" a Marx quote, of which Spock was referencing because Star Trek = Space Commies? (Also that brings me to a thought I had when I was 14... ignoring the technical realities aside of how only boojie children get boojie presents, a real Santa would give to all children equally based on how good they have been... Is the "real" Santa a commie? Let's just slap the hammer and sickle on that red suit of his, shall we, haha)
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		+	Easy solution. Santa stuffs the cookies in a box in his magic bag, and eats them over the course of the next year. Or he sells them off to get money to outweigh the materials cost of the presents.

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	Santa, instead of eating and flushing the cookie excrement, he could just flush the cookies down the toilet. Why do all of the cookies have to go through santa's digestive system? [[Special:Contributions/173.245.56.159\|173.245.56.159]] 06:03, 17 January 2015 (UTC)		Santa, instead of eating and flushing the cookie excrement, he could just flush the cookies down the toilet. Why do all of the cookies have to go through santa's digestive system? [[Special:Contributions/173.245.56.159\|173.245.56.159]] 06:03, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
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		+	What if Santa just converted the mass of the cookies to energy to power his sleigh? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.215.89\|108.162.215.89]] 02:33, 6 May 2015 (UTC)

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	And despite the chill of the upper atmosphere where Santa would be flying, no one has yet made the joke that, even in this post-Cold War era, there's still reason to be concerned about Icy BMs. {{unsigned ip\|173.245.52.88}}		And despite the chill of the upper atmosphere where Santa would be flying, no one has yet made the joke that, even in this post-Cold War era, there's still reason to be concerned about Icy BMs. {{unsigned ip\|173.245.52.88}}
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		+	Santa, instead of eating and flushing the cookie excrement, he could just flush the cookies down the toilet. Why do all of the cookies have to go through santa's digestive system? [[Special:Contributions/173.245.56.159\|173.245.56.159]] 06:03, 17 January 2015 (UTC)

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 And I did the explanation and put everything in there, I think. Looks like we're already pretty much done! [[Special:Contributions/173.245.56.174|173.245.56.174]] 06:44, 24 December 2014 (UTC)
-I am not sure the word Puportedly fits here: "the omniscience he purportedly possesses". I think Purportedly means the character/caricature is carrying on the idea that....
+I am not sure the word Puportedly fits here: "the omniscience he purportedly possesses". I think Purportedly means the character/caricature is carrying on the idea that.... {{unsigned|Weatherlawyer}}
 It should maybe be mentioned that this comic is a turn of the screw on the many "The physics of Santa" joke articles - The usual chain e-mail or satire web page calculations that take it seriously the logistical calculations for Santa and end up concluding that he should beat the speed of light to deliver the presents. Randall doesn't settle on calculating the logistics for reindeer performance or route planning, he goes a step further and makes the calculations for the refuse. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.49.106|173.245.49.106]] 08:31, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

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 And I did the explanation and put everything in there, I think. Looks like we're already pretty much done! [[Special:Contributions/173.245.56.174|173.245.56.174]] 06:44, 24 December 2014 (UTC)
 It should maybe be mentioned that this comic is a turn of the screw on the many "The physics of Santa" joke articles - The usual chain e-mail or satire web page calculations that take it seriously the logistical calculations for Santa and end up concluding that he should beat the speed of light to deliver the presents. Randall doesn't settle on calculating the logistics for reindeer performance or route planning, he goes a step further and makes the calculations for the refuse. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.49.106|173.245.49.106]] 08:31, 24 December 2014 (UTC)
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 As a third option, what if Santa doesn't eat the cookies at all, but just redistributes them to other hungry children?  --[[Special:Contributions/108.162.217.131|108.162.217.131]] 18:41, 24 December 2014 (UTC)
 Perhaps understandably, I first read the line in the explanation as " ... butt off the side of his sleigh."  [[User:Miamiclay|Miamiclay]] ([[User talk:Miamiclay|talk]]) 22:27, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

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	::: Cookies aren't (traditionally) left in the UK. Even with the usual translation of "cookie" as "biscuit". A glass of sherry and a mince pie is our variant (at least locally to me), and of course a carrot for Rudolph. Or one or other of whichever of the on-duty reindeer is next due a nibble, which would somewhat mitigate the problem of "carrot throughput" similar to the cookie one, although ultimately mid-air ejection is probably the answer in their case anyway. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.191\|141.101.98.191]] 20:42, 28 December 2014 (UTC)		::: Cookies aren't (traditionally) left in the UK. Even with the usual translation of "cookie" as "biscuit". A glass of sherry and a mince pie is our variant (at least locally to me), and of course a carrot for Rudolph. Or one or other of whichever of the on-duty reindeer is next due a nibble, which would somewhat mitigate the problem of "carrot throughput" similar to the cookie one, although ultimately mid-air ejection is probably the answer in their case anyway. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.191\|141.101.98.191]] 20:42, 28 December 2014 (UTC)

−	And despite the chill of the upper atmosphere where Santa would be flying, no one has yet made the joke that, even in this post-Cold War era, there's still reason to be concerned about Icy BMs.	+	And despite the chill of the upper atmosphere where Santa would be flying, no one has yet made the joke that, even in this post-Cold War era, there's still reason to be concerned about Icy BMs. {{unsigned ip\|173.245.52.88}}

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	::: Cookies aren't (traditionally) left in the UK. Even with the usual translation of "cookie" as "biscuit". A glass of sherry and a mince pie is our variant (at least locally to me), and of course a carrot for Rudolph. Or one or other of whichever of the on-duty reindeer is next due a nibble, which would somewhat mitigate the problem of "carrot throughput" similar to the cookie one, although ultimately mid-air ejection is probably the answer in their case anyway. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.191\|141.101.98.191]] 20:42, 28 December 2014 (UTC)		::: Cookies aren't (traditionally) left in the UK. Even with the usual translation of "cookie" as "biscuit". A glass of sherry and a mince pie is our variant (at least locally to me), and of course a carrot for Rudolph. Or one or other of whichever of the on-duty reindeer is next due a nibble, which would somewhat mitigate the problem of "carrot throughput" similar to the cookie one, although ultimately mid-air ejection is probably the answer in their case anyway. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.191\|141.101.98.191]] 20:42, 28 December 2014 (UTC)
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		+	And despite the chill of the upper atmosphere where Santa would be flying, no one has yet made the joke that, even in this post-Cold War era, there's still reason to be concerned about Icy BMs.

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 :: Yes, but leaving cookies for Santa is not integral part of christian Christmas celebration, not speaking about non-christian. There are more children who believe Santa is bringing them gifts than children who are leaving cookies for Santa. -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 13:53, 27 December 2014 (UTC)
-::: Some children may be leaving cookies "for Santa", but suspect that their parents (or older siblings) are actually consuming them.  It may be possible that Santa is not consuming as many cookies as this comic estimates.
+::: Some children may be leaving cookies "for Santa", but suspect that their parents (or older siblings) are actually consuming them.  It may be possible that Santa is not consuming as many cookies as this comic estimates. {{unsigned ip|108.162.237.186}}
 :::: Maybe, but he's gotta be eating most of them. There's no way parents can eat all those cookies in one night! [[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.169|108.162.221.169]] 07:24, 28 December 2014 (UTC)
 ::: Cookies aren't (traditionally) left in the UK.  Even with the usual translation of "cookie" as "biscuit".  A glass of sherry and a mince pie is our variant (at least locally to me), and of course a carrot for Rudolph.  Or one or other of whichever of the on-duty reindeer is next due a nibble, which would somewhat mitigate the problem of "carrot throughput" similar to the cookie one, although ultimately mid-air ejection is probably the answer in their case anyway. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.191|141.101.98.191]] 20:42, 28 December 2014 (UTC)